Well, I've had some time away. Sorry for the absence folks however, I'm back now and hopefully making more posts as we cross mid season. At this point, the front runners have made themselves clear and unlike last year where we had 2 horses pulling away from the field...Plymouth, Laconia and Trinity have established themselves solidly as the top 3 teams. While Kennet and Monadnock are also both 3-1, they both still need to play Laconia and Trinity as well as playing each other. So, I think both teams will be underdogs when playing Trinity and Laconia, which means their head to head matchup could very well determine which team moves on to get that fourth playoff spot.
Trinity, Laconia and Plymouth, have shown they all belong on the same field together. Both the Trinity/Laconia and the Plymouth/Trinity matchups were close and could have gone either way. In fact this weekend's victory by Trinity required them to abandon their power game and go to a Spread offense and take it to the air on the final drive. Goodale was injured early on in this one, he's a favorite of HC! Hope you get your wheels back Brandon! Newberry, Hughes, Lauderdale and Chambers all had very good games in this slugfest. I can't wait to see the rematch in November!
In other news this week, MV put up a season high 64 points in getting their first victory of the season over Kingswood congrats MV! Cody Thurston threw and ran for 100+ yards for the Pride and the Knights Kohl Meyers scored 6 (that's right 6) Touchdowns with 500 + all around yards for Kingswood. Impressive!
Surprisingly, it took Lebanon 4 games to score it's first points of the season. While I was not there, I did have eyes at the game. Special Teams and perimeter defense continued to plague the Raiders. The middle of the Raider defense was solid all day, however, both Mahoney and Steele were able to go off Tackle and break off big gainers outside, along with a big time return from Steele for 6. Hollis and B. Mahoney played solid up front for the Sachems. Drew, Morril and Henry continued to make plays all day for the Raiders on both sides of the ball throughout for what must be a frustrating season for the defending champs. Also looked like Drew might have been injured in the 4th quarter.
And while they suffered defeat at the hands of playoff contender Monadnock congrats to the Stark Generals for their 2-2 start to the 2011 season. Keep up the good work Generals! More later....
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