With the stormy weather that made its way through the state on Tuesday, several state tournament games were halted before being completed.
Two local teams did get their games in, but with mixed results.
In baseball, Trinity Catholic was ahead of Valley Regional 5-0 after six innings in the first round Class S state tourney. The game [...]

State tournament games and events begin on Tuesday.
In baseball, Trinity Catholic will hold down the 14th seed in Class S and host Valley Regional at 3:30 p.m. In Class LL, Westhill is the 21st seed and will be at No. 12 Southington while Stamford is the 27th seed and will be at No. 6 Newtown.
In [...]

The Westhill softball and baseball teams earned semifinal berths in the FCIAC playoffs on Monday.
The top-seeded softball team downed No. 8 Stamford 8-0.
“It should’ve been a 1 or 2-0 game but Stamford made some errors in the fifth inning and we were able to score five runs,” Westhill coach Tom Pia said.
With the Vikings ahead [...]

It’s a trifecta for the city of Stamford, which put all three of its schools into the FCIAC softball tournament.
Undefeated Westhill earned the top-seeded and will face No. 8 Stamford on Monday while Trinity Catholic earned the No. 7 seed and will travel to No. 2 St. Joseph, also on Monday. Games start at 4 [...]

STAMFORD – Steve Hagedus continued his hot hitting by going 2-for-3 with a two-run home run and three RBIs to lift the Stamford High baseball team to a 3-1 win over Fairfield Warde on Thursday.
Hagedus backed starter Tommy McIntosh (2-3), who pitched a five-hitter with two walks and seven strikeouts.
The Black Knights (9-10 overall, 9-8 [...]

Last week after a fifth straight loss, Stamford High baseball coach Fred Kelley’s first comments were about another squandered pitching performance by Steve Hagedus.
He called him the best pitcher in the city and then, amended that to say the best this past week.
Well, to pick a best pitcher in the city, as well as the FCIAC this [...]

By JOE RYAN
STAMFORD — The Westhill baseball team came up with just enough offense and J.C. Porter made those precious runs stand up in a 4-2 win over Stamford at the Westhill diamond on Friday.
Porter pitched a six-hitter and struck out eight as the Vikings improved to 10-6 overall, 10-5 FCIAC.
Steve Hagedus gave his second [...]

Former Stamford football coach Kevin Jones was my first official interview.
It was hot Saturday on a muddy field at Harding High School. His team had won on the legs of Chris Patterson and a great catch by Dwight Davis in the third quarter.
Jones stood there patiently while I tried to act like I knew something [...]

STAMFORD – Norwalk’s Nick Esposito tallied four goals and Da’Quan Keel had a hat trick and three assists as the Bears handed the Stamford High boys lacrosse team a 12-4 loss on Saturday.
Ryan Phillip and Jesse Levitt each added two goals for Norwalk, which outscored the Black Knights 7-1 in the second half.
The Bears improved [...]

He was made an offer he couldn’t refuse.
And with that, Kevin Jones resigned as the head coach of the Stamford High School football program after eight years. Jones told his team he would be leaving his position to take a job as Assistant Director of College Scouting with JL Sports — a sports agent firm-based [...]

Stamford High senior boys basketball standout Mark Ellis has committed to play basketball at American International College.
Ellis, who led the Black Knights to an FCIAC championship during his junior season, was looking forward to the challenge of competing at the Division II level.
“I’m definitely excited,” said Ellis, who plans to sign his letter of intent [...]

STAMFORD — Taylor Zito pitched a one-hitter to lead the Stamford softball team to a 9-0 victory over Greenwich on Tuesday.
Zito struck out 12 and walked only one for the Black Knights, who are now 6-6 overall, 5-5 in the FCIAC. Zito raised her personal record to 5-6.
Stamford will be back in action on Wednesday [...]

In a world of pitch counts and arm angles, sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
As Stamford’s Steve Hagedus struggled in the early innings of Saturday’s game against New Canaan, coach Fred Kelley took a trip to the mound to see what was bothering the senior right-hander.
Hagedus said he couldn’t find the plate, to which Kelley [...]

Steve Hagedus overcame illness to throw four-hit ball over six innings to lift the Stamford High baseball team to a 9-2 victory over New Canaan Saturday at Mead Park.
Hagedus (2-0), who battled flu-like symtoms all week, settled down after the third inning to hold the Rams in check. He walked six and struck out two [...]

Tyler Rich of the Westhill hockey team is racking up awards.
Not only was he named to the Division II All-State first team recently, Rich also was named a Hobey Baker High School Character Award recipient from Division II.
Trinity Catholic’s Ryan Boland, a senior center who missed most of the season due to an injury, and [...]

With The Stamford Times sports editor Steve Geoghegan on vacation, it’s been a flash-back week for me, putting together the March 21 edition of The Stamford Times.
The highlight was definitely a trip to West Hartford to meet Diana Delva for the first time. While I had done a telephone interview with her back when Julie [...]

The Stamford High ice hockey team was knocked out of the Division II State Tournament following a 6-4 opening-round loss to FCIAC foe St. Joseph on Tuesday at The Rinks in Shelton.
The 15th-seeded Black Knights (8-14) had a 2-1 after the first period, on goals by Zach Fornaciari and Nick Hollendonner, but the second-seeded Cadets [...]

The three city hockey teams will be playing this week in the CIAC state tournaments and their match-ups were announced on Saturday.
In Division I, Trinity Catholic (9-11-1) drew the No. 15 seed and will have the difficult task of trying to knock off No. 2 seed Fairfield Prep. The teams will square off on Wednesday [...]

The Westhill-Stamford co-op boys swim team turned in a great performance at the FCIAC Swimming Championships, placing second overall.
Greenwich won its third straight FCIAC crown (39th in 40 years) with 408 points and Westhill-Stamford was second, it’s highest place ever, with 308 points. New Canaan took third with 302 points.
“I thought we had an awesome [...]

The Stamford High boys basketball team defeated Harding 63-62 in the FCIAC Tournament quarterfinals on Saturday at Fairfield Warde.
Marc Guirand scored the game-winning basket off an assist from Jethro Anilus with less than 10 seconds remaining in the game to lift the sixth-seeded Black Knights (14-7) into the semifinals, where they’ll play No. 2 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 [...]

The Trinity Catholic girls basketball team advanced to the FCIAC semifinals.
The second-seeded Lady Crusaders (18-3) defeated No. 7 Danbury 57-35 in the quarterfinals. They’ll play No. 3 Ridgefield, which beat Staples 56-33, in the semifinals on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Fairfield Ludlowe.
The fifth-seeded Stamford girls (14-5) lost to No. 4 New Canaan 48-28 in [...]

Ginny LaFauci made some key free throws down the stretch to lead the Westhill High girls basketball team to a 39-36 victory over city rival Stamford on Monday at the Kuczo Gymnasium.
LaFauci led the Vikings (6-13) with 18 points and 16 rebounds. Jasmine Jones scored 11 points for the Black Knights (13-4), who had won [...]

esthill’s Cosmo Iadanza captured the 189-pound title at the annual FCIAC Wrestling Championships on Saturday at New Canaan High.
Iadanza (35-4) won a 1-0 decision over Greenwich’s Montel Williams Jr. in the finals. It was the third time Iadanza, a senior, beat Williams this season.
With the help from Iadanza, the Vikings placed eighth overall with 86 [...]

The Stamford High boys basketball team posted a 46-44 victory over city rival Trinity on Tuesday at Walsh Court in a rematch of last year’s FCIAC championship.
The Black Knights (10-5 overall, 8-5 FCIAC) took the lead for good in the third quarter and survived a last second shot that bounce off the rim at the [...]

The Westhill and Stamford wrestling teams have had their ups and downs this season but are looking to go into the postseason on a high note.
The Vikings, who dealt with injuries and illness this season, dispatched Staples on Wednesday 54-21 to improve to 7-11.
“We wrestled really well. I’m happy,” said Westhill coach Tom Pereira, whose [...]

The Stamford High ice hockey team will be playing at the home of Bridgeport Sound Tigers next week.
The Black Knights will visit The Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport on Friday, Feb. 12, to take on the Fairfield Warde/Ludlowe co-op at 4:30 p.m.
The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Wonderland of [...]

Nick Hollendonner’s goal 18 seconds into overtime lifted the Stamford High ice hockey team to a 4-3 victory over Trinity Catholic Wednesday night at Terry Conners.
The Black Knights snapped a four-game losing streak and improved to 3-8 overall while the Crusaders had their modest two-game winning streak come to an end as they slipped to [...]

The Stamford High girls basketball team held off an upset-minded Wilton squad to earn a dramatic 49-48 victory over the Warriors on Thursday at Wilton High.
With the win, the Black Knights improved to 8-2 overall to qualify for the state tournament.
Stamford had a 12-point lead going into the fourth quarter before the Warriors (3-9) rallied [...]

The Stamford High boys and girls basketball teams were victorious over Norwalk Friday.
The boys earned 64-53 victory at the Kuczo Gymnasium and were led by Jethro Anilus, who scored 29 points. Marc Guirand chipped in with 11 points, 19 rebounds and five assists and Louis Briddter added 10 points and six rebounds as the Black [...]

Here’s some of the action from the Westhill/Stamford wrestling match on Jan. 6. The Vikings edged the Black Knights 35-34. This was Westhill’s first win over Stamford since 1984.

The Westhill-Stamford co-op boys swimming team is unbeaten so far this season.
The co-op is 3-0 following victories over Trumbull, Norwalk-McMahon and Danbury. Not a bad way to start the season.
“This is the best start we’ve ever had,” Westhill-Stamford coach Rick Lewis said.
The best thing about the team’s start is it’s getting contributions across the board.
Andrew [...]

The Westhill High wrestling program finally got the monkey off its back.
That monkey was Stamford but the Black Knights gave the Vikings all they could handle.
In a match that was tied after 14 bouts and was finally decided on the eighth criteria, Westhill defeated Stamford 35-34 Wednesday night at Stamford High for the Vikings’ first victory [...]

Stamford High wrestling coach Tim Donnelly has never seen Westhill beat his Black Knights in seven seasons as head coach.
He’s hoping that streak continues.
The rivals put the City championship on the line Wednesday night at 6 p.m. at Stamford High.
“Any time there’s a matchup between these two teams, there’s always a lot of excitement,” Donnelly [...]

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 [...]

Tyler Rich scored four goals to lead the Westhill High ice hockey team to an 8-4 victory over city rival Stamford Monday night at Terry Conners Rink.
The Vikings raised their record to 3-1 while the Black Knights slipped to 1-4.
Rich and Scott Valenzano each netted two first-period goals to give Westhill a 4-1 lead at [...]

Maybe I am just an optimist but I see potential in the Stamford boys basketball team.
Yes, the Black Knights are a work in progress and right now they seem as likely to pass the ball to the opposition as they are to their intended targets.
Yes, they do miss the ball-handling skills and experience of Chris [...]

The Stamford High boys basketball team, coming off its first loss of the season earlier this week, got back on track.
The Black Knights defeated city rival Westhill 67-43 in the Kuczo Holiday Tournament Saturday at Stamford High.
With the win, the Black Knights improved to 3-1 while the Vikings slipped to 2-2.
Stamford, which lost to Bassick [...]

The Stamford High girls basketball team improved to 2-0 with a 51-36 victory over McMahon Friday night at Stamford High.
Kelsey Cognetta netted 15 points to lead the way for the Black Knights. Ebony Razor chipped in with 10 Lauren Schapiro added nine.
The Trinity Catholic girls suffered a 58-48 loss to Staples in their season opener [...]

It seems like a minute ago we were getting ready for the high school fall sports season. And, like always, I look back, wishing I knew how to stop time so I could appreciate it all.
As always, you wish you never had to cover a loss and you wish every team’s season ended with a [...]

While we’re between seasons, it’s time to look back on this year’s Thanksgiving Day football games with Stamford earning its second city championship with a victory over Westhill and with Trinity Catholic topping off head coach Pete Stokes first season with a rout over Wilton.
In addition to recapping those two games, we also have a [...]

Stamford has won its second straight City Championship by defeating Westhill, 21-11, on Thursday morning.
Also, Trinity Catholic has beaten Wilton, 46-14.
More on these games will be posted later today.

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, [...]

It’s state tournament time in Connecticut, which means sudden endings for some teams while other teams surge ahead with hopes and dreams of more to come.
The Trinity Catholic volleyball team won its first two games of the Class S tournament to move on to the quarterfinals while the Westhill field hockey team knocked off Norwich [...]

For those who questioned all of the attention paid to Khari Fortt earlier this fall and wondered — some aloud and some in whispers — if all the accolades were justified, I have an answer.
Yes.
If you don’t beleive me, well, let me tell you about the Stamford game at Boyle Stadium on Friday night. Fortt put [...]

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 [...]

One of the best kept secrets in the city this fall sports season has been the Westhill High School field hockey team.
The Vikings lost 12 seniors from last year’s squad, which won the city championship by beating and tying the two-time defending state champs from Stamford. Nobody expected too much out this year’s Westhill group [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Khairi Fortt returned to the football field on Friday night, taking up his linebacker spot for the Stamford High School Black Knights defense.
As could be expected from a defense that had Fortt back along side Patrick Atkinson, the Orange and Black defense did everything you’d expect it to do in the game, limiting the Bears [...]

For those of you surprised that Khairi Fortt of Stamford isn’t our cover player for this week’s edition, (though he is a small part of the cover), consider this:
Two Stamford teams — Trinity and Westhill going head-to-head — trumped one player heading off to college, so it was Michael Rivas of Trinity (200 yards rushing, [...]

Khairi Fortt only had to say two words: “Penn State.”
The Stamford High School senior football player, ranked as the No. 2 inside linebacker in the entire country according to ESPN.com, let everybody else in his college decision on Monday during a special ceremony inside Kuczo Gymnasium.
Fortt, who actually received his U.S. Army All-American Bowl jersey [...]

Brien McMahon defeated Stamford, 22-7, on Friday night at Casagrande Field in Norwalk.
Stamford played the game without star linebacker Khairi Fortt, who was reportedly a game-time decision as to whether or not he’d play.
Fortt, who will announce his college decision on Monday, hasn’t played this season since injuring his knee during the first half of [...]

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 [...]

I must admit I made the trip to Stamford High School’s Boyle Stadium tonight with a little bit of trepidation, worried about what I would find when it came to the two-time defending state Class L field hockey champion Black Knights.
After all, graduation decimated the Stamford line-up and the Black Knights opened the 2009 season [...]

Conventional wisdom says Khairi Fortt will be going to Penn State to play his college football.
On Monday, we’ll all find out for sure.
As a Penn State fan for more than 30 years, I’d like to see him head to the Nittany Lions to see what he can do with the rest of his career. But [...]

Stamford High School senior linebacker Khairi Fortt will be telling the world where he’s going to play his college football on Monday at a school assembly, according to Black Knights head coach Kevin Jones.
Fortt, who has been invited to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl for high school seniors on Jan. 9, 2009, is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Khairi Fortt emerged from the Stamford High School football locker room in civilian clothes. That was the bad news surrounding the Black Knights football program on Monday afternoon.
The smile on Fortt’s face as he greeted a visitor was the good news. That meant all should soon be right in Fortt’s world — and the Black [...]

When you’re the second-ranked inside linebacker in high school football, in the whole entire country, when you get hurt it tends to make national news.
A national radio program, “The ABCs of Sports”, which is broadcast on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio brought up the topic  of Fortt’s injury while I was driving to work today. The show’s [...]

In all my years, I never thought I would hear a referee utter the phrase I heard Thursday night.
It was during a contentious second quarter of Thursday’s Stamford-Ridgefield football game when one of the official, who was later indentified as Tom Brown, came over to Stamford football coach Kevin Jones to discuss why he had [...]

The Stamford Black Knights suffered one loss in its season opening game against Ridgefield on Thursday, but postgame the team and its coaching staff was more concerned about another possible loss — that of star linebacker Khairi Fortt.
Fortt, who is the second ranked inside linebacker nationally, according to ESPN.com, injured his right knee late in [...]

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 [...]

spent a little bit of time today with new Stamford High School quarterback Jalen Holmes, who is ready for the high school football season to open up.
The Black Knights will entertain Ridgefield on Thursday night. Kick off is 6 p.m. at Boyle Stadium.
“I’ve been thinking about this ever since I was in middle school, playing [...]

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.
• • •
Trinity Catholic is thinking postseason for the first time in, well at least in my time of covering the high school [...]

Stamford High School athletic director Pete Samperi said a small fire which broke out on the Stamford High School soccer field on Tuesday night damaged a small part of the facility, but did not cause any damage to the playing surface.
Samperi said a plastic trash bin had caught fire and burned, causing some damage to [...]

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 [...]

Summer is ending. Football is heating up. Fall sports are about to start. And The Stamford Times seems to touch a variety of bases in this week’s edition.
Football-wise, we tackle New York Giants wannabe lineman Cliff Louis, the Westhill High School product to grew so much as a player and a person at Morgan State [...]

Stamford High School linebacker Khairi Fortt, who has taken the college football recruiting circuit by storm during the last nine months, has announced that six schools are still in the running for his services.
The recruiting Web site thedecommit.com posted an item on Aug. 1 saying Fortt had narrowed down his school choices to Penn State, [...]

Once hockey gets in your bloodstream they say it never goes away and for Trinity Catholic coach Chris Gerwig that is a fact.
On July 1, Darien Ice Rink hosted the Big Assist All-Star hockey game featuring NHL and college players to benefit Obie Harrington-Howe, a local hockey coach who was paralyzed 12 years ago in [...]

The other night I was watching the game between the American Legion and Senior Babe Ruth teams and was looking around for somebody to talk to in between the pitches. It is one of the great things about baseball … you can socialize as well as cover the game.
Sometimes you get lucky and I did [...]

In the same edition of this week’s Sports Section of The Stamford Times we not only celebrate the past, but we also tip our caps to the future.
The 2009 Spring Sports All-City Teams are published this week, honoring those in the sports of baseball, softball, boys lacrosse and golf. Additionally, a total of 45 other [...]

Summer is finally here and we’re not horsing around when we say that.
The Little League All-Star season is about to start and talk of a high school girls hockey team coming somewhere down the line is even starting to warm up slightly … and we have a story about a young lady who doesn’t horse [...]

Two of the three city golfers who had qualified for the match play portion of the 107th Connecticut Amateur Golf Championship survived through to the Round of 16 later this afternoon.
Mike Ballo of Woodway and Nick Cook of Sterling Farms advanced on from the Round of 32 while Alex Murdoch of Sterling Farms was knocked [...]

All is quiet on the high school sports front as the state playoffs are over, many students are wrapping up finals and summer is fast approaching.
That doesn’t mean the sports news stops around the city, however.
Our cover girl this week is former Stamford High softball star Melissa Giordano, who over the last month has racked [...]

I have been covering the Stamford sports scene for four years now, so this is my first go-round watching kids develop from freshmen to seniors. I have to say, for me, it is kind of a different feeling realizing most of them, I won’t get to watch play anymore. To interview them after the game, [...]

It was a week to remember for the Westhill High School athletic department. But it proved to be a Monday to forget.
On Saturday, Westhill baseball pitcher Steve Rivera hurled his team into the FCIAC championship game with a no-hitter over Darien. A few hours later, the Viings softball team repeated as FCIAC champs when un-sung [...]

There is new news that is exciting and there is old news that is unique and that’s not even mentioning the start of the FCIAC baseball and softball tournament last week.
All have found their way into this week’s Sports Section of The Stamford Times.
First and foremost, the big news is that Trinity Catholic basketball star [...]

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 [...]

The big news this week is still being talked, blogged about and texted about — the Westhill-Stamford baseball classic on Monday at Cubeta Stadium.
Steve Rivera’s one-hit victory over Mitch O’Meara and his Stamford team will go down in history as one of the city’s all-time great performances and the entire night itself is one that [...]

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 [...]

Tennis anyone?
At Westhill High School, the Vikings are playing plenty of tennis these days and on Tuesday the two teams beat Stamford to sweep the City Championships for the second straight year.
The girls squad, which includes our cover girl this week — the team’s lone senior, Molly Carson, of the first doubles team — is [...]

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 [...]

When I re-located to Fairfield County in the fall of 2007, my very first assignment was covering the 2007 FCIAC field hockey playoff game between Stamford and New Canaan. It was there that I first met a remarkable young lady named Madison McLaughlin.
“Madi” — Stamford field hockey’s one-named wonder, just like the NBA’s Michael in [...]

When Taylor Zito, above, moved from North Stamford to the Glenbrook section of town, it certainly took a little getting used to. After all, she was forced to transfer from Westhill High School to Stamford High, as well.
Likewise, her move from the JV ranks to the world of varsity took some getting used to, also.
On [...]

Rain. That’s the big story of the week around the city as day after day after day, Mother Nature has defeated pretty much every sports team that is trying to play out a spring sports season in Stamford.
Except for the Stamford softball. Thanks in great part to a yeoman’s effort by the grounds crew, Tuesday’s [...]

The spring sports season is fully under way as we get past the Easter weekend, which means athlete are soaring higher and higher every day.
On Monday of last week, the Westhill High girls track team won its third straight City Championship by sprinting past the competition of Stamford and Trinity Catholic for the title.
Also, both [...]

The next time a coach is questioned about leaving in starters in what seems to be a blow-out game, just tell them the tale of Stamford coach Fred Kelley’s Monday afternoon.
His squad had built a 12-run lead during the first six innings over New Canaan and it looked like a perfect time to bring in the subs. Unfortunately, the [...]

Sorry for the delay in posting, but things have been hectic here at the office as we wrapped up our season previews, got the regular season under way and through an Easter holiday, as well.
However, many things of interest have happened regarding the city’s sports scene so I figured we’d take a look at some [...]

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 [...]

Chris Evans is going to be a Rhino.
Evans, the All-FCIAC and All-State boys basketball and football player from Stamford High School,  will be doing a year in prep school, at The Taft School, as he prepares for a college career.
Evans confirmed with The Stamford Times on Thursday afternoon he’s been accepted by the school and [...]

Sometimes an off-subject comment gets you wondering. It makes you think, “What if?”
In getting ready for the baseball season, Stamford High School pitcher Mitch O’Meara said how it was a shame that some players he grew up playing with went to different high schools. In some ways, it is a shame, but in other ways [...]

There have been so many great ideas that have stood up to the test of time.
The wheel. Sliced bread. Cable TV. You get the idea.
This spring, Stamford High School athletic director Pete Samperi has come up with another one: Baseball — Stamford vs. Westhill — Under the lights at Cubeta Stadium.
Circle your calendars, sports fans, [...]

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 [...]