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Mike Walsh as coach and Rashamel Jones as player are as closely linked as any combination in FCIAC boys basketball history.
It is rare in high school sports to pinpoint exactly when a program turned around as it is generally a gradual process,…
STAMFORD — Looking around the Trinity Catholic gymnasium, you cannot miss the banners on the walls marking the past glories of the boys basketball program.
Seven state championships, six FCIAC championships and the retired numbers of former gr…
MERIDEN—They say good things come to those who wait and the Southington Senior American Legion baseball team had been waiting since 1993 for a state championship.
Saturday, in a game which began four hours late because of rain and went to extr…
SOUTHINGTON VS ELLINGTON (best-of-three series) When: Friday, 6:30 p.m. (Game One, Series continues Saturday) Where: Ceppa Field, Meriden Championship game appearances: Ellington making first state final appearance. Southington won the Senior American Legion Championship in 1993, was runner-up in 2013 What to look for: Runs may be tough to come by in the championship series […]
MERIDEN— Returning from a back injury, Southington pitcher Nick Borkowski was not sharp in the two innings he pitched against Trumbull in the Pod D finals.
While he was off his game against Trumbull, that trip to the mound was apparently enoug…
SOUTHINGTON — Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.
Trumbull came to Southington needing to win two games to advance out of Pod E and into the Super Regionals of the Senior American Legion State Tournament. Southington jus…
HAMDEN—There are few better ways to ease the nerves of playing in an elimination game than scoring four runs before your opponent gets a turn at bat.
That is just what No. 3 Trumbull did, scoring four times in the top of the first en route to …
STAMFORD—Branford Senior American Legion pitcher Alphonse Suppa wanted nothing more than the ball in his hands with his team facing elimination from the state tournament Sunday afternoon.
Suppa delivered one of the best performances of his car…
STAMFORD—The Guilford Senior American Legion team may have entered the tournament as decided underdog taking on defending state champion and No. 1 Stamford in the opening game, but having an ace like Noah Rubino on the staff is the great equal…
Every four years in soccer the FIFA World Cup releases the groups for the preliminary round of the tournament.
One group always stands out as the toughest and is handed the moniker “group of death.”
Well, in the upcoming American Senior Legion…
A couple hours after the Stamford football team had been eliminated in the Grip it and Rip it passing tournament at New Canaan High School, several of the players and coaches were still in the bleachers watching the final eight teams compete.
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NEW CANAAN — Last Friday in New Canaan’s Dunning Stadium, Jason Cooper was in his element.
His larger-than-life personality on display whether he was talking football with old friends or offering advice to the current New Canaan players.
Coope…
NEW CANAAN — The Grip it and Rip it passing tournament annually draws the best teams in the area to New Canaan High School for a weekend designed for those who love the spread offense.
This year, the level of quarterback play on several teams …
Joe DeVellis has been hired as the new head football coach at Westhill.
DeVellis takes over after three years as the team’s defensive coordinator under former coach Frank Marcucio who resigned from the job last week.
“I am excited for this opp…
At the end of the month, the best Senior American Legion teams in Connecticut will meet in the state tournament.
Stamford, RCP, Cheshire, Trumbull, Avon and other top teams will be vying for the crown sporting rosters littered with Division I-…
After six years at the helm, Frank Marcucio turned in a letter of resignation to the Westhill administration this morning, resigning as the head football coach at the school.
“I am sad. I really am. I feel like I wasted six years of my life be…
The Westhill football team picked up a big win last week.
Though the victory did not come on the football field, it is the type of win that could effect change at Westhill for years to come.
Westhill took first place in the Jason Garrett Starf…
Like many senior female athletes in Stamford, Gloria Mattioli dropped in her application for the Allyson Rioux Memorial Award and waited.
Mattioli believed she was qualified, but with what she felt were so many deserving athletes in the city, …
Zone 4 in Senior American Legion baseball has been considered one of the toughest zones to play in for the last decade.
Each season, teams battle it out for the coveted No. 1 position and a bye in the state tournament. Any team that makes stat…
As the Cheshire baseball team was raising its championship plaque, it marked not just a title for the Rams, but yet another season where the SCC staked its claim as the best baseball conference in the state.
The SCC and FCIAC have gone back an…
MIDDLETOWN — Cheshire’s Ben DeLaubell has been dreaming about pitching at Palmer Field in a state championship game for a long time. It turns out, the reality was better than anything he ever imagined. DeLaubell pitched a complete-game, three-hit shutout and drove in the winning run in the top of the seventh as No. 4 […]
MIDDLETOWN—Wethersfield centerfielder Jimmy Sullivan has had a lot of great games in his career. He never had a night quite like the one he had Friday in the Class L state championship game. The University of Virginia-bound senior had a night for the ages with two home runs, two triples, 6 RBI and four runs […]
2018 Spring Championship Scoreboard LIVE UPDATES ♦♦♦ CLASS LL No. 3 Ridgefield (20-4) vs. No. 4 Cheshire (20-4) When: Saturday, 12 p.m. Where: Palmer Field, Middletown On the Web: NFHS Network (subscription required) Championship game appearances: Ridgefield making first state final appearance. Cheshire won Class LL in 1993, Class L in 1992, 1984; Lost LL final 1996, […]
MIDDLETOWN — Seymour pitcher Austin DeRosa had seen the double-digit run totals St. Joseph had put up in the first three rounds of the Class M state tournament.
Rather than being scared off, DeRosa said the potent offense of the Cadets was his…
Trager triple brings in 2 more. Wolcott up 5-1 in second #ctbase pic.twitter.com/rHz1347sWL — Scott Ericson (@EricsonSports) June 6, 2018 MIDDLETOWN—A lot of things went right for the Wolcott baseball team this season but getting production from the bottom of the order was not always one of them. That changed in the Class M semifinals […]
CHESHIRE — It’s as if Cheshire pitcher Ben DeLaubell had been waiting his entire life to pitch in a game like he found himself on the mound for Saturday.
With the Class LL quarterfinal game in his hands heading to the seventh but his pitch cou…
MONROE — It is not that the Masuk softball team was scoffing at a five-run win in the second round of the Class L tournament, it is just that the team expected more from itself, coming into the tournament unbeaten as the No. 1 seed.
There will…
DARIEN—Having won the last five Class L state championships, one of the toughest tasks for the Darien girls lacrosse team is keeping the fire in its belly burning. Motivating players to stay hungry can be difficult when everyone expects you to win every time out as No. 1 Darien learned against No. 9 Ludlowe in […]
WESTPORT—Nobody on the Staples baseball team has driven in more two-out runs this season than Matt Stone.
Stone had 11 two-out RBI in the regular season and was not fazed by the enormity of the moment coming to the plate with the bases loaded …
