Plenty of big games on the slate this week starting with a strong high school slate and a great Saturday of college games. The Patriots wrap it up on Sunday against the Jets. High School St. John’s Prep at St. John’s: The Prep continues to look like the best team in the state led by its deadly offense. The Pioneers, on the other hand, are fresh off their first win…
Catholic Memorial 42, Xaverian 21 – Rust & Thomas lead Knights past Hawks
By Michael Najarian NEFJ Correspondent WEST ROXBURY — After arriving at Catholic Memorial for his senior year of high school, there was a question of how quickly quarterback Kingston Rust would gel with star Knights receiver Ramar Thomas. Consider that question answered. Rust threw two TD passes to Thomas as part of a four-touchdown day, Thomas added a rushing score of his own, and Catholic Memorial doubled up Catholic Conference…
AJ Brown’s status still unsure for Sunday, is it worth the risk?
FOXBOROUGH – It’s really not worth rushing him back for the Jets, if we’re all being honest. AJ Brown began practicing for the first time this week since going on IR after the opener in Seattle. The Patriots now are in a 21-day window where they’d have to activate Brown or lose him for the season. That obviously isn’t happening, so when is the right time to let Drake Maye’s…
New England CFB preview – Week 7
Image courtesy of Sophie Weller/Patriots Wire After a slow weekend by our standards, it’s an almost-full slate this Saturday with 16 of the 17 New England Division 1 schools in action. It’s still October, but there’s plenty of teams that need to start stringing some wins together if they want to be playing into late November and maybe even early December. Here’s a quick run down of the local Week…
High School Dudes of the Week – Week 6
Welcome to another edition of the New England Football Journal Dudes of the Week! From game-sealing defensive plays to mind-boggling stat lines on offense, student-athletes across New England put on a show.
Here are the top performers who dominated the gridiron this past weekend.
Boston College & Kenyatta Watson part ways
CHESTNUT HILL- Boston College Football and General Manager Kenyatta Watson have mutually agreed to part ways, marking a sudden end to his brief tenure overseeing personnel operations in Chestnut Hill.
New England High School Preview – October 15-17
By Tyler Amaral NEFJ Correspondent We’ve reached the halfway point of October and with it, we’re into the second half of the regular season across New England. Playoff races are heating up and league championships will be decided over the next few weeks. This week’s slate of games features two massive Catholic Conference games, plus two Massachusetts/New Hampshire interstate contests. Outside of Massachusetts, this week does not feature many heavyweight…
High School Journal – Week 6
Sharing our thoughts on the week that was in this week’s high school football journal.
NEPSAC Top 10 Poll: Week 5
The poll saw some movement this week but it held steady at the top. Williston remains the top team in our poll while Tabor is starting to look like the program we thought they were after picking a big win on the road in California last week against Oak Ridge.
Here is this week’s poll.
New England Top 60 Poll: Week 7
Races are starting to tighten up across the region and with several schools playing on Thursday this week, the poll will see a significant shift next week.