“Our expectation is we’re going to we’re going to step up,” coach Parrinello said. The focus now turns to next season, one in which the Knights will again be tasked with going through the Mesquite League, and coach Parrinello is looking forward to the challenge. “We wanted to make sure they’re all starting and then we’re kind of going through it and go, ‘Yeah, they pretty much all start anyway,’” coach Parrinello said. They go against top-quality guys every day, and it makes them a heck of a lot better.”Īfter the game, all of the Trinity coaches made sure to thank each and every one of the players, and coach Parrinello was emotional saying goodbye to his son and the rest of the seniors, many of whom he’s known for over 10 years. The good part is, they’re learning from those seniors, they’re learning from our starters, they’ve learned at practice. So we got a bunch of freshmen out there, some of them never played football in their lives. “We’re in one of those positions where we’re a small school,” coach Parrinello said. But he also knew that his players would learn from the challenges and the losses even more than they would learn from beating teams that weren’t quite as good. It was an emotional ending for the Knights, who were in the midst of their first season in the Mesquite League, a season that coach Parrinello knew would be a challenge. Senior Rocco Izzo had two catches for 13 yards, while senior Anderson Howell had four catches for 44 yards and an interception on defense on the final play of the third quarter. Trinity’s starting quarterback, sophomore Noah Visconti, threw for 66 yards on 10-of-22 passing, throwing three interceptions. That’s something we’ll get better for next year.” We lose those battles – you know, it doesn’t take a genius to figure it out. “And you know, we lost all those and we lost a football game. “We talk about our three major goals, and it’s to win the turnover game, win the special teams game and to have fewer penalties,” coach Parrinello said. Coach Parrinello said that those issues have been “the story of a lot of our losses this year.” Many of Western Christian’s drives began in great field position due to Trinity penalties, while the Knights were handicapping themselves by committing turnovers on some of their big plays. A touchdown late in the third and another just before Smith’s second score had the Knights chasing the entire game. The Fighting Lancers scored three times in the first half, including a touchdown just over two minutes into the game, to take a 22-0 lead into the break. You know, he’s dynamic, he brings us an edge that we just don’t always have.”īesides those two plays, the Knights had trouble on both ends of the field. You know, I’m talking to him and he wanted to go, but we were going to kind of see how it looked and give him a few here and there and he seemed healthy enough.
He had the ankle injury, been out a couple of games. Coming in tonight, we weren’t sure what we had. “Dominic, he’s been a great quarterback for us all year,” coach Parrinello said. He finished with 131 rushing yards on just seven attempts, though he was unable to get the passing game going, throwing three picks in his eight attempts. Smith, the starting quarterback for much of the season before an ankle injury sidelined him in the two previous games, was a game-time decision for coach Parrinello, but Smith wanted to play and close out his football career with a bang. One of those seniors, Dominic Smith, scored the only points for the Knights, running in a 30-yard score early in the fourth before ripping off a 67-yard run for a touchdown midway through the final frame. Trinity will graduate 14 seniors, including Parrinello’s son, Nick. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender.
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