Class S indoor track: Bloomfield sweeps boys and girls titles
The Bloomfield girls won their 15th straight Class S indoor track title Saturday, while the boys took home a second straight title at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven. It was the boys’...
View ArticleBoys basketball Week 10: Ellington finishes regular season unbeaten,...
Ellington was one of two boys basketball teams in the state (the other was Shepaug Valley) to finish unbeaten at 20-0 in the regular season. But it was a close call. The Knights’ last regular season...
View ArticleGirls basketball Week 10: Rocky Hill is young but ready for postseason
The Rocky Hill girls basketball team advanced to the Class MM quarterfinals last year, where the Terriers lost to eventual champion Northwest Catholic. The Terriers had a lot of sophomores on that...
View ArticleWindsor’s Ken Smith becomes the third CT boys basketball coach to reach 700 wins
EAST HARTFORD – Windsor boys basketball coach Ken Smith got his 700th win Tuesday night as Windsor defeated East Hartford 92-53 in a first-round CCC tournament game. Smith becomes the third boys...
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No more ‘warm fuzzies’: Behind coach’s motivation, this CT girls basketball...
EAST HADDAM – Five years ago, the Hale-Ray girls basketball team made the news when the Little Noises lost 101-35 to East Hampton. The team, which had only six players and had struggled that season,...
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This CT high school coach finally got his milestone win: ‘This one was hard’
Last week, everybody at Windsor was waiting for the big win. The Windsor boys basketball team played Glastonbury on Wednesday night. But Glastonbury’s David Smith scored a career-high 51 points and...
View ArticleWindsor girls, Xavier boys win Class L indoor track titles; list of top...
The Windsor girls won their ninth straight indoor state track title at the Class L championships Tuesday at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven and the Xavier boys won their fourth...
View ArticleState Open track: Bloomfield girls, Lyman Hall boys win titles
NEW HAVEN – The Bloomfield girls hadn’t won a State Open track and field title since 2023. The Lyman Hall boys hadn’t won a State Open title since 1993. Both were equally happy Saturday after capturing...
View ArticleSouthington wins its first CCC girls basketball championship
WEST HARTFORD – Isabella Leggett grew up playing basketball with her friends in Southington. But her freshman year, she played at St. Paul and her sophomore year, her family moved to Florida. They were...
View Article‘It wasn’t pretty,’ but Northwest Catholic captured its first conference title
WEST HARTFORD – There was a lot of talk about the rise of the Manchester boys basketball team in the CCC this season and deservedly so. The Red Hawks had some dramatic wins – they beat Windsor, last...
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Coventry holds off Suffield to win first NCCC girls basketball title
WINDSOR LOCKS – The Coventry girls basketball team had never been to the NCCC tournament championship game before Tuesday night. Late in the third quarter, the Patriots held a 10-point lead and looked...
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CIAC High School Basketball tournament brackets released: What to know
The CIAC released tournament bracket pairings for girls and boys basketball Wednesday. Tournament play begins Thursday with qualifying rounds. The state championships will take place March 15 and 16 at...
View ArticleEllington boys basketball wins NCCC championship, still unbeaten
SUFFIELD – Two years ago, Ellington and SMSA faced each other for the NCCC boys basketball tournament championship. SMSA won a close game. Wednesday, before Ellington’s rematch with SMSA for the same...
View ArticleWatch Connecticut high school boys, girls wrestling finals: Live stream,...
By Hank Domin, syracuse.com The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) boys and girls high school wrestling championships wrap up on Saturday, March 1 (3/1/2025), in New Haven,...
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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: What do Jim Calhoun and Gene Hackman have in common?
Basketball coaches lost one of their own this week, at least it felt that way. Gene Hackman, one of the consummate actors of the 20th Century, played dozens of other unforgettable roles, but no...
View ArticleThis CT high school wrestling star added State Open title he dreamed of in...
NEW HAVEN – Dravyn Roberts had won four Class LL wrestling titles, from freshman year to senior year, one of only 14 wrestlers to win four class titles in the history of the sport in Connecticut. But a...
View ArticleBerlin’s Landrie wins second State Open wrestling title
Sybella Landrie of Berlin won her second State Open title at 114 pounds and South Windsor’s Sophia Gordon won the 100-pound weight class at the State Open girls wrestling tournament Saturday at Floyd...
View ArticleOld Lyme’s Gilbert, Glastonbury’s Strauss break meet records at New England...
Old Lyme junior Chase Gilbert broke the meet record in the mile at the New England track and field championships Saturday at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston. Brooke Strauss of...
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Title-contending CT hockey team draws inspiration from former star who...
The high school hockey players sat in the darkened middle school classroom, watching as Peter Mayer skated hard down the ice and scored one goal, two goals, three, and then, improbably, four, in the...
View ArticleInjuries and tragedy could have deterred this CT basketball player. Instead,...
ELLINGTON – Andrew Flickenschild broke his hand in sixth grade when it was hit by a baseball during a game. In eighth grade, he sprained both of his wrists playing basketball. He took a charge and...
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