The Westhill High softball team, which is coming off a Class LL state championship, was voted the second-ranked team in the state.
The Vikings, who finished 26-1, were voted No. 2 in The New Haven Register poll, which was released on Monday, and received one first-place vote. Waterford (27-0), the Class L state champion, earned the [...]

HAMDEN – Trinity Catholic boys tennis standout Dante Terenzio defeated Ryan Carr of Fairfield Prep to claim his second consecutive State Open singles championship on Tuesday at Hamden High.
Terenzio downed Carr 6-1, 6-2 in the finals. Prior to the match, Terenzio only lost four games in his three matches on his way to the title.
Flash [...]

STRATFORD – Allison Macari’s two-run single in the bottom of the fifth inning snapped a 2-2 tie and senior co-captain Jen Joseph pitched a four-hitter to lift the Westhill High softball team to a 4-2 victory over Newtown in the Class LL state championship game on Saturday night at DeLuca Field.
The second-seeded Vikings (26-1) handed [...]

If the last practice for the Westhill High softball team was any indication, the Vikings can feel good about playing in Saturday’s Class LL state championship game.
Second-seeded Westhill (25-1) plays No. 1 seed Newtown (26-0) for the state title at 7 p.m. on Saturday at DeLuca Field in Stratford.
Vikings head coach Tom Pia said the [...]

Vanessa Petrini joined the Westhill High School tennis team as a sophomore and after years spent on the sometimes lonely, playing-for-yourself USTA circuit, she enjoyed the team camaraderie the Vikings brought to the tennis court.
For the last two seasons, those very same Vikings she played alongside during the season would always be there for her [...]

STRATFORD – Eileen Tublin’s RBI groundout plated the go-ahead run in the fourth inning as the Westhill High softball team defeated Southington 3-2 in the CIAC Class LL state semifinals on Tuesday at DeLuca Field.
The second-seeded Vikings (25-1) move on to the Class LL state championship game, where they’ll face No. 1 Newtown, a 1-0 winner [...]

Times correspondent Joe Ryan captures video of Westhill’s victory over Bristol Central on Saturday, June 5 in the CIAC Class LL Softball quarterfinals for The Ryan Report.
See the video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncrdASKGqqs

The Westhill High softball team scored more than enough runs for pitcher Jen Joseph as the Vikings blasted Bristol Central 11-0 in the CIAC Class LL state quarterfinals on Saturday at Allyson Rioux Field.
Joseph pitched a four-hitter to lead second-seeded Westhill (24-1) into the state semifinals where the Vikings will take on No. 3 Southington [...]

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 [...]

FAIRFIELD – Trumbull High pitcher Alex Puglisi pitched a four-hitter to lead the Eagles to a 3-1 win over Westhill in the FCIAC Softball Championship on Thursday at Sacred Heart University.
Puglisi was named MVP as she halted the Vikings’ 22-game winning streak and prevented them from capturing a third consecutive FCIAC title.
It’s the fifth conference [...]

The Westhill High softball team is looking to join select company.
The Vikings, who are 22-0 and the two-time defending FCIAC champions, can become the second team in the history of the league to win three or more consecutive conference crowns. The only team to accomplish the feat was Norwalk from 1978-1981.
That brings with it some [...]

Allison Macari’s RBI double with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning plated Julianne Vincent with the winning run and lifted the Westhill High softball team to a 2-1 win over Darien in the FCIAC Tournament semifinals on Tuesday at Sacred Heart University.
Jen Joseph pitched a three-hitter with seven strikeouts and one walk [...]

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 — Eileen Tublin’s RBI base hit plated Cassandra Kish with the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning as the Westhill softball team defeated Darien 1-0 in a battle of the FCIAC’s best on Monday at Allyson Rioux Field.
The Vikings, who have clinched the No. 1 seed in the FCIAC [...]

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 [...]

In a matchup of two of the best softball teams in the FCIAC, Westhill defeated St. Joseph 4-2 on Friday at Westhill High.
The Vikings remained undefeated with the win at 9-0.
Jen Joseph pitched a three-hitter for Westhill. She gave two earned runs and struck out 12 with one walk.
The Vikings took advantage of several errors [...]

Although it would be hard to point to something other than an eight-run uprising in the bottom of the fifth inning as the reason Westhill was able to beat Staples 10-3 on Friday, there were two moments on the defensive side that helped keep the Wreckers’ offense from breaking out.
The first came in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Westhill’s Maddie Elkins placed fourth overall in the 3,200-meter run at the 2010 Class LL state meet Saturday at the New Haven Athletic Center.
Elkins, a junior, turned in a time of 11:28.49. Lindsay Crevoiserat of Glastonbury won the event with a time of 11:02.64 and FCIAC competitors Danielle Klein of Trumbull (11:13.47) and Heather Moriarty [...]

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 [...]

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 Westhill High gymnastics team scored its first win of the season by downing FCIAC rival New Canaan, 92.05-87.50, in a quad meet Monday at Westhill High.
The Vikings (1-4) also lost to Nonnewaug (132.85) and Pomperaug (130.65) in the meet.
“It’s our highest score so far this season,” Westhill’s first-year head coach Ellie Southworth said.
Westhill [...]

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 [...]

The Trinity boys and girls basketball teams defeated Westhill Tuesday night.
The Trinity boys earned a 64-51 win at Walsh Court to snap a three-game slide and even their record at 4-4.
Remy Pinson and Mike Scaturcchio each finished with 19 points, including five 3-pointers apiece, to lead the Crusaders. Aaron Spence chipped in with 14 points [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For the past two years, Suzanne Cohen of Westhill has been a dangerous weapon for the Vikings.
In many cases, though, she’s been over-looked by defenses as older players have been in key roles for the Vikings.
This winter, though, Cohen is a junior and she’s expected to be a marked woman around the FCIAC. Everybody knows [...]

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 [...]

Westhill Girls Soccer – 2009 from John Nash on Vimeo.

Due to an uploading snafu on Frirday, the retrospective video looking at the Westhill girls soccer team’s 2009 state championship season has been delayed.
It is currently being uploaded to an alternate “hosting” site and will be embedded here hopefully within an hour, but definitely by noon.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

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.

This Friday will mark one week since the Westhill High School girls soccer team won the State Class LL championship with a stunning 2-1 victory over Glastonbury.
While one game might have won the team a championship, one win does not a season make and this coming Friday The Stamford Times, as part of its Stamford [...]

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 [...]

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The most remarkable thing about this year’s Westhill High School soccer team is how much of a team they have become and how they not only learned from their mistakes on the field, they made sure not to repeat the mistakes off the field, as well.
Two years ago, the crux of this year’s state championship [...]

Third-seeded Westhill will face top-seeded Glastonbury for the State Class LL girls soccer championship on Friday night at 7 p.m., at West Haven High School.
This, of course, is as long as the CIAC stays true to its word.
Any changes and we’ll update as soon as we know.

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, [...]

(Updated 9:45 a.m., Tuesday morning)
Once again, the CIAC has proven that the student-athletes under its auspices do not come first.
The Westhill High School girls soccer team will be playing Ridgefield in a Class LL semifinal on Wednesday, at Norwalk High School’s Testa Field. It will be played at 6:30 p.m., according to the CIAC Web [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just when it looked like the Westhill High School boys soccer team would get through a season without any off-the-field adversity, the Vikings had to forfeit four games on Wednesday afternoon, forcing them into a must-win regular season finale to get into the FCIAC playoffs.
The Vikings got that win, defeating Fairfield Ludlowe, 4-1, on Wednesday [...]

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 [...]

Westhill assistant football coach Bill During is about to have an odd weekend.
The Westhill Vikings will be heading to Staples on Saturday for the next game on its gridiron schedule. During will be in his purple and gold and standing on the far sideline — but deep, deep down, part of him still bleeds the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One more quick note from Westhill’s stunning 2-1 win over St. Joseph on Tuesday: The Vikings beat the No. 19 ranked team in the entire country, according to the National Soccer Coaches Association of American/Adidas poll.
While St. Joe’s had gone 40-2-3 over the past two seasons, while winning two state titles, one league crown, and [...]

Remember the name C.C. Figluizzi-Bingham.
The freshman girls soccer player at Westhill High School blasted home a 25-yard shot off an assist from Morgan Tanacea midway through the second half to lead the Vikings to a stunning 2-1 victory over perennial FCIAC power St. Joseph’s in Stamford on Tuesday afternoon.
The goal gave Westhill one of the [...]

Two-time defending state individual tennis champion Vanessa Petrini of Westhill High School has verbally committed to attend Rutgers University in the fall, athletic director Mike King announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Petrini, when she was reached after school, said she is excited about the opportunity of playing at Rutgers, which met all three of her criteria when [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If only Westhill coach Dick Cerone could find away to take a page from his favorite football team, the University of Texas, and keep a starting quarterback around for what seems like a decade.
Most college fans are mixed as to when Colt McKoy began his run as the Longhorns starting signal-caller. Most think he’s been [...]

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 [...]

Something had to be done and Westhill High School athletic director Mike King knew it.
In two years time, the Vikings boys soccer team had gone from a nationally respected team with a national ranking of No. 7 in the country, according to one poll, to a team that finished 6-9-1, couldn’t win a city championship [...]

The wait is over.
Due to holiday deadline issues a week ago, The Stamford Times sports section couldn’t bring you our coverage of the Westhill High School softball team’s special trip to Yankee Stadium on June 30.
Until now.
This week, the Vikings memorable journey is recapped courtesy of three pages of coverage in this week’s edition of [...]

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 [...]

Katherine Begeties, an assistant coach for the Westhill High School softball team, immediately recognized him.
He was sitting one row in front of them and a handful of seats to their right.
Mike Starr, best known, perhaps, for his role in the movie “Dumb and Dumber” (he’s the guy who chased down Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, [...]

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Here’s the second of many more posts to come from the Westhill High School softball team’s visit to Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. This is the National Anthem, as viewed on the mammoth high definition scored board in center field of Yankee Stadium.

The bus pulled into the Westhill High School parking lot shortly after 12:30 a.m., on Wednesday morning and the 36 people who disembarked were all surrounded by the same emotion that drew them together for the previous 11 hours.
Did it all really happen?
Did they really walk from the bowels of the new Yankee Stadium directly [...]

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 [...]

Given what happened to the Westhill High School softball team this spring courtesy of Norwich Free Academy, here’s a story many people in Stamford might appreciate.
It just leaves me asking, “What is it with softball coaches?
Click here to read the story.

Well, once again it’s going to rain on the Westhill High School’s softball parade, but the Vikings won’t be denied.
The school and the Yankees have decide that because of the deluge of rain expected to fall on the region on Thursday that the it was best if the Vikings outing to Yankee Stadium be delayed.
The [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

OK, so the previous post wasn’t the final word for the Westhill High School softball team.
On Friday morning, the team received word that on June 18, they’re going to be invited to the new Yankee Stadium — as a special guest of general manager Brian Cashman — to escort the Yankees out on to the [...]

 
Everybody knows the CIAC was both right and wrong when it came to the case of the Westhill High School softball team. They were right because it was there in black and white in their softball handbook. They were wrong, just because what they had written in black and white is nothing more than a [...]

There was a famous case back in the early 1980’s that Yankees fans look back at with both amusement and animosity.
It is called the “pine-tar” game and it revolved around a ruling by an umpire that nullified a game-winning home run by Kansas City Royal George Brett, then a Yankee-killer, off Goose Gossage. The reason [...]

The CIAC has ruled that the Westhill High School softball team has been eliminated from the 2009 state tourmament.
According to the CIAC’s softball handbook, rule 6.3 flatly states, “Protests arising from the decisions, interpretations and misapplication of the National Federation or CIAC game rules by officials during the contest will not be considered. The decisions [...]

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 [...]

The continuation of the Class LL softball second round game between Westhill and Norwich Free Academy will be at 3:30 p.m., not 4 p.m. as previously reported.

What a mess yesterday’s Westhill-Norwich Free Academy state softball playoff game turned out to be, all because of a misspoken word, a visiting coach who knew full well of another coach’s intent, yet still did everything within his power to win the game outside the baselines rather than it.
The gist of what happened is this: [...]

Here’s a follow up to Westhill’s second straight FCIAC softball championship on Saturday.
I was shooting the game from the corner of the Westhill dugout and the other side of the fence stood Dave Sottosanti, who lost his 19-year-old daughter, Rae, to a tragic untimely death a few weeks back.
His daughter had played for Westhill when [...]

More on this game will be posted later.
To read The Stamford Times game story, click here.

After last postseason, after all the big game performances, you would think Westhill’s Steve Rivera would not have another surprise up his talented sleeve.
So, how about a no-hitter?
Because that is what happened on Saturday: The Vikings ace no-hit Darien, 3-0, in the semifinals of the FCIAC playoffs in Trumbull.
Westhill will face Staples in a repeat of last [...]