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FAIRFIELD — It would be near-impossible to shoot the ball better from 3-point range than Fairfield Prep did in the first half against Trinity Catholic Tuesday night. The Jesuits went 9-for-13 from beyond the arc and appear…
FAIRFIELD — In Tess Stapleton’s mind there was a very simple solution to ending her anxiety stemming from running hurdles — but that’s getting ahead of things. Stapleton experienced a banner freshman indoor track season, winning the 55-meter hurdles at the State Open for Ludlowe. She appeared poised to repeat the accomplishment during the spring […]
FAIRFIELD — Late in the fourth quarter of Monday night’s SWC girls basketball semifinal, Bethel’s Maranda Nyborg tumbled to the floor of Notre Dame-Fairfield’s Rielly Auditorium. After teammates helped Nyborg back to her f…
FAIRFIELD — What happens when you mix a fast-tempo, four-guard offense, sprinkle in some senior leadership and add a dash of veteran coaching experience?
If you’re the Notre Dame-Fairfield girls basketball …
FAIRFIELD — By his own admission, Will Capalbo is reserved by modern day high school standards. Even so, the Fairfield Ludlowe senior found himself having a moment in late January. Capalbo’s spent much of the winter shuttling back-and-forth to the Dana Farber Institute in Boston as he prepares to undergo a bone marrow transplant to help […]
FAIRFIELD — During Notre Dame-Fairfield’s run to the Division I championship last season, then-juniors Phil Conner and Rodney Medor were usually the seventh or eighth players off the bench. While they took a backseat to others in the headlines…
FAIRFIELD — The new banner hanging inside Rielly Auditorium displays a lot of information from Notre Dame-Fairfield’s incredible 2017-18 boys basketball season. Amongst the accomplishments it lists are the Lancers’ Division I championship, No….
TRUMBULL — The equation going into one half of the Class M semifinal bracket seems fairly straightforward.
Top-seeded St. Joseph scores a lot of points.
Fourth-seeded Killingly scores even more points.
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ANSONIA — Sheldon Schuler threw four touchdowns — three to Jalen Johnson — and Ansonia rolled over Plainfield 42-0 in the Class S quarterfinals Tuesday night at Jarvis Stadium.
Johnson caught five passes for 209 yards as the to…
BRIDGEPORT — When Coleman Adams walked outside Thursday morning and felt the freezing cold temperatures hit his face he figured he was in store for a memorable day one way or another. Little did the Harding senior know at the time that his fri…
EAST HAVEN — Prior to Saturday afternoon, Joel Barlow’s record in girls volleyball state championship games stood at 0-6.
And about an hour into the 2018 Class L final against Woodstock Academy, it looked like Barlow would be on its way to los…
BRIDGEPORT — When the Bassick boys soccer team got together for its first practice this fall, few around the state would have anticipated a run to the Class L quarterfinals in the Lions’ future — the players themselves as well.
“I remember the…
BRIDGEPORT — For 100 minutes Saturday night Bassick and Avon pushed one another to the absolute limit in their Class L boys soccer quarterfinal.
Neither team could break the 1-1 deadlock, leaving the lottery known as penalty kicks to decide it…
WESTPORT — Stick around soccer long enough and invariably you’ll hear a coach or pundit waxing poetic about the value of set pieces — especially in knockout games.
The Staples girls soccer team found this out the hard way last season, losing t…
FAIRFIELD — On Thursday afternoon Fairfield Prep wanted to extend one of the best boys soccer seasons in its school history.
East Hartford had different ideas.
Two goals from Robert Sam helped the No. 19 Hornets pull off a 3-0 upset of the No….
MONROE — Three times Newington took the lead against Masuk Wednesday afternoon at Benedict Field.
And three times the Panthers found a way to level their Class L second round playoff game.
Given a lifeline in overtime, Kacey Lawerence played t…
FARIFIELD — Robert Sam needed less than three minutes to give East Hartford the lead against Fairfield Ludlowe in the first round of the Class LL boys soccer tournament. In turn, it left ample time for the Falcons to find an equalizer and exte…
TRUMBULL — An overtime loss to Ridgefield last week in the FCIAC semifinals left the St. Joseph girls soccer team with seven days to practice — and stew over that defeat — before the Class LL tournament commenced.
On Monday afternoon, St. Jose…
FAIRFIELD — Next week Fairfield Prep hosts North Haven in a showdown of one-loss teams and looming further on the horizon is a Thanksgiving rivalry game against West Haven.
Given those facts Friday night’s game against Harding had all the ingr…
NEWTOWN — After two decades of waiting, the Weston Boys soccer team finally can call itself South-West Conference champions.
The Trojans defeated defending champion Joel Barlow 1-0 Thursday night in front of over 800 fans at Blue and Gold Stad…
OXFORD — The rivalry between the Ansonia and Derby high school football teams dates back to 1902. Although the players, coaches — and sometimes venues — change, one constant continues: the Chargers commitment to a power running offense.
Friday…
MONROE — Tuesday night’s girls soccer game between Masuk and Weston had the feel of an SWC playoff game — thanks in no small part to the rapidly declining temperatures under the lights of Benedict Field.
The fact the teams came into the matchu…
ANSONIA — If one play encapsulates Ansonia’s dominant performance over Watertown Thursday night, it’s Tyler Cafaro’s 30-yard, second-quarter touchdown run in the Chargers eventual 49-7 victory at Jarvis Stadium.
For a split second it appeared …
SHELTON — The Fairfield Prep soccer team is aware its 2018 season will be judged on how it fares in the SCC and Class LL playoffs.
Thus far, at the season’s halfway mark, the Jesuits have done all that’s been asked of them. Saturday morning Fa…
TRUMBULL — Every so often a soccer game needs a moment of brilliance to break a stalemate. On drizzly Monday afternoon the left foot of Nicola Milovanov provided just that moment.
The Trumbull junior’s spectacular first-half volley helped lift…
TRUMBULL — Ahead 2-0 at break and 3-0 less than five minutes into the second half, the Trumbull girls soccer team felt pretty good about its chances for taking three points off Darien Tuesday afternoon.
That said, in FCIAC girls soccer few lea…
CHESHIRE — In his previous two outings this summer Brendan Duffy threw back-to-back no-hitters for the Stratford Senior Legion team. The Cheshire coaching staff was well aware of this fact ahead of Saturday afternoon’s state tournament Pod F opener — but they didn’t exactly go out of their way to publicize it to their players. […]
TRUMBULL — Any team that plans on knocking St. Joseph out of the Class M baseball tournament better bring its hitting shoes.
St. Joseph held off East Catholic 13-11 Saturday afternoon in the Class M quarterfinals, scoring in double digits for …
FAIRFIELD — Sara Kennedy has pitched on diamonds across America, but the Newtown senior never encountered a pitching circle quite like the one at Sturges Park on Wednesday afternoon in the second round of the Class LL tournament against Fairfi…
