Watches this Sept. 28, 2010: Today's Sports Schedule and Yesterday's Results

Sept. 28, 2010: Today's Sports Schedule and Yesterday's Results
Girls Swimming and Diving wins second meet of the season, Girls Soccer stays undefeated, Girls Volleyball gets another win. Boys and Girls Cross Country, Boys Soccer this afternoon.

TUESDAY'S VARSITY GAMES:

Boys and Girls Cross Country host Wilton, Stamford, Westhill and Brien McMahon, 4 p.m. at Waveny Park.
Boys Soccer (3-1-1) face Bassick, 4 p.m. at Connor Field.
MONDAY'S RESULTS:

Girls Swimming and Diving vs. St. Joseph:
The Girls Swimming and Diving team beat St. Joe's 99-68 to earn their second win of the season.

Rams Notables:

Sophomore Maddie Rusch won the 200 IM (2.14.40) and the 100 butterfly (1.00.30).
Junior Cara Egan won the 200 freestyle (2.01.00).
Senior Livi Kroll won the 100 backstroke (1.03.20).
Sophomore Meredith Jonker won diving.
Up next for the Girls Swimming and Diving team is Friday when they will face rival Darien at 3:00 p.m at the Darien YMCA.

Girls Soccer vs. Danbury:
The Rams beat Danbury 2-0 in a rain-soaked game at Danbury High School Stadium to remain undefeated at 4-0.

The Rams got on the board at 20:24 when standout Caroline Murray crossed the ball in and Jana Persky got her head on it for the goal.

Weather played a big factor in the game as New Canaan dominated play but wasn't able to cash in on many of their chances due to the rain.

The Rams were able to get another goal at 74:16 when Aly DiRocco fed the ball to Caroline Murray who beat the goalie to give the Rams the two goal cushion.

Goalkeeper Holly Burwick had a strong game in the cage making six saves to earn her fourth shutout of the season.

The Rams will try and stay undefeated when they host Fairfield Warde on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. @ Connor Field.

Girls Volleyball vs. Trinity Catholic:
The Rams won their fifth game of the season as they defeated Trinity Catholic in five sets at New Canaan High School gynmasium.

Game 1: 25-21 NC
Game 2: 25-21 NC
Game 3: 22-25 TC
Game 4: 18-25 TC
Game 5: 15-11 NC
Rams Notables:

Kellen Tensen 25 spikes. 10 aces. 7 kills. 3 digs. 17 assists.
Melissa Tweed 3 spikes. 8 kills. 10 digs
Ellen Trinklein 8 spikes. 3 aces. 4 digs.
Cassidy Ward 6 spikes. 6 digs.
Up next for the Girls Volleyball team is Wednesday when they will host Stamford at 5:30 p.m. at New Canaan High School gynmasium.
Copped by http://newcanaan.patch.com/articles/september-28-2010-todays-sports-schedule-and-yesterdays-results

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Sports programs experience slow renewal after Katrina

Five years after Hurricane Katrina hit, some sports teams and communities are on the road to recovery, while others are stalled
NEW ORLEANS — They gathered for lunch last week, a handful of school, conference and college bowl officials who'd bonded into a support group of sorts since Hurricane Katrina tore so unimaginably through their city and their lives.
"I propose a toast," Sun Belt Conference commissioner Wright Waters said, rising to his feet in an upstairs, white table-clothed room in the Garden District's landmark Commander's Palace restaurant.

Darryl Williams, president of Friends of L.B. Landry, sits with boxes of trophies waiting on a display home in L.B. Landry High School. The second-oldest black high school in New Orleans, the Algiers neighborhood facility was rebuilt at a cost of $54 million and will field JV sports this season. Varsity sports will be added in 2011.
"To survivors, five years later."

Glasses clinked, the eight diners understanding that in that room — and across New Orleans' sports and recreation landscape — survival of one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in the nation's history has come in degrees.

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The Saints won a Super Bowl in February, and an entire region was famously uplifted. The Super Bowl is coming to town in another couple of years. Men's and women's basketball Final Fours, too. The Big Easy still can pull off the Big Event.

Tulane's college program has largely regained its footing since the hurricane blew ashore Aug. 29, 2005, announcing last month that it will return next fall to a full complement of 16 men's and women's teams. Still, there are conflicted athletes like Kat Alario, chased by the storm onto a bus to Jackson, Miss., just 2½ weeks into her freshman year, who saw teams folded and playing careers cut short.

"I mean, you can't compare it to anything that anybody else in the city who stayed here went through. I don't want to say, 'Oh, poor me,' " says Alario, a goalkeeper for the Green Wave's now-defunct women's soccer team.

Her voice catches. "But … it was a disaster for me, personally," she finishes, tears streaking her face.
coppied by http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2010-08-26-hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-tulane-colleges_N.htm