Kianna Perry led the Danbury girls basketball team to a 52-51 FCIAC victory in overtime Thursday at Danbury High School. Perry scored 22 points, including the decisive free throw with 7.4 seconds left. Click here for more
It is a traditional rite of winter every year during the boys’ high school basketball season. When one flips the calendar page from January to February, that generally signals the point when the race for the eight berths for the FCIAC Boys Basketball Tournament begins in earnest. The better teams have spent the first half … Read more
FAIRFIELD — Even with a 17-point lead in the second quarter, the Ludlowe girls basketball team was not comfortable against town rival Warde. As the second half went on, Warde inched closer and closer, eventually tying the game with 1:11 to play. With the game tied, Ludlowe had to dig down for whatever was left … Read more
GREENWICH — Julia Conforti helped the Greenwich High School girls basketball team start strong, then finish with a flurry in its matchup against Danbury on Monday night. Conforti scored nine first-quarter points, enabling the Cardinals to build a double-digit lead, then after the Hatters made it a tight game, the senior forward poured in seven … Read more
Boys Basketball Warde 60, Ludlowe 36 Greenwich 41, Danbury 39 Trinity Catholic 71, Trumbull 50 St. Joseph 72, New Canaan 70 Ridgefield 77, Norwalk 50 Stamford 77, Bridgeport Central 68 Wilton 80, Brien McMahon 63 Girls Basketball Ludlowe 44, Warde 39 Stamford 62, Bridgeport Central 20 Darien 49, Westhill 34 Staples 73, Bassick 55 Wilton … Read more
STAMFORD — One of the principles of the second annual Martin Luther King (MLK) Basketball Classic, sponsored by the Stamford branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is to highlight opportunity. The Stamford girls basketball team embraced that philosophy Saturday as the Black Knights defeated intracity rival Westhill, 49-29 at … Read more
TRUMBULL — Trumbull went on the attack from the opening tip on its way to a 70-37 victory over No. 3 Norwalk on Thursday. The outcome between the host Eagles and the Bears was a tossup coming in. The margin of victory was surprising. Trumbull improved to 11-3 overall and moved to 8-2 in the … Read more
Boys Basketball St. Joseph 77, Brien McMahon 75 Trumbull 58, Norwalk 55 Trinity Catholic 72, Bridgeport Central 54 Warde 61, Greenwich 23 Ludlowe 59, Staples 52 Wilton 70, Danbury 47 Ridgefield 65, New Canaan 33 Darien 64, Harding 48 Joel Barlow 59, Westhill 55 Girls Basketball Trumbull 70, Norwalk 37 St. Joseph 54, Brien McMahon … Read more
HAMDEN — It wasn’t supposed to happen the way it did, but for Stamford, it didn’t matter. After the original play Black Knights’ coach Diane Burns drew up broke down, Jessica Nelson took it upon herself to take the ball to the basket and scored on a layup at the buzzer as Stamford (11-2) knocked … Read more
STAMFORD — It was about more than just about girls basketball as the Westhill and Scarsdale (N.Y.) teams returned to Stamford High School’s Paul Kuczo Memorial Gym Tuesday afternoon. History will show Scarsdale rallied for a 47-40 victory over Westhill in the completion of the third place contest of the Kuczo Holiday Classic. But the … Read more