Class B North Football Semifinals – Friday 11/07/25
Dominance. The Cony football team played to that level almost exclusively for the entire regular season, including a 47-0 rout of Messalonskee on opening week, to finish unbeaten in Class B North.
Tomorrow night they meet again, this time in the Class B North semifinals. The game is slated to kick off at 7 at Cony’s Fuller Stadium in Augusta. Tickets are $5.
Messalonskee senior quarterback Tatum Doucette knows the challenge is considerable, perhaps even monumental, but he is convinced victory is possible.
To go into the game otherwise, he said, is self-defeating.
“If we go into this game thinking we will lose,” he said, “then, of course, we will lose.”
Instead, Doucette said the Eagles go into the game ready to compete.
“We are planning to slow down the game,” he said, “and keep their offense off the field as much as possible because they are averaging like 50 points per game, which is insane.”
The strategy, Doucette said, is to mix running plays with short passes to produce long, clock-eating drives.
The Eagles also are determined to eliminate or at least minimize mistakes, something they failed to do in the previous meeting with the Rams.
“We had three or four penalties on the first drive of that game,” Doucette said. “I think we had 10 penalties in all for something like 50 yards.”
But that game was two months ago and much has changed in the interim.
“We are a completely different team from [the team we were] the first time we played them,” Doucette said.
Fourth-ranked Messalonkee (4-5) earned a berth in the semifinals against top-ranked Cony (8-0) by beating No. 5 Skowhegan 35-28 last Friday.
The winner of tomorrow’s game advances to the regional final to take on either third-ranked Fryeburg Academy (5-3) or No. 4 Lawrence (5-4).