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During the Trumbull-Westport Senior American Legion game Saturday morning, a groundball in foul territory rolled to Jack McFarland who was coaching third base for Trumbull.
He threw the ball back to the Wes…
TRUMBULL — With a double-header on tap and staring at a scorcher of a summer day ahead, the Trumbull and Westport Senior American legion teams moved up the start of game one an hour.
The early start did not…
Caroline Lau had a basketball experience unlike anyone else in Connecticut this summer.
Lau, a rising sophomore at St. Luke’s, was selected to try out for the 2019 U16 National Women’s Basketball team in Co…
The Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame has a new home.
After 14 years being housed on the campus of UConn-Stamford, the Fairfield County Sports Commission showed off their new digs at Chelsea Piers in Sta…
The landscape in American Legion baseball in Connecticut looks a lot different this summer.
In the offseason, the American Legion state baseball committee reduced the number of zones from eight to six. Thre…
To say the Stamford Senior American Legion team had a stunning end to the 2018 season, would be an understatement.
After winning the state championship in 2017 and going 21-1 in the regular season in 2018, …
Jim and Michele Sabia recently bought a home a short walk through the woods, directly behind home plate at Cubeta Stadium.
The stadium reminds them of their son, Chris, and the hours the family spent playin…
Two seasons ago, the seeds of the spring of 2019 were planted around FCIAC baseball fields.
St. Joseph started a team comprised of mostly sophomores, struggling early but reaching the CIAC Class M semifinal…
Three months after guiding the Norwalk girls basketball team to an unbeaten season and the CIAC Class LL championship in a thrilling 55-53 win over New London, head coach Ricky Fuller has resigned.
Fuller h…
Three of the four CIAC baseball championship games were shutouts, (Staples 3, Southington 0; Waterford 1, Berlin 0; Coventry 3, Shepaug Valley 0).
In the history of the CIAC tournament, there have never bee…
MIDDLETOWN — The 12 St. Joseph seniors waited a long time for this one. After going out in the state semifinals the past two seasons, the No. 11 Cadets finally finished the job, beating No. 1 Wolcott 6-3 to win the CIAC Class M championship. It is the Cadets first title since 2013 and […]
CLASS LL
STAPLES VS SOUTHINGTON
When: Saturday, noon
Where: Palmer Field, Middletown
Seeds/Records: No….
WATERBURY — Hello, Neuman!
With two outs and a runner on first in the bottom of the seventh, Southington’s Jake Neuman lifted a double over the right fielder’s head to the fence, scoring Andrew Paradis and …
WESTPORT — The seniors on the Staples baseball team were not going to let their final game come at home in the CIAC Class LL quarterfinals.
A season after being knocked out in the quarterfinals, No. 5 Stapl…
WESTPORT—The Staples and Wilbur Cross baseball teams came into the CIAC Class LL second round matchup on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Staples has high expectations, making the state quarterfinals three of…
DANBURY — When the Darien baseball team saw its draw in the CIAC Class LL tournament, the players and coaches could not believe it.
Not only was the Blue Wave matched up with a FCIAC team for the third-stra…
CONFERENCE PRIDE
The last three seasons, the SCC and NVL are tied with four state champions coming out of each conference.
The SCC has seen Cheshire, Amity, Notre Dame-West Haven and Foran, …
Harry Azadian, Staples
Everyone knows about Chad Knight, but if Staples is going to win it all in LL, Azadian will need to have a good tournament. He is the No. 2 pitcher on the Wreckers’ staff and will be …
WEST HAVEN—The Cheshire baseball team won the CIAC Class LL title last spring and was voted No. 1 in the state.
The Rams have been ranked No. 1 in the GametimeCT poll since week four this year and have not …
STRATFORD — When Bethel pitcher George Viebrock imagined himself pitching in the SWC championship game, he never dreamed of how good he would actually be.
The junior lefty struck out 14 batters in seven inn…
STAMFORD—You could not ask for more from a championship game.
No. 1 Staples got two hits with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, driving in the tying and winning runs and giving the Wreckers the FCIAC c…
STAMFORD—With the wind blowing out hard to center field at Cubeta Stadium for two of the most potent lineups in the FCIAC in No. 1 Staples and No. 4 St. Joseph, lots of runs seemed like a good bet Tuesday.
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FINE PERFORMANCES
Mike Kozlowski, Cheshire: The senior pitched a two-hitter, striking out 11 in the Rams 5-0 win over Branford.
Cade Walters: Walters threw his third no-hitter of the season …
DARIEN — If there is one place FCIAC baseball teams do not want to be, it is matched up with Darien in the tournament quarterfinals.
This season, the unlucky team drawing the No. 3 Blue Wave in the opening …
It is no secret that teams with deep pitching staffs tend to thrive in the postseason.
If that is true, watch out for East Catholic in Class M out of the CCC.
The Eagles’ pitching staff has …
GAMES TO WATCH
University/Classical Magnet at Civic Leadership, Tue. 3:30 p.m.: University/Classical Magnet (12-2) looking to lock up first place in the CRAL.
Ridgefield at Westhill, Tue. 4 …
In the second row of students at the state basketball championships at Mohegan Sun Arena, was New Canaan junior Drew Pyne wearing a black and green Kyrie Irving Celtics jersey and cheering on the Rams as voraciously as any…
STAMFORD — As Montana Semmel stepped on the rubber to throw his first pitch against Stamford Wednesday night, the collection of scouts in the bleachers behind home plate collectively raised their radar guns.
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STAMFORD—If he had stayed on schedule, Westhill pitcher Montana Semmel was supposed to pitch Monday.
However, with Stamford looming on the schedule and with it a chance to win the city championship, Semmel …
