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Darien and New Canaan remained affixed in the top two spots, but there was plenty of movement elsewhere in the Top 10 Girls Lacrosse Coaches poll for week two. The biggest jump came from the Greenwich Cardinals, who moved up four spots from 10 to 6 after defeating then-No. 3 Cheshire 13-12 last Thursday. The […]
Darien lost in the regular season for the first time in 54 games on Saturday. But it was to Manhasset (N.Y.) on Long Island, 10-5, and it had zero effect on this week’s GameTimeCT Top 10 Boys Lacrosse rankings. The Blue Wave, undefeated in Connecticut heading into Tuesday afternoon’s game vs. Fairfield Warde, remained No. […]
NEW FAIRFIELD — A pair of walls led the New Fairfield girls lacrosse team to its most impressive win yet to start the year.
The Rebels’ defense kept visiting Newtown at bay for long periods of their showdow…
Darien, which pulled away from Ridgefield with eight-consecutive goals in last Friday’s 14-6 victory, is off to yet another scorching start and remained the consensus No. 1 in the Week 2 GameTimeCT Boys Lacrosse Top 10 Poll, published before games were played Tuesday. Ridgefield didn’t fall from its spot at No. 2. Neither did New […]
FAIRFIELD — Draw. Goal. Draw. Goal.
It was a movie that wouldn’t stop playing for the New Fairfield boys lacrosse team in its matchup with the best of the best Thursday night.
St. Anthony’s …
NEW FAIRFIELD — Sooner or later, “Welcome to Lacrosse Town” will have to be put under the “Welcome to New Fairfield” signs that dot its borders.
For such a small town, New Fairfield is in the middle of a la…
The spring of 2018 will long be remembered in SWC territory for the amount of havoc weather wreaked on the softball schedule.
Wet fields first led to delays and postponements. Then tornados swept through th…
For the first time since 2013, Darien’s boys lacrosse program didn’t finish the season No. 1. A 9-8 upset by FCIAC rival Ridgefield in last year’s Class L championship game ended Darien’s four-year run as state champions, not to mention a 76-game win streak. Despite that loss, and despite losing a class of talented players […]
It’s the year they’ve been waiting for.
For a group of more than a dozen New Fairfield seniors, 2019 will represent the end of a remarkable journey that produced the best lacrosse team the town has ever see…
Extreme parity is set to rule the SWC once again, with any of the eight teams who make the postseason capable of winning three games inside a week to lift the crown.
The wealth has been spread to a remarkab…
Prior to Thursday’s State Open Swimming Championships, Greenwich coach Terry Lowe said his team had to produce a perfect meet in order to win another title.
Well, the Cardinals captured yet another State Op…
Depth is significant in team swimming, especially when the all-important championship meets take place.
Well-represented in each event, Pomperaug has plenty of depth and as a result, has plenty of titles to…
CLASS LL
Where: Trumbull High School
When: Saturday, 9 a.m. (finals scheduled for 5 p.m.)
Defending champion: Danbury
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Day two of the girls tournaments. The calm before the Saturday storm of games. FRIDAY SWC No. 8 Brookfield at No. 1 Notre Dame-Fairfield: NOTRE DAME No. 5 Pomperaug at No. 4 Bethel: Panthers have won six straight since losing to Bethel Jan. 24. Bethel is riding an 11-game winning streak into the tournament. Tough […]
Editor’s note: Comments from Immaculate interim athletic director Nelson Mingachos have been added to this story. NEW HAVEN — What was already an odd year for the New Fairfield/Immaculate boys hockey program has taken another turn in the last few weeks of the co-op’s history. Coach Mike Bonelli, an Immaculate alumnus and a former Mustangs […]
The SWC Girls Basketball Tournament will begin Friday with quarterfinals at the site of the higher seeds and conclude Wednesday, Feb. 20 with the championship at a site to be determined. The semifinals will be Monday, Feb. 18 at the sites of the higher seeds. Notre Dame-Fairfield, the third-ranked team in the GameTimeCT Top 10 […]
DANBURY — Fast food is awesome.
But it’s probably something you shouldn’t eat all too often, or at all if you’re a high school athlete.
New Fairfield-Immaculate boys hockey coach Mike Bonell…
NEW FAIRFIELD — After a long weekend, the South-West Conference wresting championships fell on the broad shoulders of Newtown’s 285-pounder Joey Zeller in the final match of the evening at New Fairfield High School.
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Xavier earned just enough votes to make another return to the Top 10 thanks to a 1-1 tie with defending Rhode Island champion LaSalle Academy last week. The Falcons moved in — by one point — at the No. 10 spot while knocking out Guilford, which climbed as high as No. 8 as of last […]
Taking a look at the GametimeCT girls basketball poll this season, one conference has consistently placed the most teams in the Top 10.
The SWC leads the way with three teams: No. 3 Notre Dame Fairfield, No…
Fairfield Prep and Guilford were the big movers in the latest GameTimeCT Boys Hockey Top 10 Poll for Jan. 29. The Jesuits, fresh off back-to-back victories over Xavier and Hamden, inched closer to .500 and earned enough votes to jump two spots to No. 4 this week. Guilford, meanwhile, won its ninth-straight game and also […]
Gracen Kerr had 23 point and Brianna Meekins 16 to lead Kolbe Cathedral to a 49-41 win in SWC girls basketball action Thursday at the Shehan Center in Bridgeport.
Allison Teklits led New Fairfield with 14 p…
Ridgefield is still unanimous No. 1 and the rest of the first five remained the same in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 Boys Hockey Poll as the season hits its midpoint. Darien is No. 2, Northwest Catholic 3, Hamden 4 and Notre Dame-West Haven 5. The only changes from last week are minor. Fairfield Prep, […]
DANBURY — A long layoff might have contributed to a slow start by the New Canaan boys hockey team against a tough opponent. That was the topic of conversation after a sluggish first period.
The rust, however, slowly wore off th…
The New Fairfield-Immaculate boys hockey team is running out of tournaments to claim.
Exiting the state didn’t release the squad from the clutches of CIAC rules.
By winning a pair of games and advancing to the f…
DANBURY — The Danbury girls basketball team didn’t have the start it hoped for after entering the season with high expectations.
Life after a 0-3 beginning has been kind to the Hatters, though. Danbury pulled away from New Milf…
New Fairfield High School’s hockey players will be searching for a new home after the 2018-19 season.
But for now they have one more ride in its current co-op before the Rebels and Immaculate Mustangs head their separate ways.
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Ryan Antkowiak, Suffield. Senior came up with a few coaches as one of the best offensive defensemen in the state.
Colin Bella, Fairfield Prep. Senior forward scored 22 points for the champion Jesuits last year. “Can be a game-c…
Ridgefield at Fairfield Prep (Wonderland of Ice), Wednesday, 6 p.m.: The past two state champs: Not a bad way to get the season started. The rematch at the Winter Garden is Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Wilton at JBWA (Danbury), Wednesday, 7:40 p.m.: It’s the first game for the state’s newest co-op: That’s “Joel Barlow […]
