Staples Girls Tennis Domination Continues: Still Undefeated, 10-0
Staples Varsity Girls Tennis continued their winning streak on Thursday, May 5th against St. Joseph High School, 7-0. The team is undefeated with a match record of 10-0. Above, junior Karenna Birns lunges to return with her wicked forehand. Click on the images below to enlarge and open the galleries.
At first singles Amelia Galin easily defeated her opponent 6-0, 6-1. And so it went down the line up in straight sets, with Karenna Birns 6-1, 6-4, captain Allie Francis 6-0, 6-0 and Jenna Kornbluth 6-3, 6-1. In doubles, captain Jordana Latzman and Audrey Kercher easily won 6-1, 6-0, Lauren Hess and Sofia Palumbo, won in the hardest match of the day 4-6, 6-0 and tie break for the third set 11-9, and Giselle Oldani and Lucia Wang 6-2, 6-2.
The Staples Girls have won FCIAC and State championships for the last 3 years: 2018, 2019, and 2021 (2020 no season due to Covid). The only other FCIAC team which is undefeated right now is Darien.
The Staples-Darien matchup is currently on hold at 3 matches each (3-3) The second singles match, Karenna Birns, is up in the third set--she split set with her opponent but the match was postponed due to darkness. It will be completed this upcoming week.
The team celebrated their treasured seniors: Allie Francis, Jordana Latzman, Amelia Galin, Sofia Palumbo, Lauren Hess and Giselle Oldani for Senior Day. Coach Jena Wider said, "The seniors are incredibly talented, our roster is very deep and a lot of that has to do with this amazing group of girls. They will be missed more than they know."
Photos By J.C. Martin For WestportLocalPress.com Click on an image to enlarge and open gallery. Copyright photos, use without permission prohibited.
Staples Seniors: Back (L-R): Sofia Palumbo, Amelia Galin, Lauren Hess, Giselle Oldani. Front (L-R) Captains Jordana Latzman and Allie Francis
Voices Cafe Host Nashville Indie-Folk Band South For Winter Tonight
The Westport Unitarian Church hosts the Indie Folk band South For Winter, from Nashville at their monthly Voices Café concert. The cabaret style event is always a sell-out, especially for a band like this which rarely performs in CT. This talented trio brings their very own unique and beautiful blend of folk, gypsy, jazz and blues music.
Here is a link to a video clip: https://vimeo.com/702161471
For tickets and to learn more: https://voicescafe.org For more info on this or future concerts at Voices contact Kim Fuchs at kim.f.fuchs@gmail.com
Morning Weather Report
Today
Rain. High near 51. Northeast wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain, mainly before 3am. Low around 41. Northeast wind 15 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tomorrow
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Northeast wind 16 to 18 mph.
Tomorrow Night
A 20 percent chance of rain before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Northeast wind 13 to 15 mph.
Artist Deb Robicheau as Guest Exhibitor at Drew Friedman Art Place at Westport Book Shop
Westport Book Sales: The Westport Book Shop is pleased to welcome artist Deb Robicheau as guest exhibitor for the month of May at the Book Shop’s Drew Friedman Art Place.
Deb is showing a variety of sculptural mixed media boxes from her recent “Tiny Boxes” series, created during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic. The boxes incorporate art from comic books from the 1930s through the 1980s that Deb had been saving because she thought their art was interesting. Said Deb, “Once the pandemic hit, I decided to sacrifice to the art and cut them up, to illustrate that value could be transferred into what was important in the current world. The images and words were used to illustrate what we were going through in each of our sequestered spaces. We were all in the same storm, but not all in the same boat. We had the challenge to fit our joy and sorrows and love and loss and life and death into smaller and smaller spaces to try and stay safe. That’s what the boxes symbolize to me.”
Deb Robicheau is a lifelong visual artist, sculptor, painter, writer, screenwriter — and devoted Thalassophile. She is a proud alumus of California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Deb and her family moved to Westport in 2010.
Deb Robicheau’s artwork will be on exhibit at the Book Shop through May 31, 2022. All artwork on display is available for purchase.
Westport Book Shop, a nonprofit used book store, is downtown Westport’s only source for gently used and antiquarian books, vintage vinyl records, CDs, DVDs and audio books. It is located at 23 Jesup Road, right across Jesup Green from the Westport Library.
The Book Shop’s “Drew Friedman Art Place” is an area of the store dedicated to exhibiting the work of community artists year-round, on a rotating basis.
Miggs Burroughs, a Trustee of the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, and a founding member of The Artists Collective of Westport, is curating these exhibits, which change monthly. The art exhibit is open to the public during the Book Shop’s business hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sundays from Noon to 5 p.m. (closed Mondays).