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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 …
HARTFORD — The strategies were new. The response sounded familiar. In an effort to salvage a fall 11-on-11 football season, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference presented the state Department of Public Health with new ideas for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 at a Friday-morning meeting. But DPH acting commissioner Deidre Gifford did not sound ready […]
WEST HARTFORD — Emotions were high and raw at a rally to try to save a high school football season in 2020-21, so high and raw that Brady Hutchison twice yelled not to let common sense prevail.
The senior S…
Bunnell football coach Ty Jenkins was looking at 200 faceguards that had just been delivered to the school, at plexiglass partitions that would protect his players against COVID-19 at the fieldhouse.
And he…
What Steve Filippone wants, he said Friday, is for every football team to get its seniors together, despite that their season ended before it began, and post a video of them on social media.
And that’s when…
Though the CIAC’s latest plan for fall sports allowed teams to practice in small groups as of Aug. 29, a few local schools remain off the field.
Wilton’s athletic teams remain out until at least Sept. 8.
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If there are sports in the spring and next fall at Bunnell, there will be a lot more practice and game space for every outdoor team.
A renovation project at the team’s athletic complex resurfaced the stadiu…
A day after the CIAC’s executive director urged fall athletes and coaches to grasp onto any positive experience they can, New Haven’s football coaches were fighting to give their players a chance for one.
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St. Joseph boys hockey coach Ed LeMaire died Saturday morning. He was 53.
“It breaks our hearts to share with you the news that Coach Eddy passed away early this morning,” read a Saturday-afternoon post on …
CHESHIRE — Hearing that Cheshire football coach Don Drust’s job might be in jeopardy at a Monday-morning meeting, a group of students and parents descended on the public schools office.
Around 100 people — …
Local youth sports, high school hockey in particular, lost two well-known faces and voices over the weekend.
The news struck on social media almost back to back on Saturday night: Brian Dinneen, public addr…
The state couldn’t stop watching Newtown win a CIAC football title in December. Much of the nation couldn’t stop in June.
The Nighthawks’ buzzer-beating, winning touchdown from the Dec. 14 Class LL champion…
The CIAC on Monday dropped high school sports fans something to look forward to: schedules for fall sports, including football (as well as playoff classes). They’re incomplete (say hey, Bullard-Havens), but there’s enough …
High school sports don’t resume until the fall, but four SWC football programs have a little competition going already to support health-care workers in the region.
Programs from Pomperaug, Newtown, Barlow …
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped Matt Gulbin from working out and preparing for his senior year on Wilton’s offensive line. But it did keep him from getting to visit Wake Forest, at least in person.
“On…
Thursday’s CIAC Division III boys hockey quarterfinal between the Housatonic co-op and McMahon/Norwalk, wherever they played it, was going to be a beauty. Regardless of the final score, they’d both already done something s…
NORTH BRANFORD — The defending CIAC Division II boys hockey champion was on the ropes Monday night in the first round of the tournament, a top seed down by two goals to South Windsor, the last team that snuck into the tour…
For three months, we’ve followed 55 teams’ battle to get to Ingalls Rink in mid-March. In a week, we’ll be down to 12. Who’ll be the three celebrating CIAC hockey titles at Yale?
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Storyline: After three years of FCIAC domination, Fairfield Prep reclaimed its throne in 2018 and kept it last year. If the Jesuits do pull off a third title in a row, it’ll be a milestone in at le…
Jamison Moore, Darien
There’s a deep defense on this team, plus the Blue Wave’s excellent sophomore goalie and a stable of talented forwards, not least of whom are top-line wingers Sam Erickson and Bennett …
The defending champions are back on top of the GameTimeCT Boys Hockey Top 10 Poll as the CIAC playoffs begin. Fairfield Prep hopped over Darien to the top spot in a bit of a split vote; three teams got first-place nods. The Jesuits are seeking their third straight Division I title, and they’re coming off […]
WEST HAVEN — They’ve played three spectacular boys hockey games, and if they can somehow make their separate ways to the CIAC Division II final, maybe they’ll play a fourth in two weeks.
In the meantime, Br…
WEST HAVEN — From the drop of the puck Friday night, as it was from the drop in December, the top team in SCC/SWC Division III was Sheehan.
The top-seeded Titans scored in the first minute and rolled to a 7…
GREENWICH — Taking over for one of the state’s best goalies on one of the state’s best teams, Chris Schofield had big skates to fill as a Darien sophomore.
He stopped 26 Greenwich shots, made one more big s…
MILFORD — Ever since it started the year with eight straight losses, Newtown’s boys hockey team has talked about climbing the mountain. Tuesday night, it found itself up on a ridge, for a while.
The Nightha…
Take a little scheduling crunch, add the playoffs, and Hall/Southington could pack six boys hockey games into 10 days as the playoffs begin.
The Warrior Knights played Saturday and Monday and play Wednesday…
