THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, August 27, 2021 Page 11 GREATER BOSTON LEAGUE NOTEBOOK: Revere HS Patriots name football captains for 2021 season MHS football and Coach Exilhomme bust out for scrimmage action Saturday; EHS’s Jason Maitre poised for big season for BC Eagles **** Former EHS star Jason Maitre set to soar for the BC Eagles It’s “T minus eight days” for By Steve Freker L ou Cicatelli is pleased as punch that space is at a premium at venerable Della Russo Stadium in the heart of Revere on Park Avenue. That’s because it could mean only one thing if the home of the Patriots football program is bursting at the seams in August: Numbers are great in preseason camp! Coach Cicatelli and his enthusiastic staff welcomed nearly 70 prospects to the stadium on Friday, the fi rst day of preseason workouts for Massachusetts high school football teams. After several days of “just helmets,” Revere put on the pads for several days of limited and then full contact for the fi rst time since the past spring “Fall 2” season. Revere High football will put some of its early lessons to use tomorrow afternoon when the Patriots kick off their scrimmage schedule by hosting Hamilton-Wenham at 2:30 p.m. at Della Russo Stadium. Revere will also scrimmage against Northeast Metro Tech on Friday, Sept. 3 at 10 a.m. at home, all in preparation for its regular season and home opener vs. former Northeastern Conference (NEC) foe Peabody High on Friday, Sept. 10 at 6 p.m. in Revere. “It’s one of our largest turnouts for preseason camp in a while,” said coach Cicatelli. Coach Cicatelli said a lot of fi rst-year and fi rst-time players are learning the ropes, and he is pleased with how the experienced players are interacting. This week Revere Football announced four captains who will lead the team this season; they are Augusto Goncalves, Elmahdi Elkeaouakibi and Wilmer Rodriguez, who are all seniors, and Max Doucette, a junior. **** MHS and fi rst-year head coach Exilhomme eye fi rst test of season on Saturday The fast pace of high school preseason football continues this week for Malden High School football and first-year Head Coach Witche Exilhomme. Malden football opened camp on Friday along with the rest of the over 300 high school programs in the state, and Coach Exilhomme said he and his staff are pleased with the early results. “We have good numbers and a lot of hard-working players who have started the preseason,” said Coach Exilhomme, himself a 2012 Malden High School graduate and former three-year Golden Tornado varsity starter. Malden will get to work against an opponent tomorrow, Saturday, August 28 when the Golden Tornados welcome Greater Boston Leaguers Chelsea and Somerville to Macdonald Stadium at 10:00 a.m. for a three-team, jamboree-style scrimmage. While Somerville does appear on Malden’s regular season schedule, Chelsea does not in 2021. It is expected that the Red Devils will reappear as a GBL league opponent for Malden on the 2022 slate. Chelsea is easing its way into the GBL fold this fall, playing three GBL opponents — Revere, Medford and Somerville — in football. The Red Devils are playing a full GBL league slate in other sports. **** MHS season opener is set for Sept. 16 vs. Whittier Tech The Golden Tornado football regular season schedule Malden High sophomore receiver Felix DaCosta burst free from the drill during the fi rst day of preseason camp at Macdonald Stadium in Malden last Friday. Malden will scrimmage Chelsea High at 10 a.m. at home on Saturday. (Advocate Photo by Steve Freker) opens on Thursday, September 16 when Malden hosts nonleaguer Whittier Tech at Macdonald Stadium at 6 p.m. On Friday, Sept. 24, Malden hits the road for a 7 p.m. game at twotime defending Division 4 Super Bowl Champ Melrose. The Tornados then stay on the road against Greater Boston League opponents. On Friday, October 1, Malden is at Dilboy Stadium for a 6:00 p.m. kickoff versus Somerville. On October 8, Malden takes on the Revere High Patriots at Harry Della Russo Stadium at 6 p.m. Malden plays its only Saturday game of the schedule on October 16, traveling to historic Manning Field in Lynn, the home fi eld of the legendary Harry Agganis, for a 1:00 p.m. game vs. GBL league member Lynn Classical Rams. Friday, October 22 is Homecoming for Malden; the Tornadoes host the Lynn English Bulldogs — another GBL league game — at 6 p.m. Malden stays on the GBL streak when it hosts the Everett Crimson Tide on Friday, October 29 at 6 p.m. That night features an extra special addition as the 2021 Golden Tornado Hall of Fame inductees will be introduced at halftime. The weekends of November 5 and November 12 will feature postseason games versus Division 3 opponents, and the regular season will conclude with the 138th Thanksgiving Day matchup, with Malden hosting traditional rival Medford at 10 a.m. at Macdonald Stadium in Malden. defensive back Jason Maitre and the Boston College Eagles. On Saturday, September 4, the BC football squad will spice up the Labor Day Weekend when it opens its regular season and home schedule with a noon game versus visiting Colgate. It will be the fi rst of two nonleague games to start the season for BC. Boston when he was 12. He is a Communications major at BC. He played in two games in the 2018 season as a true freshman, before redshirting, and recorded two tackles. In the 2019 season, Maitre was Jason Maitre, a former Everett High standout, is in his fourth season as a Boston College Eagle defensive back. (Courtesy Photos) The following Saturday on September 11 at 3:30, BC will take a short hop down the Mass. Turnpike to play UMass Amherst at McGuirk Stadium in Amherst. Maitre, a 5-10, 185 lb. cornerback, is poised for a breakout season for the Eagles, in this, his redshirt junior year of competition. A 2018 Everett High graduate, Maitre is in his fourth year with the BC program. He has two more years of eligibility with the Eagles and is eligible for the National Football League (NFL) draft following this season. Coming out of Everett High as a Class of 2018 senior after playing his fi nal high school season for the Tide in 2017, Maitre was ranked as the #1 football prospect in Massachusetts and was heavily recruited, though he committed to the Eagles during his junior year of high school. A native of Orlando, Fla., Maitre moved with his family to a redshirt freshman, appearing in 11 games and breaking into the starting lineup for six games — recording 34 tackles and two interceptions. One of the picks he returned for a touchdown against NC State. In 2020, Maitre again started six games, appeared in 11 games and had 32 tackles and one interception. He recorded a season-high eight tackles in a win over Georgia Tech. Maitre is already penciled in as an Opening Day starter and is poised for a big season as he enters his first professional draft-eligible year of collegiate play. **** Jason Maitre covered a Syracuse receiver in a game played last season. Around the League Dracut has hired former Ayer Shirley coach Jermaine McKenzie to head up its football program. Before coaching A-S for one season, McKenzie spent two years as head coach at Bishop Brady High School in Concord, N.H. He has served as an assistant at Boston Latin, Cathedral, Matignon, Blackstone-Millville and Cambridge Rindge & Latin, his alma mater. McKenzie was one of four fi nalists for the Malden High head football coach position before 2012 MHS alumnus Witche Exilhomme was hired... The Greater Boston League thus nearly had two “MacKenzies” in its head coach ranks. Lynn English earlier this summer announced the hiring of MacKenzie Charles as its new head football coach. Charles is also an assistant coach for the Bulldogs’ back-to-back State Champion boys’ basketball team in 2018-19 and 2019-20... With Boston English and Boston Latin not playing a game this past spring in “Fall 2,” the de facto title on “Longest Continuous High School Football Rivalry in the Nation” now passes to GBL rivals Malden High and Medford High, which did play in 2020 (actually, in “Fall 2” this past spring) and who will meet for Game #134 in a row on November 25 at Macdonald Stadium in Malden at 10 a.m.
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