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Xavier junior Chris Fosdick is the first ever @ciacsports Open Champion. Shot 4-under par 67 at Black Hall to win by 4 #ctgolf #thisisXavier pic.twitter.com/uifn1FIMZn — Xavier Athletics (@athleticsXHS) June 9, 2018 OLD LYME — Chris Fosdick of Xavier achieved a first on Saturday and he couldn’t be happier. A junior, Fosdick was the best […]
NEW BRITAIN — It wasn’t an optimistic weather forecast by any means first thing Monday morning, but the Greenwich boys golf team was making the trek to Stanley Golf Course regardless.
The start of the Division I state tournament was pushed two…
DARIEN — Coming off a hellacious one-goal victory in the FCIAC championship game last week, and without its top two leading scorers in Logan McGovern and Brian Minicus, it would be easy to understand if Darien hit a bit of a lull in its Class …
ORANGE — Chris Fosdick and Will Mallek went head to head as their respective golf teams have done in the Southern Connecticut Conference the last few seasons.
The No. 1 golfers for Xavier and Fairfield Prep, respectively, played in the same gr…
NORTH HAVEN – The quest for career win No. 900 will have to wait for coach Bob DeMayo and North Haven’s baseball team. With a chance to reach the milestone on Monday evening at the Bob DeMayo Sports Complex, it was visiting Xavier, playing its last game of the season, that walked away victorious, 3-2. […]
A glance at the four CIAC boys golf divisions says at least this much: Xavier, Portland and Coginchaug are owning, not renting, their real estate as title contenders once again.
Xavier won the Division I championship a year ago, its first in t…
NEW FAIRFIELD — Whenever the ball was near the guard of New Fairfield defenseman Nick Alviti during his team’s matchup against Xavier Saturday, it wasn’t out of his possession long.
Alviti and his defensive teammates ignited a dominating perfo…
Loaded with competitive opponents, the Greenwich High School rugby team’s schedule features one particular foe that it gets especially psyched up to play.
That opponent, of course, is longtime rival, Xavier, which hails from Manhattan. Greenwi…
Once you get past the pounding of nails, screech of saws and dust in the air, the beauty of the renovations at Palmer Field stops you in your tracks.
A wrought-iron entry arch topped with “Palmer Field” spelled out in block lettering, brick co…
MIDDLETOWN — It’s almost unfair to call Xavier a one-win baseball team after five games, but the Falcons are owning their record. They know there is no reward for being in close games and losing them. Standings are for wins and losses and that…
WESTPORT — Well, that didn’t take long.The defending Class LL state champion Staples Wreckers got its season started with a bang as a walk-off three-run home run from Drew Rogers propelled the team over visiting Xavier 5-3 on Saturday afternoo…
After five years as head coach and more than 15 years with the program, Dan DeConti has decided to step down as head coach of Xavier to spend more time with his young family. “There was one day I can remember I got home from practice and jumped on Live Barn, and I’m watching two […]
Introducing the Top 10 hockey goals from championship weekend. Originally the list was going to be just the Top 5 goals, but there were some pretty good goals in the semifinals that I couldn’t ignore so the list grew to 10. No. 10 Ridgefield’s Matt Walker Trailing Fairfield Prep 1-0 in the Division I semifinals, […]
NEW HAVEN—The Xavier boys hockey team has had a long tradition of success and winning seasons. But the Falcons never could get to the CIAC Division I championship game.And they will have to continue to wait.Behind two goals at one point,. Matt…
HARTFORD — Xavier sophomore Aden Hotchkiss is looking to make the final season for the Falcons seniors, including his brother Joel, a special one. Hotchkiss continues to keep his end of the deal.Scoring twice, including both the tying and clin…
@FairfieldWarde defeats @athleticsXHS in the first round of the @ciacbbb Division II Tournament. The @FWHSMustangs advance to face @Ihsmustangs in the second round. #ctbb pic.twitter.com/IpzX86Y0we — CT Sports Now (@CT_Sports_Now) March 7, 2018 FAIRFIELD — Warde’s killer B held off Xavier’s killer Bs. Standing at the free throw line with a one-point lead and just […]
Enough tears were shed across Middletown this weekend to fill the Connecticut River. Each of those tears represents a memory of a man who touched the lives of this community like no other. There is only one Jim Bransfield. He will never be replaced. He will never be forgotten. Like the Connecticut River, Jim Bransfield […]
DANBURY — Xavier’s status as a third-period team was cemented Sunday when it overcame a three-goal deficit in upending Notre Dame-West Haven in one of the signature wins of the Division I season.In danger of being upset by a team desperate…
The Xavier boys hockey team has a long history of success.That trend continues in the 2017-18 season as the Falcons enter their game Wednesday at New Fairfield/Immaculate (Winter Ice Garden, Danbury, 6:40 p.m.) with a 12-5 record, including 10…
FAIRFIELD — Moments after Foran’s Ryan Luth secured his fourth SCC championship in four years, his coach, Dave Esposito, proudly stated that the Lions had 14 wrestlers win at least one match at this year’s tournament.“If we have this s…
GUILFORD — For 16 minutes, Xavier’s Jackson Benigni had just three points and was struggling to get the ball.But it was Benigni who threw up a three-pointer from 36 feet at the buzzer to give Xavier a wild 63-60 come-from-behind victory ov…
Undefeated @GHS_athletics_ spoiled Date Night at @athleticsXHS tonight! The Indians remained unbeaten with a 58-51 victory over the Falcons. #ctbb @XavierHighCT pic.twitter.com/dPWhzVYQJV — CT Sports Now (@CT_Sports_Now) January 17, 2018 MIDDLETOWN — Undefeated Guilford made six free throws in the final minute to nail down a 58-51 Southern Connecticut Conference win in front of a […]
MIDDLETOWN — Xavier exploded for three goals in a five-minute span in the second period to beat New Canaan 3-0 in an inter-league Division I match played Monday night at the Spurrier-Snyder Rink at Wesleyan University.What made the outburst …
HAMDEN — The Hamden Green Dragons have answered every challenge thus far.They’ve won by blowout, pulled away from tough opponents on the road and, in their biggest test of the season Friday night, answered the call one more time in the fin…
MIDDLETOWN — No contest.On paper, it looked like it should be a game as Cheshire came in at 4-2 and Xavier was 3-2. So much for paper as Xavier blasted the Rams 47-24 in a game that was nowhere near that close. Xavier, winners of three in a …
Will the real Xavier boys basketball team please stand up? Is it the team that finished last in its own Christmas tournament for just the second time in 14 years? Or is it the team that knocked off a pair of Top 10 teams last week, including undefeated Hillhouse? You know what coach Mike Kohs […]
Jackson Benigni scored a game-high 29 points for the Xavier basketball team, which upset second-ranked Hillhouse 58-55 Saturday in a Southern Connecticut Conference win at New Haven. Matt Bielenda added 16 points for the Falcons (3-2), who also beat No. 10 Notre Dame-West Haven earlier this week. Davon Warber led the Academics (5-1) with 23 […]
MIDDLETOWN — Hold the reports of Xavier’s basketball demise.The inexperienced Falcons rose up and pulled a big Southern Connecticut Conference upset by beating Notre Dame of West Haven 66-58 at the Art Kohs Gymnasium at Xavier Tuesday even…
MIDDLETOWN — Xavier’s basketball team was defeated 53-41 by Glastonbury in the consolation game of the Art Kohs Christmas Tournament played at Xavier High Thursday evening.The tournament was won by Waterford which defeated Ledyard 84-64 be…
