The Westport Little League Major League champions are the Mets. Two victories over the Jaguars today sealed the win.The score of the first game was 7-4 in extra innings.  The score of the second game was 6-0. Two games were played because it was a double elimination tournament and the Mets had one loss already while the Jaguars had not lost. The Mets won six out of seven playoff games in order to win the championship. Sponsors of the team are Melissa & Doug. Pictured are (l-r, top row): Elliot Kaufman, James McGovern, Coach Jim Westphal, Dean Stephens, Luke Molina, George Kessler, Coach Steve Kessler, Daniel Westphal, Peter Londoner; (bottom row ) Kevin Greer, Russell Krauss, Alex Petrsoric, Luc Yokoi, Dylan Hruskar, and Nick Rossi. Missing is coach Sal Latella. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Chris Greer for WestportNow.com

The Westport Little League Angels won the Minor League championship today, defeating the Giants 3-1 at Kowalsky Field. Pictured (l-r, top row):Coach David Rose; Quinn Jumper; Abe Rubin; Alex Deutsch; Mark Roszkowski; Mason Banks; Garret Naples; David Konheim, and Coach Andrew Schwartz; (bottom row) : Henry Portman; Danny Chu; Mitch Rose; Timothy Sullivan, and Zack Schwartz. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The Westport Little League Leopards softball team today defeated the Pumas 9-7 in the season championship game. Pictured are the Leopards (top row, l-r) Coach Sal Augeri, Head Coach Louis Alfero, Lucy Kaplan, Margot Liotta, Milei Wyatt, Sophia Alfero, Maisie Dembski, and Coach David Jonas (bottom row) Melanie Lust, Roxanne Augeri, Macey Lavoie, Mia Daignault, and Abby Jonas. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The Staples Boys Volleyball team members huddle as they swept Xavier today 3-0 in the state Class L quarterfinals (25-22, 25-20, 25-14). The No. 2 Wreckers (18-1) will play No. 3 Southington on Monday in the semifinals at 7 p.m. at Shelton High School. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The Staples Boys Tennis Team today completed a perfect season by winning the Connecituct Class LL team championship at Yale University. The Wreckers edged two-time defending champion Greenwich by 19-18 in tournament match victories.  As was the case last week in the FCIAC team match-play championship, the senior doubles team of Connor Mitnick and Baxter Stein again clinched the victory for Staples in dramatic fashion, this time by being the first Staples duo to win a state doubles championship since 2006. Mitnick and Stein battled back from a set down to defeat Greenwich’s Shaw Speer and Louis McKenzie 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. The last time Staples won the FCIAC and state LL championships in the same season was 1982. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The Staples girls tennis team today lost to to Darien 5-2 in the Class L semifinals at Darien.

Darien (19-2) won all three doubles matches to advance to Thursday’s final.

The Wreckers ended the season with an 18-4 record.

Westport’s Minute Man statue took on the look of a New York Rangers hockey fan today as the team takes on the Kings in the first game of the Stanley Cup finals. A sign posted on the fence around the statue said the makeover was ‘in homage to the biggest Ranger fan ever Scott ‘Hoover’ Wilder,” a Westporter who died in 2008 at age 53. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

The Staples High School girls tennis team today advanced to the semifinals of the state Class L Championships by defeating Ridgefield 5-2 at home.  Ridgefield had defeated Glastonbury, the No. 2 seed, in the previous round of the championship tournament. No. 7=seeded Staples will face No. 3 Darien Wednesday at 3 p.m.  Seated (l-r from front to back) are Vanessa Mauricio, Kelsey Shockey, Gabi Titlebaum, Melissa Beretta, Avery Wallace, Sarah Roundtree, Olivia Daytz, Tess Rubin, Xenia Bradley, Julia Bartimer, Alex Collins, Megan Brown, and Rachel Lieberman. The coaches, Paco Fabian and Kim Harizman are not pictured. Michelle Titlebaum for WestportNow.com

Sami Jurofsky (2nd r), a 2011 Staples High School graduate, Sunday won the NCAA Division 1 women’s rowing championship with her team, the Ohio State Buckeyes, in Indianapolis, Ind. The Buckeyes repeated their victory as the NCAA champs of 2013 and Big Ten Champs of 2013 and 2014. Jurofsky, a junior who cut her teeth on the Saugatuck River as the coxswain for boys eights at The Saugatuck Rowing Club, also coxed the third-seeded second varsity eights to a first place victory on Sunday as well. She is pictured with stepfather Marx Katzenberg, mother Hyleri Katzenberg, and her sister Carleigh Jade a 2008 Staples graduate who is on tour with her band The Carleigh Jade Band and flew in to surprise her sister.The win was especially sweet for her mom, who grew up in Cleveland and hails from a family of Buckeyes. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo