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4 GHS Lady Cards Earn FCIAC Honors
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League champion Greenwich placed two players on the all-FCIAC girls soccer first team: Shannon Colligan and Izzy Mackell while Emily Johnson and Emma Christie earned second-team honors.
After finishing fifth in the regular season, the Cardinals upset top seed St. Joseph in the semifinals of the FCIAC playoffs, then defeated Fairfield Warde to win their second consecutive league championship.
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Greenwich was then upset by Ridgefield in the second round of the CIAC Class LL state tournament. The Cardinals finished the season with a 17-3-4 record.
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The New Hampshire football team, quarterbacked by Brunswick graduate Kevin Decker, lost a heartbreaker Saturday to Montana State in the second round of the Division I FCS playoffs.
Decker threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Justin Mello with six seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, but the extra point was blocked, allowing seventh-ranked Montana State to pull out a 26-25 victory.
UNH sees its season end at 8-4 overall, while Montana State improves to 10-2 and a quarterfinal game at top-seeded Sam Houston State next weekend.
The Wildcats trailed 26-19 with 4:08 remaining in the fourth quarter, but Decker completed all six pass attempts in advancing the ball to the MSU 19-yard line. On second down, Decker was intercepted by Darius Jones at the 5 with 1:16 on the clock.
UNH's defense forced a three-and-out and MSU's punt sailed out of bounds at the Bobcats' 29 with 17 seconds to play.
On first down, Decker's pass attempt to the back-right corner of the end zone intended for Joey Orlando sailed wide out of bounds. Decker lofted the ball deep to the right corner on the next play, and Mello raced past the defender to catch the ball for a 29-yard touchdown that lifted New Hampshire within 26-25 with six seconds remaining.
On the ensuing PAT, the kick by Mike MacArthur, who was 40-for-42 on PAT attempts this season (including 2 of 2 earlier in the game), was tipped by Steven Bethley and caromed off the right post. It marked the second time that the difference between the Wildcats and the Bobcats was a missed PAT in a playoff game, bringing back memories of the 1976 D-II playoff loss in Bozeman.
Playing his final game at UNH, Decker completed 18-of-30 passes for 200 yards and two touchdowns with an interception.
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Here is the scrimmage schedule for the Greenwich girls and boys basketball teams and Greenwich girls hockey teams:
BOYS BASKETBALL
Monday -- at Trinity Catholic, 3 p.m.
Dec. 12 -- vs. Newtown, 4:30 p.m.
FRIDAY'S RESULTS
No games scheduled
SATURDAY'S RESULTS
No games scheduled
MONDAY'S SCHEDULE
No games scheduled
BOYS BASKETBALL
West Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record
Westhill 0-0 0-0 Staples 0-0 0-0 Bridgeport Central 0-0 0-0 Danbury 0-0 0-0 Trumbull 0-0 0-0 Greenwich 0-0 0-0Central Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record
Ridgefield 0-0 0-0 Brien McMahon 0-0 0-0 Stamford 0-0 0-0 Harding 0-0 0-0 Fairfield-Ludlowe 0-0 0-0 Norwalk 0-0 0-0East Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record
St. Joseph 0-0 0-0 Bassick 0-0 0-0 Trinity Catholic 0-0 0-0 Fairfield-Warde 0-0 0-0 New Canaan 0-0 0-0 Darien 0-0 0-0 Wilton 0-00-0
GIRLS BASKETBALL
West Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record
Trumbull 0-0 0-0 Danbury 0-0 0-0 Westhill 0-0 0-0 Staples 0-0 0-0 Greenwich 0-0 0-0 Bridgeport Central 0-0 0-0Central Division
Ridgefield 0-0 0-0 Norwalk 0-0 0-0 Stamford 0-0 0-0 Brien McMahon 0-0 0-0 Fairfield-Ludlowe 0-0 0-0 Harding 0-0 0-0East Division
New Canaan 0-0 0-0 Trinity Catholic 0-0 0-0 St. Joseph 0-0 0-0 Darien 0-0 0-0 Wilton 0-0 0-0 Fairfield-Warde 0-0 0-0 Bassick 0-00-0
BOYS HOCKEY
