Tom Renner

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No one knows local sports quite like Tom Renner, The Daily Voice's Sports Editor. For 22 years, he covered the field for The Stamford Advocate. He's been in Fairfield County since 1987.

Tom was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Norwalk, CT

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Tickets Going Fast for Sports Night A limited number of tickets are available for the sixth annual Sports Night Hall of Fame awards dinner at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct 18, at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich. With the event a week away and heading for a sellout, individual tickets and small groups can still be purchased, but full tables cannot be guaranteed. Tickets are $125 each. Highlights of the Sports Night evening will be the induction of the six new members of the Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame and the presentation of the Chelsea Cohen Courage Award to pro golfer Ken Green. ESPN's Jeremy Schapp will be the featured speaker. F…

by Tom Renner

10/11/2010

Norwalk, CT

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Season Comes up Aces for Softball Team The Aces won the East Division of the Norwalk softball tournament Friday with a 13-1 victory over East Coast Irrigation. Members of Aces include Dave Zatorsky, Joe Cossuto, Doug Vroman, Tom Cossuto, Nate Sumpter, Matt O'Brien, Vin Jamroga, Bob Belanger, Anthony Daniello, Brandon Tegano, Dave Liberatore, Andy Kovlakas, Andy Allegretta, Jeff Tiani and Kyle O'Brien. The team is pictured with former players who came out to support the team in Friday's championship game.

by Tom Renner

10/11/2010

Darien, CT

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Greenwich Swims Past Darien Darien ended the Greenwich girls swim team's reign atop the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference in 2009. It was the first time in 35 years a team other than the Cardinals won the league title. Friday, the Cardinals recaptured their spot as the league's elite team with a 106-80 over the Blue Wave at the Darien YMCA. Greenwich captured all three relay races and won seven of nine individual events to stay undefeated. Lauren Church won the 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke and swam the opening leg on the winning 200 medley relay team for the Cardinals. Other individual winners inclu…

by Tom Renner

10/10/2010

Norwalk, CT

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Runners Meet Challenge at Cranbury Tim Milenkevich has won 11 races this year at various distances. Sunday's victory in the Cranbury Park Challenge was one of the hardest, even though the Norwalk race was one of the shortest. Milenkevich, 28, covered the 5-kilometer trail run in 20:47. His time was about four minutes slower than his usual time for the 3.1 mile distance as he navigated his way through difficult terrain. There were tree limbs, rocks, roots and a stream that forced runners to tread carefully. "It's rugged for sure,'' said the Shelton resident. "But I liked it. It's an adventure." Paul Greenberg of Westport fi…

by Tom Renner

10/10/2010

Darien, CT

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Young Runner Strides to Forefront In a little more than a year of competitive running, 13-year-old Alex Ostberg, who competes for the Wilton Running Club, has burst on to the scene as one of most precocious young talents to come out of Lower Fairfield County. Alex, an eighth-grader at Middlesex Middle School in Darien, started running competitively in the summer of 2009. His father, Peter, was training for the Hartford Marathon and Alex asked to join. While Peter ran the marathon last October, Alex blazed through the 13.1-mile half marathon in 1:22:23. That's an average speed of 6:13 per mile. He finished 34th in a field of …

by Tom Renner

10/09/2010

Greenwich, CT

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Vasileff Builds a Plan After the Pain Lili Vasileff enters people's lives when they are at their lowest emotional stages. She enjoys it. The contradiction is part of the charm as a certified divorce financial planner, and Vasileff is one of the industry pioneers. "This is the time people are the most vulnerable,'' says Vasileff, who serves clients throughout Connecticut and the New York metro area from her Greenwich-based office. "You have to be educated and experienced, so that everyone stays on the same page to move forward with confidence post divorce. I can't begin to tell how many people stand at the court house, and say, '…

by Tom Renner

10/09/2010

Norwalk, CT

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Former Pro Finds Calling Coaching Kids With his experience, John Woodring could coach football at any level. The former NFL player with the Jets chooses to coach boys in Norwalk for a simple reason. "It's fun,'' says John, whose once-beaten Panthers of the Norwalk Youth Football League tackle Bridgeport at 2 p.m. Sunday at Brien McMahon. "It's football at its purest form. They are doing it because they love it. That's always been very appealing to me." Woodring has coached in Norwalk for five years. Before that, he coached his son Erik in Greenwich. His wife, Cindy, is a Greenwich schoolteacher, and the town previously allowed ch…

by Tom Renner

10/09/2010

New Canaan, CT

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Jones Still Flies in the 'Tri' Eben Jones' return to triathlon competitions was just like riding a bike. Actually, it was riding a bike. Swimming and running, too. The difference for the one-time professional triathlete is that he's now 50. He might not be as fast as he was in his 30s, yet he still moves better than a lot of athletes half his age. The New Canaan athlete finished second last Saturday in the ITPMan Triathlon in Darien. The race was his first since 2002, when he won the Mighty Montauk Triathlon for the ninth time in 10 tries. His wife, Julie, purchased Eben a bike for his birthday in August. "I knew he would…

by Tom Renner

10/09/2010

Stamford, CT

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Girls Soccer Champions Earn Honors Westhill High School's girls soccer team, which won the school's first state championship in the sport last fall, will be among the Sports Persons of the Year to be honored at the sixth annual SportsNight Hall of Fame Dinner on Oct. 18 at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich. The dinner is sponsored by the Fairfield County Sports Commission. Stamford defeated top-seeded Glastonbury, 2-1, in the Class LL championship last fall. Junior goalkeeper Jenn Osher provided the key saves and Penny Cote scored the game-winning goal to lead coach Dave Flower's third-seeded Vikings to their historic victory. It w…

by Tom Renner

10/08/2010

New Canaan, CT

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Girls Hockey Team Earns Honor The New Canaan High girls ice hockey team, which won Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference and state championships, will be among the honorees at the sixth annual Hall of Fame SportsNight dinner on Oct. 16 at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich. The team will be one of 15 community members recognized as the Sports Person of the Year. The dinner is sponsored by the Fairfield County Sports Commission. The Rams defeated arch-rival Darien in both finals, avenging losses in the championship games to the Blue Wave in the 2008-09 season. New Canaan, which had just four seniors on the team, f…

by Tom Renner

10/08/2010

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