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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…
STAMFORD — After a luckluster game at the plate against Weston on Wednesday, Fairfield American manager Jeff Gouley had the team meet at Mill Hill Field early Thursday for some batting practice.
Make that a lot of batting practice.
Last season…
STAMFORD — The Weston Little League squad might have made history recently by winning the District 1 title for the first time, but Fairfield American has over two decades of postseason history flowing through its veins.
After winning the Distr…
TRUMBULL — Sometimes, drastic times call for drastic measures.
Down five runs in the bottom of the third and with Fairfield American threatening to break the game open, Trumbull National manager Matt Wood called for an intentional walk to Pier…
MIDDLETOWN — Notre Dame-Fairfield finished a magical run through the Class S tournament, winning the title with an electric 10-6 victory over Coventry Saturday afternoon at Sal Romano Memorial Stadium at Palmer Field.
It was the fourth CIAC ti…
BRISTOL — Coach Bill Mazzucco gripped the alligator-shaped shoehorn tightly in his hand as he brought his Notre Dame-Fairfield players into a huddle in the middle of the Muzzy Field locker room. Over the past two years, the alligator shoehorn …
BRISTOL — When Dillon Higgins arrived at Notre Dame-Fairfield four years ago, he arrived with a single goal: win a state championship.
His freshman year, the Lancers fell in the first round. The last two years ND’s season ended in the second r…
FAIRFIELD – Sometimes, no matter how good a team is, it still needs a little bit of Lady Luck on its side.
Fairfield Prep got exactly that in its Class LL second-round game against Southington Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Diamond. Tied at 1-1…
FAIRFIELD — Kylee provided the pitching and Luka provided the power. The Holderied sisters, Luka, a junior and Kylee, a sophomore, have been critical parts of the Falcons’ softball machine all season long, but never as much as in Tuesday’s opening round of the Class LL tournament against New Canaan. Kylee pitched a complete-game shutout, […]
FAIRFIELD — A lapse in fundamentals led to a lot of frustration for Ludlowe baseball coach Mike Francese.
Twice, the Falcons had golden opportunities to move runners into scoring position with less than two outs and both times, failed, taking …
FAIRFIELD — Hitting one walk-off home run over the course of a career, let alone a season, is usually cause for celebration. But two walk-offs over the course of two games? That’s automatic legend status.
OK, maybe not legend status but for Lu…
FAIRFIELD — The method to Fairfield Prep coach Graham Niemi’s scheduling madness was simple: Take some lumps early … deliver a lot of lumps late.
The early lumps came at the hands of three New York high school lacrosse powers — Chaminade, Mass…
FAIRFIELD — It was a slump and Pete Minore was in the middle of one.
The big first-baseman for Notre Dame-Fairfield wasn’t feeling comfortable at the plate and that meant he wasn’t feeling as confident. So Minore went back to basics. He spoke …
FAIRFIELD — It seems that over the last couple of weeks, the members of the Fairfield Warde baseball team have learned how to spell the most important word in the dictionary.
Team.
The old adage, there is no ‘I’ in ‘team’ has never been more e…
FAIRFIELD — One day after being named as the No. 1 team in the state through the GameTime CT baseball poll, Fairfield Prep wasted no time in telling the voters they made the right choice in a 13-3, five-inning mercy rule win over Notre Dame-We…
FAIRFIELD — A day after watching Olivia Vadas pitch a complete game, strike out 12 and hammer two home runs in a huge FCIAC victory against Darien on Monday, Warde coach Gary Quiricone was looking for more of the same on Tuesday against Danbur…
