Ludlowe Football Topples Stamford Behind Team Effort; MADD Walk

Ludlowe's offense sets up to run a play during the game vs Stamford

I said last night, I might write about football today. 

Well, here I am. 

Ludlowe took the trip down to Stamford to face the Black Knights at historic Michael A. Boyle Stadium, better known as just Boyle Stadium. *

*Boyle Stadium was a Work Progress Administration (WPA) project that was built starting in 1935 and named for Boyle, who was a football coach and athletic director, in 1942. (Thanks to Rob Adams for the initial history lesson on this, plus further research.) 

I love this history in this. It's such great stadium to be in. And it's truly a stadium with the brick walls and the bench style seating. It's also got the press box above the stands on the visiting side. If I remember correctly, it used to be on the far (home) side. 

It also always has a big-game feel, as many FCIAC Championships and other playoff and other big games are often played there. 

Now, to the game. 

The Falcons came away with a 26-0 victory. It was a team effort in all facets of the game. 

Despite the score, the game was scoreless through one quarter. 

In the second quarter, Ryan Tompkins had a touchdown run and Ryan Menozzi had a touchdown reception and Ludlowe led 13-0 at halftime. 

In the third quarter, Stupak found Justin Toothaker for the 26-yard score to put Ludlowe on top 19-0 with 8:30 left in the quarter. Toothaker also had a third quarter interception, defensively. 

In the fourth quarter, the scoring was capped when Stupak connected with Menozzi again for a 26-yard score. 

While not in the scoring column, Timmy O'Neil also had some big catches for the Falcons offensively. 

The Falcon defense was strong as a collective unit in pitching the shutout. 

The Falcons improve to 4-1 and will be back in action next Saturday as they host Darien, who was number five in the state in the Gametime CT poll coming into this week. 

The Blue Wave defeated St. Joe's 14-0 on Friday night. They will likely move up in the poll before next week, as not only did they win, but No. 3 Staples and No. 1 Greenwich both lost this week. 

It will be an important game for the Falcons, as they look to keep piling up the wins in hopes of a playoff berth. 

Finally, I nice job by Stamford High School Athletics with their Pink-Out and Breast Cancer Awareness Day. The entire Stamford stands were decked out in pink and there were announcements made about t-shirt sales and other items for their fundraiser. 

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Saturday night, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) held a "Walk Like MADD" event at Ludlowe's Taft Field. 

You can read more about MADD here. 

It was nice to see a large number of Ludlowe students, including many students' athletes, in attendance at the walk. I'm sure there were others, but I noted members of the girls' and boys' lacrosse teams, the dance team, and the baseball team among others. 

So many people have been impacted by drunk driving, and it has impacted the Ludlowe community over the years. 

I wasn't totally sure what to expect, but I figured I would go by and check it out and support. I always have this thought that these events are going to be larger scale than they end up being. That's not to say it wasn't done well, because it was. 

There are so many important causes and charities to support. Everyone has reasons for why they support one or another. It's impossible to support them all. 

For example, I know there was also an Alzheimer's walk in Fairfield at Sacred Heart University on Saturday morning. 

Back to this MADD event. Nice work by Tim Morris of Ludlowe and everyone else who was involved in putting the event together and running it. 

It seems like an ongoing theme of my blogs, especially recently, have been support. 

Well, it was another day of supporting people, in different ways. 

Participants in the MADD Walk