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NORTH BRANFORD — It was the kind of game that might take years off the winning hockey coach’s life, but when Vic Vicenzi and No. 10 Watertown/Pomperaug have a guy like Ryan Fleming in net, it’s all good in the end.
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Unbeaten Ridgefield remained No. 1, as did the rest of the starting five in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 Boys Hockey Poll for Jan. 15. The biggest mover was New Canaan, which jumped from No. 8 to No. 6, effectively trading places with Greenwich. New Fairfield/Immaculate returned to the Top 10 after a week’s absence. […]
Fine performances
Will Capalbo, Fairfield: Made 34 saves in the Mustangs’ 5-5 tie with Greenwich.
Doyle Coughlin, Glastonbury: Second goal tied Northwest Catholic 3-3.
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Standing under the banners at Northford Ice Pavilion that commemorate Hand’s 2006 and 2014 Division II CIAC hockey titles, Brian Gonsalves was talking about what he’d seen in the Tigers before he became their coach this su…
HAMDEN — Rhode Island’s storied schoolboy hockey program threatened to sweep Hamden right out of its own rink Wednesday night in the second period, holding the Green Dragons to one shot while taking a lead.
The home team settle…
Undefeated and unanimous No. 1 Ridgefield, which crushed Hamden, 6-1, on Saturday maintained its grip on the top spot of the GameTimeCT Top 10 hockey poll for the second consecutive week. New to the poll this week is No. 9 Division II Watertown/Pomperaug, which similarly wiped out East Haven Co-Op and St. Joseph by a […]
Fine performances
Matt Arena, Farmington Valley: Scored twice in a 5-2 win over Simsbury.
Jack Dacey, Guilford: Scored eight points in a 10-6 win over St. Joseph.
Gabe Feher, South Windsor: A goa…
With the potential to run into each other four times in a given season — one league game, one non-league game, one FCIAC playoff game, one state playoff game — Darien’s and Ridgefield’s boys hockey coaches, Mac Budd and Shaun Gallagher, talked…
HAMDEN — The offensive wizardry of the No. 1 boys hockey team in the state is well-documented, the experienced top Ridgefield line that can dominate a game, the depth scoring.
That was all on display Saturday at Astorino Arena,…
MIDDLETOWN — The start to their season wasn’t what Branford’s boys hockey team was looking for, nor, necessarily, was the start to its game Thursday night against Cheshire at Wesleyan’s Spurrier-Snyder Rink.
Two goals from Jack…
WEST HAVEN — When he was a ballplayer, Bennett McDermott took to heart the words of his friend’s dad, the late Rick Stewart. He’s brought the sentiment over to hockey.
“He always said good things happen when you swing the bat,”…
Fine performances
Kyle Boller, BBD: Scored his first two varsity goals in a 4-1 win over Yarmouth, Maine.
Aaron Cholewa, WMRP: Scored twice in a 6-2 win over the Newington co-op.
John DeLucia, Gu…
WEST HAVEN — Amity’s best start since its two state championship teams took a test on Saturday. Staples grabbed a two-goal lead early in the third at Bennett Rink.
Spartans coach Mike Richetelli said the staff’s message after t…
SHELTON — The state’s preseason No. 1 hockey team was 0-2 coming into Saturday but managed its first win Saturday at The Rinks at Shelton before the Christmas break.
Fairfield Prep got two Calyb Reeves goals at key moments, inc…
MIDDLETOWN — Xavier’s best success against Hamden on Wednesday at Spurrier-Snyder Rink came on the power play, scoring two of its three goals with the man advantage.
The No. 4 Green Dragons made sure the Falcons didn’t get a th…
A look at Wednesday’s hockey schedule brings only one question to mind: What’s with Notre Dame-West Haven and Northwest Catholic, waiting three and a half weeks to meet?
The other eight teams in the preseason GameTimeCT poll ha…
For a healthy high school senior to wind up battling cancer is a little surreal. For him to have to do it again a few months later?
“You always worry about relapse, but it wasn’t even a relapse,” said Anthony Capalbo, whose old…
Ryan Antkowiak, Suffield. Senior came up with a few coaches as one of the best offensive defensemen in the state.
Colin Bella, Fairfield Prep. Senior forward scored 22 points for the champion Jesuits last year. “Can be a game-c…
BRIDGEPORT — The preseason hype was that No. 1 Fairfield Prep and No. 2 Ridgefield were the CIAC’s two best hockey teams, or at least two of the best, but one was a little more battle-ready for Wednesday night’s opener.
The Tig…
SHELTON — It took some fits and starts for St. Joseph’s offense to get rolling in the CIAC Class M football championship game at Finn Stadium.
Once it did, the Cadets were unstoppable, winning a second straight state title whil…
SOUTHINGTON — His right arm remains in a sling, out with a broken collarbone, so Phil Pasmeg has unfortunately had plenty of time to watch his St. Joseph teammates play football this year.
The consolation has been what he has s…
FAIRFIELD — All Fairfield Prep had to do Tuesday night was stop Tanner LaRosa once.
That had been a tough task all night at Fontana Field. But now Southington had fourth-and-inches from inside the Jesuits 2-yard line with 1:26 …
SOUTHINGTON — The angels were with them. The demons were cast out. The Jesuits moved on.
Sam Roberto’s 30-yard touchdown reception, breaking tackles and dragging the pile, with 7:28 remaining proved the difference Tuesday in Fa…
From a distant glance, two teams that might be a bit of a mirror image meet Tuesday in the CIAC Class LL football quarterfinals at Southington’s Fontana Field.
Two storied programs, three championships apiece. Two heralded offenses with a lot …
SHELTON — They had a short week coming in, and they’ll have a short week going out, but the Shelton Gaels insisted on business as usual Thursday morning at Finn Stadium.
They took care of what needed to be done, beating Derby 62-6 in the 108th…
NEW FAIRFIELD — He had the number in mind, and on his last carry of a chilly Wednesday night, New Fairfield senior Zach Buffington broke right past it.
Buffington’s 39-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, his fourth score, put him over 1,0…
NEW BRITAIN — Their schedule made them a low seed. It might’ve also made Plainville a CIAC boys soccer champion. Quick transition off a turnover produced the only goal with 11:50 left as 23rd-seeded Plainville beat top-seeded, unbeaten Ellington 1-0 Sunday evening at Veterans Stadium to win the Class M title. It’s the school’s first […]
WATERBURY — It has been a lifetime for some Immaculate students since the Mustangs sat out the girls soccer state finals two years in a row.
As much as they controlled the first half of Monday night’s Class S semifinal, though, Coginchaug near…
FAIRFIELD — Carlos Alfaro, Jason Lopez and Dylan Wade scored for Notre Dame-Fairfield in a 3-0 home win over Cromwell in the CIAC Class S boys soccer quarterfinals on Saturday.
The ninth-seeded Lancers (12-4-4) advance to face fourth-seeded Mo…
