MAHOPAC – Last year, it wasn’t so bad. Mahopac High School assistant football coach Joe Lasaponara was able to look across the field at his son, Joe Jr., wearing the uniform of the John Jay-East Fishkill varsity team. But the younger Lasaponaro was a junior stuck behind a senior-laden team.

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