In a rematch of last year’s South-West Conference girls’ soccer title game, won by Newtown, the host Nighthawks and Pomperaug of Southbury Panthers finished in a 1-1 tie under the lights at Blue & Gold Stadium on September 12.

Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team saw its offense thrive with a five-player front in the season opener, a 4-3 win over visiting Naugatuck, at Blue & Gold Stadium, on September 14.

Over the course of 50 years, there are going to be changes. While girls and boys have participated in cheerleading and football at the youth level in town for a past half century, and Newtown Youth Football & Cheer has been a fall fixture on the grass behind Hawley School through all of these turns of the calendar, there have been some variations to the theme.

Trailing two games to one and behind 22-16 in what could have been visiting Darien’s put-away set, Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team put together quite a comeback on September 13.

The Boot seemingly has found a permanent home. Newtown High School’s football team blanked visiting New Milford 42-0 at Blue & Gold Stadium on September 13, keeping hold of the Boot Trophy for yet another season.

Newtown High School’s field hockey and girls’ soccer teams posted season-opening victories on September 12.

Newtown High School’s cross country teams began the season with a pair of wins, defeating the New Fairfield Rebels and Stratford Red Devils on its home course, adjacent to Reed Intermediate School, on September 10.

With their backs against the wall and in need of three wins in one day, members of the My Place team put forth a valiant effort in the Newtown Men’s Sunday Softball League upper division playoffs at Dickinson Park on September 8.

Coming off a season in which it scored what Coach Stephanie Kearns believes is a program season record number of goals (last year’s Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) results show 64 cage-finders between regular and postseason), Newtown High School’s field hockey team is looking for even more.

Becky Osborne, coach of the Newtown High School girls’ swimming and diving team, is embracing the team’s early bump in the road — not having a home pool for what she believes will be the first month or so of the campaign.