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Ridgefield High School’s girls and boys basketball teams were both ranked fourth in their respective Top 10 state polls released earlier this week. The FCIAC has two teams in the GameTimeCT Girls Basketball Top 10 Poll which was released Jan. 11 as St. Joseph moved up two spots from the previous poll to No. 8. … Read more
DARIEN — Darien senior Patrick Thurlow was answering a question about playing against a goalie as talented as New Canaan’s Beau Johnson when he quickly shifted some of the focus closer to home. “I will say Chris Schofield is the best goalie because he’s mine, but Beau Johnson is right up there,” Thurlow said. Thurlow … Read more
Boys Basketball Trumbull 55, Danbury 50 Wilton 74, Norwalk 50 Warde 67, St. Joseph 55 Staples 54, New Canaan 47 Stamford 59, Brien McMahon 54 Westhill 69, Darien 54 Greenwich 49, Ludlowe 31 Ridgefield 81, Bridgeport Central 38 Girls Basketball Trumbull 60, Danbury 47 St. Joseph 50, Warde 45 Ludowe 59, Greenwich 48 Norwalk 51, … Read more
DARIEN — The biggest question mark facing the New Canaan girls ice hockey team this season was how it would handle the graduation of four-year All-State goalie Blythe Novick. Welcome, freshman Nikki Ferraro. Making her first start against rival Darien, Ferraro delivered a superlative performance with 30 saves to help the Rams remain undefeated with … Read more
Boys Basketball Ludlowe 44, Bridgeport Central 39 Greenwich 58, Brien McMahon 46 Danbury 50, New Canaan 39 Stamford 52, St. Joseph 44 Darien 61, Norwalk 37 Wilton 50, Warde 44 Ridgefield 72, Staples 61 Westhill 70, Trumbull 52 Girls Basketball Norwalk 45, Darien 29 Danbury 62, New Canaan 30 Warde 40, Wilton 29 Newington 49, … Read more
There were seven players from the FCIAC on the Top 26 first team when the Connecticut High School Coaches Association announced its 2021 CHSCA All-State Football Teams in December. The CHSCA’s all-state teams included the Top 26 first team and there were a combined 104 more players who made either the Class LL, Class L, … Read more
New Canaan and Darien are ranked 1-2, respectively, while leading a quartet of FCIAC teams ranked among the top six in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 Hockey Poll which was released Jan. 2. Ridgefield and the Fairfield Ludlowe/Warde cooperative team are ranked fifth and sixth, respectively. New Canaan had been ranked fourth in the preseason … Read more
On the debut episode of Second-Chance Points, co-host Mike Walsh and I preview the upcoming FCIAC boys basketball season. Second-Chance Points is the first offering from the new Ruden Report Podcast Network. Each week, former Trinity Catholic coach Mike Walsh and I will break down the FCIAC boys basketball season. Click here to go to … Read more
Monday, Dec. 27 Boys Basketball NFA 75, Norwalk 67 Immaculate 63, Staples 50 Fairfield Prep 49, Ludlowe 30 Girls Basketball Ludlowe 56, Staples 39 Trumbull 40, Bethel 24 Ridgefield 55, John Jay (NY) 40 Trumbull 3, Keene Regional (NH) 1 Boys Ice Hockey McMahon/Norwalk 5, Newtown/New Fairfield 2 Girls Ice Hockey Stamford/Westhill/Staples 3, West Haven/SHA … Read more
Darien’s convincing 42-7 victory over Fairfield Prep in the championship game of the CIAC Class LL Football Playoffs convinced the voters enough that Darien was voted No. 1 by a wide margin in the Final 2021 GameTimeCT Top 10 Football Poll which was released Dec. 13. Coach Mike Forget’s 12-1 Blue Wave fell just one … Read more