NEW CANAAN — It was only fitting that on Teacher Appreciation Night, the New Canaan Rams’ basketball team put on a veritable clinic, schooling the Norwalk Bears 65-49 in front of a large and raucous crowd at New Canaan High School. The Rams turned a 14-12 deficit with 30 seconds left in the opening stanza … Read more
FAIRFIELD — By his own admission, Will Capalbo is reserved by modern day high school standards. Even so, the Fairfield Ludlowe senior found himself having a moment in late January. Capalbo’s spent much of the winter shuttling back-and-forth to the Dana Farber Institute in Boston as he prepares to undergo a bone marrow transplant to help … Read more
In small type, the scores stand out: Trumbull boys hockey lost to No. 7 New Canaan 4-3 on Jan. 12, lost late to a well-regarded if scuffling lately Greenwich team 4-2 a week and a half later. But the Eagles are 5-6 going into Wednesday’s game against Ridgefield. Click here for more
Even the best teams need to change things up every once in a while. A switch on the forward lines helped lead to three goals in the second period as the New Canaan Rams’ girls ice hockey team topped the Ridgefield/Danbury co-op, 4-1, Monday night at the Darien Ice House. Click here for more
GREENWICH — Trinity Catholic goalie Jeff Reda kept his team in Monday’s hockey game against Greenwich for as long as he could, making 25 saves in the second period alone, as the Cardinals peppered him with shot, after shot. Yet the Cardinals were relentless at getting the puck to the net and eventually their shots … Read more
DANBURY — Jackie DiNardo pulls out an aging folder and under the tab marked “basketball,” there are numbers. Some are in blue ink. Some are in black. Some are whited out. On the other side, as the years and victories mount, there is an onslaught of red and black magic marker. “I have had this … Read more
David Summers, a two-time All-State quarterback at St. Joseph who led the Hogs to back-to-back state titles, has verbally committed to play football at Syracuse University. Click here for more
Greenwich quarterback Gavin Muir, a consensus first-team All-State quarterback and the 2018 Walter Camp Player of the Year, announced he was committing to play football Dartmouth College Sunday. Click here for more
It was a girls ice hockey game more befitting a state championship in March than squarely in the middle of the regular season for the Darien Blue Wave and New Canaan Rams. Darien’s Colleen Cassidy scored with 0.7 seconds remaining in regulation and the two rivals skated through an eight-minute overtime before finishing in a … Read more
NEW LONDON — There will be a new No. 1. Trailing by 11 in the third quarter, on the road against the No. 1 team in the state, No. 2 Norwalk kept its composure and began chipping away. Switching to a zone defense in an attempt to slow down New London, the Bears whittled the … Read more