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Fields, tracks and weight rooms across the state sit empty as spring sports coaches and players stay at home, hoping they will be able to get back out and play the sports they love.
With social distancing p…
The Notre Dame-Fairfield girls basketball team ascended to the No. 1 ranking in the GameTimeCT Girls Basketball Top 10 poll on Jan. 5.
The Lancers never left that perch.
The first four games…
In the Second Round of the CIAC Class LL Girls Basketball Tournament, Staples forward Arianna Gerig went down.
Already sporting a bandage on her knee from an injury suffered a few games earlier, Gerig lay i…
HAMDEN — Down the stretch in the fourth quarter of the CIAC Class L Second Round game, there was no codebreaking necessary to pick up on the plays being called by Pomperaug.
“1-Villa, 2-Villa, 3-Villa,” sho…
WESTPORT — Staples senior Abby Carter has been doing whatever has been asked of her all season though her efforts did not always show up in the box score.
Thursday night in the CIAC Class LL Second Round, i…
FAIRFIELD — The Trinity Catholic boys basketball team is heading back to one last FCIAC Championship game.
The No. 2 seeded Crusaders opened up a big lead early then had to hold on as Warde’s shot at the bu…
STAMFORD — Amity’s Jill Martin was not going to let her trip to Stamford be the last time she got to put on her Spartans uniform.
The senior point guard controlled the ball all night, especially in the four…
5 DIVISIONS DIVIDE
Storyline: In what is being called a one-year trial, the CIAC girls basketball tournaments have expanded to five divisions. This was done to keep up with the boys who moved to five divisi…
Asya Brandon, Hamden
Brandon threw the Dragons on her back in the SCC tournament, leading them to back-to-back championships. Now, the point guard will be hoping to guide the team through the Class LL field…
CLASS LL
Overview: This is as wide open as Class LL has been in some time with any number of teams capable of getting to the championship.
This year lacks the dominant team or teams like Nor…
TRUMBULL — The Ridgefield girls basketball team has been through three coaches over the past two seasons and nobody in the preseason was talking about the Tigers.
Now, they are all anyone in the FCIAC is ta…
STRATFORD — The Notre Dame-Fairfield girls basketball team has been No. 1 in the GametimeCT Top 10 Poll for most of the season but never put together a game quite like the one they did in the SWC championship Wednesday nig…
TRUMBULL—The young Greenwich girls basketball team took the No. 1 seeded, senior-heavy Staples down to the wire but in the end, it was Staples’ experience making the difference down the stretch.
The Wrecker…
FAIRFIELD — None of the players on the Notre Dame-Fairfield girls basketball team has won a SWC championship.
That is something the players are dead set on changing.
The No. 1 Lancers came o…
As the regular season transitioned into conference tournament play and, while the teams at the top of the poll remained steady thanks to their early-round victories, there were some upsets that shuffled the latest GameTimeCT Top 10. Notre Dame-Fairfield stays at No. 1 followed again by Staples and Newtown. Newtown and Notre Dame may be […]
With everyone focusing on the teams remaining in conference tournaments, most of the teams across the state are left with a gap before the state tournaments begin March 2.
That includes the many teams not q…
FINE PERFORMANCES
Mackenzie Nelson, Greenwich: The freshman led the way with 22 points as Greenwich beat Norwalk in the FCIAC quarterfinals 54-41.
Taylor Salato, East Haven: The senior cente…
WESTPORT — If there is one place the Trumbull girls basketball team thrives, it is in the FCIAC tournament.
The Eagles have won two titles in the last three season and have appeared in the conference finals…
NEWTOWN — You have heard of a basketball player shooting the lights out, but Friday night in Newtown, the lights literally went out in the gym.
At halftime of the SWC quarterfinal matchup between No. 7 New …
When the No. 3 ranked girls basketball team in the state pays a visit to the No. 10 team in the state, the expectation is students from both schools would turn out in force.
They did not.
La…
FINE PERFORMANCES
Lyzi Litwinko, Berlin: The senior had a career-high 35 points and 13 rebounds, sealing a 64-62 overtime win over Middletown with two free throws.
Hailey Bruneau, Lyman Hall…
WOODLAND WONDER
The most important basket of the entire CIAC girls basketball season was scored Thursday night at Woodland by senior Danie Meder.
Meder was making her first varsity start on …
WESTPORT — It was all lining up perfectly for Arianna Gerig.
As a sophomore at Staples in the 2017-18 season, Gerig was named to the All-FCIAC second team and looked poised for a breakout campaign in her up…
NORWALK — The Norwalk girls basketball team can rebound.
After each of the team’s four losses this season, the Bears have come back the next game with resounding wins.
Norwalk lost an overti…
Berlin’s Lyzi Litwinko had a week to remember.
A few days after hitting a 35-foot shot at the buzzer, beating E.O. Smith 47-46, the senior guard knocked down two free throws with no time left, giving her te…
FINE PERFORMANCES
Shailyn Pinkney, East Hartford: The sophomore had 22 points, 12 rebounds and 4 steals as East Hartford upset then No. 2 NFA, 54-38.
Natasha Rivera, Ansonia: Rivera stayed h…
There is a photo hanging in the office of Hand girls basketball coach Tim Tredwell taken in the late stages of the Tigers’ 2017 CIAC Class L semifinal win over Pomperaug.
The photo captures the moment after…
STAMFORD — The Staples girls basketball team and forward Arianna Gerig came into Stamford looking to deliver a message.
Message received.
The Wreckers, led by Gerig’s 20 points and a dominat…
FAIRFIELD — It was supposed to be a crosstown matchup between two of the best teams in the FCIAC this season.
It turned into a party on Warde’s court complete with dunks, a boisterous cheering section and a…
