Two of the eight teams to make the trek to Wilton High School on Saturday morning were city teams Trinity Catholic and King, who saw action against teams that included Bridgeport Central, Fairfield Ludlowe, Norwalk, Brien McMahon and, of course, host Wilton.
By the time the day end, though, Trinity Catholic was slightly battered mentally while [...]

The three Division 1 football players produced by Stamford-based schools made their college debuts on Saturday and saw time on the field.
Former King standout Kevin Pierre-Louis was a starting outside linebacker for the Boston Eagles in their 38-20 win over Weber State on Saturday afternoon while ex-Vikings teammate Silas Redd and former Stamford High stand-out [...]

Former King standout Kevin Pierre-Louis of the Boston College football team has been rated the top defensive newcomer by Rivals.com.
Here’s the link: http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1110453&PT=4&PR=2

STAMFORD – The King softball team jumped out to a 6-0 lead after two innings and pitcher Kaitlyn Della Jacono pitched a three-hitter as the Vikings beat Holy Child 7-1 in the Fairchester Athletic Association Championship on Wednesday at King.
King completes the 2010 season with a 16-0 record while winning its third straight FAA title. [...]

STAMFORD – The King baseball team pounded out 13 hits en route to a 12-7 win over Greens Farms Academy in the New England Small School Championships on Wednesday at King.
The Vikings (10-7) advance to the New England tournament semifinals where they’ll host South Kent School or play at Hamden Hall on Friday at 4:15 [...]

The King softball team scored a dramatic 8-7 win over Millbrook School in the Western New England Prep School Softball Association championship game Sunday at King.
The Vikings, who had a 5-0 lead before Millbrook came back to take a 7-5 lead after five innings, rallied with two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Winning [...]

By JOE RYAN
STAMFORD – The King boys lacrosse team outhustled and outplayed Suffield Academy for most of the game but three unanswered goals in the final period allowed the Tigers to outlast the Vikings for a 9-8 win on Saturday on the King turf.
Peyton O’Connor scored three times in the second half, including the game-winner [...]

The King softball team scored a convincing 16-1 win over Wibrahm Monsoon Academy (Mass.) in six innings in the Western New England Prep School Softball Association tournament semifinals Saturday afternoon at King.
With the win, the top-seeded Vikings (13-0) advance to Sunday’s WNEPSSA championship game, where they’ll host Millbrook School at 4 p.m.
Against Wilbrahm, Kaitlyn Della [...]

By GEORGE ALBANO
Silas Redd made his debut for the Penn State football team recently.
Well, sort of.
It was actually the Nittany Lions’ annual Blue-White intra-squad game at Beaver Stadium, which culminates spring football practice.
But Redd was impressive nonetheless.
The Norwalk product and former King standout gained 16 yards on four carries and caught a pass for another [...]

The King baseball and softball teams each scored home victories on Monday.
In baseball, the Vikings blasted The Williams School 14-4 in five innings.
A trio of freshmen helped lead the way. Joe Santora belted two home runs and knocked in six runs, Logan McCullough got the win and struck out four over four innings and Elie [...]

The Westhill boys lacrosse team overcame an 8-4 halftime deficit to defeat King 14-13 on Monday at King.
Doug Graves led the Vikings (2-1) with five goals and four assists. Teammate Kyle Sturrock also had five goals.
Mitch Staples paced King (1-1) with five goals and two assists and Austin Doering contributed a goal and five assists.
Westhill [...]

By JOE RYAN
NEW CANAAN — St. Luke’s scored the last six points of the game, including a clutch 3-pointer by Josh Dugas with just over a minute remaining to put the Crusaders in front for good on their way to a 69-64 win over King in the NEPSA Division ‘D’ Boys Basketball Tournament on Wednesday.
St. [...]

The seeds for the upcoming FCIAC boys basketball and hockey playoffs have been set.
In boys basketball, the FCIAC quarterfinals will take place on Saturday at Fairfield Warde with defending conference champion Stamford (11-7 in FCIAC play), the No. 6 seed, taking on No. 3 Harding at noon.
Trinity Catholic’s string of 12 consecutive FCIAC playoff berths [...]

By JOE RYAN
STAMFORD – King girls basketball co-coach Ervin Thompson said he had lofty goals for his team this season but the 18-game winning streak it has put together has been beyond his wildest dreams.
The Vikings dispatched Greenwich Academy with a 64-51 victory on Friday in a game dominated by King on Senior Night honoring Briana [...]

Trinity boys basketball coach Mike Walsh locked up his 500th career victory and King girls basketball player Briana Brown went over 2,000 points in her career Friday.
Walsh earned win No. 500 with a 56-46 victory at Fairfield Ludlowe. A shorthanded Crusaders’ squad, which was without R.J. Calo due to illness, was led by sophomores Aaron [...]

This Saturday, King girls basketball player Briana Brown could hit a special milestone.
Brown is 31 points shy of reaching 2,000 career points and she’ll go for the mark when the Vikings host the Hun School at 1 p.m.
“We still have a lot of games left to be played so she’s not feeling any pressure,” said [...]

Before the season began, King’s hockey coach Jamie Bruno talked about building a program that could keep lower Fairfield County’s talented players at home. He wants to make the Vikings competitive so they draw among the established prep powers and boarding schools.
When I mentioned this to some people, they said he may be aiming too [...]

STAMFORD – Briana Brown posted a triple-double in leading the King girls basketball team to a comfortable 63-49 win over Marianapolis Prep on Saturday.
Brown scored 25 points, including 17 in the first half, as the Vikings built a 39-19 lead. The senior captain grabbed 10 rebounds and had 10 steals to lead a King team [...]

Stamford High’s Khairi Fortt and King and Low Heywood Thomas’ Silas Redd of Norwalk will play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl this Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
The All-American Bowl features the top senior football players in the nation. Fortt, a linebacker, and Redd, a running back, will play for the East [...]

King Low Heywood Thomas running back Silas Redd added another postseason honor to his list after getting named the NEPSAC’s New England Class C Player of the Year last week.
Redd was nominated for the award by King head coach Danny Gouin and then picked by a vote of the NEPSAC Class C coaches.
“There are a [...]

It became THE STORY around the city this fall and rightfully so. The Westhill High School girls soccer team marched to the state Class LL championship on Friday, Nov. 21, and then got to march in the UBS Parade in downtown Stamford on Sunday.
While the game has been pretty well chronicled via videos and postings [...]

On Saturday afternoon, the high school football careers of Norwalk’s Silas Redd and Kevin Pierre-Louis came to a stunning end when the King Vikings lost to Suffield Academy, 34-13, in the NEPSAC Del Ponte-Thebold Bowl at Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford.
It was an intriguing matchup between King, a legitimate “high school” that runs through the [...]

Unfortunately, the biggest stories this week aren’t in this week’s edition of The Stamford Times.
Due to a last-minute time change in the State Class LL semifinal girls soccer game between Westhill and Ridgefield, the game was moved until after our weekly Wednesday deadline. Ditto for Trinity Catholic’s semifinal matchup against No. 1 and undefeated Morgan, [...]

King Low Heywood Thomas capped its second straight undefeated regular season last weekend with a 42-22 victory over St. Luke’s.
That left the Vikings with an 8-0 record and waiting for a phone call that, for the second straight year, they’d be invited to take part in the New England Prep School Championship game.
Earlier this week, [...]

There are two big stories to report this week in The Stamford Times.
The first is Tuesday night’s FCIAC volleyball quarterfinal victory for the Trinity Catholic Crusaders. Unfortunately, due to our odd-ball printing times, the team’s semifinal game against Greenwich will be played and done in on Thursday, before the Times even hit the streets (fear [...]

A busy week means one of the busiest sections of The Stamford Times Sports that we’ve put out in a while.
From our cover story of the Westhill boys soccer team reclaiming bragging rights by winning the city title with a 2-1 win over Stamford last week, to two stories geared toward Monday’s Fairfield County Sports [...]

Tim Parry, our friend over at the FCIAC Football Blog, posted an item today asking, “Start The Debate? Who is No. 1.” Click here to read that post.
Personally, I think the answer is obvious: New Canaan, until somebody beats them, easily deserves the top spot in Fairfield County. It is after that top slot, though, [...]

After watching the replay of King Low Heywood Thomas’ Homecoming celebration, I have to say it was fun party even on tape.
It was great to just sit back and not have to worry about taking notes or trying to come up with a question for the post-game interviews like:
“Kevin at what part of the run [...]

So I spent the better part of Sunday morning watching The Non-YES Network and their coverage of King’s football win over Kingswood-Oxford on Saturday and I must admit that visually The Non-YES Network did a good job capturing the images of the game. (Especially Silas Redd’s leap over a K-O defender in the fourth quarter).
They [...]

Just heard from The Stamford Times correspondent Joe Ryan, who covered King’s victory over Kingswoohd-Oxford on Saturday afternoon.
It seems as though Danny Gouin, King’s head coach, has found a new way to exploit the talent he has on Newfield Ave. — The Wildcat offense.
That’s right … He had Silas Redd, the Penn State-bound superstar of [...]

A city championship was at stake on Tuesday and it proved to be the same old story as the Westhill girls soccer team defeated Trinity Catholic, 3-0, to win claim their ninth straight city crown. But such a big game is only part of our big coverage in this week’s edition of The Stamford Times.
We [...]

When I was standing by the football practice field on the King campus earlier this week, I saw a scene that would have sent the Viking faithful into a tailspin as star runner Silas Redd pulled up to me in a golf cart and wearing street clothes.
But have faith you people of the “King-dom.” Redd [...]

It was apparent at first glance that King’s soccer team was at a disadvantage against visiting Hopkins on Wednesday, even though the Hilltoppers were winless coming into the game. Hopkins had a much bigger squad but the Vikings held their own against the visitors until a three-goal outburst in just under three minutes broke a [...]

With the high school season in full swing, so too is The Stamford Times sports section — eight pages of jam-packed sports news for your reading pleasure.
The two big stories coming out of the city this week are both F-words — Football and Field Hockey.
On the football front, King’s Silas Redd had a career day [...]

Let me begin this post by painting you a handful of pictures from Saturday’s high school football game between King Low Heywood Thomas and Hamden Hall.
• The first time I saw Silas Redd of King touch a football, he was caught behind the line of scrimmage and seemed destined for a loss. Twenty four yards [...]

King’s Silas Redd was named the FCIAC Football Blog’s BlueStreak Sports Training’s Player of the Week.
Click here to read more about Redd’s honor.

First off, let us begin with an official warning from the Surgeon General: This week’s Sports Section in The Stamford Times maybe hazardous to your health. It’s a whopping 10-pages long and we recommend you don’t lift using just your back. Use your legs and proper lifting mechanics.
That’s right, folks! Ten pages of sports news [...]

So I’m having dinner one night this summer with a friend who happens to be an assistant football coach at an FCIAC school, when the conversation eventually turns to Silas Redd, the star-studded running back from Norwalk who continues to set the high school football world on fire at King Low Heywood Thomas in Stamford.
“Let [...]

This fall, as part of it’s high school football coverage, The Stamford Times, along with its sister papers, The Wilton Villager and The Hour, are adorning its football stories with special football helmets.
These helmets are special because they represent the schools actual game helmets.
The artist behind the helmets is a gentleman named “Mike” and he [...]

Some of my friends say I see conspiracy if my coffee is made wrong the morning. They may be right. I’ve been watching a lot of the history channel since the Mets season went south,
Anyhow, for my first visit to the Hopkins School campus in New Haven — site of King’s season-opening football win on Friday [...]

It’s football season, so it’s time for our football preseason preview section.

Our cover boy is King’s third wheel — but a very important cog — in Eric Joyner. He might be in the shadow of the likes of Penn State-bound Silas Redd and Boston College-bound Kevin Pierre-Louis, but Joyner might be the most versatile player [...]

I’m back from visiting the various preseason soccer camps around the city and if the optimism I witnessed holds true, well, it could be a year where futbol is as popular as football.
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Trinity Catholic is thinking postseason for the first time in, well at least in my time of covering the high school [...]

With official count-em-in-the-standings games last than a week away, (Can you say finally?), The Stamford Times offers up the first half of its annual Fall Sports Previews section this week.
As you can see by our Cover Photo, we’re looking at soccer, both boys and girls, this week as well as field hockey.
In boys soccer, we [...]

Next week, it all begins: The high school sports scene will rush at us in a flurry with preseason previews coming in both the Sept. 13 (boys soccer, girls soccer, field hockey) and Sept. 20 (football, volleyball, swimming) editions.
Unfortunately, the high school football season begins 24 hours after The Stamford Times deadline, so while we’ll [...]

Sometimes when you hang around the King football team and coach Dan Gouin, you feel like you’re in a scene from the movie, like “Rudy” or “Remember the Titans.”
Gouin looks and sounds like he’s from central casting. He seems like everybody’s idea of what a football coach should be and, if you ask his players, they [...]

This week football camps opened around the city and I can’t wait for the season to begin.
It’s the product of being a Met fan, in part, but there are also many stories to be written and one team in particular that is blessed with two of the best prep players to come through this area in [...]

Mother Nature first threw us a curve ball and then somebody at the Orange Hills Country Club in Orange just told us an out-right lie, thereby throwing us for a couple of loops this weekend as we prepared for you the June 14, 2009 edition of The Stamford Sports section.
Our cover girl this week is [...]

Sad news to report in the city this week as our cover story is about the sudden demise of the Stamford Spinnakers girls high school ice hockey team, which ceased operations after 11 years of giving a big chunk of the city’s female hockey fans a place to play.
The Spinnakers will live on as a [...]

NBC’s old Thursday night line-up was one of the “Must Sees” in life and the original cast of Saturday Night LIve. John MacEnroe when he was at his best and his worst. Michael Jordan finishing a break away and Tiger putting for a title.
Well, along these lines let me encourage any football fans who have [...]

It’s Mother’s Day Weekend, so is there any better time, really, to salute the mothers of sports? That’s what The Stamford Times does with this week’s edition of its Sports section as we salute all of the mothers of the city through the eyes and emotions of three local moms — Patty Ann Tublin, seen [...]

When The Stamford Times and The Hour broke the news in-state about King’s Silas Redd giving his verbal commitment to play football at Penn State University, who would have thought 36 hours later the story would be twisted into the possibility that his high school might have committed an NCAA infraction in the process.
So things [...]

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King football standout Silas Redd has given Penn State University head coach football a verbal commitment to attended the school beginning in the fall of 2010, according to a report published in the Altoona (Pa.) Mirror.
Redd’s father, also named Silas, confirmed the commitment on Sunday in a brief interview with The Stamford Times.
Click here to [...]

The Stamford Sports Scene, the daily sports blog of The Stamford Times, has joined Facebook in order to reach out more into the World Wide Web and bring more followers to the site.
In addition to random tidbits being posted on Facebook, we’ll also bring final scores as they become available and links to stories from [...]

Sports Recap – Week Ending April 18
Information Courtesy of King communications office

The Vikings had a rough time shaking off the winter chill this week and lost some tough battles to worthy opponents.
Monday, April 13
Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse (1-3) Falls to Westhill, 13-6
King was inconsistent facing a more experienced Westhill High team.  Though the Vikings corrected [...]

You have got to love deadlines. Or, in this case, hate them with a passion. Unfortunately, the deadline for The Stamford Times is early Wednesday afternoon, just hours before the spring sports season officially kicks off — which means their will be no print coverage of Wednseday’s games in this week’s paper edition.
However, for fans [...]

Finally. Opening day of the spring high school sports season is here. Here’s the schedule of what’s on tap in Stamford this afternoon:
Wednesday, April 8
Baseball
Stamford at Danbury, 4 p.m.
Trinity Catholic at Brien McMaho, 4 p.m.
Greenwich at Westhill, 3:45 p.m.
Softball
Danbury at Stamford, 4 p.m.
Brien McMahon at Trinity Catholic, 4 p.m.
Westhill at Greenwich, 4 p.m.
Boys Lacrosse
Stamford at [...]

We in the newspaper business have oftentimes tried to be everything to every one and in this day and age of journalism shrinkage — smaller papers, smaller staffs, etc. — it’s getting more and more difficult to do.
The World Wide Web, however, is a place that is everything to every one and The Stamford Times [...]

April means spring time which means baseball and softball season is fast approaching and in this week’s edition of The Stamford Times, we’ll be looking at the city’s high school baseball and softball teams.
Westhill and Stamford feature two of the top pitchers in the league in the Vikings Steve Rivera and the Black Knights Mitch [...]

King junior football standout Kevin Pierre Louis, who had made a verbal commitment to play at Boston College has pulled out of the commiment, at least for now, according to a report published on The Stamford Times Web site.
“I think Kevin made the decision early and he just wants to make sure it was right,” [...]

The big story in The Stamford Times this week is the high school basketball doubleheader involving Westhill and Trinity. The Trinity boys trekked across town to play at Westhill while the Crusaders girls hosted the Vikings at Walsh Court. The games proved to be a split as the TC boys and Westhill girls earned victories [...]

A couple of the city’s best football players — Stamford High’s Khairi Fortt and King’s Silas Redd – are making some off-season news, according to the FCIAC Football Blog.
Click here to see what the pair are up to.

The holiday season has finally slowed things down enough for me to catch up on some of my work, photo-wise.
Here are some links to some recent games I shot.
Click here to view photos from the King-Greens Farms Academy girls basketball game.
Click here to view photos from the Stamford-Harding boys basketball game.

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 [...]

It was a win-win-win situation for the city’s hoop teams on Wednesday. Here are the stats to back it up:
Stamford 43, Danbury 38 (OT)
DANBURY (38) Amanda Ghannam 1 0-0 3; Kasey Smith 1 0-2 2; Jasmine Holmes 0 0-1 0; Gabrielle Olavarria 1 0-0 2; Nicole Eanniello 4 1-2 15; Erin Boggan 5 6-6 16; [...]

Say this for King’s Briana Brown. She’s on pace to score a million points in her career, at least it seems that way, but for such a high-scoring individual, she really knows how to play a team game.
The junior guard tossed in 24 points to help her Vikings beat Greens Farms Academy, 64-45, on Monday [...]

Anybody who has followed girls basketball in the city over the last decade or so many not recognize the scene. Oh sure, the teams are the same, the uniform colors remain as vivid as ever and Tom Kriz is entering his third decade as head coach at Trinity Catholic.
With so many star players having left [...]

The King Vikings were in perfect position to cap their undefeated season, but unfortunately the Milton Academy squad out of Massachusetts scored 22 unanswered second half points to take a 29-14 win in West Hartford in Saturday’s NEPSAC Championship game.
Fumbles reportedly costed the Vikings dearly in the second half as King saw a 14-7 halftime [...]

King’s Silas Redd (304 rushing yards on 10 carries) was named the FCIAC Football Blog’s BlueStreak Sports Training Fairfield County Co-Player of the Week with Newtown linebacker Kris Arndt.
I say put both players inside the 10-yard line and whoever wins a best-of-three battle gets the award. If Arndt tackles Redd, he gets it. If Redd [...]

Two King Football Players Nominated as Connecticut Football Player of the Year

Kevin Pierre-Louis of Bridgeport and Silas Redd of Norwalk, both juniors at King Low Heywood Thomas in Stamford, have recently been nominated as Football Player of the Year in Connecticut by the Gatorade Player of the Year Program.
Gatorade State Players of the Year are [...]

One look at the Week 9 schedule for the city’s football teams and you have to wonder: Is this the toughest overall week of the season for Stamford-based high school football teams?
The Black Knights travel to Greenwich, which despite their 5-3 record, is still Greenwich at home.
Westhill treks up to Trumbull, which might be 4-3 [...]

It was a display of perfection as King won its sixth straight game with a 34-0 demolition of Rye Country Day School.
Silas Redd led the way with 144 yards rushing and two scores while Kevin Pierre-Louis ran for 125 yards and a touchdown. Sophomore Mike Serricchio returned after missing two weeks and threw a touchdown pass [...]

There is more pigskin action today:
Westhill, ranked No. 13 in the state CIAC LL rankings, will be hosting a winless Fairfield Warde squad. The Vikings (4-2) are currently riding a four-game win streak behind the play of Adler Florian and Danny Berischa.
King remains undefeated and will host Rye Country Day School for their Homecoming. Kevin Pierre-Louis [...]

With the Boston Red Sox trailing the Tampa Bay Rays, 8-1, in the late innings of Monday’s third game of the 2008 American League Championship Series, I got to thinking about Week 5 of the high school football season.
Stamford defeated Danbury; Westhill defeated Wilton; and Trinity Catholic shut out Harding. (Even King won, if you [...]

The King running back tandem of Kevin Pierre-Louis and Silas Redd, both of whom live in Norwalk, were profiled in Wednesday’s edition of The Hour.
The Stamford Times Web site has reprinted that article in an online exclusive and you can read more about these two Viking offensive forces by clicking here.

Some of the city’s best football players also find themselves amongst the state’s best gridiron stars this fall, according to state-wide statistics listed on Maxpreps.com.
Trinity Catholic’s Nick Cortese — We’ve been writing about him a lot lately, huh? — is No. 1 in the state in both rushing yards (587 in 3 games) and in [...]

Word is King two-way standout Kevin Pierre-Louis has verbally committed to attended Boston College in the fall of 2010.
So says Gatorbait.net, which posted the following: “And while Boston College has only five commitments for its 2009 recruiting class, the Eagles are off to a strong start for 2010 with a commitment from linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis [...]

It’s cliche, you know, this whole “Every week is a big week in the FCIAC.” But it’s also a cliche because, simply, it’s true. And Week 2’s schedule is proof of just that.
Take tonight’s Stamford-Trumbull game. Two questions are going to be answered: 1 – Is Stamford for real? 2 – Can Trumbull bounce back [...]

From the “We Told You So” department:
The city’s running backs are good.
All told, five of them piled up 732 yards rushing during week one’s opening action. Here’s a quick breakdown of who did what, listed in alphabetical order:
Danny Berisha, Westhill — 17 carries, 108 yards, 2 TDs
Nick Cortese, Trinity Catholic — 18 carries, 128 yards, [...]

The Stamford Times has jumped into the Fall Sports pool feet first, offering its readers some preseason looks at the city’s high school sports teams in its Sept. 7 edition of the paper. The stories are also available online and included in this week’s coverage are the following: (Click on the links [...]