WESTPORT — For three quarters Glastonbury did about everything it could to frustrate top-seeded Staples in the quarterfinals of the Class LL girls basketball tournament Monday night. The Tomahawks cut down passing lanes an…
Knachel’s double double leads shorthanded Ridgefield past Ludlowe
FAIRFIELD — Pick any position on the basketball court and there’s a fair chance Chris Knachel has logged a few minutes there.
Friday night against Fairfield Ludlowe the six-foot Ridgefield senior drew the a…
Defense powers Warde boys basketball past Norwalk
NORWALK — If there’s a consistent feature up-and-down the Fairfield Warde boys basketball team in 2020 it’s height. The Mustangs’ roster features a dozen players over six foot tall, including dynamic sophomore twins Jordyn…
Extra work pays off for Green, as Trumbull cruises past Ludlowe
TRUMBULL — Chances are if you stop by the Trumbull High gymnasium before the school bell rings — think 6:30 a.m. range — Mileeq Green will be inside working on his game. It was during one of these early-morning sessions Eagles boys basketball coach Buddy Bray told Green that he needed his junior captain to […]
Trumbull cruises past Ludlowe
TRUMBULL — Chances are if you stop by the Trumbull High gymnasium before the school bell rings — think 6:30 a.m. range — Mileeq Green will be inside working on his game. It was during one of these early-morning sessions Ea…
Nelson scores 3 TDs, Fairfield Prep defense shuts out West Haven
FAIRFIELD — Sean Nelson ran for three touchdowns, leading Fairfield Prep to a 28-0 win over West Haven Thursday morning at Rafferty Stadium.
Nelson finished with 118 yards, including a 38-yard run on the se…
Barber, No. 4 Greenwich cruise past Ludlowe
FAIRFIELD — For a moment Edward Iuteri began to doubt himself. The senior defensive lineman had gone through almost his entire Greenwich football career without an interception, let alone running with the ball in open spac…
Moreno catches two TDs in Ludlowe win over Trumbull
FAIRFIELD — It’s not very often a football player fumbles and their initial reaction is laughter. That’s what Ludlowe’s Carlos Moreno did when he lost the ball in the third quarter against Trumbull Friday night.
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McKenna catches pair of TDs, helps Warde snap three-game losing streak
FAIRFIELD — Through the first five games of the season, Jack McKenna had logged plenty of catches and yards for the Fairfield Warde football team. The end zone, however, had eluded the 6-foot-5 junior.
That…
Hutchison catches 3 TDs as No. 2 St. Joseph overpowers Fairfield Prep
FAIRFIELD — The St. Joseph football team had two weeks to prepare for its game against Fairfield Prep — and that was only for the Xs and Os.
The bye week provided ample time for the current Cadets to brush …
Xavier rallies from 14 down to stun Fairfield Prep
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-…
Becker, Jacobs lead Law past Bassick
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…
Vaccarella, Fairfield Prep outlast Fairfield Ludlowe in first meeting since 1951
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…
Gulbin-to-Idieu screen TD helps Warde take down Stamford
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…
Fassett accounts for 4 TDs as Notre Dame-Fairfield tops Stratford in opener
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…
Benton shuts down rival Warde as Ludlowe rebounds from FCIAC loss, reaches Class LL 2nd round
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 […]
Ludlowe rebounds with win over rival Warde in LL opener
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…
Lauterbach’s three-hit shutout delivers Warde over rival Ludlowe
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…
Notre Dame-Fairfield softball posting ‘surreal’ offensive numbers
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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Behind long-range shooting, Fairfield Prep boys top Trinity Catholic in D1 first round
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…
Ludlowe’s Stapleton ‘hurdles’ her fears to win multiple titles
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 […]
Mendonca, Bethel roar past top-seeded Notre Dame-Fairfield to reach SWC final
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…
Notre Dame-Fairfield’s up-tempo pace a problem for the opposition
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’s Will Capalbo posts shutout in final game before donating bone marrow to brother Charlie
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 […]
Conner, Medor help No. 4 Notre Dame-Fairfield hold off Bunnell in SWC Tip-Off final
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…
Expectations remain high for defending state champion Notre Dame of Fairfield
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….
St. Joseph’s defense, not offense, may be the key to winning Class M semifinal
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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Top-seeded Ansonia overpowers Plainfield in Class S quarterfinal
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…
Harding rolls past Central to claim Bridgeport city championship
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…