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Matt Altieri may have left coaching high school baseball at Sheehan in 2019, but he never lost the coaching bug.
He continued coaching with the Wallingford Silver Storm in the Connecticut Collegiate Basebal…
Neil Phillips understands the expectations that come with being the head boys soccer coach at Hand High School.
When you are piloting a program that has won seven CIAC state championships, including the las…
Milford’s Ben James fired a second straight 5-under-par 66 Tuesday to claim his third consecutive New England Junior individual championship, this one held at Val Halla Golf Club in Maine.
James finished wi…
As Rich Szymanski gears up for golf season No. 34 at Pomperaug, it feels a lot different than recent seasons past.
“It is completely different. I told my wife the other day, ‘This is kind of like my first c…
When last we saw the New England Junior championship, Connecticut dominated from start to finish, repeating as champion at Mill River Country Club in Stratford.
That happened in 2019. Connecticut won the te…
HAMDEN — Ben James is one of one the state’s most accomplished and decorated junior golfers ever. He already has a national profile that includes qualifying for the 2019 U.S. Junior Presidents Cup team and the 2021 U.S. Ju…
It is 15 years this month that Mike Papale nearly died of cardiac arrest. The former standout high school basketball player collapsed while sitting on the bench at his dad’s basketball camp at the Wallingford Parks and Rec…
The 52nd Borck Junior will not only crown new champions this year, but also add a new course to the rotation.
Silver Spring CC in Ridgefield is the site of this year’s championship, which begins Monday. The…
FAIRFIELD — The Northern Junior is back after a year’s absence and looks as strong as ever.
New Haven Country Club returns as the site for the 19th annual championship.
The 36-hole tournamen…
WATERTOWN — If Connor Goode was going to be the 80th champion of the Connecticut Junior Amateur, he was going to have to take out the defending champion.
There was plenty of time to think about that fact — the final match …
Aly Medeiros is taking over as Branford’s girls basketball coach. The appointment became official two weeks ago.
This will be the first head coaching job for Medeiros, a former standout at both Lyman Hall a…
There are different levels of success for a high school athlete: all-league, all-state and all-region to name a few. There is also national recognition, like being named an All-American, that puts you on an entirely differ…
The new basketball coaches at East Haven have the necessary knowledge of the programs and some coaching experience in the town to keep the programs competitive in the rugged Southern Connecticut Conference.
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MADISON — Rick Fay has been the director of tennis at the Madison Racquet & Swim Club for 16 years. Hundreds of teenagers, both boys and girls, have come for instruction during that time.
Fay’s current …
Greg Cumpstone had planned to be back for a fourth season coaching the Hand boys soccer team in addition to recently becoming the director of coaching for the Connecticut Rush.
But another recent opportunit…
The 2021 New England Prep School Athletic Council will be holding the NEPSAC NCAA Scholastic Showcase Friday through Sunday at Avon Old Farms.
More than 500 basketball players competing at NEPSAC schools ar…
Lee Franzman, who coached high school girls basketball at four different schools, died of breast cancer on Sunday night. Franzman was 80.
Franzman, a Milford resident, coached at the former Milford High, th…
Brett Chodos, Amity: Earned medalist laurels at the Division I state championship meet by shooting a 70 at Tallwood CC. Five days later, Chodos shot a 69 at Black Hall Club to win the State Open crown.
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ORANGE — Hall may have been without its head coach Wednesday, but the ladies knew what to do to accomplish a piece of history.
Freshman Anna DeSanto led the way with an 82 for Hall, which won the CIAC Divi…
Boys golf is the closest any CIAC sport has come to switching seasons. In early 2020, the fate of the sport moving from spring to fall was in the hands of the CIAC Board of Control.
But there was too much o…
NORTH BRANFORD — The Law softball team came into Friday’s Class M state quarterfinals having scored 17 runs in its first two tournament victories.
But North Branford pitcher Kiley Mullins was able to cool o…
ROCKY HILL — It was a dominating performance from start to finish for the top-seeded Staples boys tennis team in the Class LL state tournament.
Staples shut out all four opponents, including No. 14 seed Wes…
ROCKY HILL — It didn’t take long for Jenna Kornbluth to figure out her match would decide the Class LL state championship for girls tennis Thursday.
Kornbluth, a sophomore, plays No. 4 singles for the Wreck…
MILFORD — Great River Golf Club was unfamiliar territory for the South-West Conference golf teams. The championship meet moved there this season from Ridgewood Country Club in Danbury.
But even with just on…
Former longtime Branford field hockey coach Cathy McGuirk died on Monday. She was 76.
McGuirk, who coached at Branford for 41 seasons, had been battling ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, since la…
NEW HAVEN — Sue Schryver has waited for a long time to have as complete a pitcher-catcher combination that she has had in 2021.
The O’Brien Tech softball team has that proverbial strength up the middle that…
WEST HAVEN — Bri Pearson wasn’t about to let Cheshire lose in Thursday’s SCC tournament final.
The newly-minted Southern Connecticut Conference Player of the Year is one of the best pitchers, if not the bes…
MADISON — Josh Israel had already missed one tennis season from Hand. Then he started off this season on the sidelines.
Israel was contact traced three different times for COVID-19. He said he tested negati…
ORANGE — Fairfield Prep may have lost a close regular-season golf match to Hand at Madison Country Club, but the Jesuits left the course with some confidence that it could be a different outcome in the SCC championship mee…
