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Shelton boys edge Ridgefield on last-second layup
RIDGEFIELD — Overtime appeared to be a base-case scenario for the Shelton boys basketball team in the waning seconds Monday of its Class LL first-round game at Ridgefield. Playing the 2-3 defense for the first time all season — and doing so with great success — the Gaels dug in for one more stop with Ridgefield milking the clock and preparing to take the last shot. “They really deserved it,”… → Read More
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet NEW MILFORD — Greenwich, Trumbull and Daniel Hand did their best to challenge perennial powerhouse Woodstock Academy at the four-team State Open Championship on Saturday, but alas, a dynasty once again lived up to its own lofty expectations with an outstanding performance at New Milford High School. Paige Stuyniski of… → Read More
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet NEW MILFORD — Greenwich, Trumbull and Daniel Hand did their best to challenge perennial powerhouse Woodstock Academy at the four-team State Open Championship on Saturday, but alas, a dynasty once again lived up to its own lofty expectations with an outstanding performance at New Milford High School. Paige Stuyniski of… → Read More
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet NEW MILFORD — Greenwich, Trumbull and Daniel Hand did their best to challenge perennial powerhouse Woodstock Academy at the four-team State Open Championship on Saturday, but alas, a dynasty once again lived up to its own lofty expectations with an outstanding performance at New Milford High School. Paige Stuyniski of… → Read More
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet
Greenwich finishes second, Trumbull third at State Open gymnastics meet NEW MILFORD — Greenwich, Trumbull and Daniel Hand did their best to challenge perennial powerhouse Woodstock Academy at the four-team State Open Championship on Saturday, but alas, a dynasty once again lived up to its own lofty expectations with an outstanding performance at New Milford High School. Paige Stuyniski of… → Read More
Titans to host a special night for young fan
The Danbury Titans will be giving 6-year-old Sam Buck of Glenville a very special night when the puck drops on Sunday when they prepare to take on the St. Clair Shores Fighting Saints at 5:05 p.m. Buck, who is terminally ill with a very rare neurological disease known as “vanishing white matter,” will in fact be the one dropping the puck in a pregame ceremony. CULTEC and the Vanishing White… → Read More
Titans to host a special night for young fan
The Danbury Titans will be giving 6-year-old Sam Buck of Glenville a very special night when the puck drops on Sunday when they prepare to take on the St. Clair Shores Fighting Saints at 5:05 p.m. Buck, who is terminally ill with a very rare neurological disease known as “vanishing white matter,” will in fact be the one dropping the puck in a pregame ceremony. CULTEC and the Vanishing White… → Read More
Pomperaug girls cruise past St. Joseph
SOUTHBURY — Pomperaug’s Karli Opalka saw to it personally that her team would enter the break with its one-point lead still intact, timing her jump perfectly and getting all of her block on a St. Joseph layup attempt with four seconds left in the first half in the second round of the Class L girls basketball tournament. [...] Opalka and the Panthers were off to the races when the second half… → Read More
Murphy leads Newtown into SWC/SCC Division-III title game
MILFORD — You would probably need two hands to count the amount of times Masuk came within an eyelash of scoring the game-tying goal in the second and third periods of Wednesday’s SWC/SCC Division-III semifinal showdown with Newtown. [...] thanks to goalie Kyle Murphy, who made 25 saves, the equalizer never came to fruition, and the third-seeded Nighthawks punched their ticket to the… → Read More
Murphy leads Newtown into SWC/SCC Division-III title game
MILFORD — You would probably need two hands to count the amount of times Masuk came within an eyelash of scoring the game-tying goal in the second and third periods of Wednesday’s SWC/SCC Division-III semifinal showdown with Newtown. [...] thanks to goalie Kyle Murphy, who made 25 saves, the equalizer never came to fruition, and the third-seeded Nighthawks punched their ticket to the… → Read More
Fairfield Prep eliminated in SCC semifinals by Hillhouse
NEW HAVEN — You know it’s been a pretty special year when you can play what Hillhouse junior guard Byron Breland III referred to as “probably our second-worst game of the season besides the first loss to Prep” and still pick up a four-point victory over the defending SCC champions. With the win, the No. 2-seeded Academics advanced to Wednesday’s championship game against top-seeded and… → Read More
Fairfield Prep eliminated in SCC semifinals by Hillhouse
NEW HAVEN — You know it’s been a pretty special year when you can play what Hillhouse junior guard Byron Breland III referred to as “probably our second-worst game of the season besides the first loss to Prep” and still pick up a four-point victory over the defending SCC champions. With the win, the No. 2-seeded Academics advanced to Wednesday’s championship game against top-seeded and… → Read More
Ridgefield eliminates Warde on Laudati’s last-second layup
FAIRFIELD — The Ridgefield boys basketball team spent the better part of its Saturday afternoon fending off tenacious rallies from Warde, managing to hang on to the lead from the middle of the second quarter until just 10.7 seconds remained in its FCIAC quarterfinal clash against the Mustangs. Up to that point in the second half, the Mustangs had cut the Tigers’ lead to a single point six times… → Read More
Ridgefield eliminates Warde on Laudati’s last-second layup
FAIRFIELD — The Ridgefield boys basketball team spent the better part of its Saturday afternoon fending off tenacious rallies from Warde, managing to hang on to the lead from the middle of the second quarter until just 10.7 seconds remained in its FCIAC quarterfinal clash against the Mustangs. Up to that point in the second half, the Mustangs had cut the Tigers’ lead to a single point six times… → Read More
Ridgefield’s Kevin Callahan named Hearst Connecticut Media football coach of the Year
After the loss to Trinity, the Hearst Coach of the Year guided his team to seven consecutive victories, a streak that continued until a 28-7 loss in the Class LL State championship against Darien, which completed its second straight perfect season. An appearance in the state playoffs — much less the finale — would have been difficult to envision just two short seasons ago when a youthful… → Read More
Lancers’ defense paves the way past Rebels
FAIRFIELD — You know you’re having a good year when you get held to a season-low in points and still manage to defeat a team that had lost just two of its previous 54 regular-season games. Behind an exceptional defensive effort and a game-high 16 points from Gabby Joseph, Notre Dame-Fairfield defended its hardwood with a 37-31 victory over New Fairfield Friday night. Once the defensive side was… → Read More
Lancers’ defense paves the way past Rebels
FAIRFIELD — You know you’re having a good year when you get held to a season-low in points and still manage to defeat a team that had lost just two of its previous 54 regular-season games. Behind an exceptional defensive effort and a game-high 16 points from Gabby Joseph, Notre Dame-Fairfield defended its hardwood with a 37-31 victory over New Fairfield Friday night. Once the defensive side was… → Read More
Bethel girls basketball team enjoying breakout season
Bethel girls basketball team enjoying breakout season BETHEL — It’s definitely time to start looking at the Bethel girls basketball team as a serious threat in the SWC. Thursday was seemingly just another day at the office for the Wildcats, who got a game-high 15 points from Lily Daniels en route to topping the visiting Masuk Panthers 45-20 for their fifth consecutive victory. All this is coming… → Read More
Bethel girls basketball team enjoying breakout season
Bethel girls basketball team enjoying breakout season BETHEL — It’s definitely time to start looking at the Bethel girls basketball team as a serious threat in the SWC. Thursday was seemingly just another day at the office for the Wildcats, who got a game-high 15 points from Lily Daniels en route to topping the visiting Masuk Panthers 45-20 for their fifth consecutive victory. All this is coming… → Read More
Class LL boys soccer: Danbury shocks Trumbull
Fortunately for the No. 11-seeded Danbury boys soccer team, they got that and more from junior netminder David Mollenthiel, who keyed the Hatters’ 4-2 Class LL quarterfinal road victory over No. 3 Trumbull by coming up with eight saves. Trumbull’s Thang Dao cut Danbury’s lead to 2-1 when he scored on a one-timer off of a great feed from Connor Jorge with 10:29 to go before the break, and the… → Read More