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FAIRFIELD — Goalkeeping is basically instinct.
See the play develop, follow your gut feeling and try and make the stop.
Ludlowe’s Nicholas Tenreiro did that — twice — and because he did, the Falcons are advancing into the FCIAC boys’ soccer se…
FAIRFIELD — Alex Whammond was not going to be denied.
Time and time again, over the course of the game against Hamden, Whammond had just about every kind of scoring chance you could imagine … a header from the middle of the box that went wide …
FAIRFIELD — For a moment, for a brief moment, Fairfield Warde had a chance to change the momentum of what had been a one-sided affair in favor of Darien and make the Blue Wave sweat a little.
Will Stearns has just caught a touchdown pass to ge…
FAIRFIELD — To put it bluntly, the Swedish Cup is a crazy looking trophy. For the most part, it’s indescribable. Ugly, might be a better word.
But to watch the Ludlowe boys’ soccer team take the trophy from head coach Kevin O’Hara and hold it …
FAIRFIELD — Two years ago, it was coach Samantha Dileo, who worked to get the Warde field hockey program to buy into her system. The results were mixed. Last year, it was co-coaches Paige Moore and Deirdre Hynes that tried to do the same thing…
FAIRFIELD — On Sunday, the players and coaches of the Staples boys soccer team gathered to watch a video highlighting the first 60 years of Staples soccer. They watched the historic goals, the historic wins and celebrations and the historic ch…
WESTPORT — Sometimes, no matter how good you are, it pays to be a little bit lucky.
Nearly 60 minutes into a scoreless battle with Ludlowe, the Staples girls’ soccer team was feeling a little snake-bit. Over a half-dozen solid scoring opportun…
FAIRFIELD — The momentum was squarely on the side of the Ludlowe Falcons.
After dropping the first two sets of the match to perennial CIAC and FCIAC power Darien, Ludlowe had rallied to square things at two sets apiece and set the stage for a …
FAIRFIELD — The game clock was ticking down under 10 minutes to play and the home team was hanging on to a one-goal lead when Trumbull assistant coach Silverio Vitiello shouted across the field to his players, “It’s time for big boy soccer.”
F…
TRUMBULL — Pele would have been proud.
A two-goal Trumbull lead had just been sliced to one and the momentum was on the side of the Warde Mustangs. It was still anyone’s game, a game crucial to the FCIAC standings, but Trumbull’s Skylar Jorge …
FAIRFIELD — Brian Howell was through. He was done with football.
It had been a miserable season, 10 games, 10 losses. None of those 10 defeats even remotely close. As a sophomore, he saw the seniors, including his older brother, Chris, at odds…
FAIRFIELD — Joel Barlow girls soccer coach Neil Phillips knows it’s hard enough to beat Notre Dame-Fairfield when Toni Domingos is playing at her best. But when Mother Nature decides to get involved, it’s nearly impossible.
Domingos used her d…
FAIRFIELD — Coming into Saturday’s game against Notre Dame-Fairfield, Masuk coach Joe Lato was close to being sick to his stomach. Especially after watching his Panthers go through their Friday workout.
“(Friday) We struggled,” Lato said. “Lot…
WALLINGFORD — Finn Duran needs a better nickname.
Something sweet, you know? Like Captain Lightning … or Mr. Fantastic because it seems every time he touches the football, something great happens for Fairfield Prep.
Duran returned the opening …
BRIDGEPORT — There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Derrick Lewis knows it’s out there, somewhere. One of these days, but most likely not this season, however, the Central football coach will see it. Bringing better days along as well.
Unt…
FAIRFIELD — Joe Skarupa was curious.
His young Ludlowe field hockey team had gotten off to a fast start in its opening five games, winning three and tying one and with Staples, the class of the FCIAC, standing on the opposite side of the field…
FAIRFIELD — Ludlowe coach Mitch Ross felt like he had a 50-50 chance.
And he liked those odds.
Aidan Wykoff had just scored from a yard out with 1:38 to play, bringing Ludlowe within one point in what had been a back and forth offensive battle…
FAIRFIELD — One of the unwritten sports rules, especially in football, is play until you hear a whistle. And on a play when everyone on Fairfield Prep stopped, Shelton’s David Yakowicz kept going.
Yakowicz picked up a loose ball on a punt and …
FAIRFIELD — With the season just passing the quarter pole, the Ridgefield girls’ soccer team looks very much like the same team that captured the Class LL championship last fall.
The Tigers used an overwhelming defense and an opportune offense…
TRUMBULL — The gamble paid off.
Going for it on fourth and one just a minute into the game, Trumbull coach Marce Petroccio told his quarterback, Colton Nicholas to do what he does best, push the ball forward.
And so, he did.
It might have been…
FAIRFIELD — By the mid-point in the first half, Fairfield Prep boys’ soccer coach Ryan Lyddy had pulled his three attackers, Alex Whammond, Gavin Neumeyer and Andrew Neumeyer, and had them sitting comfortably on the Jesuits bench.
Their work w…
FAIRFIELD — When you lose nine seniors, including one that scored 80 goals in her career, it’s time to shake up the offense and try some new scenarios, right?
Well …
That is exactly what Ludlowe field hockey co-head coach Karen Seltenreich tho…
FAIRFIELD — As his Notre Dame-Fairfield girls’ soccer team warmed up in a misty rain about a half hour before its match against Brookfield, coach Wayne Mones looked at his players somewhat halfheartedly going through their pre-game drills, muc…
FAIRFIELD — This will not be one of those game films that Bunnell coach Sean Mignone or Notre Dame-Fairfield coach John Johnson dissects with a fine-toothed comb.
There were good plays and bad plays — on both sides. There were silly penalties …
FAIRFIELD — The Beast has returned.
Senior running back Doug Harrison, who missed the final nine games of last season after undergoing ACL surgery on his left knee, started for the first time in almost a year and looked much like the player th…
FAIRFIELD — For just a couple of minutes, Whitey Budreckas sat by himself on the Notre Dame-Fairfield bench, a man alone with his thoughts.
His ND squad was headed to the locker room, the New Fairfield team was headed to their bus and the refe…
FAIRFIELD – On a scale of 1 to 10 on the “this stinks” scale, Doug Harrison rated it a 10.
“It stunk pretty bad,” he said.
One week after rushing for 211 yards and a couple of touchdowns in the Fairfield Prep 2017 season opener against Notre D…
BRISTOL — Now, that’s more like it.
Facing elimination, Fairfield American put together its patented formula – clutch hitting, great defense and power pitching – and rolled past Saco, Maine, 7-0 in a loser’s bracket game Tuesday afternoon at B…
EAST LYME — Like they always seem to do, Fairfield American found a way.
A two-run rally in the top of the fourth erased a one-run deficit as Fairfield American — the three-time defending State Champion — took its first step toward a fourth co…
