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Notre Dame-Fairfield girls soccer coach Wayne Mones was discharged from St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport Saturday morning after suffering “a massive heart attack” on Thursday following the team’s game.
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TRUMBULL — Ridgefield vs. St. Joseph could have been a possible state final had the Class LL tournament seedings been a little different. But the two FCIAC titans had to settle for a state quarterfinal Saturday afternoon.
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Scott McMahon resigned as Guilford girls soccer coach on Nov. 8, just two days removed from the Indians winning the Southern Connecticut Conference tournament championship.
McMahon, who was in his 15th seas…
CHESHIRE — Girls soccer teams won’t get much better preparation for state tournament play than butting heads with the heavyweight teams in the FCIAC.
New Canaan was one of the upper-echelon teams in the FCI…
Barry Beattie remembers what life was like before Reese Sutter and Mia Gonzalez entered Staples girls’ soccer program.
The Wreckers were coming off a 9-6-1 season — a decent season, but not great. Both Sutt…
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There will not be any debate about which finalists will be sent to certain parts of the state depending on site availability on Nov. 23. The CIAC i…
CLINTON — It only seemed fitting that 80 minutes of regulation couldn’t determine the 2019 Shoreline Conference champion Friday between longtime rivals Morgan and Old Saybrook.
This was the fifth straight y…
CLINTON — Neither of Friday’s participants in the Shoreline Conference girls soccer tournament final qualified for last year’s field. In fact, both teams finished below .500.
Both teams pulled seeded upsets…
NEW HAVEN — The Fairchester Athletic Association boys soccer championship was a virtual carbon copy of last year’s contest.
The game was once against played at Hopkins, the top seed. St. Luke’s was the oppo…
WEST HAVEN — Guilford is the most successful team in Southern Connecticut Conference tournament history, reaching half of the championship finals ever played.
But there has been a recent title drought for t…
WEST HAVEN — The Guilford girls’ soccer team’s strength all season long has been it defense. The Indians posted 10 shutouts during the regular season.
Guilford put up three more stellar defensive performanc…
MADISON — Hand boys soccer coach Greg Cumpstone had a few options when junior forward Scott Testori went out of Monday night’s SCC tournament semifinal with a hip flexor injury.
His choice was to move junio…
Torrington girls soccer coach Mario Longobucco has had no regrets or second thoughts on his decision to forfeit the Oct. 25 game at Derby.
In the first scheduled game the two Naugatuck Valley League teams p…
The Platt Tech girls soccer players aren’t hiding from the opportunity in front of them. In fact, they haven’t all season.
The Panthers have an opportunity to win a third consecutive Connecticut Technical C…
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Rylee Valliere, Windham: Had three goals and two assists in Windham’s 5-2 win over Griswold.
Tessa McMillan, Granby: …
WEST HAVEN — In what was a showcase of two fine-tuned offenses, it was a play on defense that ended up being the difference.
Xavier stuffed Notre Dame-West Haven quarterback Jackson Zalinsky on fourth down …
There wasn’t much fanfare surrounding Barry McLeod’s decision. He sent an email to the school principal at Bridgeport Central.
That was how Barry McLeod made it official: he is retiring after 26 seasons as …
Hamden Hall senior Jackson Benigni has committed to play basketball at Division II Stonehill College next fall.
Benigni made his decision over the weekend. He chose the Northeast-10 Conference school over o…
Ben James of Milford was named to the Rolex Junior All-American second team on Monday, officially announced by the American Junior Golf Association.
A 16-year-old sophomore at Hamden Hall Country Day, James…
FAIRFIELD — Forty minutes didn’t determine a winner Monday afternoon between Masuk and host Notre Dame-Fairfield on the pitch.
Maybe a matchup in the South-West Conference tournament final next week would s…
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Gabby Tirado, Cheshire: Had a hat trick in a 3-1 win over Lauralton Hall. It was Tirado’s second of the season against the Crusaders….
For four straight seasons, Old Lyme owned the Shoreline Conference girls soccer tournament. Then North Branford upset the Wildcats two years ago. Last year, Morgan dominated the league.
This year, the regul…
GUILFORD — The Southern Connecticut Conference Quinnipiac Division championship for girls soccer was on the line Friday afternoon.
Both Mercy and Guilford had a level of play that matched the game’s importa…
Todd Trimmer knows the landscape at Darien High School and sees a great opportunity in the boys basketball program.
Trimmer was named the new head coach at Darien Tuesday afternoon. He replaces Charoy Bentl…
TRUMBULL — After five days of head-to-head competition, there isn’t much, if anything, separating the top three girls soccer teams in the FCIAC.
On Monday afternoon, St. Joseph and Staples played to a 1-1 t…
Don’t look now but there is a team sitting atop of the Southern Connecticut Conference standings you may not have expected to be there.
Sure, Cheshire is a Class LL school just three seasons removed from wi…
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Toni Domingos, Notre Dame-Fairfield: Scored all four goals in the Lancers’ 4-1 win over Bethel, then three more against New Milford, …
WEST HAVEN — Losing three games to start the football season doesn’t sit well with any team. It hurts even more for a team that always has high expectations from within and from the community.
Maybe last we…
Chris Watts resigned as Notre Dame-Fairfield’s boys basketball coach on Wednesday after three seasons to take an assistant men’s position at Division II Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
“The professi…
