There hasn't been much change at the top of the poll all season. La Salle and Barrington come in at 1 and 2, yet again. It'll be interesting to see what happens with those two and East Providence all start to play each other in Division I. It starts this week when East Providence visits Barrington.
Apparently Middletown scoring 78 last week wasn't enough to move them any closer to the top 5. The Islanders still are holding strong at No. 7, the top team in Newport County. Tiverton has a chance to move way up the ladder this weekend if the Tigers can pull off a win over No. 6 Ponaganset.
After dropping consecutive games to two of the top three teams in the state, Portsmouth has a bye this week before getting thrown back into the fire with a game at Barrington on Oct. 16. The bad news is, the Patriots very well could lose a third straight. The good news is, they also could run the table after that with games against St. Ray's, Cranston West, North Kingstown and Rogers.
1. La Salle (6) 158 1
2. Barrington (2) 152 2
3. East Providence 145 5
4. West Warwick 124 6
5. South Kingstown 116 3
6. Ponaganset 102 9
7. Middletown 101 7
8. Mount Hope 100 10t
9. Cranston East 95 4
10. Portsmouth 94 8
11. Hendricken 80 13
12. Woonsocket 60 14
13. Lincoln 52 15
14. Cumberland 48 NR
15. Johnston 45 18
16. Cranston West 39 12
17. Tiverton 36 19
18. Westerly 35 10t
19. St. Raphael 25 17
20. Hope 21 NR
Others receiving votes: Moses Brown 13, Coventry 9, Classical 6, Mount Pleasant 4, Rogers 4, Shea 3, Tolman 2.
Participating publications: The Chariho Times, The Coventry Courier, The
Cranston Herald, The East Greenwich Pendulum, The Narragansett Times, The
Newport Daily News, The Northeast Independent, The North Kingstown
Standard Times, The South Country Independent, The Warwick Beacon, The
Westerly Sun.
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I have a few questions. first, do you believe that Middletown should be moved up or down in the rankings? or should they stay the same? Second, do you believe them putting up 78 points was unneccessary and excessive, or were they just playing football? Finally, do you believe that by putting up 78 points and spreading the ball around, albeit against probably the worst team in the state, they have proven that they are more than just rico?
All good questions. There are currently four teams - La Salle, West Warwick, Middletown and Hope - in the state who are undefeated. La Salle is from Division 1, WW from D-II and the latter two are from D-IV. So do I think Hope would hang with La Salle? No.
But I think Middletown is getting noticed statewide, and people ask me a lot about Rico. "Is he really that good?" I think he's one of the better backs in the state, no matter what division, and I think he's single-handedly pumping excitment into this year's Thanksgiving Day game.
If Tiverton can knock off Ponaganset this weekend, you'll see idle Middletown move up.
As far as the 78 points, that's something I've only seen once before. I didn't see the game, so I can't really comment on whether or not the score was run up, but Middletown threw the ball just six times in the game. So at least they were keeping it on the ground and trying to run out the clock.
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