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Ridgefield pulls off the girls/boys sweep of winning FCIAC track championships

Both the girls and boys teams from Ridgefield won team titles at the 2024 FCIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships, New Canaan’s junior Lauren Smith was the only State Open individual champion from the conference, and Danbury’s superb sophomore Machai Henry was among the fastest sprinters in New England to highlight the many achievements from … Read more

Staples boys’ lacrosse wins first league title/ 7 teams rank Top 10 in state

The Staples boys’ lacrosse program won the first state championship in school history two years ago and then defended that Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Class L Boys Lacrosse Tournament title last year. This year coach Will Koshansky’s team achieved another big milestone. This first FCIAC championship in school history. That initial conference title for Staples, … Read more

Chasing records, breaking rocks, McMahon’s Meyerson having stellar senior season

NORWALK — As a former catcher with the Brien McMahon baseball team, Steve Buckett has always taken a keen interest in the players who followed at that position, even while he was an assistant coach at Stamford. So before a game in 2018, he asked John Cross, then McMahon’s head coach, about a freshman the … Read more

Boys basketball: St. Joseph stuns Stamford in overtime

St. Joseph’s Paul Fabbri took a pass from Dan Tobin just inside the front court off an inbounds play that began 84-feet away with 3.8 seconds remaining. A junior, Fabbri  went over a defender and put the ball in off the glass to beat the buzzer and Stamford High, 75-74, in overtime at Vito Montelli … Read more

St. Joseph holds off McMahon to advance

TRUMBULL — Barely holding off an upset-minded Brien McMahon team for most of the first half, St. Joseph needed a momentum swing in a big way.

That turn came 34 minutes into the first, as Jessica Mazo connected with Maddie Fried on a textbook two-on-one chance to break the scoreless tie.

The second-ranked Cadets would go on to defeat No. 7 McMahon 2-0 at home in the FCIAC quarterfinals Thursday.

“For 20 minutes in the first half I really thought they were playing better than us,” said Cadets coach Jack Nogueira, whose team will play the winner of No. 6 Trumbull and No. 3 Ridgefield in the semis on Monday. “Once we scored the first goal I thought we weren’t as nervous and started playing a little bit better. Today we finished our opportunities. They had a couple opportunities they could’ve finished that they didn’t, we found a way to win a game that was very tough for us.”

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