The upcoming football game Friday holds promise for the Scituate Sailors. According to head coach Herb Devine, the Sailors have the most dominant front seven he has ever coached. This is a bold statement for someone who has been coaching football for well over 20 years, but Scituate definitely has the playmakers to back up this statement. The front seven will be anchored by Senior captains Scott Radding and Chris Bearce along with Junior Connor Tobin at linebacker and Seniors Devin McCarthy and Tanios Abi-Saad playing the defensive tackles. Listed at 6’ 2’’, 355 lbs., McCarthy is an unwavering force who demanded double, and sometimes even triple, teams from opposing offensive lines last year. He earned the Patriot League All-Star honors last year and was listed on the Boston Globe’s preseason, “Linemen to Watch in Eastern Massachusetts High School Football.”

On the offensive side of the ball, the Sailors look just as strong, returning Christian Brady at quarterback and two-way star Chris Bearce at running back. Devine describes the dynamic duo of Bearce and Brady as “thunder and lightning, with Christian as more of the lightning and Bearce the thunder.” As an All-Scholastic dual-threat quarterback last year, Christian had a combined 21 all-purpose touchdowns and 701 rushing yards. He looks to improve on those numbers this year as the scheme shifts from a pro-style offensive to a spread, exclusively no-huddle, attack.

In Devine’s decorated career at the helm of Scituate Football he has enjoyed numerous winning seasons, won two Patriot League Fisher Division titles, but has one thing left to cross off his coaching bucket list: Devine has yet to win a playoff game, and making it back to the playoffs is clearly a priority. According to Devine, “All we know is [if] we win our league [then] we get in. That should be our focus and our goal.” Last year the Sailors came within 6 seconds of making that goal a reality, only to have their hearts ripped out when Holliston scored a touchdown on a fourth and goal play at the one yard line with six seconds to play to make the score 44-39, an old fashioned shootout.

So come to the home game Friday night at 7 p.m. to watch the Sailors begin their voyage back to the playoffs, and eventually to Gillette Stadium for the Division Four Super Bowl.