Tourney Time ... Girls' Soccer And Field Hockey Teams Reach Championships; Spikers Advance With 3-0 Win

By ANDY HUTCHISON

Published: Oct 31, 2008 12:00 am

Tourney Time ... Girlsâ Soccer And Field Hockey Teams Reach Championships; Spikers Advance With 3-0 Win

By Andy Hutchison

Newtown High Schoolâs girlsâ soccer and field hockey teams both won their South-West Conference semifinal round games on Tuesday and were slated to play in championship games Thursday (after The Bee went to press). Both teams are the tourneyâs No. 2 seeds and were to face the top seeds. The Newtown girlsâ volleyball team, meanwhile, won its conference tourney quarterfinal round match 3-0 over Stratford on Tuesday and was scheduled to play in the semifinals on Thursday with a berth in Saturdayâs championship on the line.

Girls Soccer

Kasey Schulz, despite playing on a sprained ankle, has come through in a big way for the Nighthawks in the playoffs. Schulz saw limited playing time in last Fridayâs 4-0 SWC quarterfinal round win over New Milford, but notched the teamâs second goal when she dribbled down the right wing, cut back and hooked a low shot inside the right post. She played all of Tuesdayâs semifinal game against Lauralton Hall and scored both goals in a 2-1 win.

In the quarterfinal round win, Kelley Sullivan netted a pair of goals and Kristen Tanner also found the back of the net.

The Nighthawks were looking forward to a rematch with always-tough, thorn-in-the-side Masuk in the final. Masuk beat Newtown twice in the regular season. Following the SWC tourney, Newtown will begin state playoff action. âI think we should go far,â Schulz said.

Field Hockey

First a loss, then a tie, now a win? Thatâs the way the Nighthawks were hoping it would play out as they headed into Thursdayâs championship game against Pomperaug. Pomperaug was the only SWC team to beat Newtown this year and the Hawks played to a scoreless tie with the Panthers in a late-season rematch. Newtown beat New Fairfield 1-0 in Tuesdayâs semifinal. Shelly Davies scored the lone goal and was assisted by Katie Canavan. The Nighthawks have held 11 of 17 opponents scoreless this campaign.

Volleyball

The top-seeded Nighthawks trailed in all three games of Tuesdayâs quarterfinal round match with No. 8 Stratford but rallied for a 3-0 (25-22, 25-14, 25-15) win. Trailing 22-19 in the first game, the Nighthawks called timeout and proceeded to reel off six unanswered points, led by the serving of Rachel Marcucilli, who finished with 11 aces.

Jordyn Good had nine digs and six kills, Megan Casey had 11 kills and seven digs, Carolyn Fagan, Marley Koschel, and Jocelyn Pasko each had four kills and Ashley Rothacker compiled 25 assists to go along with three kills. The Hawks, having gone perfect in SWC play this fall, should be confident in their chances of winning the tourney, but the team is on guard after going unbeaten a year ago before falling in the conference championship.

âWeâre trying to focus on this being a new part of the season,â Coach Tom Czaplinski said.

âIâm really excited about it. I know weâre going to work hard for it,â Marcucilli added.

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

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A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

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Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

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Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

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Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

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