Games to watch

FRIDAY

Woodland at Ansonia, 6 p.m.: Eleven teams remain unbeaten in the CIAC, and five of those are in Class S. Two of those are in the NVL. Guess which two? The No. 8 Chargers haven’t lost a regular-season game in five years or an NVL game in almost nine years. Woodland’s only regularseason loss the past two years was 36-20 last year to Ansonia.

Notre Dame-West Haven at Fairfield Prep, 6 p.m.: Throw the records out when these rivals meet... or so they’d love to. They’re both 4-3 against some of the toughest competition in the state. Should be a fine game, but its impact on the state playoff race is blunted a bit.

Torrington at Holy Cross, 6:30 p.m.: Here’s another, a pair of 5-2 teams. Holy Cross is also in playoff position, bidding for its first postseason berth since winning the 2011 Class S championship. Torrington, fresh off upsetting Naugatuck, is right on the line in Class M.

Killingly at Norwich Free Academy, 6:30 p.m.: Unbeaten Killingly, hanging around the edge of the GameTimeCT top 10, has had an easy time of it the past three games, an aggregate 153-31. This one should be closer. The Wildcats are coming off a 33-29 win over Fitch. Killingly beat Fitch 21-17 a month ago.

Maloney at Wethersfield, 7 p.m.: Two 6-1 teams with potent offenses meet up. Maloney is two weeks removed from its loss to Newington; last week’s 49-0 win over Hartford Public ended a run of six games in which the Spartans’ points-allowed crept upward from 13 to 42. Wethersfield, meanwhile, has allowed 28 points in its six wins; the loss, 56-13, is to No. 1 Hand.

Hand at Xavier, 7 p.m.: Hand’s schedule heats up a bit the next couple of weeks, with a Xavier team that knocked off Fairfield Prep and Notre Dame-West Haven over the past month. Shelton waits next week for Hand.

Sheehan at North Haven, 7 p.m.: The results perhaps haven’t been what North Haven wanted, with three out of four losses by a touchdown or less. It could still be dangerous to unbeaten Sheehan, whose toughest game, so to speak, was a 24-point game against New Fairfield in Week 2 that the Titans broke open in the second half.

Seymour at Naugatuck, 7 p.m.: Yet another NVL tilt of note. Seymour is 5-2 but closes the year with Naugatuck (5-1), Ansonia (7-0) and Woodland (7-0). Naugatuck is fresh off that loss to Torrington and has some work to do in Class LL.

SATURDAY

Woodstock Academy at Bacon Academy, noon: Even with a 6-1 record and a school record for victories, the bonus points have not been good to Woodstock, which is 12th in the Class L playoff race. Bacon Academy, 14th in Class S at 5-2, is in a similar boat. Well, a bunch of points are on the table for the winner here.

Norwalk at Danbury, 4 p.m.: We’ll turn this spot over to colleague Scott Ericson, who tweeted on Saturday @EricsonSports that this “has the potential to be excellent. The teams (are) playing great with explosive playmakers on both sides of the ball. Fun matchup.” Seconded.

— Michael Fornabaio