This week’s nominees for CPTV Sports’ UChoose Student-Athlete of the Week — our eighth vote of the winter sports season! Voting ends Monday at noon so choose your favorite now and tell your friends and fellow fans to vote, too!
• Kayla Croswell – Notre Dame-Fairfield girls basketball
The senior guard scored 24 points — 12 in the second overtime — in a 80-74 victory over Newtown in the SWC tournament semifinals Feb. 24. ND-Fairfield lost to New Fairfield in the title game, which was streamed LIVE at CPTVSports.org.
• Jen Dawson – Morgan-Clinton girls basketball
The senior guard/forward and captain had 22 points and 10 rebounds as unbeaten Morgan-Clinton beat three-time defending champion Cromwell 53-52 Feb. 27 in a game seen LIVE on CPTV Sports. It was the first conference title since 2006 for Morgan (22-0).
• Anthony Falbo – Newtown wrestling
The sophomore won his second State Open title Feb. 28, pinning his opponent 43 seconds into the 170-pound championship match. Falbo, who won at 152 last year as a freshman, was named the Open’s outstanding wrestler as Newtown won the team title for the first time. The finals will be shown on CPTV Sports Monday March 2 at 7:00pm.
• Lexi Harney – Branford/East Haven/North Branford girls hockey
The senior forward scored four goals in a 7-3 SCC Division II tournament semifinal win over West Haven Feb. 23. The co-op went on to win the tournament title Feb. 25, defeating Hand-Madison, 2-0.
• Alex Ostberg – Darien indoor boys track
The Stanford-bound senior won the 2-mile run at the New England regional meet in Boston Friday. His time of 9:00.58 is the best in the nation this year, according to the New Haven Register’s Mary Albl.
• Brian Riley – Fermi-Enfield-East Granby-Stafford boys hockey
The senior forward scored a hat trick, including two goals in the third period and the winner in overtime, as the Falcons beat Bolton-Coventry-Rockville-RHAM 5-4. Fermi was trailing 4-1 entering the third period.
Emily Farrell scored 18 points and Kristen Teklits 15 as New Fairfield High defeated Notre Dame-Fairfield 58-50 in the South-West Conference girls basketball tournament championship game Feb. 26 at Newtown High. The game was livestreamed at CPTVSports.org; the broadcast premiere is Saturday Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
New Fairfield (22-1) trailed by five in the third quarter before Farrell and Teklits took charge. Teklits scored all her points in the second and the two combined to go 8-for-12 at the free-throw line in the fourth quarter.
Taylor Ceballos had 13 points to lead Notre Dame (18-5). Read the game story by Richard Gregory of the Danbury News-Times here.
Torrington High held Holy Cross-Waterbury scoreless in the final two minutes as the Raiders held on for a 56-55 win over the Crusaders in the Naugatuck Valley League girls basketball tournament championship game played Feb. 25 at Sacred Heart High in Waterbury. The game was live-streamed at CPTVSports.org; the broadcast premiere is Saturday Feb. 28 at 9:00pm.
Tournament MVP Brie Pergola (18 points) scored Torrington’s last four points at the free-throw line.
Rashana Siders had 22 points for Holy Cross (20-2).
Read the game story from the Waterbury Republican-American’s Rick Wilson here.
#WIREWorthy Friday - We are LIVE from New Haven tonight at 7 for the Shoreline Conference Championship final: #CromwellMorganIII! Fans that have DirecTV and cannot watch CPTV Sports may catch a complimentary LIVE stream on our website. Thank you for watching last night’s SWC final LIVE on our website. Today’s WIRE covers that game, along with Thursday’s other #ctgb, #ctbb conference action. PLUS, you won’t believe what Brian Riley accomplished for Fermi-Enfield boys ice hockey last night.
The Wire, CPTV Sports’ radio initiative featuring reports by Francesco Graziano Jr. can be heard on our exclusive radio partners, sports stations ESPN 97.9 FM and Fox Sports Radio 1410 in Hartford.
Welcome to #WIREWorthy Wednesday! We’ve got the NVL girls basketball title game LIVE on CPTVSports.org tonight at 7-Torrington faces off with Holy Cross-Waterbury. See the SWC Final LIVE on our website Thursday: New Fairfield takes on Notre Dame-Fairfield at 7:30 in Newtown. How about SLC’s??? We’ve got Cromwell/Morgan-Clinton III!
The rest of the tournament action is delved into, plus boys basketball scores, and more!
The Wire, CPTV Sports’ radio initiative featuring reports by Francesco Graziano Jr. can be heard on our exclusive radio partners, sports stations ESPN 97.9 FM and Fox Sports Radio 1410 in Hartford.
#WIREWorthy - Hear the final seconds of Wednesday’s dramatic NVL final, called by our very own Bill Spaulding and Adam Finkelstein, as Torrington topped Holy Cross-Waterbury. Today’s WIRE focuses on yesterday’s tournament action, lets you know where to go for a preview of Friday’s Shoreline final (GameTime tonight at 7), and sets you up for the Southwest Conference Championship, tonight LIVE at 7:30 on cptvsports.org,
The Wire, CPTV Sports’ radio initiative featuring reports by Francesco Graziano Jr. can be heard on our exclusive radio partners, sports stations ESPN 97.9 FM and Fox Sports Radio 1410 in Hartford.
This week’s nominees for CPTV Sports’ UChoose Student-Athlete of the Week — our eighth vote of the winter sports season! Voting ends Monday at noon so choose your favorite now and tell your friends and fellow fans to vote, too!