Fore The Love of Golf, Read This!

Build your network and your golf game.

Fore where there is golf, there is business.

Combining the best of business and pleasure, the Chamber's Annual Golf Tournament provides an enjoyable day to connect with clients or colleagues. This fun and competitive event features a challenging course, great prizes and opportunities to build professional relationships with Valley-area business leaders. Whether you come for the golf or the networking, you’re guaranteed to have a great time under the sun.

Please see attached flyer and take a shot to be a golfer, sponsor or both! Tournament entry includes: 18-holes of Golf; Cart and Green fees; Breakfast, Lunch, Beverages, Snacks on the course plus more. 

 

Tournament features the Curtiss-Ryan Honda Hole-in-One,

plus back by popular demand the early morning shot-gun start at 9:00 am

The Course: Located on nearly 300 acres of beautifully manicured turf grass, trees, watercourses and natural areas, Race Brook Country Club has long been considered one of the finest tests of golf in New England.

Click here for more details and to register or sponsor now!

Or email us today - we are happy to answer your questions.

Funds raised by this event are used to further the Chamber's mission of creating a strong local economy, promoting the Greater Valley region, advocating on behalf of local businesses, and connecting area business people.

Ansonia Day at Bridgeport Sound Tigers

Friday Night Lights Return to Derby

DERBY- Friday Night Lights will return to DeFilippo Field at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20. That's when the Derby High School Red Raiders face the Red Raiders from Torrington. Game time is 7 p.m. All residents and former players are encouraged to attend. 

The event will serve as a celebration of the major makeover the Leo F. Ryan Sports Complex/DeFilippo Field received. The project included a brand new fieldhouse, multi-use turf field, running track, bleachers and press box, thanks to bond funds from the State of Connecticut and a private donation from Joan Payden, president/CEO/Founder of Payden & Rygel.  

The next big event at the complex will take place Oct. 12 when the city will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony for the J.R. Payden Field House and Payden Park.

See Yankees vs Blue Jays

Play Ball!

(Sharing Information from City of Ansonia's Facebook page)

ANSONIA – With MLB spring training camps now open, what better time to think spring and baseball!

Mayor Dave Cassetti, in conjunction with the Sacred Heart University Department of Athletics, announce that the City of Ansonia will host a regular season Division I college baseball game this spring at Nolan Field.

This is the first-ever event of its kind at Nolan Field.

The game will feature the Sacred Heart University Pioneers vs. University at Albany Great Danes and is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15, 2018 with a May 16 rain date. Game time is yet to be determined but will likely be a late afternoon start with Nolan Field’s lights taking effect for the final innings.

“This is an original idea developed by my Constituent Services Director Greg Martin,” said Mayor Cassetti. “It certainly has the potential of becoming a signature event for Ansonia. We plan to offer up our finest hospitality to both teams.”

This inaugural game will be treated as a “pilot” and based on its success, SHU is considering making it an annual “home” game tradition here that could bring in other marquee opponents such as Yale or UCONN to the Copper City.

A nominal admission will be charged for the game.

“This is a great sporting event for families, kids and senior citizens from throughout the valley and beyond to attend and enjoy high caliber Division I college baseball talent,” said Cassetti.

Ansonia 6th Ward Alderman Joshua Shuart, a professor of sports management at Sacred Heart, assisted in bringing both sides together to facilitate the idea along.

SHU has had many players professionally drafted by Major League Baseball, with several continuing their MLB aspirations in the minor leagues. This past summer, Troy Scribner made his MLB debut with the LA Angels, becoming the first Pioneer to appear in “the show.” Scribner, a 2013 graduate of the University, went 2-1 with a 4.18 ERA and 18 strikeouts over 23.2 innings of work in 10 outings with Los Angeles.

SHU is a member of the Northeast Conference and Albany is a member of the America East Conference. Both clubs have qualified for NCAA national tournaments over the past 10 years, with the Pioneers making four trips and the most recent in 2015.

“This is the next best thing to bringing a professional ball game to an intimate, hometown backyard setting,” said Martin. “It’s a unique sporting event opportunity that offers interesting growth potential.”

Nolan Field, considered one of the finest high school facilities in the state for both football and baseball, has previously hosted a Philadelphia Phillies tryout camp in 1948, and even a Major League exhibition game in 1922 featuring the National League St. Louis Cardinals against an Ansonia amateur team that attracted 4,000.

The second largest crowd to watch a baseball game here was in 1972 when Ansonia High School hosted Naugatuck near the end of the Grey Hounds vaunted 64-game winning streak. On a warm Saturday afternoon in May, a crowd estimated by The Evening Sentinel as over 3,000 watched a 15-inning thriller as Naugatuck prevailed 3-2 to keep their streak alive. AHS pitcher Dennis Lee hurled the entire 15 innings.

In 2014, as part of the Ansonia’s 125th anniversary celebration, Martin produced a vintage baseball game set in the 1880’s between the mythical Derby Osbornedales and Ansonia Coppermen played by era rules, uniforms and equipment. The game attracted 1,200 fans.

Nolan Field’s baseball capacity can accommodate up to 5,000 fans.

Martin is a former minor league general manager with the Pittsfield Colonials of the CanAm League and has also co-developed two nationally televised live vintage baseball games for ESPN.

 

Bus Trip to see UCONN Huskies

SHS Gaelettes to host Fundraising Game

  

SHELTON -The Shelton High School Girls Basketball team will host its annual “BLUE GAME” at Shelton High School Feb. 6 when the Gaelettes take on rival Guilford High School. 

The “BLUE GAME” is an event in which the Shelton High School Girls Basketball program helps raise awareness of Type 1 Diabetes, also known as Juvenile Diabetes.     

 

The event will be held at the Murray Gymnasium at Shelton High School, 120 Meadow St., starting with the Junior Varsity game at 5:15 p.m. and will culminate with the Varsity match-up at 7 p.m.

 

Many local businesses and families have donated items to be raffled off as part of this event with all proceeds being donated to Yale Pediatric Diabetes.   

 

Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that enables people to get energy from food. It comes on suddenly, and causes dependency on injected or pumped insulin for a person’s life.  

T1D carries the constant threat of devastating complications throughout an affected person’s lifetime. There is nothing you can do to prevent T1D, and - at present - there is nothing to cure it. It is a condition that must be monitored and treated for life.

 

The Shelton High School Girls Basketball program has had past and current players who are afflicted with Type 1 Diabetes and are constantly managing their lives with this affliction.  The team’s passion to help their teammates and others living with T1D is immeasurable.

Please consider attending this important event to help support the cause and Yale Pediatric Diabetes. 

 

Don’t forget wear your “BLUE” to show your support.

(This is a press release from John Niski, Director of Athletics, Shelton Public Schools)

Soccer Game to Benefit Breast Cancer