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NEW MILFORD — With two No. 13 jerseys hanging near midfield, one white and green, the other red and white, the teams lined up for the faceoff to open the boys lacrosse season Saturday morning, then went to a knee.
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WESTPORT — Staples’ boys lacrosse faceoff crew, led by Henry Dodge, got the Wreckers the ball. The attack and middies held it in the New Canaan end for three, four, five minutes at a time Saturday
And when …
New Canaan at Staples, Saturday, 3 p.m.: It’s No. 3 vs. No. 6 in perhaps the premier game of the premiere day.
Stamford at Branford/East Haven (at Branford), Saturday, 6 p.m.: Branford and East Haven had a …
This felt like a harder cut than usual, maybe because we’re coming off a lost year with a lot of new faces in lineups. (Or it could just be that we don’t really remember what doing this was like in the past; it has been a …
STRATFORD — The spring season hasn’t even started yet, and Bunnell’s new artificial-surface baseball field has already helped.
“We’re slated for a scrimmage this afternoon,” Bunnell athletic director Wayne …
Fairfield Prep was not the first boys hockey team to get the call that ended its season. It will, hopefully, be the last, though it would be no surprise for those calls to continue in the spring.
The Jesuit…
With input from game officials, the CIAC will have baseball and softball catchers wear close-fitting masks in games to begin the season, and the players and official conducting the draw in girls lacrosse will do the same, …
BRIDGEPORT — He has had three years with Sam Swanson, but Fairfield boys hockey coach Carl Larouche wouldn’t have minded one more at the start.
Larouche was coaching in the Wonderland Wizards organization w…
Daniel Hand boys hockey coach Brian Gonsalves wishes the focus were on a few other numbers, like the two points Tatum Fitzmaurice needed to become the school’s all-time leading scorer, the 40 games the Tigers have won over…
Goofing around could lead Kyle Vaccarella to the heights of college football.
“One day with one of my neighborhood friends we were throwing the ball around,” Vaccarella said. “I was throwing the ball throug…
In the same Jan. 8 letter that gave the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference the go-ahead to begin practice in several winter sports next week, state Department of Public Health acting commissioner Deidre Giffor…
As it awaits a go-ahead to begin its winter season in two weeks, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference says it believes its strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 were effective in fall sports, though …
Though the first faceoff — assuming faceoffs are allowed — is four months away, those associated with boys high school lacrosse look around and see other higher-COVID-19 risk sports like high school football postponed for …
Cheshire’s boys lacrosse team will have about 15 seniors in the spring. Brian Perry was their freshman coach, and head coach Mike Devine says they’ll stick it out for four years in part because of the love for the game tha…
Shutting down most amateur team sports as of Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont said COVID-19 cases related to sports were affecting schools’ ability to stay open for in-person education.
“One of the things we’ve done…
There was resignation, determination, some frustration. And a day after the CIAC’s Board of Control decided there wouldn’t be winter high school athletics in the state for two months, there were still more questions than a…
MIDDLETOWN — Mercy put together a fine season in 2019 with an experienced defense and a young goalkeeper.
The keeper returned. The defense did not. But Melina Ford and the younger defenders assembled anothe…
NEW CANAAN — A handful of seniors lingered awhile Saturday night. On the other side of the netting at Water Tower Field, next door to the high school, was an uncertain winter without tackle football, and a bunch of New Can…
For all the uncertainty and wait-and-see that surrounds high school sports during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one unfortunate firm fact: The Shepaug co-op doesn’t plan to play hockey this season. Nonnewaug, a piece of the co-op that also includes Thomaston and Litchfield, won’t allow co-op teams this year, said Mike Gorra, who recently stepped […]
Convinced that they can play tackle football safely during the COVID-19 pandemic with no CIAC-sanctioned football this fall — and suddenly with, it seemed, an unlikely sort-of ally — one independent league for high school …
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Board of Control met Thursday to establish further guidelines for a potential winter season, including the number of games a team will need to play to be eligible for t…
MILFORD — These meets almost looked normal for once in this disastrous year. Three girls swimming and diving teams got back in the pool at Foran for real on Thursday, the first day of high school competition in the state s…
Newtown announced a boys hockey co-op with New Fairfield on Wednesday to take effect this upcoming winter season.
This will be the first co-op for Newtown, which began play in 2002-03 and won the 2014 CIAC …
A Woodland assistant football coach tested positive for COVID-19 last week, and the program has halted with 26 players in quarantine, the regional superintendent confirmed Wednesday.
The Citizen’s News repo…
The state Department of Public Health recommended Friday that sports labeled as high-risk for transmitting the novel coronavirus, such as football, not hold full-team practices or play games this fall or winter.
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The dream began at a football game, but it’s lacrosse that’ll take Jack Coughlin to Navy.
The St. Joseph junior midfielder said he went to a Navy-Stanford football game when he was 4, and ever since, that’s…
Meriden officials declined to disclose details Wednesday on whether its contact tracing efforts led them to notify other towns or school districts that a Maloney football player who attended a rally at the state Capitol on…
One month after he declined to let Bridgeport high school students play high- or moderate-risk sports this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, superintendent of schools Mike Testani confirmed that football players have begun …
