Staples High School Head Football Coach Marce Petroccio, shown entering the field after half time, notched his 200th career win tonight as the Wreckers rolled over Brien McMahon of Norwalk 38-13 in the season opener at home. Petroccio is in his 24th year as Staples head coach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Jeff Pegues, CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent based in Washington, D.C., was among those inducted tonight into the Staples High School Football Wall of Fame. His plaque cited the years 1984-87 and said it commemorated “his skill, dedication, and excellence on the Staples Gridiron.” With him is Staples Athletic Director Marty Lisevick. Other inductees included Joseph “Bozo” Romano, 1941-44 (posthumously); Len Thompson, 1981-84; Bernie “Butch” Izzo (honorary), and Andrew Kennedy, 2003-06. The ceremony was held during tonight’s halftime of the Wrecker season opener against Brien McMahon of Norwalk. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

The Staples High School varsity cheerleaders perform at halftime tonight at the season football opener at home against Brien McMahon. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

The Staples boys soccer team today opened its 2016 season with a 6-0 whitewashing of Trinity Catholic at Loeffler Field. Balanced scoring came from Will Birch, Thomas Nealon, Spencer Daniels, Anton Mahr, Rory Steele and Timmy Liles, with assists from Nealon, Daniels, Liles, Sam Kantor and Griff O’Neill (above). A stiffer test comes Monday, when the Wreckers host Danbury, one of the top teams in the league at 4 p.m. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Armelle Daniels for WestportNow.com

By James Lomuscio

How do you make a better sand trap?

Parks and Recreation Director Jennifer Fava explains the appropriation request tonight to the Representativre Town Meeting (RTM). (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

By a 30 to 1 vote, Westport’s Representative Town Meeting (RTM) tonight approved a $1.07 million appropriation with bond and note authorization for design and construction improvements to the Longshore Golf Course’s 94 bunkers.

Many of the bunkers, a.k.a. sand traps, have fallen into disrepair with rocks rising to the surface, edges or lips collapsing, and they are difficult step out of, town officials said.

Parks and Recreation Director Jennifer Fava made the request, already approved by the Board of Finance and the Parks and Recreation Commission.

Staples High School students (l-r) Christian Myers, Burke Anvari and Andrew Breschard set sail today from Westport’s Cedar Point Yacht Club to compete in the 2016 Vineyard Race. The yearly, 238-mile sailboat race, which began in 1932, set out from Stamford and will finish sometime on Sunday after a course which will bring competitors out of Long Island Sound to Buzzards Bay, around Block Island and back to Stamford. The Staples students have been racing in the Cedar Point Junior Sailing Program for a number of years and will be crewing for the Vineyard Race on Expresso, an Express 37 owned by Halsey Bullen and Steve Longo of Cedar Point Yacht Club. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

Westport’s Staples High School Gridiron Club tonight hosted a Compo Beach party for the Wrecker football team, parents and supporters. More than 100 persons attended. Staples opens the season on Friday, Sept. 9 at home against Brien McMahon of Norwalk. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Members and guests of Gold’s Dragoons, a Westport-based social and commemorative society, gathered today at the Fairfield County Hunt Club, 174 Long Lots Rd, Westport for the seventh annual competition for the Gold’s Dragoons Polo Cup, a match against New York’s Squadron A Club. Gold’s Dragoons were victorious, 11-4 for the fifth time in the seven-year-old competition. The match was preceded by a tailgating party. Gold’s Dragoons, formed in the early 1930s, was selected to honor one of Connecticut’s first mounted colonial militia units, founded in 1660 by Maj. Nathan Gold of Fairfield, whose troop was chartered under the seal of King Charles II. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Westporter Harrison Burke, 16, (2nd l) was among members of the U.S. Junior National Team who won a bronze medal today at the world rowing championships in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Two other Westport teens were also medal winners. Kelsey McGinley and her crew won bronze in the junior women’s 4- event while her sister, Grace, placed fifth in the junior’s 8+ event. All three have trained at Saugatuck Rowing Club. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo