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DARIEN — When Darien plays the way it did in the first period Monday at Darien Ice House, it’s hard not to see the Blue Wave as the best boys hockey team in the state.
It’s the way it played in the second a…
SHELTON — The skaters may be short-handed but tenacious up front and on the blue line, but in net, Notre Dame-Fairfield’s boys hockey team has both tenacity and depth.
Senior Nick Piselli made 53 saves Wedn…
A 6-0 start, including a tournament win in Massachusetts, has Notre Dame-West Haven atop the GameTimeCT boys hockey top 10 poll in Week 4 of the season. The Green Knights, runner-up to Fairfield Prep last year, have three in-state wins in addition to their win in the CM Christmas Tournament. They’ll make two trips into […]
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Many teams that begin their season 0-2, 1-4 and 3-6 can make plans elsewhere for mid-March. Not Fairfield Prep, which could trademark its way of building and teaching an inexperienced team, test…
RIDGEFIELD — By their blue-chip standards, the Fairfield Prep and Ridgefield boys hockey teams played a ragged season opener Wednesday night at the Winter Garden. Passes were missed, pucks weren’t cleared, and quality scor…
The Connecticut Division I boys hockey championship does not always go to the Catholic schools, nor to the FCIAC powers in the southwest corner of the state, but that’s the way to bet. In particular, the way to bet is Fairfield Prep, winner of 11 out of the past 20 titles under coach Matt Sather, […]
There are a stunning number of intriguing CIAC hockey matchups on Wednesday, the first full day of competition. Our 10 games to watch this season could be the day’s schedule, cut off wherever. We’ll try to sneak in a few l…
FAIRFIELD — Sean Nelson ran for three touchdowns, leading Fairfield Prep to a 28-0 win over West Haven Thursday morning at Rafferty Stadium.
Nelson finished with 118 yards, including a 38-yard run on the se…
SHELTON — Postseason was the theme Friday evening when Fairfield Prep and Shelton squared off in a heavyweight battle. Despite both teams having down campaigns in the win column by their standards, both the Jesuits and Gae…
FAIRFIELD — The Notre Dame-West Haven and Fairfield Prep football teams entered their SCC Tier I matchup on Friday with identical 4-3 records and playoff hopes still alive.
A win and that hope would remain …
FAIRFIELD — The St. Joseph football team had two weeks to prepare for its game against Fairfield Prep — and that was only for the Xs and Os.
The bye week provided ample time for the current Cadets to brush …
FAIRFIELD — The Xavier football team’s senior class had gone three years without beating rival Fairfield Prep.
That changed in the blink of an eye Friday night at Rafferty Stadium, as Xavier overcame a two-…
MADISON — Scott Testori used the same technique, the same hesitation and the same placement on penalty kicks taken less than 2 minutes apart on Saturday afternoon.
The end result was the same: Testori score…
An old joke in hockey says that if you claim to have two No. 1 goaltenders, you actually have no No. 1 goaltenders.
The analogy might seem to translate into football, where the modern quarterback seems so p…
FAIRFIELD — They tore across Rafferty Stadium after the final buzzer Friday night, ripped all the way over toward the Fairfield Prep student section, gathered again with each other at midfield. Newtown’s was the kind of ce…
FAIRFIELD — How a team reacts after an opponent’s goal varies.
Some teams tuck tail and point fingers.
Fairfield Prep responded to Shelton High taking a 2-0 lead by attacking the Gaels over …
NORTH HAVEN — They may be deep, but they’re young in some spots, and Fairfield Prep needed a while to get everything clicking at North Haven’s Vanacore Field on Friday night to open the football season.
The…
Chris Abbey, East Lyme, senior: Captured the ECC title last fall, before taking second place in Class MM.
Nick Bendsten, Wolcott, junior: The defending NVL champion, he finished ninth in Class M. Only two o…
[Vitals] COACH — KEITH HELLSTERN (5th year, 29-14) CONFERENCE — SCC Tier I PLAYOFF CLASS — LL (807 boys enrollment) HOME — Rafferty Stadium, Fairfield University 2018 RECORD — 10–2 (lost to New Canaan in Class LL semifinals) 2019 OPENER — Sept. 7, at North Haven, 7 p.m. TEAM WEBSITES — Maxpreps | jesuitpride.com; TWITTER — @Prep_Football; INSTAGRAM — @ffldprepfootball […]
FAIRFIELD — The two matches to decide the 50th Borck Junior Golf Tournament champions played out in a similar fashion Thursday morning.
Both Charlie Duffy and Sophia Sarrazin trailed when lightning suspende…
For the 13th year, New Canaan High School will host a Grip It and Rip It 7-on-7 football tournament when 32 teams meet on Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13. The tournament had originally been set at 34 teams, but five teams dropped out and three have been added: Trinity Catholic/Wright Tech co-op, Bridgeport […]
Here is our annual breakdown of state championships by school. This list includes only CIAC sanctioned sports and team championships. It does include both Class and State Open titles. New England and national titles are not included. Here’s a look back at 2017-18 2018-19 state championships by school Bloomfield (7) Football (S) Boys Indoor Track […]
A glance at the record suggests this wasn’t the dominant, unbeatable Darien boys lacrosse team that the Blue Wave have sometimes been at times the past few seasons. And that’s probably fair. The record also probably suggests it wasn’t a special season, and that’s probably unfair. Even at 17-5, with the most losses in a […]
It was announced Monday that for the fifth consecutive season, the FCIAC and the SCC will play each other in one game for the next two seasons in baseball. Sheehan, Jonathan Law and Wilbur Cross from the SCC and Trinity Catholic from the FCIAC will not participate. For 2021, the home and away teams […]
FAIRFIELD — One more road game was nothing for Wilton’s boys lacrosse team. One more deficit was nothing for a team that dug itself a deep hole in the first half of its season.
The 19th seed in Class L will…
FAIRFIELD — If it was a more decisive score in a boys lacrosse playoff game than Fairfield Prep expected, it probably came from how precisely the Jesuits moved the ball.
In a 16-3 win over Greenwich on Thur…
The semifinal-round of the Class LL, L, M and S boys tournaments are scheduled to be held on Thursday, with the finals taking place on Friday. Here’s a look at what’s transpired in each Class. Class LL Top-seeded Andrew Ilie of Trumbull advanced to the semifinals of the singles bracket with a 6-1, 6-0 win […]
Welcome to the Long-Stick Podcast: State Playoff Edition. Based on Wilton’s 4-3 upset over No. 1 Darien in the FCIAC semifinals alone, it was a pretty insane league championship week in boys lacrosse. It settled down, somewhat, with New Fairfield’s dominant SWC title victory and Fairfield Prep’s SCC championship, which were sandwiched around New Canaan’s […]
