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Feb 11, 2024
FCIAC Championships
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgfield Takes Third At FCIAC with 6 Finalist
New Canaan, CT — The Tigers made a lot of noise for a small squad.
John Carrozza
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Feb 07, 2024
Ridgefield 52, Fairfield Ludlowe 24
Varsity Wrestling
Tigers Finish the Season Strong with Win Over Ludlowe
Fairfield, CT — (10) Ridgefield 52, Fairfield Ludlowe 24
John Carrozza
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Feb 04, 2024
Haddam Killingworth 12, Ridgefield 58
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Takes Down HK
New Fairfield, CT — Ridgefield continues to roll.
John Carrozza
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Feb 04, 2024
New Canaan 12, Ridgefield 56
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Tops New Canaan
Ridgefield, CT — 10) Ridgefield 56, New Canaan 12
John Carrozza
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Feb 04, 2024
New Fairfield Dual Tournament
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Takes Gold at New Fairfield Dual Tourney
New Fairfield , CT — The Tigers put on a stunning performance at the New Fairfield Duals on Saturday.
John Carrozza
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Jan 29, 2024
The Gary Tiger Ridgefield Challenge
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Grapplers Shine at 22nd Annual Gary Tiger Ridgefield Challenge Tourney
Ridgefield, CT — Ridgefield hosted the 22nd Annual Gary Tiger Ridgefield Challenge this past weekend. The event followed an Alumni Event on Thursday January 25th celebrating 30 years of youth wrestling in Ridgefield. Many of the alumni stayed in town for the challenge and were treated to a record setting performance by the home team. The Challenge prides itself on bringing together some of the top teams from New York and New England. Ridgefield took second place behind current CT powerhouse, Newtown, and edged out a tough New Milford team.
John Carrozza
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Jan 28, 2024
Ridgefield Alumni Event Celebrating 30 Yrs of Youth Wrestling
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Alumni Gather to Celebrate 30 years of Youth Wrestling
Ridgefield, CT — Ridgefield Wrestling took advantage of a major milestone to bring together alumni from its youth and high school programs on January 25th. Over 75 former wrestlers, coaches, administrators and supporters gathered to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of Ridgefield’s Youth Wrestling program. The event, organized by the RHS Wrestling Booster Club, honored those wrestlers, coaches and administrators that contributed to the longevity and success of wrestling at the youth and high school levels. Ridgefield selectman Rudy Marconi and Chris Murray attended the event.
John Carrozza
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Jan 21, 2024
Danbury JV Tourney
Varsity Wrestling
JV Wrestlers Capture Hardware at Danbury Tourney
Danbury , CT — While the varsity battled at Xavier, The JV team, coached by Jim Murphy and Hector Rodriguez, were at Danbury High School seeking trophy’s.
John Carrozza
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Jan 21, 2024
Colter Abely Mid Season Classic (Xavier)
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Tiger put the T in Teamwork finish a 4th in Xavier Tourney!
Middletown, CT — In what was a heavyweight battle of top CT wrestling teams, the Tigers took a well deserved 4th place. The Colter Abely Mud-season classic felt like the state wrestling tourney with 5 of the top 11 teams in the state competing as well as top 3 - Xavier, Newtown, East Hartford.
John Carrozza
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Jan 18, 2024
Wilton 24, Ridgefield 58
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Tigers take down Wilton Warriors 58-24
Ridgefield, CT — The Tigers took an early lead in this match and had too much fire-power for arch-rival Wilton.
John Carrozza
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Jan 14, 2024
Greater Hartford Open
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Split Squad Takes 6th Place at the GHO
West Hartford, CT — The Ridgefield wrestling team was split into two teams this weekend, with one group of 5 competing at Eastern States and a group of 11 competing at the Greater Hartford Open.
John Carrozza
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Jan 14, 2024
Eastern States
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Grapplers Show Their Grit at the Eastern States Tourney, Finish in Top 3rd of teams
Loch Shelgrade, NY — Five Ridgefield wrestlers travelled north to SUNY Sullivan to compete against the best wrestlers from the East Coast. Over 500 wrestelrs from 150+ teams and 8 states competed in the tourney.
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Darien 18, Ridgefield 61
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Rolls Past Darien
Ridgefield, CT — The Tigers were cool and confident taking on arch rival Darien.
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Newtown 58, Ridgefield 22
Varsity Wrestling
Newtown outlasts Ridgefield 55-22. Tigers can't make up for open roster spots
Ridgefield, CT — Ridgefield didn't have the fire power on the bench to keep up with CT #2 ranked Newtown. 3 open weight classes were too much for the Tigers to overcome.
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Ridgefield 44, Southington 36
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield wins a big dual over #11 ranked Southing 44-36 to get to Southing Dual Finals
Southington, CT — Key matches here.
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Melrose 36, Ridgefield 45
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Beats Defending Champions Melrose 45-36
Southington, CT — Great victory over defending champions Melrose MA. Skyler Reyes had a big win to clinch the victory for Ridgefield.
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Trumbull JV Tourney
Varsity Wrestling
JV wrestlers put up a number of wins at first tourney!
Trumbull, CT — Great work by the JV kids this week. (Records below)
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Southington Duals
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield takes second at Southington Duals
Southington, CT — Ridgefield took second to Newtown in this compettive tournament. Despite giving up 18 points in forfiets due to illness, the Tigers took out several top teams from New England.
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Mid-Hudson Tournament
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield takes 9th Mid-Hudson Tourney - Petkov takes 1st, Carrozza 2nd
Lagrangeville, NY — Great performance in this extremely competitve 2 days tournament.
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Brookfield 18, Ridgefield 60
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Dominates Brookfield at McDougal Duals
Trumbull, CT — Great Showing by Ridgefield
John Carrozza
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Jan 10, 2024
Ridgefield 48, Trumbull 33
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Takes Down Trumbull to Win McDougal Duals
Trumbull, CT — Ridgefield 48, Trumbull 33
John Carrozza
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Jan 09, 2024
Brien McMahon 12, Ridgefield 68
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield 68, Brien McMahon 12 At Ridgefield
Ridgefield, CT — 106: Carter Lanzilli (R) forfeit; 113 Brodie Block (R) pin Maren Gilchrist (BM), 3:54; 120 Dylan Meyers (R) pin Chloe Katz (BM), 0:46; 126: Dominic Barrella (R) forfeit; 132 John Carrozza (R) pin Jake Dichiara (BM), 3:43; 138 Leo Moore (R) pin Kosta Koukidis (BM), 1:54; 145 Lorenzo Lanzilli (R) dec. Daniel Cruz (BM), 13-5; 152 Luciano Tumminello (R) tech fall Aj Gioseffi (BM), 18-3; 160 Victor Petkov (R) pin Rodelin Constant (BM), 2:27; 170 Marcello Tumminello (R) pin Charlie Pavia (BM), 2:23; 182: Wyatt Podielsky (R) forfeit; 195 Jake Virgulak (BM) pin Nikolozi Subeliani (R), 1:57; 220 Jaidyn Chang (R) pin Alex Anderson (BM), 1:35; 285: Ty Wilson (BM) forfeit
John Carrozza
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Dec 29, 2023
McDougall Duals
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield dominates Trumbull McDougal Duals
Trumbull, CT — Great day for Ridgefield at the Trumbull Duals.
John Carrozza
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Feb 28, 2023
Class LL State Tourney -Trumbull 2/17-2/18
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield sends 5 wrestlers thru to CT State Opens
Trumbull, CT — Five Ridgefield wrestlers advanced sto CT State opens. Wrestler needed to place in top 6 in the LL division to move on.
John Carrozza
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Feb 28, 2023
State Open Tourney - Hill House New Haven 2/24-2/25
Varsity Wrestling
Barella and Petkov Place move on to New Englands
New Haven, CT — Ridgfield sent 5 wrestlers to the CT state open tournament. Andre Kosygin, Dom Barella, Victor Petkov and Freshman Johnny carrozza and Leo Moore.
John Carrozza
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Feb 13, 2023
Stamford 24, Ridgefield 54
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield defeats Stamford
Ridgefield, CT — The Tigers ended their regular season in style. The team realer off 9 consecutive pins between 120 and 182 to seal the victory.
John Carrozza
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Feb 13, 2023
FCIAC Championship
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield takes 6th at FCIAC Championships
New Canaan, CT — The RHS Wrestling Team competed in the 2-day FCIAC Championship tournament this past weekend. The team took sixth place overall despite forfeits at 3 weight classes.
John Carrozza
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Feb 07, 2023
New Fairfield Duals
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield goes 4-1: Takes 3rd at New Fairfield Duals Tourney
New Fairfield , CT — The Ridgefield grapplers wrestled five matches on Saturday. Despite giving up 3 matches per meet (18 points) in forfeits the team finished 4-1 and took 3rd overall. This was a great warm up as the boys get ready for Stamford on Wednesday Feb 7th and then The FCIAC tournament on Friday/Saturday Feb 10th & 11th.
John Carrozza
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Feb 03, 2023
Gary Tiger Ridgefield Challenge
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Challenge Recap
Ridgefield, CT — The Tigers took 4th in this highly competitive tournament.
John Carrozza
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Feb 03, 2023
Ridgefield 57, Darien 24
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield Dominates the Blue Wave
Darien, CT — Ridgefield 57, Darien 24
John Carrozza
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Jan 29, 2023
Ridgefield 54, Wilton 27
Varsity Wrestling
Box Score
Wilton, CT — Ridgefield 54, Wilton 27
John Carrozza
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Jan 21, 2023
JV Patton Duals
Varsity Wrestling
Patton JV Tournament
Danbury, CT — Ridgefield sent a squad of wrestlers to compete at the Danbury JV tournament. The format for the tourney was Madison weights and Round Robin with 4 and 5 man brackets. This meant all of our wrestlers were able to wrestle 3-4 matches and gain valuable mat time. Wyatt Podielsky and Marcello Tuminello finished first. We strong second place performances from Ryder, Sam McDonald, Lucas Locatelli and Josh Axen. The rest of the team wrestled tough and we loved to see the continued progression of our young wrestlers.
John Carrozza
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Jan 21, 2023
Danbury 51, Ridgefield 18
Varsity Wrestling
Ridgefield vs Danbury
Ridgefield, CT — Ridgefield faced off against Danbury High School this past week. Danbury has ranked atop CT high school wrestling over the last several decades. The team had a great showing and there were a number of very close matches. Ridgefield had wins from Johnny Carrozza, Leo Moore, Lorenzo Lanzilli, and Ryder Dadasovich. There were some great battles, as Ridgfield’s top Wrestlers Dom Barella, Victor Petkov and Andrey Kosygin faced off with several of the states top ranked wrestlers from Danbury. While these matches didn’t go our way these were gritty matches that could have gone either way. We love the trajectory the team is on and the group appears to be peaking at the right time in the season.
John Carrozza