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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…
WASHINGTON, Conn. – No. 1 Wamogo and No. 2 Nonnewaug will meet in Thursday’s Berkshire League Boys Basketball Tournament final on dramatically different paths from Monday’s semifinals at Shepaug High School. Nonnewaug’s Jackson Baker took command of the early semifinal, rolling through 33 points at the head of No. 2 Nonnewaug’s 62-40 storm over No. […]
WINSTED – Nonnewaug completed a clean sweep with a 41-37 win over Northwestern for the Berkshire League Girls Basketball Tournament championship Friday night at Northwestern High School after finishing the regular season w…
WINSTED — No. 2 seed Northwestern and No. 1 Nonnewaug are headed to Friday’s Berkshire League Girls Tournament championship game at Northwestern High School.
The Highlanders beat No. 3 Thomaston 54-43 in th…
WINSTED — With No. 1 seed Wamogo and No. 2 Nonnewaug set in the top spots of the Berkshire League Boys Basketball Tournament beginning this Saturday, Terryville resolved a potential three-way tie for third with a 50-46 win…
TERRYVILLE — Terryville and Shepaug previewed the donnybrook still to come in the Berkshire League boys basketball tournament starting next Saturday at Shepaug High School with a rampage of their own Friday night at Terryv…
WINSTED — Northwestern’s girls basketball team broke a tie for second place in the Berkshire League with Thomaston in a head-to-head 34-23 regular-season finale that offers a preview glimpse of the league tournament starti…
THOMASTON — Numbers are down, but quality still soared in a Berkshire-Valley Post-Season Wrestling Invitational whose top three team finishers were separated by just four points Saturday at Thomaston High School.
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TORRINGTON — Wolcott pulled out of a first-quarter hole at Torrington for a 42-37 win in what might be called a future’s game at Torrington High School Thursday night.
On senior night for the Red Raiders — …
TORRINGTON — Ansonia’s boys basketball team had too many pure athletes and too big a lead for Torrington’s furious second-half comeback in a 70-59 Charger win at Torrington High School Tuesday night.
Four o…
TORRINGTON — With just five games left in a regular season full of key injuries and tough losses, Torrington’s boys basketball team got clutch performances Friday night for 58-54 white-knuckle win over Watertown at Torring…
TORRINGTON — Torrington’s Wolcott Tech girls basketball team has become a force in the statewide CTC, with Wednesday night’s 39-22 win over Cheney Tech as its latest example at Wolcott Tech High School.
The…
TERRYVILLE — Nonnewaug held its spot in a tight Berkshire League boys basketball race in a 58-47 tester against Terryville Monday night at Terryville High School.
The Chiefs (9-5; 8-3 BL) came in tied for s…
TORRINGTON — Naugatuck, No. 10 in this week’s GameTimeCT/New Haven Register boys basketball state poll, showed its stuff in a 76-52 win over Torrington at Torrington High School Friday night.
All eight of t…
WINSTED — Want a glimpse into the heart of a near cult-like sport like high school wrestling?
Talk to a few people after a match like Northwestern’s 65-15 win over the Thomaston/Holy Cross co-op and 6-6 dra…
LITCHFIELD — Defense was the biggest player in a 53-40 boys basketball Wamogo win over Nonnewaug at the top of the Berkshire League Tuesday night at Wamogo High School.
The Warriors stood at the top with ju…
TORRINGTON — Riddled with flu and their best player lost for the year, the Torrington boys basketball played their best team game of the season in a 63-48 win against Woodland Friday night.
Red Raider T.J. …
