Thursday Night Lights?

The high school football season got underway last week, rather quietly.

Fatdog.ca is about the best resource for this level of play.  The "football" tab was removed from the site recently, usually a sign that the schedule is going up, but by the time I saw it again, a few games had been played.

Thursday - Sep. 19, 2013
Franco Cite 07 @ St. Peter 27
Mother Teresa 16 @ Holy Trinity 04

Friday - Sep. 20, 2013
St. Mark 00 @ Sir Wilfrid Laurier 28
Immaculata 07 @ St. Joseph 48

There are 16 teams competing (pretty standard) across town.  If I understand correctly, the clubs playing at the AAA/AAAA level (St. Peter, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, St. Patrick, St.Mark) can compete provincially in the OFSAA Bowl Series in Toronto.

There are a couple of other things I've noticed about the schedule.  At first, I was disappointed to see that United Way Day seemed to be a thing of the past.  Every year, on the Thursday before Thanksgiving, 16 teams would converge on St. Joseph High School to play eight games on two fields from 9AM to about 7PM.  As much football as you can handle and fundraising for the United Way at the same time.  Always a fun time.

I eventually clued in that the event is still on, but the Thursday following Thanksgiving instead.  Here is the schedule for that day.

Colonel By @ St. Pius -- 10:00am at St. Joseph
Garneau @ Longfields DHS -- 10:00am at St. Joseph
Philemon Wright @ St. Matthew -- 12:00am at St. Matthew
Holy Trinity @ St. Joseph -- 12:00am at St. Joseph
St. Mark @ Franco Cite -- 2:00pm at St. Joseph   
St. Peter @ Sir Wilfrid Laurier --2:00pm at St. Joseph
Mother Teresa @ St. Patrick -- 7:30pm at Millenium Field

Things seem to have changed a little, probably for logistical reasons.  Previously, one game would start at 9AM on field one, then another on field two an hour later, and so on.  When the first game ended, the third would start on field one, and so on.  Now they all appear to start at the same times.  I can only assume that the Philemon Wright "at" St. Matthew location being listed as being played at St. Matthew is an error.

I doubt that the last game's location is an error though.  It seems that there's a game every Thursday evening now, something that was a rarity in the recent past.

So here's your Thursday night schedule now (not including the Mother Teresa/St. Patrick match-up from above).

Sep 26th: St. Joseph @ Mother Teresa 7:00pm at Bob Stevens Field
Oct  3rd: St. Patrick  @ St. Peter   7:30pm at Millenium Field
Oct 10th: St. Mark @ Holy Trinity    7:00pm at Bob Stevens Field
Oct 24th: St. Joseph @ St. Peter     7:30pm at Millenium Field

So people now have more opportunities to catch these teams in action.