Eastchester football finds a game

April

The Eastchester football team has finally found an opponent to fill the Oct. 10 vacancy on its schedule, ending a two-month quest of the tri-state area.

The Eagles have scheduled A.I. Prince Tech in Hartford, Conn. Eastchester has agreed to travel up the 90 minutes to Hartford and take on the trade school, which has an enrollment of nearly 600.

Prince Tech’s football team has its own page on the school’s website, which includes rosters, score results and other information. According to Eastchester coach Fred DiCarlo, Prince loses only two key players from last year’s 5-4 team. They have a potential Division I-AA recruit in junior QB/DB in Kevin Manning and a 280-pound lineman. All four of Prince’s All-Conference players in the Constitution State Conference return

Eastchester contacted Prince Tech coach Robert McNamara two weeks ago. McNamara researched the Eagles and agreed to the game this week. Obviously, the Eagles are thrilled now that they have six regular season football games scheduled, just like everybody else.

The game will either be played Friday night, Oct. 9, or Saturday afternoon in Hartford.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm by Kevin Devaney Jr..
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10 Responses to “Eastchester football finds a game”

stopcrying April 23rd, 2009 at 7:39 am
WOW big news eastchester gets a 6th game. The toughest league in section one, AA north, the teams get only five games.Did these cuts come from section one director simmons?
go eagles April 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Stop,

Thanks for your pugnacious comment. Be happy for the kids, that’s what this is all about.
eagles April 23rd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Are they flying up there or taking the cheese bus…..lol
The Donald April 23rd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
don’t drink any coffee or water before that ride
dm50 April 23rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I hear Devaney is trying to get Port Chester to pay for a coach bus!! ; )
SRM April 24th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
The sad thing about Section 1 is we are the only Section that plays only six games this year. All other Sections will play nine regular season games down from ten. I ask everybody from every team in Section 1 does this not bother you. It should because our kids deserve to play just as many games as all the other Sections in the state. You would think that with all the taxes we pay our kids should have an equal schedule, maybe we should all stick together instead of talking about one another and demanding the schedule our kids deserve. And by the way there is a very easy way to schedule the same amount of games for everyone go ask the other Sections how they do it i did. Maybe Section 1 should give them a call you think?
John Malone April 24th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I commend them for getting an out of state game, but that’s kinda weak for an opponent.
Jeff P. April 25th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
go eagles, I think stopcrying’s anger was directed more at the Section 1 “brain trust” (which created this scheduling fiasco in the first place) than Eastchester…
eagle 1 April 28th, 2009 at 10:53 am
John, an opponent none the less. Their statistics are the following:

They return 18 out of 22 starters, thier running back had the fourth most rushing yards in ct last year with 1700,

Their quarterback threw for 700 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions and ran for 500 yards

Thier best receiver caught 22 passes for close to 5oo yards and seven touchdowns.

All three are amongst the returning starters. Plus remember eastchester will play them after two hard weeks with Rye then Harrison.
They are a class s school in ct, but to call them weak without knowing them or who they play is irresponsible.
HSFB Guy May 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I dont see how the schedule went from 10 to 9 in some places. The state agreed that the regular season should be 6-7 games, and if a team wins the state title, that they have 12-13 games. That “maxes” them out, so some schools who won states couldn’t even play the thanksgiving bowl games due to that game being another game in the season. Other states, however, do have 10 game seasons plus playoffs. So to say Kingston HS has a 10 game season is false. to say Tri Valley does is also false. The state has thier own limit on games…maybe the NYSPHSAA should look into expanding the season, or Section I should just keep 6-7 games depending on league/class sizes, instead of cutting a game out to have a ridiculous modified-looking schedule of 5 games.

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