RIDGEFIELD — Displaying faith in its defense, the Ridgefield football team chose to kick-off after winning the opening coin toss in Friday night’s season opener against Fairfield Warde. That decision quickly backfired. Warde’s Ryan Janz returned the opening kickoff to Ridgefield’s 35-yard line, and six plays later the Mustangs had a 7-0 lead less than … Read more
The Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference has four teams ranked among the top five in the 2019 GameTimeCT Preseason Top 10 Football Poll which was released Sept. 10. Daniel Hand received 22 first-place votes from the 25 voting members of the media and is ranked No. 1. Hand is followed by those four FCIAC teams … Read more
The high school football season kicks off this weekend and you can get caught up with all of the FCIAC schools with GameTimeCT’s previews. For links to all the FCIAC team previews, click here
GREENWICH — The schedule didn’t exactly allow Greenwich and Westhill to ease into their respective seasons, facing each other Thursday in a rematch of last year’s Class LL Tournament quarterfinals. The Vikings, who eliminated the Cardinals from the state tournament in 2018, made the first statement Thursday, taking the opening game in impressive fashion, but … Read more
The FCIAC held its annual Leadership Conference for student/athletes on leadership at Staples High School on Thursday, Aug. 22. The conference, sponsored by the Fairfield County Sports Commission, was attended by 80 students representing all 17 member schools. Stafford Thomas, the new principal at Staples HS, spoke on leadership to open the morning session, and … Read more
In each of the past two seasons, New Canaan has been voted as the No. 1 football team in the state in the GameTimeCT preseason poll. Both times, New Canaan didn’t win a state championship. As far as head coach Lou Marinelli is concerned, it’s a distinction which this season can go to someone — anyone — … Read more
“Jack Wallace is the guy,” St. Joseph football coach Joe Della Vechia said when asked to answer the Hogs’ biggest question entering the season: Who will replace Syracuse-bound David Summers at quarterback? A 5-10, 165-pound junior, Wallace was a terminator for the Hogs defense last year when he made 47 often-crushing tackles and intercepted two … Read more
For the eighth time in nine years, Ridgefield finished with a winning record. But unlike most of the previous seasons this decade, the Tigers didn’t seriously contend for a state tournament berth. Losses in three of its first five games doomed Ridgefield, which ended the year with two victories to finish 6-4. “It was a mediocre … Read more
Glimmers of hope from last year could turn into bright flashes of light if the excitement from the Danbury camp translates onto the field in 2019. Buoyed by a strong sophomore class and leadership in the trenches, the Hatters — a sleeper by some — hope to make leap up the FCIAC ladder this fall. … Read more
To say the off season for Trinity Catholic was tumultuous, would be an understatement. The team’s coach, Donny Panapada, stepped down last winter and Thomas Broschardt was named as his replacement. Declining enrollment numbers at the school left the football program’s future in jeopardy until Wright Tech stepped to partner with Trinity, forming a co-op. Still, in the spring … Read more