A group of girls’ hockey players from Newtown High School is teaming once again with other South-West Conference players on the Masuk of Monroe-led squad.

The Newtown High School football team’s undefeated season and state championship hopes were undone by a dominant Greenwich squad, in the Class LL playoff semifinals, in Greenwich on December 2.

A stingy defensive performance, success on third down to keep drives alive, Dan Mason’s record-setting efforts, and solid special teams lifted Newtown High School’s football team past three-time Class LL State Champion Darien 26-15 in the LL playoff quarterfinals, at Blue & Gold Stadium on November 27.

Newtown High School’s Unified Sports program continues to grow every year, and this fall’s Blue Heat soccer team featured almost as many partners as athletes, with a combined 40 special needs athletes and the partners, student peers who worked with them, plus a small group of coaches.

Newtown High School’s football team earned the third seed in the Class LL state playoffs and will host No. 6 Darien in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, November 27. The game, to be held at Blue & Gold Stadium, will kick off at 6:30 pm.

Lisa Shirk has raised three children with school responsibilities and extracurricular activities — including athletics — on their plates throughout the years. As a busy mom of active children, she knows a thing or two about all of the responsibilities of helping make things happen.

It came down to a late fourth-quarter stand, but Newtown High School’s football team got the job done, holding off visiting Masuk of Monroe 21-14 in the annual Thanksgiving Eve clash, at chilly Blue & Gold Stadium on November 21.

In his first year as Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer coach, Charley Amblo has been voted the South-West Conference Coach of the Year for the Class LL/L programs; Notre Dame-Fairfield’s Whitey Budreckas received the recognition for the Class M and S schools.

Various roads in the center of Newtown will be impacted by the ninth annual Newtown Turkey Trot 5K Run and Walk, scheduled for Thursday, November 22, between the hours of 7:45 and 9 am.