11/18/2023 0 Comments Guilford head soccer coach![]() The bad news: Anna Maria’s defense allowed 56 points in the first half and 93 for the game in its loss Saturday to Coast Guard. **The good news: Sophomore Terrence “Tee Jay” Jackson of Middletown starts at defensive end for Anna Maria College. Their home opener Wednesday (3:45 p.m.) comes against Plainville. The Blue Dragons, who graduated several impact players, reached the state semifinals last year. Adam Dagamseh scored on a Cameron Zingle assist and junior keeper Tyler Hahn had seven saves. **Middletown opened its boys soccer season with a 1-1 tie at Canton. “He’s filling those shoes pretty well.” This and That Being behind Cole for all that time, he’s in a space where he kind of knows what he’s looking for,” the coach said. “I thought we were in a position where we could have pushed the lead up to 35 and got the (running) clock going, but we turned it over twice in the second quarter and that swing got them back into it.”īennett’s early impression of Elfreich, who spent his freshman and sophomore seasons under Cole Brisson? “Obviously we expect our guys to play better in the scheme we have. “It was a good showing by us considering the circumstances,” Bennett said. The Panthers had leads of 12-0 and 28-6, but turnovers hurt their chances of pumping up their advantage. Junior receiver Jack Nolan caught two touchdown passes from junior/first-year starter Jess Elfreich and Tyler Cipolla ran for two scores, and senior multi-threat Emeka Yearwood broke a 70-yard run before being stopped at the 1. “With the heat, I think we did a decent job of rotating our guys.” “I think our tempo was tough for Coginchaug,” Bennett said. A strong possibility: Both teams are on the bye the weekend of Nov. The game will be completed at a later date, Petronio said. Not only that, a Blue Devils player was taken from the field by ambulance after suffering an injury unrelated to the heat. The air quality and heat from Coginchaug’s blue turf was so unbearable, Panthers coach Randell Bennett said, that his team’s water supply had to be replenished before the half was over. “The heat index reading had gotten to an unacceptable level at halftime.” “We made the decision to suspend the game after multiple players on both teams were having heat-related issues,” Coginchaug athletic director Todd Petronio said. Over in Durham, Cromwell/Portland and the Coginchaug/Hale-Ray/East Hampton co-op played one half of their Pequot game before it was suspended with the Panthers ahead 28-13. The Guardians’ opener in Danbury was unaffected by Friday’s storm front. “It makes it really difficult,” Rosek said,” “but we’ve shifted our focus and have a game plan all set for Glastonbury.” The Blue Dragons’ girls and boys soccer teams play Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, at Rosek-Skubel Stadium, meaning the football team’s practice time on the turf likely will be limited. Middletown is now in the midst of a short week of preparation for Thursday’s home opener (6:30 p.m.) against Glastonbury – and yet another challenge totally out of their control. I was very pleased with how we came out of the locker room. “Instead of trying to focus on a lot of things with so many young kids, we kept it simple. We got that from them top to bottom in the first quarter, on both sides of the ball and special teams. ![]() We really harped on that with the kids all week. “As a total group, we’ve asked the kids, kind of preaching to them, about a style of how we want to play,” Rosek said, “which is an aggressive style. When the teams pick the game up, Middletown will have the ball on second-and-4 on Conard’s 9-yard line. Later, senior quarterback Colin Skene gained 35 yards on the ground and then threw a touchdown pass to senior Josh Ferguson. After setting it up with a 65-yard scamper, he punched it in from the 1. Senior Zy’kie Askew scored Middletown’s first touchdown. Rosek liked what he saw in his young team in the one quarter they played. They followed all of the protocols when we had lightning and the AD (Jason Siegal) was in constant communication and present.” One thing you learn as a coach quickly is to adjust,” said Rosek, who lauded Conard’s leadership for “an unbelievable job of hosting us in a bad situation. After a wait of three hours, they never took the field and now hope to resume the Central Connecticut Conference divisional crossover game during their shared bye week in mid-October Middletown head coach Josh Rosek and Conard’s Matt Cersosimo, their staffs and players hung tight in the Red Wolves’ gym for three hours. and hopeful that it would build upon a 14-0 lead established the previous night. Middletown hit the road again Saturday afternoon, arriving at Conard at 4 p.m.
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