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DANBURY — It was the ultimate test of teamwork and team depth, and at the 38th running of the O’Grady Relays Friday and Saturday, no teams were better than the host Danbury High School boys and girls track and field teams.
The Hatter boys scor…
NEW FAIRFIELD — Things looked pretty bleak for the New Fairfield High School baseball team through five innings of Thursday’s game, but one big inning was all it took to turn things around.
Masuk pitcher Mike Marella took a no-hitter into the …
BETHEL — The Joel Barlow High School girls lacrosse team responded in a big way Tuesday night after suffering its first loss of the season on Friday.
The Falcons, who had dropped a one-goal heart-breaker at Branford three days earlier, bounced…
WASHINGTON, Conn. — Just to be safe, Shepaug High School baseball coach Scott Werkhoven had a couple pitchers warmed up and ready to go if Dominic Perachi ran out gas or ran into trouble in the seventh inning.
He need not have worried.
Perachi…
BROOKFIELD — Sophomore goalie Connor Walls has been vital to the success of the Brookfield High School boys lacrosse team all season — and he certainly came up big on Saturday.
Walls made eight saves — including three big ones in the final min…
BROOKFIELD — The heavy-hitting Brookfield High School softball team has certainly been scoring runs in bunches these last few days — while the Bobcats’ pitchers have given up next to nothing. The Bobcats defeated Kolbe Cathedral 25-0 in five innings Friday at the Brookfield Municipal Center Field in a South-West Conference clash. Two days earlier, […]
NEW FAIRFIELD — Chalk up another victory for the undefeated New Fairfield High School boys lacrosse team, and another dominating defensive performance.
The Rebels defeated previously unbeaten Weston 9-3 on Thursday for their sixth straight win…
NEW MILFORD — The weather may have been cold and damp Tuesday night, but the Newtown High School girls lacrosse team remained red-hot.
Led by a stout defense and a multi-faceted offense, the Nighthawks remained undefeated in South-West Confere…
The Abbott Tech/Immaculate football co-op — the collaborative effort to save two struggling programs from the chopping block by combining them — has produced yet another college-bound athlete.
Star running back Jordan O’Brien, an Abbott Tech s…
BROOKFIELD — The Bethel High School girls lacrosse team took its share of lumps in the first couple weeks of the season as its players learned to trust one another and work together.
If Saturday’s game was any indication, things are beginning …
BROOKFIELD — The Brookfield High School softball team has won four of its first five games this season, and the key to the Bobcats’ success, coach Nick Castellano said, has been a simple formula. “There are three parts to the game: offense, defense and pitching,” he said. “If you get those three parts together, you’re […]
BETHEL — The New Milford High School baseball team likes to follow a simple formula for putting runs on the board: score early, score often.
Makes sense.
Of course, it also helps when the pitchers throw a shutout.
The Green Wave certainly scor…
RIDGEFIELD — The Ridgefield High School boys lacrosse team couldn’t have scripted a better start to its season. The Tigers clawed their way back from an early deficit to defeat Greenwich 13-8 in a rematch of last year’s FCIAC semifinals, which Ridgefield also won. Ridgefield out-scored Greenwich 8-3 in the second half to pull away. […]
BETHEL — Monday afternoon’s game ended a heck of a lot better than it started for Bethel High School senior baseball player Tyler Davis.Davis, who started on the mound and surrendered four runs in the first inning, later delivered a walk-off, …
BETHEL — The New Milford High School girls lacrosse team was looking for a spark to jump-start its season after opening with three straight losses last week.The Green Wave may have gotten that spark on Saturday.The Wave erased an early deficit…
DANBURY — When the horn sounded at the conclusion of Wednesday afternoon’s game, the players on the Stamford High School girls lacrosse team raced to the end of the field to celebrate with goalie Reaging Hyppolite wearing post-game smiles that…
BROOKFIELD — New Brookfield High School boys lacrosse coach Chris Beaver couldn’t have drawn up a better start to his coaching career.Thanks to a late goal by Liam Carroll and a huge save by sophomore goalie Connor Walls, his Bobcats opened th…
DANBURY — It was a back-and-forth battle between perennial Class LL baseball contenders. And on this sun-drenched Opening Day, Fairfield Prep put together the final, decisive rally.In a rematch of last year’s state quarterfinal clash, the Jesu…
The one-time student is now the new teacher for the Newtown High School softball team.Joanna Closs, a 2008 Newtown High graduate known as Joanna Barry during her playing days for the Nighthawks, has taken over the team’s head coaching duties a…
CHESHIRE — He has won more games than any high school football coach in Connecticut history, including an eye-popping 12 state championships.And yet, when Lou Marinelli was asked to name his favorite highlight in his 37 seasons at the helm at …
DANBURY — As the Abbott Tech baseball team warmed up in the gym Friday before heading outside for practice — finally — the Wolverines’ 2017 Connecticut Technical Conference West Division championship banner hung overhead. Nobody seemed to pay …
WEST HARTFORD — There was just no stopping the Weston High School boys swimming and diving team in its quest for its sixth consecutive state title.Despite qualifying only nine swimmers and four divers, the Trojans piled up 644 points to win th…
DANBURY — The Immaculate High School boys basketball team is headed back to the state semifinals after a one-year hiatus — one which only made the Mustangs hungrier for a championship.Seeded second in the Division II state tournament, the Must…
HAMDEN — Winning its first Southern Connecticut Conference title was a tremendous accomplishment for the Hamden High School boys basketball team — but the Dragons are still hungry for more this season.Actually, they’re downright starving.Starv…
The waiting must have been the hardest part for the members of Danbury High School’s boys 4×400 relay team at the New England indoor track and field championships on Saturday at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Boston.The Hatters foursome…
PROVIDENCE — It was a triumphant weekend for a group of local high school wrestlers at the New England Championships on Friday and Saturday. Ryan Luth of Foran worked overtime to win his second straight New England championship. Also for the second-straight year, Southington’s Paul Calo once again rallied back from a state open final […]
Danbury High School boys basketball coach Casey Bock was a student at Hayestown Avenue Elementary School when the Hatters won three consecutive FCIAC championships in 1990, ‘91 and ‘92. He remembers watching the likes of Anthony Harris and Marlon Scott lead those dominant Danbury teams to victory, hoping one day to follow in their footsteps […]
BETHEL — Back-to-back buzzer-beaters have lifted the Sheehan High School girls basketball team to back-to-back thrilling victories in the first two rounds of the Class M state tournament.Only three days after Lexi Ocasio’s last second shot…
RIDGEFIELD — After putting a fitting exclamation point at the end of the Middletown girls basketball team’s victory over Ridgefield with an electrifying steal, drive and layup in the final minute Monday night, Amanda Fudge crumpled awkwardly to the floor under the basket and grabbed the back of her leg in pain. All night long, […]
