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MILFORD — With less than minutes to go in the Class S state championship game on Saturday, the New Fairfield High School girls lacrosse team desperately needed a big defensive stand. The fate of the Rebels’ season absolutely depended on it.
Ea…
SHELTON — Clutching the Class M state boys volleyball runner-up plaque in one hand, Joel Barlow High School coach Chris Lovelett walked the length of his bench and clapped his heartbroken players on their backs with his other hand.
They sat wi…
BRISTOL — It all started with a bloop single, a seemingly innocuous pop-up that detected a small opening in no-man’s-land in shallow left field and dropped in for a hit.
It wasn’t particularly well-hit, but it certainly was well placed, and th…
NEW BRITAIN — Pomperaug High School freshman Katherine Wiser spent much of the championship portion of the cross country season last fall chasing Wilton senior Morgan McCormick This outdoor track season, however, it’s been McCormick chasing Wiser. Wiser pulled away with a late surge to win the 3,200 meters at the State Open track and […]
NEW FAIRFIELD — The New Fairfield High School girls lacrosse team has advanced to the Class S state tournament semifinals for the second straight year, and this time around, the Rebels are making it look easy.
The fourth-seeded Rebels scored e…
NEW BRITAIN — What a thrilling way to conclude what was a triumphant day for the Danbury High School boys and girls track and field teams at the Class LL state championships Wednesday at Willow Brook Park, a rather fitting exclamation point at…
NEW MILFORD — Greenwich relief pitcher Charlie Zeeve strode from the bullpen to the mound with the weight of an entire season weighing on his shoulders.
Bases loaded, bottom of the seventh inning, one out, his Cardinals clinging to a one-run l…
REDDING — The first time they met, the Joel Barlow and Masuk high school boys lacrosse teams played a hard-fought, closely contested game which Barlow won by three goals.
Although six weeks have since passed, Barlow is expecting a similar batt…
NEW MILFORD — The New Fairfield High School boys lacrosse team retained its throne as the king of the South-West Conference for the second straight season, and the Rebels reclaimed their crown in dominant fashion Friday night.
Fueled by the fa…
NEW MILFORD — It was gut-check time for the New Fairfield High School girls lacrosse team in the second half of the South-West Conference championship game Friday afternoon against Barlow.
The Rebels had seen their eight-goal lead whittled dow…
BETHEL — They battled back and forth for 11 nail-biting innings, neither team giving in, and neither team letting down.
It was a sensational baseball game between two perennial contenders and familiar rivals, kids from neighboring towns who ha…
NEWTOWN — It took the Newtown High School boys lacrosse team only 37 seconds to score its first goal Tuesday night in its South-West Conference quarterfinal game against Brookfield — and the Nighthawks never let up for a second after that.
The…
RIDGEFIELD — There was just no stopping the Ridgefield High School boys lacrosse team in the FCIAC quarterfinals Monday afternoon.
After playing relatively even early on, a seven-goal Ridgefield outburst put the third-seeded Tigers ahead to st…
NEWTOWN — As both a show of unity and an effort to make the best of a bad situation, the athletic directors from the 14 high schools in the South-West Conference gathered Friday morning to put together a revised conference playoff schedule in …
The athletic complex at Brookfield High School looked like it had been used as the set of a Godzilla movie, with a light tower sheared off and thrown into the bleachers, and steel goal posts twisted and thrown to the ground.
The scary thing, h…
BETHEL — Immaculate High School baseball player Andrew Chiodi only saw action in about 10 minutes’ worth of Monday night’s game against Bethel — but he sure made the most of those 10 minutes. Chiodi entered the game as a pinch-hitter with two outs in the top of the seventh, the bases loaded and the […]
NEW FAIRFIELD — New Fairfield High School boys lacrosse coach Marty Morgan had fire in his eyes as he huddled with his team prior to the fourth quarter of Saturday night’s showdown with rival Newtown.
His Rebels held a five-goal lead at that p…
NEW MILFORD — It may not have been the hardest hit ball of the afternoon, but it got the job done for the New Milford High School baseball team. The Green Wave trailed Stratford by a run and was down to its final out in the bottom of the 10th inning Friday when lefty-swinging junior […]
REDDING — She was spotted a four-run lead before she even threw a single pitch, and Brookfield High ace hurler Alyssa Lionetti made sure not to let that lead slip away.
Lionetti scattered six hits and four walks while striking out five as Broo…
NEWTOWN — It’s always a spirited battle when the rival Newtown and Joel Barlow high school boys lacrosse teams meet, and Tuesday’s clash at Blue and Gold Stadium was certainly that.
After Newtown opened a six-goal lead late in the first half, …
NEW FAIRFIELD — The Brookfield High School softball team has bounced back nicely with back-to-back wins after dropping a 10-inning heart-breaker to Newtown on Wednesday for its first conference loss of the season.
That includes Monday’s 12-3 t…
RIDGEFIELD — The Danbury High School softball team expected a close battle with rival Ridgefield Saturday morning, having already won a one-run thriller against the Tigers earlier this season.
The Hatters were correct.
Danbury took a five-run …
NEW FAIRFIELD — The undefeated Masuk High School softball juggernaut rolled to another win on Thursday.
Madison Procyk pitched a one-hitter as the Panthers recorded their 12th shutout of the season with a 19-0, five-inning victory over New Fai…
NEW FAIRFIELD — Back and forth they battled, like two prize-fighters standing toe-to-toe and trading haymakers in the center of the ring.
When the dust finally settled after nearly three hours, the New Fairfield High School baseball team stood…
NEWTOWN — One look at the trays of breakfast sandwiches and it was obvious: the signing-day ceremony for senior student-athletes at Newtown High School Wednesday morning was going to draw quite a crowd.
Boy, did it ever.
More than two dozen so…
NEW FAIRFIELD — With the calendar now having flipped to May and the weather — finally — turning warmer, the South-West Conference playoffs are looming large on the horizon.
In-conference wins become all the more important at this time of year,…
NEW FAIRFIELD — So many senior student-athletes completed their college plans at New Fairfield High School’s signing-day ceremony Tuesday morning that they had to go outside to find enough space to take the group picture. A pack of 18 Rebels s…
DANBURY — A group of 10 senior student-athletes at Danbury High School made their college plans official at a signing-day ceremony at the school Tuesday morning.
From the girls track and field and cross country programs, Leah Sarkisian will ru…
BETHEL — New Fairfield High School baseball coach Joe Garbowski smiled as he removed his cap to reveal an ever-increasing number of gray hairs, the product of, as he put it, his team’s propensity for playing close games this season.
Fortunatel…
