Thursday-night lights welcome back a few football teams this week, with many coming off a bye to hit the field. The 4-0 North Attleboro Rocketeers will look to keep things going on Thursday night against 3-1 Canton. Prior to last week's bye, North Attleboro jumped ahead by four scores over Oliver Ames in the first quarter, ending a 51-0 win with roughly 500 total yards of offense.
The banner night saw Chase Frisoli go 7-for-8 with 278 yards and four passing scores and one rushing. This week the Canton defense and offense won't be as soft as Oliver Ames, with North Attleboro head coach Mike Strachan pointing to a number of talented players on both sides of the ball for Canton. "The bye week is good to make sure you get prepared.
Canton is a very, very good team. They've got skilled guys all over the place," Strachan said. "They've got Kareem Chaplin (running back, defensive back), he's a great skill kid.
They've got Effren Gnepo on the offensive and defensive line, and he's awesome. Luke Richards is another strong lineman for them. They have a number of different kids, .
.. they've got a lot of skilled kids across the board.
We're going to have to play clean football and be able to get off the field on third down and we're going to have to keep drives going. That's kind of what we've worked on this year and we're going to have to continue to do that." After such a good week on offense two weeks ago, Strachan knows Thursday night they'll have to be perfect again and that a near-.
