New Fairfield/Immaculate’s Tim Hayden (10) moves around New Canaan’s Campbell Lewis (16) in a January 2019 game.
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Newtown announced a boys hockey co-op with New Fairfield on Wednesday to take effect this upcoming winter season.
Newtown-New Fairfield ice hockey co-op has officially been approved for the 2020-2021 season #cthk https://t.co/Ffe8ZCCoSJ
— NHS Athletics (@nhsathletics) September 30, 2020
This will be the first co-op for Newtown, which began play in 2002-03 and won the 2014 CIAC Division III championship. The Nighthawks were 9-13 last season; they had 16 players on the roster, four of them seniors.
New Fairfield had been a program of its own until 2008. After one dormant season, it joined Immaculate in a co-op that lasted 10 seasons and reached the CIAC semifinals in 2016 and 2017.
The Rebels did not play last season after the New Fairfield/Immaculate program split up in 2019, with Immaculate’s numbers too high to keep the co-op eligible for the CIAC tournament.
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