WESTPORT — At 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, Staples’ senior Carter Kelsey is quite an imposing figure on the pitching mound. So the Seton Hall commit was a natural pick to get the No. 1 Wreckers’ engines fired up again when they played their first game since winning the 2019 Class LL championship. Kelsey struck out 12 … Read more
The CIAC released its 2021 Spring Sports plan to state athletic directors and to the public Thursday morning, including dates for the state tournaments and similar COVID-19 mitigation strategies as the fall season. That means masks will not be required during play for outdoor sports, except for close contact on sidelines and dugouts. But host … Read more
It was not Santa in a red suit but rather seven Westhill baseball players wearing purple and gold jerseys outside the Boys & Girls Club in Stamford delivering some holiday magic. Sparked by an idea from their coach Mike Riveles and thanks to a generous donation, Westhill players passed out new baseball gloves and baseballs … Read more
FCIAC 2021 Spring Tournaments Baseball All playdown and quarterfinal games will be hosted by the higher seeds Playdown round – Friday, May 21 No. 1 Greenwich (13-3) has a bye No. 10 Norwalk 17, No. 7 Brien McMahon 1 No. 5 Ridgefield 7, No. 12 New Canaan 3 No. 6 Westhill 9, No. 11 Wilton … Read more
Many of the best baseball players in the FCIAC who graduated high school in recent years have pursued their passion for the sport as student-athletes in college. Although the larger college baseball teams generally got to play through about the first third of the 2020 season before the COVID-19 pandemic halted all spring sports, plenty … Read more
Virtual meetings are a big part of the new normal. CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini estimates he is on between two or three per day. Sometimes, he is “meeting” with school principals. Other times, it is with sports league commissioners. He is on weekly calls with Miguel Cardona, the Connecticut commissioner of education and every … Read more
Fields, tracks and weight rooms across the state sit empty as spring sports coaches and players stay at home, hoping they will be able to get back out and play the sports they love. With social distancing policies in effect as a result of the Covid-19 guidelines, coaches are unable to meet with their teams … Read more
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference postponed the start of its spring season indefinitely Wednesday due to concerns over the spread of coronavirus. The spring season was scheduled to begin on April 4. “No teams should be practicing at this time,” CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini said. “We are not setting any sort of date of … Read more
Boys Basketball Trinity Catholic 81, Stamford 61 Wilton 51, Ludlowe 47 Norwalk 69, Darien 61 Ridgefield 69, Warde 61 St. Joseph 75, Staples 71 (OT) Westhill 63, New Canaan 51 Danbury 51, Trumbull 47 Girls Basketball New Canaan 38, Westhill 37 Stamford 64, Trinity Catholic 42 Danbury 48, Trumbull 43 Norwalk 74, Darien 40 Ridgefield … Read more
With each passing inning, Darien’s Richard Brereton was asked the same question by Cotuit Kettleers’ head coach Mike Roberts: “Do you want to come out?” Each time, the answer was the same: “No, sir.” After 93 pitches and six innings of relief from Brereton, Cotuit earned a 7-6, 15-inning victory over the Harwich Mariners in … Read more