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RIDGEFIELD — Adam Biernat saw his opportunity for redemption and he took it for all it was worth.
Ridgefield’s senior placekicker had missed his previous two field goals of the night, and with the Tigers an…
New Canaan scored three goals in the first half and went on to shut out the Westhill Vikings 5-0 in an FCIAC field hockey game at Westhill High School on Thursday. Five players scored for the Rams, who improved to 4-0-0-0, while Westhill dropped to 0-2-0-0. NEW CANAAN 5, WESTHILL 0 New Canaan 3 […]
Sparked by the sophomores.
That was the scenario for the Greenwich boys soccer team, which saw three of its sophomores account for five goals in its matchup against New Canaan Monday at Cardinal Stadium.
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The first weekend of the 2019 high school football season did not disappoint.
Stamford honored two classmates who died earlier this month in a car accident with a pregame ceremony, then went on to stun perennial power Sta…
NEW LONDON — After several huge losses to graduation compounded by some devastating preseason injuries, there were many questions floating around the New Canaan football team entering Saturday’s season opener at New London. And although it took about a half for the Rams to get rolling, by the end of New Canaan’s 32-6 win […]
In the second row of students at the state basketball championships at Mohegan Sun Arena, was New Canaan junior Drew Pyne wearing a black and green Kyrie Irving Celtics jersey and cheering on the Rams as voraciously as any…
Boys Cross Country
Westhill 15, St. Joseph 49; New Canaan 15, St. Joseph 48; Staples 18, Westhill 44; Staples 15, St. Joseph 50; Westhill 26, New Canaan 29; Staples 17, New Canaan 46
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A.J. BARBER Sr., Greenwich: The Class LL champs were hit hard by graduation, but Barber’s back after catching 10 touchdown passes last year and throwing one in the state final. PHOENIX BILLINGS Sr., Hand: Standout athlete, committed to UConn to play baseball, threw for 1,740 yards and 23 touchdowns last year and ran for […]
Maddie Bergin, North Haven, Jr. – Bergin earned All-State honors by placing fifth and sixth, respectively in the 100 (52.75) and 50 freestyle (24.03) events at the State Open. She won both events at the Class M Championshi…
STORYLINES
CHESHIRE MAKES ITS MOVE UP TO CLASS LL
Greenwich won the team title at the State Open Championships for the fourth straight season in 2018, finishing ahead of runner-up in a meet …
NORWALK — Only one time during Joe Della Vecchia’s 22-year stretch as head coach of the St. Joseph football team have the Cadets faced an opponent twice during a season.
It’s not exactly a fond memory.
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This November, the CIAC will crown champions in boys soccer for the 20th time this century. In that time, 45 schools have claimed state titles in Classes S, M, L and LL, including years where co-championships were earned. Five schools, Farmington, East Catholic, Brookfield, Barlow and Avon have won titles in two different classes. Here […]
[Vitals] COACH — LOU MARINELLI (39th year, 331-99-6) CONFERENCE — FCIAC East PLAYOFF CLASS — Class L (646 boys enrolled) HOME — Dunning Stadium, New Canaan 2018 RECORD — 10-3, lost to Greenwich in Class LL final 2019 OPENER — Sept. 13 at New London, 6:30 p.m. TEAM WEBSITE — ramfootball.com; TWITTER: @NewCanaanFB [Top Players] […]
The Fairfield County Sports Commission announced its 2019 Sports Persons of the Year in each of the 16 communities the Commission directly serves. The local sports honorees will be recognized at the 15th anniversary Sports…
NEW CANAAN — It might have been the first practice of the season for the New Canaan football team and coach Lou Marinelli, but it hardly seemed that were the case. The sounds of whistles and buzzers continuously echoed across the New Canaan campus as Marinelli ran a strictly-timed, well-coordinated and disciplined first practice of […]
STRATFORD — Connecticut’s best junior golfers were on display one final time on Tuesday. All together on one team, the group made one final emphatic statement to the rest of New England.
Connecticut repeate…
STAMFORD — Inclement weather forced last year’s Fairfield County Swim League Championships to be canceled, but that certainly wasn’t the case on Saturday, much to the delight of Rocky Point Club.
Sunny skie…
First, to be clear, Paul Gallo isn’t leaving the high school wrestling scene.
When the winter sports season rolls around later this year, Gallo will be in his usual spot, mat-side, coaching up the New Canaa…
To say that the Trinity Catholic Crusaders have been going through trials and tribulations this year would be putting it mildly.
Through it all, however, the Trinity football players, who weren’t sure they …
WATERTOWN — A hot start was all Ben James needed to continue his recent streak on the links.
Fresh off winning the Killington Junior Golf Championship last week, James took down the 78th annual Connecticut …
WATERTOWN — From the time he first played in the Connecticut Junior Amateur at the age of 11, Ben James has been part of the conversation. He was, after all, the 11-year-old who was “offered” by UConn 5 years ago.
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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 […]
The NISCA recently released its girls and boys All-America diving lists and Connecticut was certainly well represented.
Kevin Bradley of Norwalk, New Canaan’s Jackson Camporin, Glastonbury’s Ethan Godfrey, …
CCC ALL-CCC WEST DIVISION: Ryan Roller (Conard); Erik Youngstrom (Conard); Brian Liao (Farmington); Sachit Sabapathy (Farmington); Scott Touhy (Farmington); Brennan George (Hall); Leonel Caceres (Newington); Louis Egbuna (Newington); Mason Romano (Newington); Ethan Basch (Simsbury); Joe Bargman (Simsbury); Zack Morgan (Southington); Tim Walsh (Southington); Adam Hunter (Southington). ALL-CCC EAST DIVISION: Chaddane Williams (Bloomfield); Emmanuel Goods (Bloomfield); Kai Haughton […]
When a couple of hundred high school football players come to Hand this weekend, there will be a few goals on the table.
Most immediately, the goal is scoring enough points to win seven-on-seven games and m…
Player of the Year: Logan Carstens, Staples CLASS L Aldane Burke, East Hartford Ardian Kodzodziku, Newtown David Niski, Shelton Eric Moore, Newtown Jake Harasyko, Glastonbury Kayque Jorge, Danbury Logan Carstens, Staples Owen Edminster, Warde Piers Roofthooft, Darien Rob Morrill, Newtown Ryan Roller, Conard Tim Walsh, Southington Tyler Herget, Darien Zack Morgan, Southington CLASS M Aiden […]
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 […]
New Fairfield delivered a tour de force in the CIAC Class S girls lacrosse final, scoring the first 14 goals of the game on their way to an 18-5 rout of Stonington at Jonathan Law High School in Milford on Saturday.
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