Tom Renner

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No one knows local sports quite like Tom Renner, The Daily Voice's Sports Editor. For 22 years, he covered the field for The Stamford Advocate. He's been in Fairfield County since 1987.

Tom was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Greens Farms Girls Win 4th Straight Greens Farms Academy's girls basketball team won for the eighth time in nine games and its fourth straight Thursday with a 36-26 victory over Holy Child in a Fairchester Athletic Association game. GFA improved to 10-5 overall and 5-1 in the FAA, where it is tied with Hamden Hall for the league lead. Stephanie Garofoli scored 19 points and grabbed 17 rebounds to lead GFA. Alexa Sullivan added six points and five rebounds, and Meighan Grady (four points) and Jenna Pittleman (three) also made offensive contributions. GFA held Holy Child to 11 first-half points and focused on its transition d…

by Tom Renner

02/04/2011

Westport, CT

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'Core Four' From Staples Soccer Choose Colleges The New York Yankees had its "Core Four." So, too, did Staples soccer coach Dan Woog for the past four years, as it turns out. He knew Brendan Lesch, Frankie Bergonzi, Sean Gallagher and Greg Gudis would be terrific soccer players back when they were freshmen. "Did I think this was a possibility Yes. But a probability? That's hard to say," Woog said Thursday after the four announced plans to play for Division I college teams next fall. Lesch will attend Notre Dame, Bergonzi will go to Colgate, Gudis to Columbia and Gallagher to the Naval Academy. Gallagher could not attend the news conferenc…

by Tom Renner

02/04/2011

Westport, CT

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Staples Girls Continue Amazing State Streak Staples High's girls basketball team qualified for its 27th straight state tournament with its victory over Harding High School last week. That's quite an accomplishment by anyone's standards. It's even more rewarding for veteran coach Ed Huydic, whose team suffered devastating injuries to three seniors before the season tipped off. "We started the season with no point guard and no starting center,'' Huydic said. "That makes for a most difficult task. We feel particularly proud of this group. They've developed real good chemistry. They've taken on the task of re-creating itself before we got…

by Tom Renner

02/04/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Holiday Plans Turn Into OTA Fund-Raiser Clair Mason, the co-owner of Intensity Fitness and Tennis Club, and her family took a trip recently to Africa and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and visited the Oyebog Tennis Academy. She provided this report for The Daily Norwalk. The decision to climb Mount Kilimanjaro was the easy part. The climb itself was a whole different experience from what wey had envisaged. It took a mental and physical toll. The family agrees however, that it was one of the most rewarding life experiences for all of us. I made the ascent with husband Charlie, and sons, Freddie, 15 and Louis, 13. Freddie climbed to …

by Clair Mason

02/04/2011

Westport, CT

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Staples Football Players Make College Choices Staples High School football coach Marce Petroccio beamed like a proud father. Three players had just firmed up offers to play Division I football, and the longtime football coach with the tough exterior couldn't contain his enthusiasm. Mike Nicklas signed with Wofford College in South Carolina. Chris Coyne and Pat Murray will remain teammates at Yale. The three players joined three soccer players at a Westport news conference Thursday to make their college selections official. "It says a lot of the success of players, the football program and their families,'' Petroccio said. "These kids h…

by Tom Renner

02/03/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Zeus Swim Raffles Super Bowl Trip Zeus Swim Club held a Super Bowl raffle party at the Black Bear Saloon. The club raffled a trip to the Super Bowl, among other prizes, and Mayor Richard Moccia led a lineup of dignitaries that helped select the prize winners. Lisa Palmer won the Super Bowl Weekend for trip for two. Maurizio Nicolelli won a Samsung television. Austin Keller won an iPad, and Andrew Kelly took home an iPod touch. Superintendent of Schools Susan Marks, Common Council President Rick McQuad and Board of Education member Steven Colarossi picked the winners. Proceeds from the raffle will help Zeus pay for rental a…

by Tom Renner

02/03/2011

Stamford, CT

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Babe Ruth Registration Begins Sunday Registration for Stamford Babe Ruth Baseball teams will begin Sunday, Feb. 6, at Stamford High School. Players can register from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the high school gymnasium. Registration will be held at the same time on Feb. 13, Feb. 20, Feb. 27 and March 6. Fees vary by age and league. New players are asked to bring a birth certificate and proof of residence to registration. Tryouts for regular league play and travel for 13-year-olds will be held March 12. Players who are 16 years old can try out for an elite team at noon March 12. Full registration details can be found on the Babe Ru…

by Tom Renner

02/03/2011

Wilton, CT

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Thomas Takes 4th in Colgate Final Wilton High School junior Kafesha Thomas finished fourth in the 200-meter finals Saturday at the Colgate Women's Games at Madison Square Garden. Thomas ran 26.73 and finished second in her heat to Jalilisa Marcus from Bishop Laughlin High School of Brooklyn, N.Y. Marcus nipped Thomas by 0.05 seconds. Thomas, running for the Connecticut Elite team, competed over a six-week period beginning in December. She accumulated enough points to place fifth overall in the series and only two points out of fourth. This is the second consecutive Top 5 finish for Kafesha at the games; she finished fourth i…

by Tom Renner

02/02/2011

Westport, CT

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Fredericks Leads Local Runners in ESB Race Norwalk's Amy Fredericks finished fifth overall among women as many local runners took to the stairwells for Tuesday's Empire State Building Run-Up. The New York Road Runners sponsors the race. Fredericks, 44, won her age group as she covered the 86 flights and 1,576 steps in 14:27. She was 59th overall in the invitational race, which featured an international field. She was the second U.S. woman. "I'm glad it's over,'' said Amy, who has finished in the Top 5 a total of eight times among women runners in 10 races. "It's a real nerve-wracking race. I can't believe how competitive it's gettin…

by Tom Renner

02/02/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Fredericks Flies in Empire State Building Race Amy Fredericks likes the challenge of the Empire State Building Run-Up. And very few people chugged up the 86 flights of stairs and covered the 1,576 steps Tuesday faster than the Norwalk woman. Fredericks won the 40- to 49-year-old women's age group and was the fifth woman overall in the annual race. She ran 14:27 and was 59th overall in a field of 440 runners. "I'm glad it's over,'' Amy said. "It's a real nerve-wracking race. I can't believe how competitive it's getting." Amy is one of the top 5k runners in Fairfield County and a four-time winner of the Bigelow Tea Community Challenge. Th…

by Tom Renner

02/02/2011

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