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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 […]
A wild week in Connecticut boys lacrosse has resulted in some adjustments, but not enough to drop Darien from the top spot in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 poll as the state tournaments get underway. Darien’s 4-3 loss to Wilton ended the Blue Wave’s run of five-straight FCIAC championships, paving the way for New Canaan […]
NEW MILFORD — The lottery system wasn’t kind to the New Milford baseball team.
A 10-10 record usually guarantees a safe passage into the state tournament. But in this case the Green Wave were forced into th…
WEST HAVEN — The Fairfield Prep boys lacrosse program is typically loaded with talent and depth season after season.
On Saturday in the Southern Connecticut Conference boys lacrosse championship, the Jesuit…
Andy Demopoulos, Darien
The sophomore hit the scene hard when the Blue Wave played two games on Long Island a month ago, one of them on national television, and even in defeat made some eye-opening saves. T…
For three months, we’ve followed 98 teams’ battle to get to McMahon in mid-June. In a week, we’ll be down to 12. Who’ll be the three celebrating CIAC boys lacrosse titles?
Class L
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There’s little time to dilly dally. There are league playoff games involving top 10 teams going on the day this poll is being written. So here’s the short of it: No. 2 Ridgefield faces No. 3 New Canaan and No. 1 Darien plays surging, No. 7 Wilton — which toppled No. 8 Staples in the […]
WALLINGFORD — Deshaune Poole of Hillhouse and Meredith Bloss of Guilford have been dominant in their events in the SCC over the years and that dominance continued at the Southern Connecticut Conference boys and girls track…
If there were any doubts about Darien’s pedigree as the No. 1 CIAC team in Connecticut — and there hasn’t been with voters — the Blue Wave cemented their status as the team to beat heading into the final week of the boys lacrosse season when they demolished rival New Canaan, 12-4, Saturday. The Blue […]
Welcome back to Uni-Browse. Each week we will take a look at four baseball uniforms from around the state and let you vote for your favorite. Last week, New Britain won with 46% of the vote. If you have a uniform you would like to see featured, please email Sericson@stamfordadvocate.com Here are this week’s […]
With an impressive, 15-12 comeback win over Fairfield Prep, New Canaan returned to the No. 3 statewide ranking after several weeks away. The Rams, still unbeaten in Connecticut, played Trumbull Tuesday night in preparation for their annually anticipated regular-season grudge match with arch rival and No. 1 Darien at Dunning Field Saturday. Ridgefield, meanwhile, hasn’t […]
FAIRFIELD — New Canaan had just gone up by two for the first time at Rafferty Stadium in the third quarter Saturday, on the way to a 15-12 win over Fairfield Prep in one of the best regular-season boys lacrosse matchups on…
