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Monday marked the second meeting between FCIAC girls swimming rivals Greenwich and Darien, and the two squads are not finished facing each other yet.
The Cardinals and Blue Wave will test their skills again…
Darien entered Saturday’s game against FCIAC West Region girls soccer rival Greenwich undefeated through its first seven games, while allowing only three goals in the process.
Two of those goals were scored…
GREENWICH — Gorgeous. Text book. Picture perfect.
Those were a few of the terms Darien field hockey coach Mo Minicus used to describe Sarah Bogdan’s tip-in goal off a shot from Brinsley Rushe late in the th…
DARIEN — The Greenwich volleyball team, unbeaten in 2020, found itself in a unfamiliar position in its match against Darien on Thursday: The Cardinals finally had to try and bounce back from a lost set.
Act…
Emma Appleman, Guilford: Appleman had a double-double with 29 kills and 17 digs in Guilford’s four-set win over SCC rival Amity on Oct. 22. She added 18 kills in Monday’s 3-1 win against Hamden.
Fallon Bail…
GREENWICH — Tuesday marked the final regular season meet of the season for the Greenwich and Darien boys and girls cross country teams and besides the rival angle, adding to the competition’s excitement was the fact that t…
Morgan Bagnall, Lauralton Hall: Lauralton Hall received first-place finishes from Bagnall in its 96-90 triumph over Amity in the 200-yard individual medley (2:18.40) and 100 freestyle (56.22). She helped spark Hall’s 200 f…
DARIEN — The CIAC State Open Championships, the Class L finals and the always much-anticipated meets against each other — those are some of the memories the seniors on the Darien and New Canaan swimming teams will take wit…
Though thrilled after winning the East Super Regional Championship at the Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Games in August, the CONNY Command girls lacrosse team knew its mission wasn’t complete.
There was…
Emma Appleman, Guilford: Appleman had 25 kills in back-to-back shutout wins against Branford and Daniel Hand. For the season, the reigning SCC Player of the Year has 92 kills, 42 digs and 17 aces in seven matches, with Gui…
Maddie Bergin, North Haven: Bergin set a school record in winning the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5 minutes, 5.08 seconds against Amity. She broke a record of 5:07:01 set by Katie Armitage of North Haven back in 1995…
NEW CANAAN — In a typical season, a battle between the New Canaan and Darien field hockey teams would be a preview of a playoff showdown late in the postseason.
Under current circumstances, however, the lat…
An independent high school-level tackle football league, attached to the Fairfield County Football League governing youth football, is attempting to begin play Saturday.
The league, which hopes to play betw…
Updated: Saturday, 6:10 p.m. The Fairfield County Football League’s first independent high school-level football games, which has been organizing over the last month since the CIAC canceled 11-vs.-11 high school football, kicked off across the county Saturday, as was a game between two independent Meriden squads. All but one of the Fairfield County games were […]
GREENWICH — Though their respective schedules are shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greenwich and Darien High School girls swimming teams have two meets against each other this fall — rivalry matchups that didn’t…
Amanda Acabchuk, RHAM: The senior setter kicked off the season with a 37-assist performance in the Raptors’ five-set win over South Windsor. She also had a combined 53 assists in back-to-back shutouts against Tolland and E…
DARIEN — Darien’s cross country runners have become very adept at being road warriors. Fifteen years without a home meet tends to have that effect.
But as the Blue Wave is finding out this fall, there’s no …
NEW CANAAN — One of the unusual quirks of the 2020 volleyball season, alongside masks and safety protocols of course, is the fact that rivals such as Darien and New Canaan wound up facing each other twice, in back-to-back …
Linsey Arends, Woodstock Academy, Jr. 2019 Class MM championship meet runner-up with a time of 20:14, finished 33rd in State Open as a sophomore. Peyton Bornstein, Tolland, Jr. Finished fourth in the Class M Championship with a time of 20:08, helping lead Tolland to a State Title with teammate Calista Mayer Elisabeth Brown, Sheehan, […]
Emma Appleman, Guilford, Sr., OH: The reigning SCC Player of the Year led team with 400 kills during her junior campaign and helped Guilford capture its first league crown in 25 years. She’s been named to the All-SCC first…
This fall, there will be no raucous student sections, no chants of “we believe we will win” and no clouds of baby powder emanating from a cluster of teens dressed in school colors.
As has been widely discus…
Tess Albrecht, Norwalk, Sr., F: Scored 36 goals and had 17 assists in leading the Bears to the CIAC Class L semifinals last season. Two-time CHSCA All-State, GameTimeCT All-State and All-FCIAC selection.
La…
TAKING OVER THE HELM
Several coaching changes took place since the 2019 high school girls swimming season concluded, one of which occurred at Lauralton Hall. Fran Pfeiffer who coached at Lauralton Hall for …
Maddie Bergin, North Haven: Bergin, a senior, finished third in the 50-yard freestyle at the 2019 State Open (23.90 seconds) and took fourth in the 100 freestyle (52.31). Bergin won both the Class M 50 (24.01) and 100 free…
A proposal for 7-on-7 football in the FCIAC has been approved by the conference’s athletic directors, FCIAC commissioner Dave Schulz confirmed Wednesday. The plan discussed at the FCIAC ADs meeting was from Ridgefield Athletic Director Dane Street. The plan, which Street discussed during a board of education meeting in the town Monday night, is for […]
Senior Taylor Gambardella was pretty pleased to be practicing on Monday afternoon at Kavanaugh Field. The full Guilford girls soccer team was together for a practice, instead of the cohorts of 10 they were limited to durin…
As soon as the expected final decision from the CIAC came down Wednesday that there would be no CIAC sponsored 11-on-11 tackle football this fall, the wheels went into motion in some communities to try to get their players…
With virtual meets possibly being included in certain teams’ schedule and social distancing measures being followed by all squads, the girls high school swimming scene will have a different look to it this fall.
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The All-America lists for each event the NISCA recently released includes a long list of Connecticut swimmers who sparked their respective squads to successful seasons.
Meghan Lynch, a Greenwich High School…
