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Week 2 high school football: Northwest Catholic starts winning; game...
Northwest Catholic, which only won three games last season, has won its first two this year, shutting out Weston last week and RHAM on Saturday. Northwest won 49-0 in its season opener and 38-0 against...
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‘So many memories’: Southington softball coach Davina Hernandez steps down...
Davina Hernandez, whose Southington High softball teams won five state titles in the last decade, has resigned from coaching to spend more time with her family. Under Hernandez, who became the head...
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Week 3 high school football: Windsor to face Darien in a battle of ranked teams
We enter Week 3 of high school football in the state and there are some good CT high school football Alliance games this week and a big Pequot matchup. Darien, top-ranked in The Courant’s state...
View ArticleRockville football team’s defense comes up big in the end to defeat...
VERNON – Senior Demeir Thomas made a big play in the end zone for Rockville, knocking the ball away from Granby/Canton’s Ben Vrabel with only a few seconds left, and Rockville hung on for a 27-20 win...
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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Dan Hurley out to three-peat the old fashioned way;...
Those of a certain age remember when college basketball programs were just that. One and done? Freshmen weren’t even allowed to play until 1972. Players waited their turn and the best programs,...
View Article“Ragtag” Rockville defense overcomes the mystery of the missing contact lens
VERNON — William Davis, Rockville’s starting cornerback, couldn’t see. His contact lens was stuck in his eye and nobody, not even the paramedic on site, could get it out. So Rockville football coach...
View ArticleIn a major CT cross country rivalry, it’s Vlieks’ turn to win at Wickham this...
MANCHESTER – Annecy Vlieks and Sarah Roberts have been running against each other since middle school. With Vlieks at Hand High and Roberts at Mercy, they’ve faced each other in regular- season meets,...
View ArticleThere’s a new No. 1 in the CT High School Football Coaches’ Poll for Week 3
Editor’s Note: There’s a new number one team (and just one team) in the Hartford Courant’s state coaches’ poll after Masuk and Windsor each knocked off the co-number one teams, New Canaan and Darien,...
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High School Football Week 3: Windsor takes down co-No. 1 Darien in overtime
Windsor was already missing its quarterback, junior AJ Robinson, who left the game against Simsbury Sept. 20 with a bruised shoulder. Now the Warriors were playing Darien, tied for No. 1 in the Courant...
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High school football Week 4: Unbeaten teams will face off against each other...
It’s Week 4 of high school football season in Connecticut and there are some solid conference games on tap this weekend and some matchups between unbeaten teams. Tolland and East Catholic, who will...
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This CT freshman is 6-8, 335 pounds and has an offer from Syracuse. ‘He’s an...
STAFFORD – The Stafford co-op football team has a draft to pick weightlifting teams for the summer at the beginning of June. Coach Brian Mazzone came in to see what was going on at one point and...
View ArticleEast Catholic beats Tolland in a battle of CCC football unbeatens
MANCHESTER – Sophomore Nicholas Galatie intercepted a pass in the end zone on the last play of the game as East Catholic held off Tolland 27-20 in a CCC Tier IV football game Thursday night at Cheney...
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Lori Riley: The Warriors of Graceland remember their fiery, beloved coach
The first time I saw Nancy Grace, I was afraid to interview her. It was 1989, my first year at the Hartford Courant. I was sent to cover the Class S field hockey state semifinal. Canton, coached by...
View ArticleJunior Joey Montalvo does it all for this undefeated CT high school football...
MANCHESTER – Joey Montalvo touched the football only seven times Thursday night. He had one receiving yard. But he scored all four of East Catholic’s touchdowns. “Two were rushing touchdowns, one was...
View ArticleFights, arrests prompt officials in CT city to shut down Friday night...
Following a fight that resulted in 10 arrests at a Sept. 27 Friday night football game at Municipal Stadium in Waterbury, city officials have decided to move football games to the afternoons. At about...
View ArticleCT High School Football Coaches’ Poll Week 4: Bunnell crashes Top 10 after...
Bunnell makes its season debut this week after choking out then No. 4 Masuk last Friday, 21-0, its first victory over the latter since 2018. The Bulldogs (4-0), whose defense allowed just 79 yards in...
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High School Football Week 4: New Britain ends 16-year drought against...
New Britain hadn’t beaten Southington in football in 16 years. Coach Isaiah Boddie graduated from New Britain High in 2007. He remembered knocking off the Blue Knights his sophomore and junior years...
View ArticleHigh School Football Week 5: Bye week for most but others look to stay unbeaten
This is a bye week for most teams in the area so it’s a lighter schedule than usual, but there are still some schools that have games scheduled. Eight of the 11 teams in the Courant’s state coaches’...
View Article‘Incident’ involving football coach being investigated in Glastonbury
School officials are investigating an “incident” that was reported by a parent that involved Glastonbury High football coach Eric Hennessy in September, Glastonbury Superintendent of Schools Alan...
View ArticleSuperintendent: Complaint about incident involving football coach reviewed,...
A complaint by a parent involving an unspecified incident with Glastonbury High football coach Eric Hennessy last month has been reviewed and dismissed by school officials, Glastonbury Superintendent...
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