FCIAC 25-20, 25-15, 20-25, 25-16 Staples Highlights Bella Jagenberg – 22 kills, 3 aces, 3 blocks Libby Murray – 43 assists, 6 digs Jane Van Arsedale – 11 kills, 3 digs, 2 aces Brianna Dwyer – 9 kills
Norwalk 0-2 2 Trinity 0-0 0 Norwalk: Mady Suda 1g; Ryan Camiglio 1g; Cameron Monaco 1a; Karen Macias 1a Norwalk goalie Sabrina Bailon had a shutout with 3 saves
New Canaan 4-2 6 Stamford 0-0 0 New Canaan: Elizabeth St. George 3g; Dillyn Patten 2g, 1a; Kendall Patten 1a; Sophie Salmini 1g; Olivia Cosco 1a; Olivia Bognon 1a; Lizi Kuchinski 1a
Norwalk: Albrecht 4g; Lauren Deering 1g; Lily L’Archevesque 1g; Julia Sferlazza 1g
NORWALK — Everybody at Norwalk High looks up to Sam Papp, and not just because he stands 6-foot-5 and weighs in at a strong and athletic 255 pounds.
No, it runs deeper than that. Far deeper, in fact.
Once, when he was far smaller than he is now, Papp was occasionally picked on due to a stutter. Since becoming the man-child he is today, he protects those who might fall prey to the bullying of others.
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The city football game between Trinity Catholic and Stamford High could not be coming at a better time for the two schools.
Both teams come in at 0-2 having lost week one games they both felt were winnable and both getting blown out in their week two contests.
Now they get to face each other in the first leg of the Stamford city championship with a chance to erase the bad taste left by the first two weeks.
Of course, while one team will pick up its first victory, the other will walk off Gaglio Field Saturday afternoon at 0-3.
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St. Joseph is the top-ranked team in both the coaches’ and media’s Week 3 state high school football polls as the FCIAC has the top three ranked teams in both polls. And that leads up to this Saturday’s big showdown when coach Joe DellaVecchia’s St. Joseph Cadets host coach Rob Trifone’s perennially-powerful Darien Blue Wave … Read more