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Vitals COACH — MITCHELL ROSS (2nd year, 1-9) CONFERENCE — FCIAC East PLAYOFF CLASS — Class LL (736 boys enrolled) HOME — Taft Field, Ludlowe High School, Fairfield. 2017 RECORD — 1-9 2018 OPENER — Sept. 7 vs. Westhill at 6 p.m. TEAM WEBSITE — FairfieldFalconFootball.org, Maxpreps | Twitter: @FalconFootball2 Top Players COLIN WILSON, Sr., QB (6-1, […]
FAIRFIELD – “I want to show you something,” Charlie Capalbo is saying as he starts to roll up one of the sleeves on his T-shirt. But before he finishes the grand unveiling, you can’t help but notice Charlie’s smile. It’s big, it’s genuine, it’s emotional. For someone that’s gone though what Charlie has gone through […]
DARIEN—Having won the last five Class L state championships, one of the toughest tasks for the Darien girls lacrosse team is keeping the fire in its belly burning. Motivating players to stay hungry can be difficult when everyone expects you to win every time out as No. 1 Darien learned against No. 9 Ludlowe in […]
NEW CANAAN — And another grand quest began Wednesday for the New Canaan High School boys lacrosse team. After losing in heartbreaking fashion in the FCIAC Championship final to Darien, New Canaan set its sights on the Class L state title. The Rams took a bold first step as they vanquished No. 13 seed Ludlowe […]
FAIRFIELD — Sara Kennedy has pitched on diamonds across America, but the Newtown senior never encountered a pitching circle quite like the one at Sturges Park on Wednesday afternoon in the second round of the Class LL tournament against Fairfi…
FAIRFIELD — Kylee provided the pitching and Luka provided the power. The Holderied sisters, Luka, a junior and Kylee, a sophomore, have been critical parts of the Falcons’ softball machine all season long, but never as much as in Tuesday’s opening round of the Class LL tournament against New Canaan. Kylee pitched a complete-game shutout, […]
FAIRFIELD — In the span of eight seconds Alex Berg forever etched himself into the history of the Fairfield Warde-Fairfield Ludlowe boys lacrosse rivalry.
The Falcons senior scored from 15 yards away as time expired, lifting Ludlowe to a 12-11…
FAIRFIELD — After having its three-year reign as FCIAC softball champions end last spring, St. Joseph can start a new streak of supremacy on Friday.
The third-seeded Cadets earned that right Thursday with strong pitching and just enough hittin…
STAMFORD — How do you match a one-hitter by your starting pitcher in the FCIAC quarterfinals?
By tossing another one-hitter in the semifinals.
That is precisely what Darien starting pitcher Justin Jordan did Wednesday at Cubeta Stadium, pitchi…
Aye it’s your boy Pete Paguaga filling in for Scott Ericson this week. Coming off its first loss in almost a month – a 1-0 loss to East Hartford last Monday, South Windsor coach Mike McDermott didn’t know how his team would respond. But he knew they would be ready. “We have had a couple […]
The Greenwich High School girls tennis team continued its successful season with a win in the FCIAC tournament on Thursday.
Winning all of the four singles matches and two of the three doubles matchups, the third-seeded Cardinals registered a …
Greenwich certainly showed that it was primed to compete in the FCIAC boys tennis tournament.
Looking like a team on a mission to once again, reach the finals, the second-seeded Cardinals posted an impressive 4-0 win over seventh-seeded Fairfi…
FAIRFIELD — Fairfield Ludlowe drew up a game-winner Monday night at Taft Field. It didn’t go as planned, but coach Chris Parisi didn’t mind a couple of his top offensive players ad-libbing in overtime.
Aidan Wykoff’s sixth goal, 2:16 into over…
FAIRFIELD — A lapse in fundamentals led to a lot of frustration for Ludlowe baseball coach Mike Francese.
Twice, the Falcons had golden opportunities to move runners into scoring position with less than two outs and both times, failed, taking …
FAIRFIELD — Hitting one walk-off home run over the course of a career, let alone a season, is usually cause for celebration. But two walk-offs over the course of two games? That’s automatic legend status.
OK, maybe not legend status but for Lu…
FAIRFIELD — Jared Mallozzi scored 2:52 into double overtime to give St. Joseph’s boys lacrosse team an 11-10 win over Fairfield Ludlowe on Tuesday night at Taft Field.
Ludlowe (8-4, 6-3 FCIAC) came back from five goals down in the second half….
TRUMBULL — Just before the game, Ludlowe coach Lou Bunosso gathered his team around in the dugout and asked them if they knew what a “signature win” was. Based on the low murmurs of uncertainty, it was pretty obvious they didn’t. But they do now. Thanks to a complete game performance from junior pitcher Kylee […]
FAIRFIELD — His teammates serenaded Fairfield Ludlowe boys lacrosse goalie Carter Leibrock with “Happy Birthday” Saturday night after the Falcons’ impressive 10-6 win over No. 4 Staples at Taft Field.
He’d worked pretty hard for the gifts, a b…
BRIDGEPORT — Central coach Joe Pagan calls it “the Bridgeport Curse.” Pick an inning, any inning. The third, the fifth, whatever, at some point, things are going to implode as far as the Hilltoppers are concerned. Against Ludlowe Monday afternoon, it was the seventh as the Falcons sent 15 men to the plate and scored […]
DANBURY — It was the ultimate test of teamwork and team depth, and at the 38th running of the O’Grady Relays Friday and Saturday, no teams were better than the host Danbury High School boys and girls track and field teams.
The Hatter boys scor…
NORWALK — The Fairfield Ludlowe boys lacrosse team showed it can light up the scoreboard when it’s clicking offensively.
The Falcons, who were deadlocked with Norwalk at 5-5 at the end of the first half, erupted for seven third-quarter goals t…
Forty-nine was the lucky number for the Fairfield Ludlowe girls golf team in its match against Greenwich on Tuesday.
Senior Katie Chan, freshman Juliet Bucher and junior Phoebe Burtt each shot a 49 for the Falcons, who edged the Cardinals 201-…
NORWALK—The bloodlines flow from fathers to sons, but the ties are actually so much deeper.
Much of the FCIAC will see Fairfield Ludlowe posting a 7-5 league victory over Brien McMahon on Wednesday afternoon at Pride Field and not think much m…
Behind a 13-hit attack, the Greenwich High School softball team edged host New Canaan 12-11 on Wednesday in an FCIAC game.
With the win, the Cardinals improved to 2-3 overall, 1-1 FCIAC.
“We haven’t beaten New Canaan in a couple of years, so i…
FAIRFIELD — After Kylee Holderied threw over 140 pitches just two days earlier against Stamford, Ludlowe coach Lou Bunosso wanted to give his top starter some rest heading into Wednesday’s game against McMahon.
Her rest lasted about two inning…
DARIEN — The way the Darien schedule is set up, every Saturday is a primetime contest.
The Blue Wave have already taken down two nationally-ranked teams the last two Saturdays in Yorktown (N.Y.) and Torrey Pines (Calif.) and have Manhassett (N…
STAMFORD—There are no seniors and just two juniors on the Ludlowe High School softball team.But the Falcons don’t feel that experience and team chemistry go hand-in-hand.“The girls have been together a while. Going back to youth softball,” sai…
FAIRFIELD — When the Sticks for Soldiers trophy was presented to Ludlowe coach Chris Parisi, he quickly turned and handed it to his senior goaltender, Carter Leibrock. Because in a game where saves were at a premium, it was Leibrock who stood …
RIDGEFIELD — It ended about the same way the teams’ regular-season game ended, probably about the way most people expected. The path to Ridgefield’s 6-0 playoff win over Fairfield on Friday in the CIAC Division I boys hockey first round was a …
