The Newtown-New Fairfield (NNF) co-op hockey team took on the Brookfield, Bethel, Danbury, Immaculate (BBDI) team at Danbury Ice Arena on January 22. The Nighthawks fell 4-0 in a game that was closer than the final score indicates; it was scoreless into the latter part of the second period when BBDI scored and seized a 1-0 lead it carried into the third.

The third period saw BBDI play tight defense protecting the one-goal lead and making NNF bring the puck the length of the ice in a desperate attempt to get some offensive flow. BBDI added to the lead as the period continued. NNF goaltender Carter Bisson turned aside 22 shots in the contest and Quinn Harris and Colby Cheneski turned in strong performances.

Back in Danbury two days later, the Nighthawks fell 6-3 to New Milford, another South-West Conference opponent. The Wave came out firing, but the Hawks matched up well in the first period even getting on the board first in the closing minutes of the period when Vince Schuchat fired one home on a low snapshot while crossing the blue line as he entered the zone. Atilla Balla assisted on the play. New Milford was equal to the task however and tied the game on a tough angle shot over the outstretched leg pad of Bisson just over a minute later. New Milford methodically pulled away about five minutes into the second on another rip from the angle that beat Bisson on the opposite side. The Wave went on to score the next four getting two more to end the second and an additional two in the first half of the third period.

NNF finally answered with two late goals. Cam Longhi picked up his first high school goal with some hard work coming out of the corner and slipping one past the Green Wave goaltender. Gavin Hull and Greyson Pimentel each picked up a helper on the play. The final goal of the game came off the stick of Harris who found net while cutting across the high slot and letting a wrister go that found its way inside the far post for an unassisted goal. Bisson started in goal and made 23 stops on 29 shots. Kaylee Awrachow relieved late and turned aside all five shots she faced.