FAIRFIELD — As she walked up the final hill during the FCIAC girls golf championship, New Canaan’s Morgan Hibbert was avoiding eye contact. With everyone. “Coming up the 18th fairway, I couldn’t look at anybody,” the Rams’ senior co-captain said. “I just had to stay in the zone.” As it turns out, Hibbert and the … Read more
at Fairchild Wheeler Black course, red tees, par 73. NEW CANAAN (329): Morgan Hibbert 76, Meghan Mitchell 80, Molly Mitchell 84, Stirling Legge 89, Julia Bazata 97. WARDE (346): Jessica Nuzzaci 79, Bethany Fell 79, Mia Gramesty 91, Sidney Falterer 97, Kailey Casl 101. GREENWICH (347): Sydney Nethercott 76, Sofia Ghorbel 89, Gracie Sunoo 89, Jackie Intriere 93, … Read more
FAIRFIELD — At the Darien boys volleyball program, the standard is about championships. In 2018, the Blue Wave watched Staples roll through a perfect 26-0 season to capture FCIAC and Class L state titles. So when No. 1 seed Darien and No. 2 Staples met Friday night for the 2019 FCIAC championship, you knew the … Read more
STAMFORD — Bottom of the seventh, one out, no one on, trailing 1-0, seven hits over two games in the last 24 hours. An unenviable situation to say the least, but not hopeless for one team that has been transfixed on an FCIAC championship since losing in the final a year ago. Click here for … Read more
WILTON — Darien High School sophomore Ethan Zhang saw a Blue Wave of teammates sprinting toward him immediately after winning the final point of his match at fourth singles in the FCIAC championship against rival Staples. Zhang was enthusiastically swarmed by his Blue Wave teammates clad in blue shirts, as they celebrated a long-awaited victory. … Read more
WILTON — Even though the Wilton girls tennis team was playing on its home courts, unbeaten Staples remained the favorite to win Tuesday afternoon’s FCIAC championship match. Less than two hours after the finals began, the top-seeded Wreckers had shown why. Straight-set victories in two singles matches and two doubles contests gave Staples a 4-0 … Read more
NORWALK — The New Canaan and Staples girls lacrosse teams didn’t face each other during the regular season, so it was difficult to know what to expect when they squared off in the FCIAC semifinals Monday night at Testa Field in Norwalk. One thing second-ranked New Canaan didn’t expect was to fall into a 3-1 … Read more
WILTON — The plan, on the hottest day yet this boys lacrosse season, was to wear down Staples’ strong defense, said Wilton’s unrelated Sullivans: hold the ball, work it around, grind them down. It mostly worked Saturday at Fujitani Field, at least until the Wreckers came all the way back to force overtime. But Liam … Read more
WILTON — Reilly Sullivan has become the Wilton boys lacrosse team’s Wrecker killer. Sullivan’s goal 1:16 into overtime today gave the Warriors a 4-3 win over Staples in the FCIAC quarterfinals. It came exactly three weeks after Sullivan scored the clincher in a 7-6 overtime win between the schools. Click here for more
Staples High School announced today it hired Adam Behrends as its next head football coach. Behrends replaces Phil Treglia who stepped down earlier this month to pursue opportunities closer to his Westchester home. Click here for more