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Hopkinton Football opens at home Friday September 12th

By Tom Nappi, News Director
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This is the 2nd straight season Wayland and Hopkinton will open up the season against each other as last year the Hillers took down Wayland on the road 17-0 in the first game of the year.

Led once again by Head Coach Jim Girard, the Hillers return many of the same names who played big roles last year including QB Pat Ryan RB Drew Donohue, OL/DL Chris Liberta, WR’s Matt Decina and Chase Lampert as well as returning CB Hayden Pareira. Despite many of the offensive weapons returning from last year, the defense did graduate 10 starters after the 2013 season but OL/DL Captain Chris Liberta has faith that the young line can get the job done.

A lot of big names returning for the Hillers from a 2013 team that finished the regular season 6 and 5. Last season the Hillers played 2 playoff games defeating Millis in round 1 and losing to a stacked Stoughton team in game 2. Last year was a very young team and now many of the key starters on the Hillers have some playoff experience under their belt and are hungry once again to fight for a trip to Super Saturday.

Wayland out of the Dual County League, Small Division also had a good season last year, they finished 7 and 4 and have brought some good experience back as well. Wayland is lead by head coach Scott Parseghian, heading into his 14th season as head coach of the Warriors. Wayland advanced to the playoffs last year and lost 14-7 in the quarterfinals to Arlington. Wayland hopes to get back to post season play this year but is a lot younger this season and features only 7 returning starters. All 3 captains for Wayland are returning starters including DE Brad Belinsky, LB/TE Andy Carmichael and QB Robert Jones.

It should be a great matchup tonight between two hungry young teams that are looking for their second straight playoff birth in the new system.