{"id":5487,"date":"2019-12-09T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2019-12-12T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:45:08","slug":"football-ends-season-reflecting-on-strong-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=5487","title":{"rendered":"Football Ends Season Reflecting on Strong Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evan Dadson \u201823<br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EE<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Staff Writer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marking the end of a season full of highs and lows, the Trumbull High School Eagles Football Team lost their last game of the season 52-7 to their cross-town rivals, the St. Joseph&#8217;s High School Cadets, on Thursday, November 28, 2019. The Cadets started off strong with five touchdowns in the first half of the game. However, the Eagles eventually found their footing, converting three fourth-downs on their touchdown drive capped off with a twenty-four yard touchdown pass from Junior quarterback Riley Simpson to Senior Captain Kyle Atherton. The Eagles then held the Cadets down to two touchdowns in the second half, allowing none in the fourth quarter. The Cadets went on to win the FCIAC\u2019s by virtue of Darien\u2019s loss to New Canaan earlier that day, in tandem with their undefeated regular season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In reference to the game, Coach Marce Petroccio says, \u201cWe played as hard as we could but made a lot of mistakes. I\u2019m proud of my kids, and we\u2019ll get ready for next year.\u201d Petroccio also notes that the team was very young this year, and he anticipates a stronger team for the coming years. The Varsity team finished with a 3-7 season; however, as Atherton puts it, \u201cOur record may not reflect how much progress we\u2019ve made during the season, but we\u2019re really building up the program again.\u201d With an 8-2 Freshmen team and a 6-3-1 Junior-Varsity team, one can be assured what Atherton can play out to be true.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Dadson \u201823 EE Staff Writer Marking the end of a season full of highs and lows, the Trumbull High School Eagles Football Team lost their last game of the season 52-7&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}