By Eason Dong – Staff Reporter

The Jonathan Law football team is off to a hot start this season with a record of 5-1.

The Lawmen all have one common goal for the rest of the season: to keep winning games and play after Thanksgiving in the Class SS playoffs.

“The goals for the rest of the season are to win the rest of our games and work into playoffs,” Senior Captain Nick Comas said.

The Lawmen are having a impressive season with big wins against Notre Dame-West Haven and Branford, who were 4-0 at the time.

“The team’s performance has been very good and we look to keep improving and getting better each week,” Senior Captain Jack Lefevre said.

Heading into the season, the expectations for the Lawmen were modest. Now, Law is 5-1 midway through the season with a schedule filled with strong teams, with only a loss coming against the #3 team in the state, Killingly.

“While there’s always room for improvement, I am very happy with our performance so far, considering the expectations from the outside were not very high, so being 5-1 after six games is right where we want,” Head Coach Ryan Pearson said.

Junior Quarterback Matthew Witteman believes that the Lawmen are playing well and hopes to continue to improve as the season goes on. 

“Our weakness is our running game, but as we continue to improve, it is getting better,” Witteman said. ”I would say we are playing very well so far, but we need to finish the season strong because I’m looking forward to playing after Thanksgiving.”

A big part of Law’s success is how many new names have stepped up for the Lawmen this season.

“Two players that come to my mind are essentially coaches for us on the field, and that is Seamus on the D side and Gonzalez on the O side,” Pearson said. “So it would be easy to say kids like Witt(eman), Cosmas, Hunter (Kendzierski), and other returning starters but I think the amount of success we’ve gotten out of our sophomore class has been incredible from Dylan Gaillard, Reid Moulton, Ryan Woods, Zach Hyatt, Conor Ryan, Art Rossi, and Nick Vancho.”

As the season is slowly coming to a close, the Lawmen are going to continue bringing a physical attitude for the rest of the year. 

“I think the team is been playing solid so far this season despite the hard schedule, and we need to keep up the intensity to continue performing well,” senior Shane Hanson said.