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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Westport, CT

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Weston Boys Fall in Lacrosse Semifinals Every time Newtown's boys lacrosse team scored in Wednesday's South-West Conference semifinal, Weston had an answer. Until the fourth quarter. Top-seeded Newtown hung on to defeat fourth-seeded Weston, 11-9. Newtown (16-2) will meet New Fairfield in the SWC championship game Friday at Weston. The Trojans (11-6) turn their attention to defending their Class S championship. Richie Miller had three goals for Weston, while Lyle Mitchell had two goals and two assists. Matt Brooks, Jack Scheufele, Peter Robbins and Grey Bradshaw-Mack also connected. Jesse Laico and Daniel Rogers had assists, wh…

by Tom Renner

05/26/2011

Fairfield, CT

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Registration Opens for Football, Cheerleading Football players and cheerleaders can register for the Fairfield Pop Warner fall season through June. 30. Girls and boys can register online at fairfieldgiants.com and follow the registration links. The fee for cheerleading is $215, $315 for tackle football and $125 for flag football. Contact [email protected] or [email protected] if you need additional information. Do you have information about your league? Send it with a photo to [email protected]

by Tom Renner

05/26/2011

Westport, CT

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Staples Boys Track Finishes 2nd, Girls 3rd Staples sophomore Henry Wynne surprised Danbury's Alex Levine to win the 1,600 and pace the Wreckers boys to a second-place finish at Tuesday's Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference track and field championships. The Staples girls placed third. Wynne's surprising victory was one of the top performances for the boys, who finished with 95.5 points. Danbury won with 126, and Wilton was third with 59. Wynne finished in 4:20.33 with a strong move in the final 50 meters to beat Levine, considered the league's premier miler. Staples also won the 4 x 800 relay, the meet's opening r…

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

Wilton, CT

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Wilton U9 Swimmers Start Season Strong The youngest members of the Wilton Y Wahoos swim team kicked off their new season with a 9 & under meet earlier this month at the Darien YMCA. Wilton's Nate Snyder took home the third-place overall high-point trophy for the boys. Eight-year-old Nate finished first in the 25 free, second in the 25 back, third in the 25 fly, and sixth in the 25 breast. His teammate, seven-year-old Tyler Sicignano of Fairfield, took home the boys first-place high-point award for his efforts winning the 25-yard freestyle, breaststroke, fly and backstroke events in his age group. Katie McLaughlin of Trumbull…

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

New Canaan, CT

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New Canaan Girl Wins 2 Races at Fciacs Caroline Murray won two events to lead the New Canaan girls to a seventh-place finish Tuesday at the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference track and field championships at Danbury High School. The New Canaan boys finished sixth. Murray, a senior won the 1,600 in 5:06.54 and led the Rams to a 1-2 finish in the 3,200. She finished in 11:24.12, followed by Stephanie Benko in 11:27.43. Both times were personal bests. Alex Spinu won the 800 in 1:57.42 for the boys. Danbury's boys and girls ran away with team titles in both meets. Melanie Escalante also had a big day for the Rams…

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Norwalk Wildcats Enjoy a Hot Start The fifth-grade Norwalk Wildcats Junior Lacrosse team started where it left off last season by winning its first six games of the year. The Wildcats started off their season against the New Canaan Lions with a convincing win, 15-5. Their next game ended much closer as the Wildcats battled Weston in a back-and-forth game that ended with a Norwalk win, 6-4. The game was a defensive battle in which Norwalk held possession of the ball more than 60 percent of the time and took more than 15 shots on goal. Trumbull hosted Norwalk the following week in what turned out to be an offensive showdown a…

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Norwalk Stingrays Stop Newtown The NJSA Norwalk Stingrays Under-13 girls travel team defeated Newtown, 5-1, in a game last weekend. Forward Maeve Flaherty scored the first of her two goals off a throw in from center mid-fielder Natalie LaBella. Flaherty's next shot came assisted from forward Olivia Rosado. Laura Somma scored the third goal on a penalty kick. Rosado scored the first of her two goals next off a corner kick from Somma. Rosado scored again on an assist from Flaherty. The stingy Stingrays defense was led by Kristin Burnham, Vanessa DeFederico, Mackenzie Lea and Cecily Stearns. Keepers Christina VanDeve…

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

Westport, CT

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Weston U11 Takes 2nd in Clinton Tournament The Weston U11 Gold boys travel soccer team had an excellent run at the 17th annual Clinton Invitational Soccer tournament this past weekend. The team went undefeated through the two-day event before falling 2-1 to Madison Gold in a tightly contested championship final. The Weston team booted in an impressive 21 goals over five games, while allowing just three goals. Team members include (very back row, left to right): Coach Matt Hoffman of RNunes and Coach Chuck Palsho; middle row, left to right: Matt Babinksi, Griffin Levi, Mitchell Levi, A.J. Cina, Shane Mandell and Charlie Palsho; fron…

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Norwalk U10 Soccer Girls Off to Perfect Start The Norwalk Junior Soccer Association Under-10 girls soccer team started its season in typical fashion by winning its first six games of league play. Blue Thunder opened the season with a convincing win against Darien, 6-0. The following week they traveled to Danbury in what would end up being one of Blue Thunders' most consistent games all year. Norwalk scored all of its goals by combination plays and ended the scoring with a beautiful header in the 65th minute of a 5-0 victory. The next three games would be the most challenging as Blue Thunder faced league leaders Bethel, Stamford and Sou…

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Saugatuck Sends 7 Boats to Nationals Saugatuck Rowing Club won four races and qualified seven boats for next month's U.S. Youth Nationals with a strong performance at last weekend's Northeast Regionals on the Merrimack River in Massachusetts. "We were really happy with how the kids raced this weekend,'' Saugatuck coach Sharon Kriz said. "We knew the boats were moving fast and if we executed as planned we would qualify. But you have to be careful not to be too confident." The defending national champions in the Boys 2x, Weston's Graham Anderson and Westport's Max Meyer Bosse, won in 6:26.77, followed by GMS Rowing in 6:27.18. …

by Tom Renner

05/25/2011

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