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FAIRFIELD — The Xavier football team’s senior class had gone three years without beating rival Fairfield Prep.
That changed in the blink of an eye Friday night at Rafferty Stadium, as Xavier overcame a two-…
BRIDGEPORT — The Law football team didn’t want the last two weeks to define its season. Following a shutout loss to Barlow on Sept. 20, Law amped up its practice intensity knowing it would need to do that if it wanted to p…
FAIRFIELD — For a high school football game nearly 70 years in the making, the crosstown matchup between Fairfield Prep and Fairfield Ludlowe fittingly featured a little bit of everything.
In the end, the J…
FAIRFIELD — Trailing Stamford by a point with six seconds remaining in the first half, Fairfield Warde coach Duncan DellaVolpe had a choice — run out the clock or try something with a low-probability of success from the sh…
STRATFORD — When a high school football team opens its season with only 21 players wearing helmets, a lot — underline a lot — is expected from everyone on its roster. That might go double, if not triple, for that team’s qu…
FAIRFIELD — It wasn’t the happiest of Memorial Day weekends for the Fairfield Ludlowe baseball team after the Falcons lost in the FCIAC championship game to Staples last week. Although deflated, the Falcons opted not to dwell on the defeat that saw the Wreckers rally with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to […]
FAIRFIELD — It wasn’t the happiest of Memorial Day weekends for the Fairfield Ludlowe baseball team after the Falcons lost in the FCIAC championship game to Staples last week.
Although deflated, the Falcons…
FAIRFIELD — Throughout the week Brett Lauterbach kept an eye on Friday’s forecast, which called for rain. The Fairfield Warde junior remained optimistic the advance radar would be wrong and his team’s game against rival Fa…
On face value, the offensive numbers generated by the Notre Dame-Fairfield softball team this spring are absurd. More specifically, as Lancers’ coach Jeff Bevino puts it his club’s statistics are “surreal.”
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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…
