ED ROWE had coached baseball 37 years at Fairfield Prep.

Hamden then repeated as state champions the following year 2009-2010, beating Fairfield Prep by a score of 6-5.

One recent afternoon after school, four seniors from Fairfield Prep, a Jesuit high school, arrived for their weekly one-on-one tutoring session with neighborhood children.

All three went four years to nearby Fairfield Prep at Fairfield University, a high school strong in sports and most notably in hockey.

Later, he attended Fairfield Prep, where he subsequently started his own underground paper and garage band as an outlet for his youthful creativity.

The fact that Fairfield Prep and St. Joseph played both on the same day made the coincidence all the more striking.

Fairfield Prep, however, did not allow Cheshire past its 9-yard line.

Mark Ecke, Cheshire's head coach, said that if the streak had to end, he was glad it was against a team like Fairfield Prep.

In 2012, Fairfield Prep finished undefeated for the first time since 2009, and won their 8th straight SCC championship.

At Fairfield Prep, he submitted home designed computers to the science fair in 1958, 1959, and 1960.