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THOMASTON — Spring is always a great time of year. This time, for athletes and coaches across the state, it’s euphoric.
Unlike the winter sports whose state tournaments were stopped mid-flow by Covid-19 a y…
TERRYVILLE — Offense and defense took star turns threatening to win the Berkshire League boys basketball tournament final, but pure grit finally brought Terryville home to the championship in a 54-51 thriller over Shepaug …
WOODBURY — Sam Conti sank a foul shot with two seconds left in a Berkshire League girls basketball tournament semifinal to lift No. 2 Nonnewaug to a 26-25 win over No. 3 Northwestern on Tuesday afternoon at Nonnewaug High …
TERRYVILLE — Don’t let anyone tell you league and pod tournaments can’t be just as exciting as the Big Dance without this year’s Covid-cancelled state tournaments.
“It’s all they’ve got,” said Wamogo assist…
FALLS VILLAGE — Brooke Donaghey led No. 5 Shepaug from a 13-point halftime deficit to a cliffhanging 37-35 overtime win over No. 4 Housatonic in a Berkshire League tournament quarterfinal game at Housatonic High School Thu…
TORRINGTON — Success is always relative, subject to unexpected reversals.
Hundreds of high school athletes learn that life lesson every year. Number that in the thousands in this era of Covid-19.
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WOODBURY — A glittering crown erased the bruises in Northwestern’s 47-36 win at Nonnewaug Tuesday afternoon in a knockdown battle for the Berkshire League regular-season championship.
Both teams played the …
WINSTED — Shepaug Valley’s 68-56 boys basketball win at The Gilbert School was billed as a matchup between the Berkshire League’s leading scorers — Shepaug’s Owen Hibbard and Gilbert’s Dylan Crowley.
Crowle…
THOMASTON — A Thomaston 54-29 win over Northwestern Saturday afternoon completed a resounding sweep over the Berkshire League’s eight other girls basketball teams, including four of the league’s top teams in the last five …
TORRINGTON — Both coaches came away with complaints from a 46-39 Woodland girls basketball win at Torrington High School on Friday night that evened each team’s record at 2-2.
“They killed us on the boards,…
TORRINGTON — A smattering of Torrington High School parents seated on the one set of unfolded bleachers at the Connie Donahue Gymnasium Wednesday night was part of the strange new-normal atmosphere in a strange new-normal …
THOMASTON — If you can’t have a state tournament thanks to COVID-19, the Thomaston girls basketball team might have the next best thing.
Starting with a 55-23 Tuesday night win over Shepaug, the Golden Bear…
TERRYVILLE — Rivalry night in the Berkshire League turned into a boys basketball laugher at Terryville Friday night as a close first quarter ended with three straight steals by Sean O’Donnell off a full-court Terryville pr…
WINSTED — Covid? What Covid?
While The Gilbert and Housatonic girls basketball teams were showing a highly-restricted number of fans how normal on-court basketball can look on Monday’s opening night at The …
WINSTED — Opening day of girls basketball season at The Gilbert School amid the COVID-19 pandemic looked amazingly normal on the court — the only real exceptions coming with sideline special rules.
Monday’s…
TORRINGTON — With COVID-19 vaccines on the horizon, the attitude among high school athletic directors in the Berkshire League and NVL is “Here we go again” as the start of another abbreviated sports season approaches even…
WINSTED — Let’s face it. COVID-19’s havoc among high school sports and athletes is worse for teams and individuals with the highest expectations dashed by a sea of spiked microscopic balls.
As a result, the…
WINSTED — A day after Northwestern High School’s Alex Beauchene won the boys race in the Berkshire League Cross Country Championships, he continued to be an inspiration for what can be accomplished by dedicated athletes in…
WATERTOWN — Northwestern’s boys and Thomaston’s girls followed undefeated seasons (9-0) with team and individual wins by Highlander Alex Beauchene and Golden Bear Maegan Desmarais at the Berkshire League cross country cham…
WINSTED — In a Covid-19 season presumed to be rife with meaningless games for lack of ultimate goals like league and state tournaments, individual games keep demanding more and more meaning.
It was true aga…
WINSTED — Northwestern’s girls volleyball team beat defending Berkshire League champion Nonnewaug 3-0 (25-13; 25-18; 25-23) for the third time in this strange, masked coronavirus season.
The Highlanders, 9-…
FALLS VILLAGE — Will there be any real high school sports championships in this topsy-turvy coronavirus season?
The seniors on Housatonic High School’s defending Berkshire League girls soccer team certainly…
BURLINGTON — Now that high school sports are finally being played, do they really mean anything?
New Britain and Lewis Mills squared off in a thrilling five game girls volleyball match Friday evening in whi…
TORRINGTON — Let the games begin — finally.
And more power to them in this coronavirus year if they’re far more for their own sake than some pie-in-the-sky dream of a league or state championship in which o…
TORRINGTON — Everywhere in this fog of coronavirus, we’re divided by politics and united by despair — financial, employment, family, fate of the country…
If it’s hard, then, to find solace or inspiration na…
TERRYVILLE — No. 10 Terryville survived scares at the beginning and end of its first-round Division V boys basketball test against No. 23 Cheney Tech before pulling away to a 68-56 win at Terryville High School Monday nigh…
WATERBURY — Northwestern won its eighth straight Berkshire Swimming and Diving Championship Saturday afternoon at Waterbury’s Kennedy High School.
“It doesn’t get old,” said Highlander coach Mary DiMauro. “…
WASHINGTON — Wamogo won its fourth straight Berkshire League Boys Basketball Tournament with a 70-61 over Nonnewaug Friday night in a trademark display of offensive and defensive precision.
Matt Mazzarelli …
WINSTED – Northwestern took care of business with a 45-19 win over Stratford Tuesday night in a Class L Girls Basketball first round with few surprises in the mismatches created by this year’s CIAC decision to fill five di…
