Published on September 29th, 2025
It’s been a tough season for Fairfield Ludlowe. The Falcons struggle to score goals. When Staples struck less than 5 minutes into today’s match at Taft Field — with Brendan Allen outleaping his defender, to head [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 27th, 2025
In the 1960s and ’70s, Staples soccer’s biggest rival was Brien McMahon. In fact, for the first 10 years — when the FCIAC championship was a 1-game-only affair, just the finals — the Wreckers and Senators [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 24th, 2025
The Staples boys soccer team returned from a rare 6-day layoff this evening, at Bridgeport Central’s Kennedy Stadium. Ford Epstein slammed in a left-footed blast off Emmett Zahler’s long throw just 6 minutes in. It looked [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 23rd, 2025
When Staples soccer was forced to abandon Loeffler Field 3 years ago, due to deteriorating field conditions, they lost several things. The allure and history of the only grass field in the FCIAC. A beautiful vantage [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2025
Tuesday’s match against Greenwich was one of the most memorable in Staples boys soccer history. This afternoon’s with Wilton was one of the most forgettable. Just 48 hours after that emotional 4-3 loss, the Wreckers rode [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2025
Admission was free to today’s Staples-Greenwich match, at Wakeman Field. But any price would have been worth paying. The game between the spirited rivals had everything: deft ball control, tenacious defense, a torrid pace, brute physicality, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2025
Staples soccer has 2 big games this week. Both are at Wakeman Field. The Wreckers host Greenwich today (Tuesday, 4 p.m.). Click here for the livestream link. Wilton comes to town on Thursday (September 18, 4:30 [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 13th, 2025
It’s been a big week for Josh Whitaker. Yesterday, the senior winger committed to Hobart College. Today at Darien he scored 2 goals in the span of 2 minutes, just before halftime. Brendan Allen added 2 [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 11th, 2025
Patrick Beusse ’15 is running his first marathon: New York City. He’s raising funds for a great cause, too. The 2014 captain writes: I am thrilled and honored to be running the 2025 New York City [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 10th, 2025
Both Staples and Stamford’s soccer teams were hit hard by graduation. The Black Knights lost 17 players; the Wreckers, 16. But both programs — among the top in the FCIAC — reloaded, rather than rebuilt. Both [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 8th, 2025
The Staples boys soccer team faced their first real test of the year this afternoon. They aced it. The Wreckers combined balanced scoring, smart positioning, tenacious ball-winning and team defense to dismantle a solid Norwalk team [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 7th, 2025
Calling all dirty cars! And clean ones, whose drivers want to support the Staples boys soccer program too. The annual car wash is set for this Sunday (September 14). It’s 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 6th, 2025
Enfield drove nearly 2 hours — from their high school near the Massachusetts border — to Wakeman Field, for today’s match versus Staples. Then they parked their bus in the goalmouth. Not literally, of course. “Parking [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 4th, 2025
For the second time in 3 days, the Staples soccer team was patient. This afternoon at Wakeman Field, that patience produced results much more quickly than Tuesday night in New Canaan, where it took 60 minutes [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 2nd, 2025
Patience pays off. Noah Rossoni’s authoritative rebound goal in the 60th minute sparked Staples to a 1-0 win tonight, at New Canaan’s Dunning Field. The Wreckers were the more organized side, in the physical but fairly [&hellip... Read More →