By Andy Hutchison

RIDGEFIELD–Staples baseball capped off the regular season with a 3-2 win at Ridgefield on Wednesday.

The Wreckers went 12-3 in conference play to earn the No. 2 seed and will host No. 7 New Canaan (9-6) in the FCIAC Tournament quarterfinals Friday at 4 p.m. Staples blanked New Canaan 7-0 in the regular season.

In the finale at Ridgefield, Jules Cicero sparked the offense out of the leadoff spot with a double, triple and run scored. Vincent Vega hit a double and drove in a run. Nolan Walters and Jack Jacob also batted in runs.

The pitching was sharp with Charlie Fitch tossing five and a third innings of two-run ball with five strikeouts and Cole Landgraf pitching an inning and two thirds of hitless ball with three strikeouts.

Andy Hutchison

^{_{Andy Hutchison has been covering school sports — including Staples athletics — as well as news and feature stories, since the 1990s. He is the sports editor at the Newtown Bee. He writes for the Monroe Sun. He was director of communications and radio color commentator for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (now Islanders) hockey team. He has won numerous writing awards, including regional and national first-place honors.}}