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The 13th annual Stratford High School Senior Recognition/Athletic Hall of Fame dinner will take place May 17 at 6:30 p.m. at Vazzano’s Four Seasons Catering and Banquet in Stratford.
All senior athletes who…
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, Notre Dame-West Haven won with 43% of the vote. If you have a uniform you would like to see featured, please email Sericson@stamfordadvocate.com Here are this week’s […]
As Ridgefield was taking on Trumbull Friday afternoon, Ridgefield coach Paul Fabbri and his coaching staff were being informed they could return. .
After a fire was set using gasoline as an accelerant in an…
STRATFORD — It was fitting there was no scoreboard at Birdseye Field Saturday.
Because the final score — Stratford 18, Trinity Catholic 6 — wasn’t the most important factor in the season-opening, non-league…
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…
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…
TORRINGTON — No. 5 seed Torrington boarded a second-half jet that carried it from a halftime tie against No. 12 Stratford to a 72-47 final in a Division III boys basketball second-round game at Torrington High School Thurs…
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…
STRATFORD — Stratford basketball coach Tim Swaller had a game plan for Kolbe Cathedral’s Quinton Sneed. Unfortunately for the Red Devils, Sneed was not to be denied.
Combining 17 points with 24 rebounds, Sn…
The 2019 SWC Boys Basketball Championship begins Friday, Feb. 22 with quarterfinals at the higher seeds, continue Monday, Feb 25 with semifinals at the sites of the higher seeds and the championship, Thursday, Feb. 28 at a site to be determined. Notre Dame-Fairfield is the three-time defending champion and the No. 5 seed in this […]
DANBURY — The challengers keep coming to Danbury, and the Immaculate boys basketball team keep batting them away.
The Mustangs faced another formidable foe in Stratford, which entered play right behind them…
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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STRATFORD — There were several things riding on Wednesday night’s tilt between Bunnell and Stratford.
There were playoff implications for both the South-West Conference and the CIAC state tournament. Also, …
The Foran/Law boys swim team beat Bunnell/Stratford 97-60 on Thursday.
STRATFORD — As the fourth quarter was unfolding Friday, surprisingly no red alert warning went off on the Bunnell bench, despite the Bulldogs letting an 18-point lead slip to three, and the box-and-1 defense employed by Stratford was keeping B…
The 2018 All-South-West Conference (SWC) Football Teams. First Team Offense QB–James Goetz, Weston RB–Nicholas Henderson, Brookfield RB–Dan Mason, Newtown WR–Jack Sawyer, Weston WR–Kevin Luke, Masuk TE–Shea Talbot, Newtown OL–Kenneth Caselnova, New Fairfield OL–Carson Ivey, Newtown OL–Shane Mallory, New Fairfield OL–Eric Reich, Brookfield OL–David Satkowski, Pomperaug PK–Nolan McCarter, Masuk Athlete–Zachary Buffington, New Fairfield Athlete–Christ N’Dabian, Bunnell […]
STRATFORD — Jason Carrafiello, who coached his only son since the day he could walk, loved to remind him how Stratford High dominated Bunnell when he played.
“Oh, yeah, he’d tell me all the time how they beat us all four years,” Brian Carrafie…
STRATFORD — Bunnell High School looked in Wednesday night’s regular-season finale against Stratford as if last week’s victory over Pomperaug had clinched a state football Class L playoff berth. It did not.
So, the Bulldogs, who came into Wedne…
STRATFORD — When they were sophomores at Bunnell High, coach Rich Diedrichsen would insert them all into the game at the same time. He called them The Force.
Two years later, in the autumn of 1991, they would have another name.
“We called ours…
MILFORD — Jonathan Law head coach Erik Larka was concerned with how his players would come out against Stratford.
Two weeks ago, the Lawmen were celebrating a historic and dramatic OT victory over SCC Tier 1 opponent Cheshire, so he was hoping…
BROOKFIELD — This year’s seniors on the Stratford High School girls volleyball team have seen a tremendous amount of growth and improvement in their program in the last four years — and the best may be yet to come.
The Red Devils defeated Broo…
STRATFORD — Nick Henderson might be No. 1 on the roster sheet, but he’s far from the only one in the Brookfield Bobcats backfield.
A trio of Brookfield backs tore up Penders Field for more than 300 yards rushing on Friday night as the Bobcats …
STRATFORD — Anyone who casually glances at the final score Newtown’s 49-7 win over Stratford on Friday would assume it was another typical Nighthawks victory.
Newtown coach Bob Pattison knows better.
Pattison knows when he looks at the game fi…
The highly-anticipated matchup of ranked football teams No. 1 St. Joseph and No. 3 Darien is already the second one this season. St. Joseph beat New Canaan in the opener when the teams were ranked third and first, respectively.
These matchups …
Vitals COACH — JACK PETION (2nd year, 4-6) CONFERENCE — SWC Division I PLAYOFF CLASS — Class M (500 boys enrolled) HOME — Penders Field 2017 RECORD — 4-6 2018 OPENER — Sept. 7 at Barlow, 7 p.m. TEAM WEBSITE — Maxpreps Top Players JOHN BIKE, Sr., WR, (5-7, 165) JASEN DOCTEUR, Sr., WR, (5-9, 165) JACK […]
NEWTOWN — Rallying with two runs in the bottom of the sixth, top-seeded Newtown beat Stratford 2-1 at home Wednesday in the SWC baseball quarterfinals.
The defending-champion Nighthawks (16-5) will face fifth-seeded New Fairfield on Thursday i…
FAIRFIELD — Both boys lacrosse teams on Tetreau-Davis Field had something to play for Wednesday evening. The hosts came away with it.
Fairfield Warde earned at least a .500 regular season for the third year in a row with a 15-4 win over Stratf…
STRATFORD — Newtown shortstop Todd Petersen found a way to make Penders Field look small, ripping an inside-the-park home run off Stratford left-hander Zack Fedak to lead off Monday’s game. It wasn’t long before Petersen’s teammates joined in on the fun. The red-hot Nighthawks enjoyed a big night at the plate, extending their winning streak […]
