Plenty happened on opening night: In the shocker of the night (because of the score, not the result): Ludlowe spanks Bassick 69-55 (strong defense, balanced scoring). …Notre Dame-West Haven routs East Haven for coach Gary Palladino‘s 500th victory. …freshman Trey McPherson has a strong opening night for Notre Dame-Fairfield in the SWC tipoff tournament win over Abbott Tech (15 pts. 5 steals). …Hand outlasts Masuk (SCC 1, SWC 0). …Stratford beats Amity (SCC 1, SWC 1). …Trinity Catholic transfer Zac Messinger leads Ridgefield with 26 points, but Central gets 22 from Jerome Parkins and 20 from Jerry Washington in a 15-point home win. …Harding struggles early, but puts Darien away. …Andrei Oztemel (25 points) and John DeBartolomeo (at right, scoring two of his 17 points), lead Staples past Fairfield Warde.
Here’s the Connecticut Post‘s local roundup: Roundup, December 17
Here are the rest of the the FCIAC scores on the league’s website, hosted by The Advocate of Stamford (which continues to list scoring by halves): Roundup, December 17
Here’s the Danbury NewsTimes’ report on New Fairfield’s 66-62 victory over New Milford.
Other than the Ludlowe win, one of the other interesting results was New Canaan’s 68-52 win over Norwalk, which came without guard Jamie Pares (injury), but with 21 points apiece by Joe Sindelar and Ian Knechtle. …Also, Chris Evans torched Danbury for 24 points in Stamford’s victory.
The 3-point Award goes to Christian Heritage’s Jason Perrier, of Bridgeport, who had six. For CIAC schools, Harding’s Davon Pratt and Shelton’s Aaron Gagner both had five in their teams’ victories. Highest Quarter Award goes to Notre Dame-Fairfield and Kennedy, which both scored 26 points in their respective games against Kaynor Tech and Seymour.
With weather a possible issue on Friday (rain, sleet, snow), we have a few preemptive postponements: Amity at Law is pushed to Saturday. Check the CIAC’s Master Varsity Schedule for to-the-minute updates.
AMITY ,EAST HAVEN AND DERBY ALL SCORED 29 POINTS IN THEYRE OPENERS—-ARE THEY STILL SHOOTING TWO HANDED SET SHOTS?
Ray,
Derby?Isn’t that an NVL team?
Trey McPherson is real good freshmen player but St Joes have 2 of the best freshmen in the state in James Jennings quick fearless point guard and 6-5 big man Timajh Parker look out for these two if Montelli let them lose and dont hold them back.
Dave, The freshmen at St. Joes don’t play varsity! How could you say that they are 2 of the best freshmen in the state if St. Joes hasn’t even open the year yet? Oh, wait you must have been at the scrimmage that they “won” and this was the same scrimmage that the other team walked off the floor cause the refs we’re Vito’s ex-coaches.
Not much interest in hockey in this area .How come not chat about that?
Sorry to burst ur bubble there are 3 freshmen that plays varisty 2 of them will be seeing time Unlike notre dame who team is weak and need to rely on their freshmen to play. The 2 freshmen at St Joes are better than most of the upperclassmen at St Joes.
By the way the 2 St Joes freshmen Jennings and Parker are good enough to start for any school.