Published on October 31st, 2014
Staples’ quest for a 13th state championship begins Monday. The Wreckers — ranked 19th in the “LL” (extra large schools) division with a 9-5-2 regular season record — travel to East Hartford (#14, 10-4-2). Game time [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 27th, 2014
Two days after a thrilling win over Danbury in the FCIAC semifinals, the Wreckers were back in action. Significantly, it was 12 days after another thrilling victory: This one 2-0 over Greenwich, in the regular season. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 24th, 2014
Danbury’s football stadium has been very good to the Staples boys soccer team. It’s where Greg Gudis and Steve Smith scored fantastic goals. Noah Bender won a match in the final minute. And, earlier this year [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 22nd, 2014
Having played 2 matches in the past 2 days — and 3 in the last 4 — the Staples coaching staff took a gamble. With the #7 seed in the FCIAC tournament on the line — [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 21st, 2014
The Wreckers were scheduled to play at Jack Casagrande Field 2 weeks ago. The match time was moved weeks before that, from 7 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Somehow, the officials never got word. They did not [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 20th, 2014
Last year, Jack Scott’s 4th-minute strike paved the way for a 4-1 victory against Fairfield Warde. This year, it took even less time — just 35 seconds for the Wreckers to find the net. The Mustangs [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 18th, 2014
Like Staples, Trumbull has had an inconsistent season. The Golden Eagles brought a 4-7-2 record into today’s match — but 2 of those wins came in their last 2 games, and earlier they tied league-leading Fairfield [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 18th, 2014
Do you know where the Sea of Tranquility is? Who was the 1st US president born in a hospital? What the acronym “SAT” stands for?* Plenty of Staples soccer players, parents and friends knew last night, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 15th, 2014
It’s been a frustrating season for Staples soccer — players and fans. The Wreckers have tied games they could have won, and lost games they could have tied. They’ve missed their center back and tri-captain, Andrew [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 13th, 2014
The Wreckers were scheduled to host the Crusaders today at Loeffler Field. But when the Staples girls team match with Wilton — perhaps their toughest opponent this year — was postponed due to the Yom Kippur [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 12th, 2014
Steve Baumann ’70 — a former soccer captain at Staples and All-American at the University of Pennsylvania, who went on play professionally in the North American Soccer League before embarking on a career in education — [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 10th, 2014
Entering today’s match, 3 FCIAC teams remained undefeated. Norwalk was 9-0-3; Staples lost 1-0, on a late indirect kick. Danbury was 8-0-2; the Wreckers tied them on a strike with 5 seconds left before halftime. And [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 8th, 2014
Mike Westcott ’76 — the goalkeeper on Staples’ 1975 FCIAC championship team — died Saturday in Cohasset, Massachusetts, after a battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He was 56 years old. Born in Germany, Mike attended [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 8th, 2014
Several weeks ago, Brien McMahon changed the start time of today’s match from 7 p.m. to 4:45. Staples, and the CIAC, were notified. But the referee assignor never got word. So although the Wreckers and Senators [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 6th, 2014
The Wreckers began their 6-games-in-13-days stretch against a team that was hovering just below them in the crowded race for an FCIAC tournament berth. The 1st half began with low intensity, and little cohesive play by [&hellip... Read More →