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Introducing the Inside the Arrows Blog

An in-depth look at Sachem Football throughout the season and beyond.

Welcome to the first installment of "Inside the Arrows," Sachem Patch's new blog focused on Sachem High School Football at both East and North.

While we'll be covering games, writing previews, featuring profiles on former and current players (this applies to all sports too) there will be plenty of information that just won't fit into a standard story: injury updates, college commitments, interesting links to things associated with Sachem football and so on. All of that will appear here in this blog. Think of the blogs that major newspapers use to cover professional or college teams. The same idea applies here.

It's my goal to make Sachem football attract the same attention that teams in Texas garner. Sachem football was a staple of this community for over 30 years and a dynasty that was feared across Suffolk County. With North's No. 1 seed and East's surge to break into the playoffs for the second time in school history, things are looking up for Sachem football as always this season.

Find out what's happening in Sachemwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

If you're wondering what our coverage will look like this fall, here's a list of things to look forward to:

  • Game stories
  • Season previews breaking down a different position each day
  • Previews and reviews
  • Live blogging and Twitter updates from all home games
  • Photo galleries
  • Video highlights
  • Weekly coaches corner video shows
  • Profiles on former and current players and coaches
  • Athletes of the Week and Year
  • All-Sachem Patch teams
  • Various historical breakdowns, shedding light on every statistic and record possible

Just in case you missed the football stories we've posted so far:

Find out what's happening in Sachemwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

  • Live coverage of Sachem North's training camp
  • Live coverage of Sachem East's training camp
  • Both Sachem schools participate in Stony Brook passing tourney
  • A look at North's grueling off-season program
  • North's minicamp begins
  • East's minicamp begins
  • Both high schools help out at Sachem Sports Club camp
  • Sachem embarks on ImPACT concussion management system
  • Gallery: North straps on pads for first time
  • North QB Angelo Armine commits to Molloy for lacrosse
  • North's Timmy Lang commits to UMBC for lacrosse

Chris R. Vaccaro is the editor of Sachem Patch, regional sports editor of Patch.com's Long Island editorial operations and a proud graduate of Sachem High School. He is the author of "Sachem High School Football: The History of the Flaming Arrows."


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