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STAMFORD — Danbury quarterback Malachi Hopkins ran for two touchdowns and threw for another as the Hatters gained 515 rushing yards Saturday in a 52-20 win at Westhill.

Hopkins ran 16 times for 184 yards and completed 5 of 11 passes for 67 yards, including a 29-yard touchdown to his older brother, R.J., who also ran for a touchdown. Running back Jack Pompea scored twice while gaining 120 yards on 16 carries and Malik Thomas also found the end zone on an 83-yard afternoon.

Westhill had some success setting the edge and containing sweep plays but couldn’t find an answer for Malachi Hopkins when he pulled the ball on the option and ran it himself. Hatters coach Augie Tieri called Hopkins “the focal point of our run game.”

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STAMFORD — The game plan for the Stamford High football team was simple.

Ground and pound.

Sticking largely to the running game, Stamford ran to a 19-7 win over rival Trinity Catholic Saturday afternoon.

All the points in the game came in the second half.

“The game plan was run first. Our receivers are a little mad about it, but we felt like we were a little bigger than them and we felt we would be run first and ground and pound today,” Stamford coach Jamar Greene said. “We knew we had the counter in our back pocket. We tried to run it late in the third quarter but messed up the snap, but we saw it was still going to be there. We knew it would hit. We didn’t know it would be for a touchdown, but we knew it would be for big yardage.”

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WESTPORT — Jake Thaw threw three touchdown passes and Staples scored on its own kickoff Friday night as the Wreckers cruised past McMahon 38-14 on homecoming Friday night.

McMahon scored its first points of the season in the second quarter on a Jermayne Daniel plunge and briefly led, 8-7, but Staples hit the easy button the rest of the way while improving to 3-0.

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TRUMBULL — Believing the cliché you have to beat the best in order to be the best is nothing groundbreaking in sports.

It is rare however, to see a matchup where both teams have that same belief about each other.

And, in this instance, both have a point.

GameTimeCT No. 1 St. Joseph dominated then-No. 1 New Canaan at home in its opener to the tune of 28-0, while No. 3 Darien has won the last three Class LL titles and has outscored its opponents 65-6 through two games.

The two heavyweights will do battle Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull.

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NORWALK — Everybody at Norwalk High looks up to Sam Papp, and not just because he stands 6-foot-5 and weighs in at a strong and athletic 255 pounds.

No, it runs deeper than that. Far deeper, in fact.

Once, when he was far smaller than he is now, Papp was occasionally picked on due to a stutter. Since becoming the man-child he is today, he protects those who might fall prey to the bullying of others.

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The city football game between Trinity Catholic and Stamford High could not be coming at a better time for the two schools.

Both teams come in at 0-2 having lost week one games they both felt were winnable and both getting blown out in their week two contests.

Now they get to face each other in the first leg of the Stamford city championship with a chance to erase the bad taste left by the first two weeks.

Of course, while one team will pick up its first victory, the other will walk off Gaglio Field Saturday afternoon at 0-3.

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