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Ridgefield Sports Roundup: Feb 23.
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The Ridgefield High School boys basketball team showed that it might still be a force in the FCIAC playoffs.
Kurt Steidl scored 21 points and Jeff Racy added 16 Wednesday as the Tigers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 54-46 victory over Westhill in Stamford.
Other than St. Joseph, Westhill had been the hottest team in the FCIAC, winning 10 of its previous 11 games.
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Ridgefield, which opened a 27-19 lead at the half, finished the regular season at 15-5 and 13-5. The Tigers grabbed the No. 3 seed for the FCIAC playoffs and will face Stamford in the quarterfinals on Saturday at Fairfield Ludlowe.
The Black Knights clinched a playoff spot Wednesday with a 57-42 win over Harding.
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Chris Walters had 27 points for Westhill, exactly half of the Vikings' total.
The Vikings closed the regular season at 14-6 and 13-5. Westhill went from the No. 2 seed to fourth and will face defending FCIAC champion Bassick on Saturday.
Tony Dobbinson was Westhill's next leading scorer with just six points.
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Led by Olivia Hompe, the New Canaan girls hockey team stormed into the FCIAC finals Wednesday with a 6-1 victory over rival Darien at the Darien Ice Rink.
Hompe scored four goals, raising her season total to 64, as the Rams improved to 20-1.
After a scoreless first period, New Canaan broke it open with five goals in the second period, three of them by Hompe. Abbey Buckenheimer and Holly Burwick had the only goals for New Canaan.
Britt Gardellla faced only eight shots for New Canaan, giving up a second-period goal to Emily Tropsa. Shannon Hall made 15 saves for Darien.
New Canaan will face Greenwich in Saturday's championship game set for 4 p.m. at the Terry Conners Rink in Stamford.
The Cardinals advanced with a 4-3 win over Ridgefield in Wednesday's first semifinal, rallying from a 2-1 deficit after the second period.
Hannah Jeffrey scored a hat trick and Emily Bacon had the other goal for the Cardinals. Allie Schiffer, Cara Lockwood and Kerry Sheehan-Delany scored for Ridgefield.
Dart Freccia made 16 saves for Greenwich and Heather Ogden stopped 22 shots for Ridgefield, which cut the deficit to 4-3 on Sheehan-Delany's goal with just over four minutes remaining.
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The Ridgefield boys hockey team remained third in the New Haven Register top 10 media state poll.
Despite the loss to Notre Dame of West Haven, Fairfield Prep (14-3) held on to a share of the top spot with the Green Knights (14-3-1)
Notre Dame (14-3-1) did collected one more first-place vote than the Jesuits with eight of the 15.
Ridgefield (18-2) is followed by Hamden (10-4-2), Glastonbury (13-5-0), Darien (14-5-0), West Haven (10-6), Xavier (9-7-1), St. Joseph (14-6-0) and East Haven (11-5-2).
St. Joseph and East Haven were unranked last week with the Cadets entering the top 10 for the first time.
Darien dropped two spots following its 4-0 loss to last week to New Canaan (12-7-1), which is just outside the top 10.
Ridgefield posted an impressive 6-1 win over Glastonbury on Tuesday to conclude its regular season.
With Darien defeating Fairfield 5-2, the Tigers (11-1 in the FCIAC) settled for the No. 2 seed in the tier playoffs that begin this weekend and will have a first-round bye.
WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS
Boys basketball
Ridgefield 64, Westhill 56
Girls hockey
Greenwich 4, Ridgefield 3, FCIAC semifinals
THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE
No games scheduled
STANDINGS
BOYS BASKETBALL
West Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record
Westhill* 13-5 14-6 Danbury*l 10-8 12-8 Bridgeport Central* 10-8 11-8 Greenwich 9-9 11-9 Trumbull 9-9 10-10 Staples 8-10 9-11Central Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record
Ridgefield* 13-5 15-5 Stamford* 11-7 12-8 Fairfield Ludlowe 9-9 9-11 Norwalk 8-10 10-10 McMahon 4-14 4-16 Harding 3-15 4-16East Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record
St. Joseph* 18-0 20-0 Trinity Catholic* 14-4 15-5 Bassick* 13-5 15-5 Fairfield-Warde 9-9 11-9 Wilton 8-10 10-10 Darien 1-17 2-18 New Canaan 1-17 2-18GIRLS BASKETBALL
West Division
FCIAC Record
Overall Record Danbury* 18-0 22-0 Trumbull* 15-3 19-3 Staples 11-7 12-8 Westhill 10-8 11-9 Greenwich 4-14 4-16 Bridgeport Central 1-16 2-17Central Division
Norwalk* 13-5 15-6 Stamford* 11-7 12-10 Fairfield Ludlowe 7-11 8-12 Ridgefield 7-11 7-13 McMahon 3-15 3-17 Harding 2-15 4-15East Division
St. Joseph* 15-3 17-4 Wilton* 13-5 15-6 Trinity Catholic* 12-6 13-8 Darien* 11-7 12-9 Fairfield Warde 10-8 12-8 New Canaan 8-10 10-10 Bassick 0-18 0-20BOYS HOCKEY
East Division FCIAC Record FCIAC Points Overall Record Darien* 11-1 22 14-5-0 Ridgefield* 11-1 20 18-2-0 St. Joseph* 9-3 18 13-7-0 New Canaan* 8-4 16 12-7-1 Wilton* 8-4 16 10-10-0 Trinity Catholic* 8-4 16 9-11-0 Stamford 4-8 8 6-13-1 West Division FCIAC Record FCIAC Points Overall Record Fairfield 7-5 14 9-11-0 Westhill 5-7 10 5-12-2 Trumbull 4-8 8 11-9-0 Staples 2-10 4 8-11-0 Greenwich 1-11 2 3-17-0 Norwalk/McMahon 0-12 0 2-18-0Girls Hockey
