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FAIRFIELD—The No. 4 Notre Dame-Fairfield girls basketball team normally likes to press and trap and create confusion defensively.
The problem early on, was that strategy was playing right into No. 6 Newtown…
STAMFORD—Waiting was the hardest part for Rasheed Constant.
After transferring from Trinity Catholic to Stamford High, Constant had to sit the first 10 games of the season before he could get on the court i…
Ashley Wilson is not going to be intimidated on the basketball court.
Wilson will drive the lane with determination no matter how who is waiting in the key, pop a jump shot in a defender’s face with just an…
Gracen Kerr, a 5-foot-4 junior guard for Kolbe Cathedral scored her 1,000th career point in a 58-27 win over Brookfield on Tuesday.
On the same night, Lyman Hall’s Kailey Lipka, a 5-4 senior guard, scored h…
STAMFORD — To say the Stamford boys basketball team needed a win would be an understatement.
After losing a heartbreaking game against New Canaan Thursday night in which a New Canaan player threw in a half-court game-winning sh…
STAMFORD — With 2:30 left in the first half, Norwalk coach Rick Fuller pulled all-state guard Ashley Wilson out for a breather.
With Wilson out, the Bears outscored Trinity Catholic by seven over those final minutes and Fuller …
In spite of a 45-43, out-of-state loss to South Kingston-R.I. last Wednesday — the day of the last top 10 poll — New London remained Connecticut’s No. 1 team in this week’s GameTimeCT Top 10 girls basketball poll. The Whalers lost four first-place votes, however, and only held the advantage by 12 points over No. […]
1,000 POINT CLUB
Hamden senior Makela Johnson scored her 1,000th career point in the Dragons 62-29 win over Sacred Heart Academy. Johnson scored 15 points in the game for unbeaten Hamden.
Bacon Academy senior Ke…
While most girls basketball players around the state prepared for the upcoming season this past fall by training or playing fall ball, Westbrook senior Savannah Marshall was following another passion.
Marshall traded in her sho…
GAMES TO WATCH
Wilbur Cross at Hillhouse, Mon. 5 p.m.: Both teams are off to fast starts and looking to stay at the top of the SCC standings.
Pomperaug at Newtown, Tue. 7 p.m.: SWC rivals renew acquaintances wit…
NEW HAVEN—If you did not know the date on the calendar, you may have thought you walked into a Class LL girls state playoff game Saturday afternoon at Saulsbury Gym in New Haven.
Both No. 2 Trumbull and Wilbur Cross played as i…
Three weeks after the resignation of Bob Robustelli, Trinity Catholic has named an interim athletic director.
The school announced Friday that Frank Fedak III will take over Jan. 10, the day after Robustelli’s tenure officially…
WESTPORT — Prior to his first game coaching the Trinity Catholic girls basketball team, Mike Walsh felt something he not felt in years.
Nervous.
After winning 633 games as the boys coach at Trinity before retiri…
While conference games have been played, the December girls basketball schedule was filled with cross-conference games, some of which featured top 10 teams duking it out.
Taking on a tough opponent from outside of your league c…
NEW CANAAN — On a night when New Canaan basketball honored legendary coach Don Usher, the current group of Rams seemed to channel some of that 1980s magic.
Usher was the head basketball coach at the school from 1976-1994, often…
STAMFORD—In the offseason, Trumbull coach Buddy Bray had to decide what style his team would play.
The Eagles are traditionally a half-court grind-it-out type of team but with his entire team back from last season and two of th…
STAMFORD — Only 632 more to catch his predecessor.
Monday night, Trinity Catholic coach Brian Kriftcher picked up his first career win as a varsity boys coach after defeating Kolbe Cathedral 73-68.
Kriftcher is …
GAMES TO GO WATCH
TUESDAY
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STAMFORD — The early-season matchup between the Trinity Catholic and Stamford girls basketball teams was everything you would expect from a city rivalry.
Physical play, tough defense and a little trash talking but mostly just c…
STAMFORD — Chris Passamano was watching a freshman football game early this fall when a player came off the field feeling ill. The Stamford High athletic director became concerned when he saw the player dry-heave on the sideline. “I asked him if he was OK and he said, ‘I haven’t eaten. I don’t have any […]
Both Stamford and Trinity Catholic qualified for the FCIAC playoffs last season and both have designs on a return trip.
On the other hand, Westhill struggled all season, finishing near the bottom of the FCIAC standings after ye…
FAIRFIELD—The Norwalk girls basketball team knows it is considered a favorite in the FCIAC this season and with that comes a target on its back.
Ludlowe came out fired up, pressing and running and leading Norwalk late in the se…
Megan Bauman, East Lyme: Senior guard was All-Conference last two seasons and on pace to break school records for scoring, assists and 3-pointers.
Julianna Bonilla, Waterford: The 5-foot-10 guard/forward committed to play at Ma…
Dominant.
There is no other way to describe the Greenwich defense.
The Cardinals gave up 13 in the playoffs with shutouts in both the semifinals and championship.
The elite unit surrender 54 poin…
NEW CANAAN — In a moment, Wyatt Wilson saw his entire senior season flashed before his eyes as he rolled in agony on the turf at Dunning Stadium this past July.
Things had been going swimmingly for Wilson in the offseason.
…
The last time Fairfield Prep played in a CIAC state championship football game was 2013, but the last time it won a state title was back in 1988.
Let’s look back on 1988 for a moment.
The title for Prep was the …
The season did not start the way either Shelton or New Canaan football teams would have liked.
New Canaan came out flat against St. Joseph, losing 28-0 while Shelton was forced to practice on a grass field at the school and move home games as …
STAMFORD—Stamford football coach Jamar Greene looked into senior running back Lenny Garcia’s eyes at halftime and knew his workhorse could carry the Black Knights home.
Garcia had already scored with 30 seconds left in the half and he carried …
It is not secret, these have been trying seasons for both the Stamford and Westhill football programs.
Both teams fielded younger rosters and were just not able to find their footing climbing the hill against FCIAC opponents.
Stamford (2-7) pi…
