This Week

 

Best game . . .

 

A rematch of the 1999-2000 South-West Conference girls’ basketball championship, Newtown and New Fairfield got together once again on Tuesday, January 9, and this time it was the Rebels winning in the last seconds of the game. The Nighthawks had to rally from a 21-point, third-quarter deficit to get into this game and that rally led to the most exciting finish of the season

Shot of the Week I . . .

 

Newtown and Stratford were tied 62-62 and there were just 6.4 seconds left on the clock. The Nighthawks – after John Fiscella forced a jump ball – were taking the ball out underneath their own basket. The ball went into John Wesley right in the low post. Wesley spun into the paint and tossed a left-handed baby hook right into the basket to put the ‘Hawks ahead, 64-62. Stratford managed to bring the ball down, but its final shot – at the buzzer – rimmed out.

By The Numbers . . .

 

3,800 – Amount, in dollars, that Newtown football player Tom Denninger needs to be able to participate in the Down Under Bowl, a high school football exhibition game to be held in Sydney, Australia this summer (see related story).

644 – Points that senior John Fiscella has scored in his four-year career with the Newtown High School boys’ basketball team, moving him into 10th-place on the school’s all-time scoring list.

638 – Points Fiscella would still need to overcome the leading scorer in school history, Steve Kordish, who finished with 1,281 points.

12.2 – Scoring average of Lori Iwanicki, the leading average for the Newtown High School girls’ basketball team which was 8-2 at press time.

10 – Players who have scored at least two points for the Lady Nighthawks.

And the winner is . . .

 

Gregg Simon, Newtown High School athletic director and coach of the NHS girls’ basketball team, was selected as the 2000-01 Sportsman of the Year by The Newtown Bee. A dinner in his honor will be held later this month at Ondine’s in New Fairfield.

Shot of the Week II . . .

 

With 7:17 left to play in the fourth quarter of the Newtown High School boys’ junior varsity game with Stratford on Friday, freshman Andrew Fiscella received a short little inbounds pass. He was standing near the corner – about four feet up from the baseline and about three inches off the sideline. When no one on either team moved for a heartbeat, no one coming to guard him, Fiscella calmly drained a three-point shot from well behind the arc.