The Day of New London’s coaches poll started the year off voting Xavier No. 1.
With the Falcons’ loss to North Haven, the coaches have shook things up a bit.
New Canaan received five No. 1 votes and pulled into a tie with Ansonia (six first-place votes) atop the latest poll. Norwich Free Academy retained two first-place votes and remained at No. 3.
Unlike the GameTimeCT/New Haven Register poll, the coaches dropped Xavier out of the Top 10 and slotted in its conqueror, North Haven, into No. 6.
Shelton and Darien also debut.
Dropped out: Xavier-Middletown (1); Greenwich (6); and West Haven (10).
Also receiving votes: Masuk-Monroe (2-0), 132 points; Tie, Newtown (2-0) and Xavier (1-1), 124; West Haven (1-1), 106; Ledyard (2-0), 73; Farmington (2-0), 56; Naugatuck (2-0), 47; Staples-Westport (1-1), 43; Fairfield Prep (1-1), 42; Capital/Classical/Achievement (2-0), 41; Platt-Meriden (2-0), 32; Glastonbury (1-1), 20; Valley Regional/Old Lyme (2-0), 15; Barlow-Redding (2-0), 14; Tie, Ridgefield (2-0), 10; Rocky Hill (2-0) and Woodland-Beacon Falls (2-0), 9; Notre Dame-W.H. (1-1), 8; Hand-Madison (1-1), 7.
The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Craig Bruno, Naugatuck; Scott Daniels, Glastonbury; Joe DellaVecchia, St. Joseph-Trumbull; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Rob Fleeting, Windsor; Steve George, Newtown; Tanner Grove, Montville; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Sean Marinan, Xavier-Middletown; John Murphy, New Milford; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport.
