NEW CANAAN – Now who’s No. 1?
Second-ranked St. Joseph football won another rumble near the top of the GametimeCT Top 10 Poll and defeated No. 3 New Canaan 21-14 Friday night at Dunning Field.
The Hogs went up by 21 at halftime, then hung on as the Rams nearly tied the game in the closing moments.
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A 24-yard touchdown pass from New Canaan quarterback Maddox Hoffman to Jack Crowell cut the deficit to seven points with 1:07 remaining, and the Rams recovered the ensuing onside kick at midfield.
New Canaan moved the ball down to the St. Joseph 15-yard line, but a sack and then an incomplete pass ended the game.
The victory was St. Joseph’s first over New Canaan since a 27-14 decision during the 2022 regular season. The Hogs came close last year, but eventually dropped a 7-3 game.
New Canaan had a 29-game winning streak broken in a 34-31 loss to Ludlowe on Oct. 30, and has now lost two straight for the first time in eight years. Ludlowe leapt from No. 6 to No. 1 in this week’s poll.
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The Rams’ last back-to-back defeats came against Masuk in the 2017 Class M semifinals and St. Joseph in the 2018 opener. The last time they lost two straight games in-season was in 2005 to Staples and Trumbull with Curt Casali, now a retired MLB catcher, as the junior quarterback.
New Canaan and St. Joseph’s head-to-head series has been streaky over the past 20 years. The Rams won eight straight against the Hogs from 2008-2014, St. Joseph then won five straight from 2017-2022, and New Canaan won back-to-back in 2023 and 2025.
No. 2 St. Joseph 21, No. 1 New Canaan 14
ST. JOSEPH 7 14 0 0-21
NEW CANAAN 0 0 7 7-14
SJ-Michael Charland 1 run (Jake Rios kick)
SJ-Jack Mooney (Rios kick)
SJ-Justin Daniel 47 run (Rios kick)
NC-Cole Esposito 52 pass Maddox Hoffman (Neel Arora kick)
NC-Jack Crowell 24 pass Hoffman (Arora kick)
Records: St. Joseph 6-1, New Canaan 6-2
This article originally published at No. 2 St. Joseph football builds early lead, holds off rally by No. 3 New Canaan for wild win.
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