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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Westhill High School senior Zack Napolitano, a disciple of Vikings wrestling great Ronald Thompson, won the FCIAC Championship on Saturday in the 140-pound division. Napolitano decisioned previously undefeated Matt Liguori of Darien, 11-8, to take the championship.
The Stamford Knights placed fifth wrestlers in the championship round, but dropped all five matches while finishing third with [...]

The FCIAC championship season is fast approaching and it kicks off on Saturday morning with the 2009 FCIAC cheerleading championships at Wilton High’s Zeoli Field House.
The cheerleaders aren’t the only ones on campus chasing league supremecy, however.
The boys and girls indoor track squads will be competing in Saturday’s FCIAC championships, too, at Staples High School [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]