Football News

DARIEN—Coming off beating the No. 1 team in the state in St. Joseph last week and dealing with homecoming at Darien and all the distractions that brings, one might have excused the Darien football team if its focus was not razor-sharp heading into a contest with Stamford.

Losing focus is not really part of the Darien football mindset at this point.

Saturday against Stamford, the Blue Wave came out on point, scoring on six of its first seven drives with the lone exception being the end of the half when they took a knee.

Otherwise the team kept all the momentum gained by beating St. Joe’s, rolling over the Black Knights 42-7.

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NORWALK — The day the earth shook so violently and so many buildings and worlds came crumbling down, Paul Louikenson was only eight-years old.

It’s a day burned forever into his mind, a time the Brien McMahon junior football player can’t escape from even as he stood on Casagrande Field with a whole new family he never even knew existed in January of 2010.

“It’s not a day I like remembering or talking about,” the player the Senators call “Lucky” said of the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck his native Haiti, killing more than 100,000 people. “I know it was just one day, but that one day destroyed a lot of people’s lives and took away a lot of people’s hopes.”

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STAMFORD — Danbury quarterback Malachi Hopkins ran for two touchdowns and threw for another as the Hatters gained 515 rushing yards Saturday in a 52-20 win at Westhill.

Hopkins ran 16 times for 184 yards and completed 5 of 11 passes for 67 yards, including a 29-yard touchdown to his older brother, R.J., who also ran for a touchdown. Running back Jack Pompea scored twice while gaining 120 yards on 16 carries and Malik Thomas also found the end zone on an 83-yard afternoon.

Westhill had some success setting the edge and containing sweep plays but couldn’t find an answer for Malachi Hopkins when he pulled the ball on the option and ran it himself. Hatters coach Augie Tieri called Hopkins “the focal point of our run game.”

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STAMFORD — The game plan for the Stamford High football team was simple.

Ground and pound.

Sticking largely to the running game, Stamford ran to a 19-7 win over rival Trinity Catholic Saturday afternoon.

All the points in the game came in the second half.

“The game plan was run first. Our receivers are a little mad about it, but we felt like we were a little bigger than them and we felt we would be run first and ground and pound today,” Stamford coach Jamar Greene said. “We knew we had the counter in our back pocket. We tried to run it late in the third quarter but messed up the snap, but we saw it was still going to be there. We knew it would hit. We didn’t know it would be for a touchdown, but we knew it would be for big yardage.”

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