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For the New Canaan boys ice hockey team, patience was truly a virtue on Monday. Delivering a cool and collected performance, the Rams blew open a close game with two goals in the final 3:15 and defeated the Fairfield co-op team, 3-0, at the Darien Ice House. The Rams controlled the pace of play and […]
BRIDGEPORT — Darien’s Jack Massey apparently can be in two places at once. Seconds after diving to disrupt a breakaway chance in the defensive zone, Massey took a cross-ice pass from Sean Bradley and fired in the game-winning goal as the Blue Wave boys ice hockey team defeated Fairfield Prep, 4-3 in overtime, Saturday at […]
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. After her latest goal, New Canaan’s Jess Eccleston isn’t likely to disagree. Eccleston rifled in a goal from the point with 7:41 remaining as the Rams defeated the Greenwich Cardinals, 3-2, in a girls ice hockey showdown Friday night at the Darien Ice House. A New Canaan senior […]
During a rare three-game losing skid earlier this season, the Darien girls ice hockey team was struggling to create offensive opportunities. Fast forward a few weeks and the Blue Wave is now getting goals up and down the roster. Six different players scored, including two short-handed, as Darien knocked off a strong West Haven/Sacred Heart […]
The Ridgefield Tigers have emerged unscathed from the first half of the boys ice hockey season and, to put it simply, they’re having a blast. “It’s a lot of fun,” senior Nick Cullinan said. “You get to see everybody working and playing well and Sean (Gordon) is playing out of his mind every single night. […]
DARIEN — Two boys ice hockey games in two days will take its toll on the best teams. Even the No. 1 ranked Ridgefield Tigers aren’t immune, but they again found a way to win.
It also helps when you have a spectacular goalie.
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NEW CANAAN — Danny Melzer typically doesn’t celebrate at the end of basketball games. However, following the latest victory for his New Canaan, Melzer made an exception. Junior Ryan McAleer intercepted a long inbounds pass and then banked in a 3-point shot from halfcourt to give New Canaan a wild 52-49 victory over the Stamford […]
NEW CANAAN — It took the New Canaan and Norwalk wrestling teams approximately 50 minutes to battle through 14 weight classes on Wednesday night at NCHS. After the last bout ended, it took an extra five minutes to determine a winner. When the calculations were finally complete, the New Canaan Rams had edged the Bears, […]
Rich Bulan’s New Canaan girls ice hockey team has a seemingly endless supply of talented freshmen this season, a fact which has been a boon for the Rams and a bane for their opponents. Take New Canaan’s latest contest, for instance. Freshmen accounted for four goals and three assists as the Rams handled a solid […]
Darien set and met its goal of claiming a state championship in boys swimming and diving last winter, taking the crown for the first time in 17 years. While a championship like that could serve to make a team hungrier for more, the Blue Wave is content to focus on the task at hand. “We’re […]
NEW CANAAN — Three games into the new girls basketball season, the Danbury Hatters were still searching for their first victory. True, those games were against strong opponents, but a goose egg in the win column isn’t the best feeling. Five games and five wins later, things are looking up for the Hatters, Danbury closed […]
Jennifer Kelly and many of her Greenwich teammates began their hockey careers playing at the Greenwich Skating Club. Years later, they still look right at home at that rink.
Kelly started a barrage of three goals in the first s…
DARIEN — The Darien boys ice hockey team didn’t have much success while facing the Fairfield Prep Jesuits the past two years. But four straight losses, including a 9-3 margin of defeat in two games last winter, just served to make the Blue Wave even hungrier this season. Sophomore Sean Bradley netted the game-winning goal […]
NEW CANAAN — Jack Stewart, Jack Conley and Garrett Braden have been side-by-side ever since their days playing football in the New Canaan youth leagues.
So it was perfectly fitting that when they began the next chapter of their…
Round one goes to the New Canaan Rams. The Rams rode a shutout performance by goalie Blythe Novick and went 3-for-3 on the power play as they defeated the rival Darien Blue Wave, 3-0, Monday night at the Darien Ice House. It was a perfect slate for Novick, a sophomore who spent of a couple […]
It’s a season of high hopes for the Darien Blue Wave boys ice hockey team. So why not begin with a championship-caliber opponent? Darien and defending Rhode Island state champion La Salle Academy played a season-opening thriller, with the Rams edging the Wave 3-2 in overtime before a packed house at Stamford Twin Rinks on […]
Midway through their season-opening boys ice hockey game against Notre Dame-West Haven, the New Canaan Rams had fallen into a 2-0 hole and time seemed to be slipping away. Then sophomore Carter Ellis hit the back of the net and the floodgates opened. New Canaan scored five unanswered goals over the final 21-plus minutes and […]
Since taking the reins of the Greenwich football program in 2015, John Marinelli has returned the Cardinals to their place among the state’s elite teams.
On Saturday, unbeaten Greenwich will play in a state final for the second…
The New Canaan Rams and Greenwich Cardinals will clash for the CIAC Class LL football championship on Saturday at 2 p.m. Let’s takes a look at some of the impressive stats for both teams, as well as some key facts about the final.
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No. 8 seed New Canaan defeated Fairfield Prep Sunday 38-7 to advance to the Class LL state championship game.
The victory sets up a father-son coaching matchup between New Canaan’s Lou Marinelli and Greenwich’s John Marinelli S…
NEW CANAAN — Quintin O’Connell was preparing for New Canaan’s showdown with Shelton in the Class LL football quarterfinals on Tuesday night when he received some words of wisdom from linebackers coach Jason Miska.
“Play like a …
NEWTOWN — The reign of the Darien Blue Wave is over.
The Newtown Nighthawks scored the first 16 points of the game and then held off the three-time defending champions in the second half for a 26-15 victory in the CIAC Class LL…
The Darien Blue Wave has owned the CIAC Class LL tournament for the past three seasons. Three consecutive state championships, nine straight playoff victories, and, adding in a couple of Class L years, five straight appearances in the finals.
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The New Canaan Rams won their second straight Turkey Bowl and secured a spot in the CIAC Class LL football tournament with a 17-14 victory over rival Darien Thanksgiving morning at Stamford’s Boyle Stadium.
Quarterback Drew Pyne hit receiver W…
Lou Marinelli has led the New Canaan football team through 41 games against the Darien Blue Wave and, truth be told, the rivalry never gets old for the veteran head coach.
While Marinelli has been through enough of the wars to remain cool and …
Abby Harbinson and the Amity Spartans had been here before: In the 2017 state finals, but unable to take that final step to the crown.
That’s part of what makes winning it all this year feel so good.
After falling one win short last year, Amit…
SHELTON — The Darien volleyball program has such a long history of success that three years without a trip to the state final can seem like an eternity.
So make no mistake about it, this group of Blue Wave players is ecstatic to be going back …
NORWALK — Kyle Kirby wasn’t sharing any secrets after the Staples Wreckers’ latest showdown with the Darien Blue Wave field hockey team.
While Kirby may have wanted to keep things quiet, her penalty stroke goal in overtime was certainly the Wr…
DARIEN — With the memory of a six-goal loss to rival Darien not too far in the rearview mirror, it would’ve been relatively easy for the New Canaan field hockey team to call it a day when the Blue Wave scored three early goals in their state t…
