The Darien Blue Wave and New Canaan Rams lead a strong field of eight teams into the FCIAC girls lacrosse tournament, which will get underway with a pair of games on Thursday. Below are the match-ups for the quarterfinals. New Canaan and Darien are holding their proms on Friday night, so their home games were … Read more
Eight teams will begin play in the FCIAC boys tennis tournament when the quarterfinals hit the courts on Wednesday at the home sites of the top four seeds. Defending conference champion Staples is the No. 1 seed, with the Wreckers entering the tournament with a 15-1 record. New Canaan, which is also 15-1, is the … Read more
WESTPORT—In the fourth and fifth innings, Ridgefield hit a few hard lines drives for outs against Staples pitcher Alex Deutsch. After the third out off a ball smoked, Deutsch and his pitching coach mixed it up, starting to mix in first-pitch breaking balls. The Tigers did not have many hard-hit balls from that point forward. … Read more
WESTPORT — Staples coach Jack McFarland listed developing his pitching staff at the top of his agenda between now and the start of the playoffs. Putting Alex Deutsch on the mound may be the simplest solution. Especially if the returns are anything close to what the Wreckers received today, when the sophomore threw a complete-game … Read more
RIDGEFIELD — No one has ever questioned whether Ridgefield freshman attack Ryan Colsey was in the starting lineup because he shared the same last name as the Tigers’ coach. For one, Ryan Colsey is not the lone 9th grader with that status. Second, his play has rendered any thought of a discussion moot. That was … Read more
RIDGEFIELD — In Thursday’s 3-2 victory over Greenwich, the Ridgefield baseball team had two players come through in the clutch — one far more likelier than the other. Senior rightfielder Joey Pastore, the Tigers’ cleanup hitter, provided the walk-off hit, lining a two-out single to left that scored Nick Cullinan with the winning run. Click … Read more
Trumbull and St. Joseph are ranked second and third, respectively, in the GameTimeCT Top 10 Softball Poll, while the FCIAC has four teams in the Top 10 of the most recent state baseball poll. Ledyard replaced FCIAC member Ridgefield for the No. 1 ranking in the GameTimeCT Top 10 Baseball Poll which was released April … Read more
RIDGEFIELD — Ridgefield baseball coach Paul Fabbri met on Sunday with Matt DeLuca, his star pitcher, to plan which game he would start this week. DeLuca was coming off throwing 6 2/3 innings in a shutout win over Trumbull two days earlier, and Fabbri knew this was a week he could buy his ace extra … Read more
Eleven teams from the FCIAC won a total of 13 state championships to highlight the success the conference achieved during the 2018-19 high school winter sports season which concluded in late March. The Norwalk High School and Trinity Catholic High School girls’ basketball teams each won their respective state class tournaments while New Canaan won … Read more
TRUMBULL — Ridgefield High’s Matt DeLuca pitched 6 2/3 one-hit innings and Trumbull’s two-out rally in the seventh fell short when the Tigers earned a 2-0 FCIAC win on Friday. Trumbull got an excellent outing from starting pitcher J.Y. Nyarady, but his 5 2/3 innings of two-run work just wasn’t quite enough for the Eagles to overcome Ridgefield’s tandem … Read more