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TRUMBULL — Grayson Moniz had only taken four shots and had been held scoreless. But with 26.9 seconds remaining in overtime, the Weston sophomore scored the biggest goal of his life to give the Trojans their first CIAC Class M championship Saturday afternoon with a 5-4 triumph over Daniel Hand at McDougall Stadium. Fourth-seeded Weston […]
MIDDLETOWN – David Antonetti had nothing warming up in the bullpen. No curve ball. No slider. And he thinks he probably threw five strikes. But once the CIAC Class L championship game started, the Hand junior righthander had everything working perfectly as he twirled a one-hit shutout to lead the top-seeded Tigers (21-1) to […]
MIDDLETOWN — Twenty-three games. Twenty-three wins. And a title to boot.
Darien completed an unexpected perfect season Thursday night by knocking off Enfield in four sets (18-25, 25-17, 25-22, 25-16) to win…
STRATFORD — Two years ago, Coginchaug was beaten by Somers in the CIAC Class S softball championship game.
The Blue Devils will get another shot at Somers Friday night.
Fourth-seeded Coginch…
STRATFORD — Two years ago, Emily Reynolds was just a sophomore and pitched Somers to its first CIAC Class S softball title.
She and the second-seeded Spartans will have a shot at another title either Friday…
CHESHIRE — Any time a Southern Connecticut Conference team beats a Fairfield County team in the CIAC Class L tournament, you can call it a big win.
And that’s exactly what Cheshire considers Wednesday night…
CHESHIRE – Jacqui Sheftz told her Trumbull softball team on the way to Cheshire they had nothing to lose.
The Eagles were going up against the newly crowned Southern Connecticut Conference champions on the …
CHESHIRE — The dynasty continues.
For the eighth time in the last 13 years, Cheshire is the Southern Connecticut Conference boys’ volleyball champion. The Rams (16-2) knocked off Amity (25-22, 25-20, 19-25,…
WEST HAVEN — Tyson Aksoy scored just five goals during the regular season.
The freshman’s sixth goal of the year became the biggest of his career so far as it lifted Amity to a wild 13-12 overtime victory o…
EAST HAVEN — Over the first five innings, East Haven had plenty of chances to put runs on the board, but just couldn’t get a clutch hit off Mercy ace left-hander Alexa Boone.
After leaving eight runners on …
CHESHIRE — If the Guilford girls’ lacrosse team plays the way it did Friday night, it’s going to be a very hard team to beat.
The Grizzles (11-2 and ranked seventh in the latest GametimeCT.com state poll), …
MADISON — The Hand boys’ lacrosse team scored 45 goals in three wins earlier this week, so coming into Saturday afternoon’s game against Simsbury, you would think that the Tigers would light up the scoreboard again.
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WOODBRIDGE — It was no surprise the game was decided by one run. It would be expected in a clash between two teams ranked in the top 10 in the GametimeCT.com softball poll.
But what was surprising was the a…
WEST HAVEN — Like most high school teams, just how successful Hand will be this spring will depend on its pitching.
So far, so good.
The eighth-ranked Tigers (3-0) got another good outing fr…
NORTH HAVEN — You can certainly say the first day of the high school baseball season in nearly two years featured a coaching matchup certainly from opposite ends of the spectrum.
On one side of the field, t…
NORTH HAVEN — Sacred Heart Academy hadn’t lost a game since Feb. 19 when it was beaten by Mercy in Middletown.
But the Sharks won their next eight regular season games and rolled through the Southern Connec…
NEW HAVEN — It’s pretty easy to sum up the Wilbur Cross performance Friday night in seven letters.
Defense.
The Governors allowed just three points in the final 17:03 and none in the fourth …
WEST HAVEN — Justin Miller heard the Amity coaching staff yell at him with instructions in the final minutes Saturday afternoon.
His coaches told him to park himself in front of the net to see if he could d…
NEW HAVEN — Fairfield Prep showed Wednesday night just why it is the hottest team in the Southern Connecticut Conference.
The Jesuits, 9-1 and winners of nine straight games, knocked off Hillhouse, 66-53, i…
CHESHIRE – For 32 minutes, Cheshire was chasing Hand, trying to keep the Tigers’ big height advantage from being the dominant force.
After tying the game on a prayer at the buzzer of regulation, the Rams he…
NEW HAVEN — Over the first 16 minutes, Amity was able to bring the ball up without much trouble and the Spartans had a five-point halftime lead.
But when Wilbur Cross coach Tyrees Thomas changed things at h…
MADISON — Caitlyn Hunt didn’t score for nearly 13 minutes, but when the Sheehan senior center got going, the Titans began to roll.
And that enabled eighth-ranked Sheehan to defeat Hand 47-38 Friday night in…
GUILFORD — It has been five years since Lyman Hall finished a boys’ basketball season with a record over .500.
Back in 2016, the Trojans finished 12-11. Ever since, the program has won no more than eight ga…
WEST HAVEN — For a little while, it looked like Notre Dame-West Haven might have trouble surviving Friday night.
But the sixth-ranked Green Knights (4-0) fought off a fourth-quarter charge from Xavier to po…
NORTHFORD – A year ago, Sheehan and Hand were two of the top teams in the CIAC Division III and II ranks before the season was stopped halfway through the state tournament because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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NORTH HAVEN — For most of Wednesday night, it sure looked like the opening game of an unusual girls’ basketball season.
Both teams struggled with shots from the floor with part of it due to each team missi…
MIDDLETOWN — Xavier had just over 15 hours to get ready for the Southern Connecticut Conference Division A boys’ soccer championship game.
After ousting Hamden in the semifinals that ended just before 9 p.m…
BRANFORD — It took almost 29 minutes for Branford to be able to take a collective breath.
After dominating the play, it took until just over one minute left in the first half before Andrea Amarante scored t…
MADISON — It looked as if arch-rivals Hand and Guilford were going to play to a scoreless tie on Tuesday night. Neither team had had many good chances as the clock wound down towards the final eight minutes.
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