The Stamford Babe Ruth 16-18-year-old All-Stars are gearing up for the New England Regional competition, which get underway July 22-27 at Cubeta Stadium. The team has a solid nucleus and it will look to challenge for the New England title.
The Stamford 15-year-old All-Stars blasted Darien 13-3 in five innings in the District 1 Babe Ruth [...]

The Stamford High cheerleaders are holding car wash fundraisers starting this Saturday, June 5 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Stamford High side driveway.
They will have two more car washes the following two Saturdays, June 12 and 19 also from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. There’s a rain date of Saturday, June 26.

The Trinity Catholic softball team scored a key FCIAC victory by beating Wilton 4-1 Thursday on the road.
Tina Boehn pitched a four-hitter to lead the Lady Crusaders, who raised their record to 8-7 in the FCIAC and 8-9 overall. Trinity still has a shot to make the FCIAC playoffs.
The Trinity Catholic baseball team suffered a [...]

It was a rewarding week for those heading off to new endeavors in the near future as King’s Briana Brown, who is heading to St. John’s University to play basketball, was awarded the Allyson Rioux Memorial Award as the city’s best female athlete for 2010, and three city players have a shot at NFL careers.
Vladamir [...]

Briana Brown fell four points short of 2,000 in her career but she did help lead the King girls basketball team to a 57-54 victory over the Hun School of Princeton, N.J., Saturday at King.
Read a teaser by Times correspondent Joe Ryan at www.thestamfordtimes.com.

The Stamford Times will feature its Top 10 Sports Stories of 2009.
There were a lot of exciting high school games and teams this year and The Stamford Times will look back on the ones everyone was talking about. Individual performers who excelled at a high level are also included in the Top 10.
Last week’s performances of [...]

Before the season, I said the first five weeks were the hardest I had seen on Trinity Catholic Schedule since I have been doing this. And I wasn’t lying.
But I came away from Saturday’s game against St. Joseph feeling more like I had seen a Crusader win than a loss. There were a few factors to [...]

Former Stamford High School lineman Vladimir Ducasse could be in for a very big year. He’s already been named a captain for the University of Massachusetts football team and, according to a report in the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he’s catching the attention of a lot of NFL Scouts.
Click here to read the Republican’s story on [...]

As I type this, I’m 10 minutes away from walking out the door and being on “vacation.”
I’ve worked here inside The Hour Publishing Co.’s triad of papers, putting out The Stamford Times and the Wilton Villager, for 651 days and certainly I’ve taken days off, a holiday here or there … but vacation?
This is my [...]

This summer might not have been as warm as many of us have grown to expect, but what a HOT week it was in sports for the city’s sports scene.
From a weekend of golf action for the 2009 Stamford Amateur Golf Championship, to a baseball and softball team doing quite well both regionally and nationally, [...]

Granite State Big Blue 6, Stamford 2.
That’s the end of the summer for Stamford Babe Ruth 18-year-old All-Stars, who placed third in New England after going 3-2 at the regional tournament in Worcester, Mass., over the past five days.
Stamford should be proud of their accomplishment this summer. A state championship and being the last one-town [...]

Many times over the course of the year I often get asked, “Where can I buy The Stamford Times?”
Obviously, the easiest way is just to subscribe to it by calling 354-1000 during regular Monday through Friday regular business hours. If you just want a copy or two, or a dozen for that matter if you [...]

To Trinity’s Shaun Prunotto, I mistakingly put the wrong score in for his round at the state championships. He shot a 90 and I misspelled his name. Sorry Shaun and congratulations on a great season.

Now that the harbingers of doom have thrown down their wrath and killed off both FCIAC finalists, can we realists step in and fix the system?
Westhill and Staples were both ambushed by having to play back to back on Saturday and Sunday with Monday and, potentially, Tuesday on their horizons. If you can’t see the [...]

Westhill’s Stanley Paul ripped a home run to right that started a four-run rally in the bottom of the fifth and Steve Rivera’s pitching did the rest as the Vikings won 6-1 in their opening round game against Fairfield-Ludlowe.
Rivera solidified his reputation as a big game pitcher by going the distance and was just as valuable [...]

After beating Staples and ace David Speers, Trinity Catholic could dream of a ticket to the FCIAC playoffs next week. But after back-to-back losses those post season visions will now be fixated on the state tournament alone.
Bridgeport Centrals Bryan Perez gave up an early run then shutout the Crusaders on three hits the rest of [...]

For five innings, the Black Knight’s Scott Caporrizzo had baffled Fairfield-Ludlowe but sudden bout of wildness opend the door and the Falcons  turned a 3-1 deficit into a 5-3 lead on their way to a 7-5 win.
Ludlowe which improved its record to 5-1 in the FCIAC and 7-1 overall got five solid innings from starter John Donovan whose [...]

The common nickname for Ingalls Rink around town is the Yale Whale due to the unique structure of the arena and last year it was in the belly of that so=called beast that Trinity Catholic’s hockey season ended.
This year they again travel to downtown New Haven for the semifinals to face Glastonbury.
Here’s is a little [...]

Westhill/Stamford co-op swimmer Ryan Cutter is the No. 1 seed in a pair of finals for Tuesday’s Class LL championship meet at Yale University.
Cutter is the top swimmer in both the 100 fly (51.51) and 200 freestyle (1:43.48) and will also take part in a relay for his team.
To take a look at the other [...]

While most teenagers were probably hiding under the covers and searching the refrigerator through bleary-eyes for breakfast, Trinity Catholic’s hockey team was taking care of business and moving on to the CIAC Division I semifinals.
The Crusaders’ Ryan Boland scored twice to lead the way as Trinity beat West Haven 4-1 at the Wonderland of Ice [...]

Trinity Catholic has had an outstanding year but one question that has been whispered if never said outloud, how much better would they have been with a health Peter Ballo.
The two-time all-state selection was on his way to another stellar campaign when a wrist injury side-tracked him in December. It was said at the time [...]

Stamford had heard before the game on Tuesday that Bridgeport Central had a special way of describing the Black Knights. Hilltoppers supposedly used the phrase of ‘just another team’ when talking about their upcoming FCIAC semi-final opponent.
Well,the Black Knights are now a team that is ‘just another’ game away from the championship after they outplayed [...]

The first new editions of The Stamford Times arrived in your mail boxes last week and we here at the Stamford Sports Scene are curious as to what you think.
Just comment below and tell us what you liked and what you disliked. Please and thank you.

With the wealth of talent the Crusaders have this year, it is hard to point to one facet of the game that has provided the difference but coach Chris Gerwig knows it all starts with the “D” and said it  after the team’s latest victory over Ridgefield on Saturday night.
“It’s is an old hockey saying, defense [...]

After a very successful fall, the King school is forging ahead on an equally impressive winter. The Vikings’ varsity hockey team has jumped out to a 3-1 record in the early going.
According to their web page, goalie Jack Meehan has been outstanding, as well, as their defense led by senior co-captains Vincent Love, Scott Banerjee [...]

When the Westhill field hockey team defeated Stamford to win the 2008 City Championsihp at Boyle Stadium, Laura Dembofsky took it personally. When the Black Knights won its first-round state playoff game over Masuk, Dembofsky was extermely frustrated. She had had probably six or seven “Grade A’ chances to score, but she just couldn’t finish.
Her [...]

Game preview courtesy of The Norwalk Hour:
By MATT DORAN, Sports Editor
The Staples High School football team has never been in the habit of looking ahead on the schedule. Of course, the annual Thanksgiving Day game against arch-rival Greenwich is always circled in bright red ink, but that’s an exception to head coach Marce Petroccio’s rule.
The [...]

Dateline Westport: The Westhill girls soccer team made a road trip to the land of Paul Newman and the Staples High School Wreckers on Tuesday and let’s just put it this way: The Vikings picked a bad day to have a bad day – only because Staples had a very good day. It was [...]

Stamford head football coach Kevin Jones, fresh off his team’s 21-12 defeat to Trumbull on Friday night, was a guest on Tim Parry’s and Jason Intrieri’s FCIAC football blog pod cast this morning.
He was an early guest, reaching the airwaves about 12 minutes into the show.
Quote of the podcast was Jones talking about the 15-yard [...]

Madi McLaughlin scored twice and assisted on goals to Dani Robustelli as the Stamford Black Knights field hockey team got a win in the books with a 4-0 whitewashing of Brien McMahon on Saturday.
Laura Dembofsky (2 assists) and Katie Pape (1 assist) also helped the Knights get win No. 1 on the board after last [...]

Staff Report
NORWICH — Mitch O’Meara threw four touchdown passes and the Stamford Black Knights piled up more than 500 yards of total offense en route to a 27-10 victory over Norwich Free Academy on Saturday afternoon.
O’Meara hit wide out Chris Evans for three scoring strikes and then connected with tight end Anthony Julbes for the [...]

If you’re a fan of Connecitcut football, you may want to look at this:
Connecticut Football Record Book
Some of you have probably already seen it, but I’m in awe. Wow!

The Stamford Times sports editor John Nash and regular contributer Joe Ryan are going to be two of the guests on Matt Levine’s “Final Score” radio show on Saturday, right around the 1 p.m. hour on 1400 AM WSTC and 1350 AM WNLK radio.
The topic of discussion will be the 2008 FCIAC football season.

So many times athletes graduate high school, go off to college and are never really heard from again. One of the things we want to do with the Stamford Sports Scene is keep tabs on our athletes while they are away at school.
Doesn’t matter what division you’re playing or what sport you’re playing, we want [...]

They say — the “they”, being, I assume, the ones who painted signs all around Stamford — that you live in “The City That Works.” We’d like to believe that Stamford is, “The City That Plays”, instead. With that in mind, The Stamford Times sports department would like to welcome you to The Stamford Sports [...]