Title Town: Fairfield Soccer Teams Claim Conference Championships

Championship Wednesday was a busy, and successful, day for Fairfield soccer teams.

The Fairfield Prep soccer team outlasted Hand through overtime and penalty kicks to claim the SCC boys’ title, while Fairfield Ludlowe beat Greenwich 1-0 to win its first-ever FCIAC championship.

The Fairfield Warde girls’ soccer team battled Staples-Westport through two overtime periods before being declared co-FCIAC champions.

Sophomore goalie Dan Szabo saved two penalty kick shots against Hand and then went to the line himself as Prep’s fifth and final kicker and scored to lift the Jesuits to their fourth SCC title and third in the past four seasons.

Szabo, who watched Prep win the SCC title as an eighth-grader, told Joe Morelli of the New Haven Register/GameTimeCT after the game that he’s “always wanted to play on a high level like this,” and former Prep standout goalie Will Steiner, “helped motivate me to come here and play Prep soccer.”

Read more, and view a photo slideshow of the game, at GameTimeCT here.

Fairfield Ludlowe’s Lorin Tobey scored the lone goal of the game against Greenwich from about 25 yards out less than 3 minutes into the second half to help lift the Falcons to their first-ever FCIAC title.

“I’m dumbfounded right now,” Ludlowe coach Kevin O’Hara told Mary Albl of the New Haven Register/GameTimeCT after the game. “I still can’t believe this is happening; never in my wildest dreams from years ago did I ever think we would ever be FCIAC champs.”

Read the full story here.

Some Fairfield Warde girls’ soccer players were expecting to go to penalty kicks after battling Staples for 100 minutes and finishing in a 1-1 deadlock, but were glad to take home a title despite the disappointment.

“We were kind of disappointed because we actually expected (penalties),” junior Jennifer Maldonado told Ryan Lacey of the Connecticut Post after the game. “We weren’t ready for (the game to end). ... In soccer, you get results like that. I feel like both teams played well; we really wanted it. It is what it is; we’re co-champions right now so that feels good.”

Read the full story at the Connecticut Post here.

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