Both Brookfield and No. 5 Masuk were undefeated, it was Masuk’s home game, and 91% of FCIAC Football Blog readers thought Masuk would come away with the win.
Boom goes the dynamite. Brookfield wins 31-24.
Sean Partick Bowley of Connecticut Post will be on FCIAC Football Blog Live Saturday at 9:10 a.m. to talk about it.
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… it’s Bowley, Callahan and Nash.
Not the law firm, not the rock group. Sean Patrick Bowley of the Connecticut Post, Ridgefield football coach Kevin Callahan and John Nash of the Wilton Villager and Stamford Times.
Bowley is coming on to talk about the Brookfield-Masuk battle of the SWC undefeateds, won by Brookfield on the road.
Callahan has what may be the hottest team in the FCIAC: A week after manhandling Staples, Ridgefield pulls off an emotional upset against Greenwich.
And Nash will come on to talk about what could be the FCIAC’s most overlooked team, undefeated Wilton.
The fun all starts at 9 a.m. Saturday at http://blogtalkradio.com/fciacfootballblog. See you then, or come back for the replay.
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With eight first-place votes, New Canaan kept the top spot in Week Four of the Bill Gonillo Five Poll, presented by the FCIAC Football Blog.
The Bill Gonillo 5 is a weekly poll conducted by the FCIAC Football Blog and voted on by sports media members who cover teams and leagues based in Fairfield County. Updated results are announced every Monday during the football season.
For more about Bill Gonillo, check out BillGonillo.com.
To walk in Bill’s honor, or make a donation in Bill’s name, at Step Out for Diabetes in Fairfield on Oct. 19, click here.
For previous poll results, click here.
| Team | Pts. |
| New Canaan (8) | 106 |
| Masuk (2) | 76 |
| Bunnell (2) | 74 |
| Darien | 72 |
| Greenwich | 24 |
Also receiving votes: St. Joseph (8), Wilton (4), Ridgefield (3), Fairfield Prep (2), Shelton (2), Pomperaug (1).
The following media members voted: Sean Patrick Bowley (Connecticut Post), Zachary Eastright (WSTC-AM/WNLK-AM), Dan Farrand (News-Times), Scott Ferrari (Greenwich Citizen), Jason A. Intrieri (FCIAC Football Blog Live), Ken Morse (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers), John Nash (The Stamford Times), Matt Norlander (New Canaan News-Review), Mike Quick (MSG Plus), Eliot Schickler (Westport News), Dave Stewart (New Canaan Advertiser) Michael Suppe (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers).
Photo of New Canaan helmet by Dave Stewart, New Canaan Sports Photography.
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With seven first-place votes, New Canaan kept the top spot in Week Three of the Bill Gonillo Five Poll, presented by the FCIAC Football Blog.
New Canaan nearly doubled second-place Staples, but just two points separate the Wreckers from third-place Bunnell and fourth-place Darien. Masuk is fifth.
The Bill Gonillo 5 is a weekly poll conducted by the FCIAC Football Blog and voted on by sports media members who cover teams and leagues based in Fairfield County. Updated results are announced every Monday during the football season.
For more about Bill Gonillo, check out BillGonillo.com.
To walk in Bill’s honor, or make a donation in Bill’s name, at Step Out for Diabetes in Fairfield on Oct. 19, click here.
For previous poll results, click here.
| Team | Pts |
| New Canaan (7) | 118 |
| Staples (1) | 64 |
| Bunnell (2) | 63 |
| Darien | 62 |
| Masuk (1) | 47 |
Also receiving votes: Greenwich (1) 35, St. Joseph 18, Shelton 8, Wilton 7, Fairfield Prep 2.
The following media members voted: Rob Adams (WGCH-AM), Damian Andrew (News 12 Connecticut), Sean Patrick Bowley (Connecticut Post), Zachary Eastright (WSTC-AM/WNLK-AM), Dan Farrand (News-Times), Scott Ferrari (Greenwich Citizen), Jason A. Intrieri (FCIAC Football Blog Live), Ken Morse (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers), John Nash (The Stamford Times), Matt Norlander (New Canaan News-Review), Dave Ruden (Stamford Advocate), Eliot Schickler (Westport News) Paul Silverfarb (Greenwich Post), Rob Sullivan (Minuteman Newspapers)
Photo of New Canaan helmet by Dave Stewart, New Canaan Sports Photography.
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New Canaan has claimed the top spot in the Bill Gonillo Five poll for Week 2 of the high school football season.
The Rams edged Bunnell in first-place votes 7-6, but pulled away because of five second-place votes to Bunnell’s two.
The Bill Gonillo 5 is a weekly poll conducted by the FCIAC Football Blog and voted on by sports media members who cover teams and leagues based in Fairfield County. Updated results are announced every Monday during the football season.
For more about Bill Gonillo, who passed away one year ago tomorrow, check out BillGonillo.com
To walk in Bill’s honor, or make a donation in Bill’s name, at Step Out for Diabetes in Fairfield on Oct. 19, click here.
For previous poll results, click here.
The Poll:
| 1 | New Canaan (7) | 132 |
| 2 | Bunnell (6) | 96 |
| 3 | Staples (2) | 62 |
| 4 | Darien | 56 |
| 5 | Shelton (1) and Masuk (tie) | 41 |
Also receiving votes: Greenwich (35), Wilton and St. Joseph (10), Danbury (9), Fairfield Prep (2), Newtown and King (1).
The following media members voted: Rob Adams (WGCH-AM), Bill Bloxsom (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers), Sean Patrick Bowley (Connecticut Post), Zach Eastright (WSTC-AM/WNLK-AM), Dan Farrand (News-Times), Scott Ferrari (Greenwich Citizen), Jason A. Intrieri (FCIAC Football Blog Live), Ken Morse (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers), John Nash (The Stamford Times), Matt Norlander (New Canaan News-Review), Mike Quick (MSG Plus), Jesse Quinlan (Greenwich Time), Dave Ruden (Stamford Advocate), Paul Silverfarb (Greenwich Post), Rob Sullivan (Minuteman Newspapers), Michael Suppe (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers)
Photo by Dave Stewart, New Canaan Sports Photography.
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Developing story, because the FCIAC Football Blog was not there (shame!). The Blue Wave of Darien have knocked off Greenwich, 31-25, ending the Cardinals winning streak of 14 in-state games, including four CIAC Class LL playoff games.
SUNDAY UPDATE:
The press clippings are out. And Kudos to Sean Patrick Bowley of The Post. He was taking a day off and decided to check out McMahon vs. Warde for a bit. And when I got a text from Big Mike with the 27-7 halftime score, he jumped into The Post’s News Chopper and parachuted into the Darien High parking lot.
No, seriously, he drove, and somehow blindly found Darien High. And here’s the story Bowley filed: Darien Shocks Greenwich 31-25. And here’s the stuff he filed for his blog.
Jesse Quinlan was also there, naturally, for Greenwich Time. Here’s what he filed: Darien stuns two-time FCIAC, LL champion Greenwich as Cardinals’ comeback falls short. A lot of detail here about the game… great in-story sidebar about Darien linebacker Mike Gasparino’s father playing at Greenwich with Steve Young.
QUICK THOUGHTS:
What does this all mean for the FCIAC and CIAC Class LL races? Right now, it’s just one game. Greenwich’s next opponent, McMahon, did just enough to win yesterday at Warde, but game Staples a complete four quarters a week earlier. So let’s see which McMahon team comes out to play.
But a 1-1 Greenwich means the state pollsters will almost certainly knock the Cardinals out of the top-10. Will those voting stand up and recognize Darien? The Blue Wave is now 2-0, they are a small school that knocked off a giant, so why not? Because I don’t have a vote (not even in the Bill Gonillo Five, I gave my vote to Jason Intrieri).
A comment did come in talking about this setting up a New Canaan-Darien Thanksgiving Day FCIAC Championship Game. As intriguing and now as possible as it sounds, we all have to remember it’s just two weeks into the season. Anything can happen over the next eight that can determine whether the game will be played at Boyle Stadium or Dunning Stadium.
Take injuries: Hopefully Darien TE Brian Kosnick’s elbow isn’t seriously hurt, and New Canaan can find a way to stay healthy (not that we want to see any player on any team get injured). Take the media: The more people read how great their team is, the more cocky they can get. Side note here – I had both Nate Quinn and Kurt Ondash tell me in postgame interviews on Friday that they don’t read what the papers say. I’m sure they’re staying away from this site, too, since my numbers have dipped a bit.
Are we ready to say Greenwich is dead? No, I’m sure they will come out firing on all cylinders next week. Matt Grant told Quinlan that the Cardinals did not come to play until the fourth quarter.
And when Jason Intrieri and I were talking to WGCH-AM’s Rob Adams on-air during FCIAC Football Blog Live (it’s toward the end of the show, we’ll make a clip later), we kind of caughta vibe that everything in Greenwich was hunky dorey, and maybe a little too much so.
We know Rob is a good well-liked guy, and if he asked any player at the Cardinals’ team breakfast if they wanted to, they’d say yes (And thanks for getting us Ricky Riscica). But the atmosphere Rob was describing seemed more like a group getting ready for a carnival than a football game.
After the show, Jason and I sat on his deck, and thought about it. We both had a feeling that surging Darien would win.
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By Tim Parry
Sean Patrick Bowley has an interesting feature today in The Post about Trumbull running back/defensive back/athlete Richie Edwards.
If you subscribe to the Post (which I no longer do) or picked it up at the newsstand (which I didn’t because I haven’t left my house today), you probably read it.
If you went to connpost.com’s home page, you probably missed it. You’d have to use the site’s local search, or tab down to High School Sports, to find it. And that’s not a good thing.
Yeah, I edited a few pieces for my day job about how the home page isn’t relevant anymore, and SEO is. But when your local newspaper’s Web site buries the high school football countdown – which is destined to be a huge driver of traffic – then something is wrong here.
If you’re looking to buy a helmet visor, yeah, you Google it and you compare prices, find out if you can pick one up in-store locally, and go from there. But an exclusive feature about a local athlete? You’re a lot less likely to do a search on that.
How did I find out about the Edwards story? Or for that matter The Post’s countdown? Facebook. The link to another countdown piece was posted there.
Anyway, The Post’s web staff may not help you out, so I will. Click here for the Post’s high school football page.
And while you’re at it, here’s another good-but-misplaced piece. It’s by Tom Renner of The Advocate, about the five starting running backs in Stamford, and it’s tossed on The Post’s site because it’s a sister publication.
That’s a no-no in the eyes of Google crawlers, which sees that for what it is, duplicate content. I’d love to see how those two articles do in the Google rankings.
I’m ready for my consultancy fee, Connecticut Post.
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Want showtunes? (I know, it’s marching band music)
Want Thanksgiving predictions (of EVERY game in the region)?
Want drama?
Then click below and listen to Sean Patrick Bowley’s weekly podcast for The Connecticut Post:
Want more drama? And no additional show tunes? (I know, it’s marching band music)
Then check out SPB’s CIAC football playoff scenario here.
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Can anyone else picture Bruce Dickenson standing up in the middle of a FCIAC Football game and exclaiming, “I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription – is more Bowley!”
Hey, that’s what I think when I see the “More Bowley” button on Connecticut Post’s high school football Website.
And today, there’s definitely more Sean Patrick Bowley.
Let’s start with this week’s s Podcast, which he did live on the way to and during the New Canaan-St. Joseph game. His guests include Bill Gonillo of News 12, Staples head coach Marce Petroccio, and a walk-by by legendary Trumbull coach Jerry McDougal and his black lab, Coach.
There’s also the game story: New Canaan subdues St. Joseph
And of course, game balls and whatnot to give out: Focus on High School Football: Week 7
While we’re at it, be sure to check Bowley’s latest post on the High School Sports Blog. (It’s a Worthley production… not a Harold Hecuba production…) The video Sean references can also be found here.
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I’ve been holding off on this, waiting for some activity, and the time is now… check out the Connecticut Post’s High School Sports Blog.
Both Sean Patrick Bowley and Mike Cardillo (by the way, if you ever need a catcher is softball – Cardillo’s your man. The guy could possibly catch and play 1B at the same time) are off to a great start, sharing what you wouldn’t normally see in the Post’s sports pages. As a pseudo-sportswriter, I read their entires and nodded my head like, “yup!” Kind of like the Gospel according to Oscar Madison.
So, yeah, bookmark that above link. I will add it to the links section as well, soon.
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