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This week in Boston Neighborhood Sports, we bring you a story about the New Mission football team, along with highlights from the Titans first ever football game as they took on Dorhcester.

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Brand new high school football season began last weekend with seven Boston public high schools playing in their opening games, but friday was extra special for new mission high school, who was feeling a team for the very first time before we check out the highlights from their first ever football game. We caught up with the titans earlier in the week to understand what having a football team really means for their school. The 2011 Division two state championship here at the dcu center.

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What a season for the new mission tightest new mission high school was no stranger to athletic success over the past six seasons. The new mission Titans boys and girls, basketball teams have reached the state finals four times and won three state championships: the architect for most of new missions. Basketball success is the school's current athletic director Cory McCarthy, who was the head coach for all three of the Titans state championship teams, but even with all of his basketball success, perhaps McCarthy's greatest athletic achievement.

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Came this summer when new mission high school started a brand new high school football team, football.

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Has long been something we've desired over the years in terms of building our athletic program, kids get to be a part of the system, learn to play a role. All that stuff translates into buying into the whole philosophy of mission high school. Having football, you know, I've unites it's in a very different way than basketball. Some of the other sports do to.

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Construct this new program- McCarthy hired former Cathedral High School and semi-pro football coach, Michael Pittman, a man whose character and experience in the city were a perfect match for the tightness.

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He's been in a city for a long time, so he knows how to relate to our kids. Talk to our kids um he's very knowledgeable for us and him. The relationship was a no-brainer actually.

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Boss, the head coach of English, told me about the job. Then he gave me Corey's, no I'm gonna call them, we talked and we met and then I guess might say. The rest is history of.

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Course, with the new program and new head coach, this fall will mark a fresh start for coach pittman and several new mission football players who had to play for other high school teams in previous seasons. Basically.

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Before we even have our own team so now that we got our own team, it's just more like excitement and new beginning and its new mission. It's.

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Hard to imagine kind of because actually you had to play for English and now that we have our team in this year. It's crazy I can't believe it and I'm just can't wait to the season start. I.

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Said it's a dream come true! Last year, I felt like I, really wasn't a part of the school tradition. I'm pointing I was in playing for my team I'm playing for like another school, so there's really no tradition behind it. Now I'm playing for my old school and mega. I got son really fight for, but.

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When building a team from the ground up, players and coaches will face many challenges along the way and the new mission Titans are no exception. The.

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Biggest challenge has been numbers, we kind of low numbers, but you know what the expression is. You build it. They will come so we're just taking our week that we got a timed at a time and guys are coming in and we're just getting new faces every other day we.

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Start in the summertime in August so school's out, we don't know exactly when school starts. Probably, hopefully we get another 20 25 guys. One.

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Of the biggest challenges is just football not being in this school, so it's very difficult for guys, understand the football English and and jogging and everything, but.

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Despite the many obstacles that the Titans will face, they also have several advantages: working in their favor, one being the overall athletic success at new mission which the Titans look to carry over to the football field. We.

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Have a couple of the basketball players that are coming out and hopefully that will toughen them up for the basketball season. They've been very successful, I think what it does is it lends itself to championship. Mentality coming to our team, hopefully will grow on our team with the new guys here.

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And the other advantage for the Titans is the support they've received from the school itself.

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That goes back to our principal mayor, Wilson arm. She said our kids will want it. If we provided for him. If it's an option, she gave us the option. She helped us with the equipment she's going to help us with transportation. She helps the kids you've been doing.

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Well, school support of 80s, great the principal's great and the everybody been very supportive. So.

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With the support of the school and the enthusiasm of the Titan coaches, new mission, high school football program seems to be on the fast track to gridiron success and with their inaugural season approaching rapidly. Titans wait with great anticipation and high expectations. Can't.

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Wait so many emotions going to be running around everything. I just can't wait to get on the feeling. Just just hit people like.

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I said it's our first game, first time with the pads on the first time, everything baby we just gonna, be ready. The.

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First game of school's history it'll be something that will take these young kids by storm Oh. Anything about this so to be very interested.

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The new mission Titans were finally able to begin their inaugural season on friday afternoon, when they squared off against the always tough Dorchester bears in Dorchester, did not welcome new mission quietly, let's head now to white stadium for this one. They you see the new mission Titans in their first ever game in the all white uniforms. Second quarter from the 12 no score, Hakim Harris off tackle for Dorchester finds pay dirt.

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Dorchester's first touchdown of the season puts the Bears up 82 zip early on new mission, now trying to put a drive together, Stephen Thomas breaks. A couple of tackles here then finds his way down the sideline out to the 30. That's a 30-yard run pass inside the 20-yard line. That brings the mission inside the 20, but after a couple of penalties, the Titans got pushed back then right there, Damien Amato, just can't hang on to that touchdown pass in the back of the end zone. New mission would turn the ball over on downs.

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That was the best scoring opportunity of the afternoon dorchester again to Hakim Harris off tackle and he's got a huge way down the sideline right. There he gets caught right around the 12 yard line. Harris sets up new mission again for a touchdown Dale Cooper would cap that off with a touchdown for Dorchester, they went up 14 a zip next possession of team Harris again almost an identical run, but this time Paris is going to take it.

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The distance Harris with a monster game here, 118 yards on the ground, two touchdowns, including 51 yarder as Dorchester, wins in a route 36 to zip, certainly good game there for Dorchester.

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Let's take a look at some of the rest of the scores from the weekend, as Boston Latin loses to North Quincy 28 to 14, then East Boston against blue hills in a rematch of last year's for a playoff losses, 24 26, Vincent beretta, the 18 to 358 yards and a touchdown latin academy, beating South Boston in overtime, 26 to 20, Kyle's dance with a game-winning touchdown run and then O'brien getting flanked by Cathedral 28 to 0 four touchdown passes for cathedrals quarterback.

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There Hickman tough way for a new mission to begin their first football season, but they have some good players in a very good head. Coach, so they should be able to build that program up in no time. That's going to do it for sports this week make sure you come right back here next week for more on Boston neighborhood sports.