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BY JIM WIENERS

“Cardinal Ritter on three…..one, two, three!” One of Trinity’s captains after last Friday’s game. “Cardinal Ritter!” Trinity Football players responding after 55-6 home win over John F. Kennedy.

Last Friday Trinity Catholic football players huddled up after their second win of the and after head coach Leon Hite spoke the players took over and made sure they focused on this Friday’s 7 p.m. game. The Titans will take their 2-0 record, overall and in the Archdiocesan Athletic Association, to defending AAA champion and Class Three State runner up Cardinal Ritter, who is also 2-0, overall and in the AAA.

Ritter has a big runner, a big player, according to Hite, in junior running back Trey Perry, who has 46 carries for 529 yards and six touchdowns as well as a two-point conversion in Ritter wins over St. Dominic, 36-20 on Aug 28, and Bishop DuBourg, 53-0 last Friday. Perry also scored in last year‘s Class Three title-game loss, 31-7 to Cassville. “They got to get down and dirty,” Hite said about playing this Friday.

Trinity goes into Friday’s game having already equaling last season mark of two wins (2-8 last year). However “we got a real young bunch,” Hite said last Friday‘s 55-6 home win over John. F. Kennedy. “One of our goals was ‘definitely do better than last year.’” So far Trinity has outscored their first two opponents, 95-23 including a 40-17 win Aug. 28 at Lutheran-St. Charles County (in St. Peters) and a 55-6 home win last Friday over Kennedy.

Trinity has two players that have done the scoring damage for the Titans. Senior running back and wide receiver Marquise Hill has been the key weapon since his freshman year and so far he has three touchdown runs including one as quarterback against Lutheran-St. Charles County, two touchdown receptions and retuned a punt for a touchdown against Kennedy. “Hill is humble,” said Hite, “but he is a competitor.”

Hill “makes other players better,” said Hite. Hill has a quarterback that has done more damage as junior Toma Peebles has been a key runner, with 15 carries

for 206 yards and six touchdowns, and strong passer, completing 16 out of 29 passes for 254 yards and four touchdowns and no interceptions.

TRINITY HONORS MERCY 1959, 1969 TEAMS — Last Friday Trinity honored players and coaches, still alive, from the 1959 Catholic Athletic Conference and City/County championship team and the 1969 Missouri State High School Activities Association Class 3A Runner up teams. One of the assistant coaches from the 1969 team is current Trinity assistant Hank Barrere, former head coach at Jennings, Rosary and Kennedy. “It’s coaching that’s what I want to do,” said Barrere at Mercy’s post-game reception at Trinity.