New Canaan's Alex Farina
Darien's Nicole Buch
We go to the diamonds for this year’s BlueStreak-Overtime Spring FCIAC Player of the Year awards.
Alex Farina of the New Canaan baseball team and Nicole Buch of the Darien softball team, against stiff competition, won the voting. They will receive trophies and Player of the Year T-shirts with their names on the back, courtesy of BlueStreak Sports Training and the Stamford Advocate.
Farina, who finished with a 9-2 record and 0.72 earned run average, with 89 strikeouts and just 11 walks and seven earned runs allowed in 82 innings, to help lead the Rams to the Class L semifinals, received 591 votes, or 40 percent of the 1,490 cast.
Buch, who batted .633, with 57 hits, 47 runs scored, 20 RBIs, 15 stolen bases and a .694 on-base percentage to help lead the Blue Wave to their first FCIAC title and to the semifinal round of the Class L Tournament, received 1,413 votes, or 47 percent of the 3,011 cast.
These are the final awards of the spring season and the school year. The Player of the Week awards will resume during the first week of the fall season.
We did discuss having an overall Team of the Year and Players of the Year, the problem is the voting would have to be this week, when school is out. I don’t think the timing would work. The voting would be extremely low and all seniors will have graduated.
Congrats to both winners! Have you considered doing an athlete of the year (the entire year) vote to recognize kids who have excelled across multiple sports?