FAIRFIELD, Conn. The Fairfield Giants defeated the New Milford Bulls, 28-12, in an out-of-conference Junior Midget Division youth football game.The Giants attacked early, with quarterback Henry Purdy hitting Brendan Beiser with a 40-yard pass on the first play from scrimmage. Two plays later, Spencer Green charged into the end zone on a run up the middle. Purdy and Beiser hooked up for on a long pass for the Giants' second touchdown, and Beiser scored on a 40-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. He had three TDs on the day.Defensively, Fairfield was solid. Bruno Borges, Green and Matt King lead the team in tackles. King had a second-half interception.In Junior Pee Wee Division games, the Fairfield Giants 2 defeated Waterbury, 27-6. Led by captains Jared Toth, Nick Parisi and Jesse Lawson, the Giants took the field and quickly accumulated a 270 lead before the end of the first half. Brian Howell, Nick Parisi and Reid Dammeyer scored touchdowns. John Reynolds played well at quarterback while Colin Wilson, Michael Lynch, TJ Fitzgerald, Oliver Kleinberg and AJ Montgomery had runs for positive yardage. Gage Dias, Charlie Waghorne, Ethan Vayda, James Bourque, Robby Dutoit, Michael Eaton, Daniel Shannon and Ben Schnitzer led the charge up front.Leading the defensive charge was Jesse Lawson and Jared Toth, who directed their many teammates to stop the Patriots in their tracks. Hayden Beiser, Paul Blanco, Connor Boyle, Aidan Kilgallon, William Pisani, Jack Scholl and Sean Seiler combined to hold the Patriots to one touchdown late in the fourth quarter. Injured teammates Christian Peterson and David Spangler led the support from the sidelines.The Fairfield Giants 1 Junior Pee Wee team fell to Danbury, 6-0.The Giants Pee Wee team defeated Waterbury, 32-0, and Mighty Mites also played Danbury.After stopping the Danbury Trojans on their first drive, the Giants Mighty Mites charged down the field. Following a Michael Innaimo long run, Calvin Caione scored through the left side of the line behind blocks by Gavin Toth and Brendan Dunleavy.In the second quarter Innaimo ran through a big hole created by TJ O'Connell, Peter Strang and Jayson Vasquez for a big gain. That set up a touchdown run by Finn Donelan.Charlie Wilcox celebrated his birthday with a splendid defensive game alongside Nick Morris, Gavin Toth, RJ Ihlefeld, Max Griffin, Luke Martucci, Innaimo and Dunleavy.The Giants have a homecoming weekend with all of its games at Sullivan Field. On Saturday, the Mighty Mite Juniors meet Seymour at noon, followed by the Junior Pee Wee 1 team against Park City at 2. On Sunday, the Junior Pee 2 team meets Danbury at 9 a.m. The Pee Wees play Danbury at 11, and the Junior Midgets meet Danbury at 1 p.m.
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