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 [...]

I was just perusing the Web a little bit, passing time before tonight’s big Wilton-Amity CIAC Division 2 semifinal when I came across a post on the FCIAC Hockey Blog.
At some point on Thursday morning, a poster named HSHockeyFan — who I understand to be the owner/moderator of the blog — told his readers that [...]

Trinity Catholic hockey players Chris Lambrinakos and Ryan Doherty were named to the Division I All-State teams.
Lambrinakos, a senior, received first team all-state laurels while Doherty, a junior, was named second team all-state.
The duo led the Crusaders to a 9-12-1 overall record, which included appearances in the FCIAC and Division I tournaments.

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 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 hockey team suffered a 3-2 loss to Ridgefield in overtime on Monday at Winter Garden Ice Arena.
Hayden Lowry scored both of the goals off assists by Chris Lambrinakos for the Crusaders, who lost their second straight to fall to 9-10-1 overall, 7-5-1 in the FCIAC.
Kenny Eger made 24 saves for Trinity, which [...]

The Trinity ice hockey team defeated Trumbull 5-0 on Saturday.
The Crusaders raised their record to 7-8-1 with the victory.
Chris Lambrinakos netted two goals while Hayden Lowry chipped in with a goal and two assists. Kenny Eger recorded the shutout in net and registered 15 saves. 
Trinity plays Westhill in a rescheduled game on Monday at 3:50 p.m. [...]

By JOE RYAN
DARIEN – On Saturday, the hockey team that chased the Blue Wave around Darien Ice Rink wearing purple and gold bore little resemblance to the Westhill team of earlier this year.
The Vikings outscored their opponents 54-25 while winning eight of their first 10 games but their current malaise has seen them [...]

Once upon a time just this winter, the Trinity Catholic hockey was team was 2-7 and it was starting to look like major graduation losses (14 players), Ryan Haggerty heading to the midwest to play with USA Hockey’s Developmental team, and the transfer of another key player to cross-city rival Stamford was simply going to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tyler Rich had a hat trick to lead the Westhill ice hockey team to a 7-5 victory over Staples-Weston Saturday at Terry Conners Rink.
With the score tied 4-4 early in the third period, Rich netted two straight goals, 13 seconds apart, to give the Vikings the lead for good.
Willie Bakis chipped in with two goals [...]

It was supposed to be a season where Ryan Boland became the focal point of the Trinity Catholic hockey team again but now, sadly, he may have played his last game for the green and gold.
Boland suffered what may have been a season-ending concussion in the Crusaders’ game with New Canaan last week and it [...]

When you look at Scott Valenzano, whether on the baseball diamond or on the ice, you just hope he doesn’t get hurt.
Everybody seems to tower over him but although he may look small, he plays as big as anybody.
It doesn’t take great powers of observation either. Last spring when Westhill was playing its way to [...]

The Westhill High ice hockey team raised its record to 4-1 overall following a 9-3 non-conference win over New Milford Saturday night at Terry Conners.
The Vikings trailed 2-1 midway through the second period before rattling off seven straight goals to pull away from the Green Wave.
Tommy Butler and Brian Rotkewicz led Westhill with two goals [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By JOE RYAN
As I write this, I have to admit to being ticked off and read that in stronger terms even. I know that you can’t control people , but I walked into Terry Conners Rink yesterday to see Dean Pomeroy. Only I couldn’t find him.
He moved to Albuquerque.
Now,Dean had always been good to me [...]

It’s nice when somebody’s dreams seem to be coming true. It’s only been about a month since Stamford’s Ryan Haggerty showed up in Michigan to begin the next phase of his hockey apprenticeship.
When he showed up on the grounds of Trinity Catholic as a freshman, he immediately made an impact in what was the rebirth [...]

Finally, somebody was able to stop former Trinity Catholic star running Nick Cortese cold in his tracks.
Unfortunately, it was a group of big shot lawyers from Cox Radio who got to do the deed.
The Stamford Times will be publishing a story in this week’s paper about how a local radio station had named Cortese, Trinity’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The swelling on Sidney Crosby’s knee hasn’t even gone down yet, but since the June temperatures haven’t yet reached 80, I figured it was time to throw some interesting hockey tidbits out at you.
So….
Did you know, that on June 28-29, Montreal Canadians player Max Pacioretty — who cut his skating teeth on the frozen ponds [...]

When Chris Hynes, manager and coach of the Stamford Spinnakers girls ice hockey program, sent out an e-mail to the media last week announcing it would no longer field a high school team for the girls of the city, I knew he’d be hurting.
Eleven years ago, Hynes started the team so his daughters and their [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s no secret that a big part of Trinity Catholic’s hockey resurgence these last two seasons is because the Crusaders had Ryan Haggerty on the ice. Granted, Haggerty wasn’t the only reason Trinity became a player once again on the state’s frozen pond.
But, as one of the state’s best young players, he was a big [...]

Here’s a list of the 2009 All-FCIAC award winners from the city of Stamford for the recently completed winter season.
ICE HOCKEY
First Team — Ryan Haggerty, Trinity Catholic, Forward; Anthony Chiaramonte, Trinity Catholic, Goaltender
Second Team — Tyler Rich, Westhill, Forward; Jake Savona, Trinity Catholic, Forward; Shane McCarthy, Stamford, Defense
Honorable Mention — Mike Taylor, Stamford, Forward.
BOYS BASKETBALL
First [...]

The winter sports season is behind. Almost.
While the local high schools have wrapped up their high school basketball and hockey seasons last week, there is a little bit of house cleaning to do this week before we look too far ahead to spring.
The biggest news of the week, though,  did come off the frozen ponds [...]

Luke Andriuk lived in Norwalk when he made all those trips down I-95 to Terry Conners Rink to cut his hockey teeth as a member of the Stamford Youth Hockey League’s Sharks travel teams.
On Saturday morning, Andriuk – a sophomore goaltender at Staples High School – took the I-95 north to New Haven where he [...]

For the second year in a row, the Trinity Catholic Crusaders hockey team walked out of Yale University’s Ingalls Rink on the losing end of a CIAC semifinal game.
Last winter, a questionable call and some sluggishly slow ice cost the Crusaders dearly in a 3-2 loss to Amity in the Division II semifinals. On Wednesday [...]

For the city’s avid basketball purists, this will not be an easy edition of The Stamford Times to pick up and read. Not only did Trinity Catholic and Stamford High both see their 2009 basketball seasons come to a sudden halt this week, but the careers of some very special high school seniors came to [...]

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 [...]

Well it looks like all those 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. practice times are going to pay off for the young men of the Trinity Catholic Crusaders hockey team?
That’s because the team’s CIAC Division I quarterfinal playoff game against West Haven has been scheduled at 10 a.m., Saturday, at the Yawn-derland of Ice – Er, [...]

The Crusaders put the disappointment of the FCIAC playoffs behind them with a 4-0 win over South Windsor at Terry Conners Rink on March 12.
Junior Chris Lambrinakos had two goals and two assists to lead the way while Ryan Haggerty tallied twice and added an assist. Anthony Chiaramonte  was credited with his sixth shut out [...]

Greenwich’s Harrison Root proved again that patience and persistence can pay off. The senior who spent three years on the bench waiting for an opportunity to play, shut out top-seeded Trinity Catholic 1-0 on Wednesday in an FCIAC hockey semifinal at Terry Conners Rink.
The Cardinals’ Ross Lawson was credited with the only goal of the game. Greenwich’s [...]

The game time for Trinity Catholic’s FCIAC semifinal contest against Greenwich has been changed from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., on Wednesday at Terry Conners Rink.
While the FCIAC has officially changed the time on their schedule, the Terry Conners Rink’s High School Hockey Web site has not yet made the change.
Thus, Wednesday’s official FCIAC Schedule [...]

The pending arrival of Mother Nature on Monday has led to the FCIAC’s decision to postpone the boys basketball semifinals back a day, to Tuesday, and moving the site from Sacred Heart University to Fairfield-Warde.
Here’s a complete look at what’s left in the FCIAC postseason this winter:
Tuesday, Mar. 3
BOYS’ BASKETBALL SEMIFINALS at FAIRFIELD-WARDE
No. 3 Stamford [...]

STAMFORD – Trinity Catholic got a wake-up call early on as St. Joe’s scored less than two minutes into the game, but that little reminder was all the Crusaders needed as they dominated the action for the rest of the night.
Ryan Haggerty was in on all three of his team’s goals, scoring twice and adding [...]

Stamford hockey coach Doug Robinson’s pre-game speech to his players turned prophetic as his forewarning of the need for a fast start for his team fell seemingly on deaf ears and spelled doom for the Black Knight.
Greenwich dominated the first 10 minutes of the game and had a three-goal lead by the time Stamford’s [...]

They have a certain swagger, if you can swagger on skates.
The Stamford hockey team will probably not play for any titles over the next few weeks. The odds are stacked against them but you know what they probably don’t care. Oh, they would love to be there at the end raising a trophy but it’s [...]

When the FCIAC hockey playoffs start on Friday, there will be some new schools in attendance as the conference tries to cap off what has been an interesting season. Top dog, Trinity catholic will be playing upstart St. Josephs in the first round.
Trinity Catholic is back on top. There is no question after having fashioned [...]

A game of football at the beach did yesterday what no FCIAC team was able to do this year, either during the fall’s football season, or this winter’s hockey campaign: Put Trinity Catholic’s Nick Cortese on the sidelines for the next few weeks.
A freak accident sliced up the senior forward’s leg and forced him to [...]

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 [...]

Trinity bounced right back from its first loss of the year with a 5-0 win over Immaculate of Danbury.
Ryan Boland scored a hat trick while Ryan Haggerty had a goal and two assists. Trinity captain John Doherty celebrated his 18th birthday with a goal and an assist.
Senior goalie Anthony Chiaramonte made 21 saves for his [...]

Can you have a good loss?
That was a question Chris Gerwig asked out loud after his team suffered their first defeat of the season, to Darien on Saturday night . While rhe obvious answer is “no” in reality in recent years, the undefeated tag carries a bigger burden that most teams can bear.
Just ask the [...]

Wilton beats Darien … Darien beats Trinity Catholic … Stamford ties New Canaan … Trumbull beats Staples-Weston … I know it was a wee bit warm this weekend, but you’d think at ice rinks throughout the area people were suffering heat stroke and dealing with mass delusions.
Actually, welcome to the FCIAC Hockey World, circa 2009.
Right [...]

Congratulations go out to the Trinity Catholic Crusaders for their second straight city hockey championship, which they won on Saturday night with a 6-3 win over Westhill. That, coupled with the team’s 4-0 win over Stamford back on Jan. 17, wrapped up the city crown for the 11-0 TC squad.
Chris Lambrinakos got first star honors [...]

For those of you who follow the FCIAC hockey scene — and with Trinity Catholic, Stamford and Westhill on the radar, chances are you probably do — then you might want to take a meander at www.fciachockey.com, a new blog about the sport that we were just told about earlier this week.
Most recently, the blog [...]

The biggest sports story to come out of the city this week should have been how the Stamford boys basketball team is off to a 9-1 start, or how the Stamford girls squad has won eight straight, or how the Trinity Catholic hockey team got the upper-hand in the chase for the City Championship with [...]

Just a couple of thoughts before I head home for the evening.
THE REVENGE IS SWEET PART
Good to see the Stamford Black Knights bounce back from their 3-2 overtime loss at St. Joe’s 12 days back. On Wednesday, this time playing at the freindly confines of TCR, the Knights exacted revenge on the Cadets and posted [...]

With the holidays well behind us and the New Year rolling along, the sports season is picking up steam again in the city and The Stamford Times brings you stories from a plethora of angles this week.
One of the bigger stories this week was the Trinity Catholic boys basketball team remaining undefeated on the season, [...]

Trinity Catholic athletic director Tracy Nichols announced the make-up dates of last week’s hockey postponements. The Daniel Hand game will be played on Monday, Jan. 19, at 7:20 p.m., while the Staples matchup has been pushed back to Monday, Feb. 16, at 4 p.m. Both games will be played at Terry Conners Rink in Stamford.

The winter storm bearing down on the region has forced the postponement of Saturday night’s Stamfor hockey game against Darien. The game has been rescheduled for 7:10 p.m. on Jan. 21 at Terry Conners Rink. (Game time was changed again on Tuesday, from 5:45 p.m.)

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 [...]

Less than 24 hours after suffering a heart-breaking 3-2 overtime loss to St. Joseph, the Stamford Black Knights returned to the ice and defeated Wilton, 4-1, at Terry Conners Rink on Saturday.
Connor Garrity scored two goals while Mike Taylor and Peter O’Connor added singles goals for Stamford, which got a 25-save performance out of goaltender [...]

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The Stamford Black Knights were trailing St. Joseph, 2-1, with an empty net behind them and only 20 seconds left to play in the third period of Friday night’s high school hockey game at The Rinks at Shelton. Faster than you can say, “What the puck just happened?” things changed.
The Cadets got hit [...]

Wednesday’s New Years Eve (Afternoon) hockey game between Wilton and Stamford at Terry Conners Rink has been postponed until Saturday at 11:30 a.m.

While the mid-game brawl in the crowd seemed to be all everybody was talking about over the holiday weekend, there were a few other newsworthy things that happened too.
How about the Wright Tech girls basketball team winning its second straight holiday tournament title with a 31-26 win over host Cheney Tech on Saturday? Or the [...]

Connor Garrity scored three goals and assisted on another as the Stamford Black Knights defeated Norwalk, 5-2, in FCIAC hockey action on Saturday night.
The win moved Stamford to 2-1 on the season; not a bad start for a team that went 3-17 a year ago.
Garrity and Jared Schafer, who assisted on Garrity’sgoal, each scored first [...]

Tuesday night at 8:30 on the ice at Terry Conners Rink, the Trinity Catholic Crusaders take on perennial power Darien in a game that could foreshadow the FCIAC season and championships.
The Crusaders look poised to repeat last years success. They are an experienced squad led by seniors John Doherty and Peter Ballo with another senior Anthony Chiaramonte [...]

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 would be easy to see a six-goal explosion and give most of the credit for a win to the offense in hockey. But the truth be told, the Stamford High School defense led by senior captain Shane McCarthy and goalie Chaz Kiernan were just as responsible for the four-goal advantage.
Coach Doug Robinson spread the [...]

Senior Connor Garrity posted a hat trick as Stamford beat Sheehan, 6-2, at Terry Connor Rink on Wednesday night. Earlier in the evening Fermi beat Westhill, 2-0, on the ice at Connors.
Triinity Catholic, meanwhile, traveled to Branford and posted a 5-0 win as they out shot their opponents, 39-13.
Details including players and coaches comment to [...]

With a full slate of high school events going on, now is the time to start taking some regular looks at The Stamford Sports Scene and The Stamford Times Sports web site as we try to keep up with everything going on this winter season.
Tonight, Times correspondent Joe Ryan will be at the Terry Conners [...]

While I was banging out this year’s winter sports schedule into my computer at The Stamford Times offices, I kept thinking one thing: How cool would it be if all three of the city’s FCIAC schools played together in one night?
Then, on Saturday, Feb. 21st, I found it. The City’s Frozen Pond Triple Header.
Yup, it’s [...]

The hockey alumni from Trinity Catholic showed they still have some moves, but in the end the younger legs of this year’s varsity prevailed, 10-7, on Nov. 28 at the Terry Conners Ice Rink.
The varsity was led by ‘Flyin’ Ryan Boland, with three goals and a pair of assists, while ‘Sneaky’ Pete Ballo and ‘Too [...]

STAMFORD — Westhill High School hockey alumni are invited to play in the Annual Alumni game to take place at Terry Conners Ice Rink on Saturday, Nov. 29, at 12 p.m. If you are interesting in participating please contact Jeff Valenzano at 223-6040.  There is a $50 registration fee for each player that will support [...]