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NEW HAVEN — The defending CIAC Class L champions certainly looked the part Friday night.
Hand, ranked No. 5 in the GameTimeCT.com state poll dominated Hillhouse 43-6 at Bowen Field in the season opener for both Southern Connecticut Conference …
GUILFORD — Braydon Lyons didn’t need to think much about what pitch he was going throw.
He made it really easy.
Fastball. Fastball. Fastball and fastball.
The Wallingford righthander threw 72 of them — plus one curve ball all night — and he re…
BRANFORD – The last two summers were lean by Branford standards. But now Post 83 is back at the top of the Zone 2 American Legion baseball standings. After winning or tying for the zone title for six consecutive summers, Branford finished fourth and seventh, respectively, in 2016 and 2017. After sweeping Stratford last weekend, […]
WEST HAVEN – Hand has never won a girls’ lacrosse state championship. The top-seeded Tigers will get a shot at that elusive trophy for the third time and the first since 2015 this weekend after beating arch rival Guilford, 16-8, in the CIAC Class M semifinals Tuesday night at Ken Strong Stadium. Hand (19-2) will […]
NORTH HAVEN — He stopped talking and looked down for a moment, then took a deep breath and wiped away a tear or two from his eyes. The enormity of it all finally hit North Haven baseball coach Bob DeMayo just in front of the mound on the field that bears his name. After waiting […]
MADISON – It may take a couple times through the batting order, but eventually the Hand offense is going to be lethal. After being no-hit by East Haven’s Nate Furino for three innings, the Tigers exploded for seven runs in the fourth inning en route to a 9-3 Southern Connecticut Conference victory over the Yellowjackets […]
DURHAM – Perfect. That’s how Cromwell finished the Shoreline Conference regular season. The Panthers put the topper on it with a 55-51 overtime victory over Coginchaug in the Shoreline Conference girls basketball championship game at Coginchaug High Friday night. It was Cromwell’s third consecutive Shoreline Conference title and sixth in eight seasons. “The kids wanted […]
MADISON – Hand girls’ basketball coach Tim Tredwell had the scorebook in his left hand and had only one thing to say to his senior captain Gabby Egidio. “Look at the third and fourth quarters,” he told her at midcourt minutes after No. 10 Hand (12-3) escaped with a 60-57 Southern Connecticut Conference victory over […]
MADISON – So far, 2018 has been very good to the Hand girls’ basketball team. The Tigers are undefeated so far in the new year, with their 79-58 Southern Connecticut Conference victory over Hillhouse Friday night their eighth straight victory and their seventh of 2018. Hand hasn’t lost since being beaten by Notre Dame-Fairfield […]
NORTHFORD – John Delucia’s eyes opened almost as wide as the opening in the net. After not getting many good shots off during the game, the Guilford junior captain put the pucks into the net with 3:15 remaining to put Guilford ahead and the Indians defeated Branford, 4-2, Friday afternoon in a Southern Connecticut Conference […]
Meredith Bloss was expected to be among the top runners in the area this past fall. But the Guilford junior did even better than even she expected with her biggest accomplishment, finishing third in the State Open. Along with a Southern Connecticut Conference championship, those are among the reasons for Bloss being named the New […]
NORTHFORD – It took the Lyman Hall/Haddam-Killingworth/Coginchaug co-op boys’ hockey team two games to score four goals to open the season. Ever since, the Trojans have been lighting up the scoreboard. After pummeling Joel Barlow, 11-0, on Dec 23, LHKC scored eight unanswered goals Wednesday afternoon to beat Hand, 8-0, in a Southern Connecticut Conference […]
Welcome to uncharted territory for the Guilford girls’ volleyball team.Sure, the Indians have had some very good teams before. They’ve made it to the Southern Connecticut Conference finals and the CIAC finals, but this is very new.Try 14-1…
MADISON – Sometimes a tough halftime talk is the perfect elixir. That was exactly the case Friday night as Hand scored 26 unanswered second half points en route to a 40-7 thumping of Foran in a Southern Connecticut Conference Tier 2 clash at the Surf Club. “We knew coming out we were the better team […]
BRANFORD – LanLe Crotty figured it was Branford’s best chance of the night to beat arch rival Cheshire. And the senior forward took advantage of it. With just 5:31 remaining in overtime, Crotty flipped a reverse shot at the cage and got it past goalie Alexis Hemstock to break a scoreless deadlock with the lone […]
Whether it’s cross country or track, Guilford junior Meredith Bloss just gets better with each passing season. This fall the All-State and All-Area cross country star hopes to improve even more individually. She also would like to see her team reach a lofty goal. “My goal is to do whatever it takes to get our […]
MADISON >> You can certainly call Dave Mastroianni’s first game as head coach at Hand a smashing success. The Tigers dominated Hillhouse on both sides of the ball Friday night to take a 34-16 Southern Connecticut Conference victory at Surf Club on opening night of the 2017 season. Mastroianni took over for Steve Filippone, who […]
MERIDEN – Ninety feet. Twice. That’s how close East Haven came to force extra innings and possibly extend its American Legion season. But Meriden Post 45 held on to eliminate the 89ers, 1-0, Sunday afternoon at Legion Field in the single elimination second round of the Connecticut American Legion state tournament. Meriden (24-5) will move […]
NEW HAVEN – Branford and New Haven figured neither of them could afford a loss Thursday night if they wanted to keep their hopes alive for a berth in the Connecticut American Legion state baseball tournament. Well, neither team got hit with a loss. New Haven came back twice late in the game to tie […]
MADISON – Madison had the lead in the fifth inning, but Mother Nature had other ideas Friday night. Post 79 had just scored three runs with the help of an error, but with one out, the umpires saw lightning in the distance. By rule, the game had to be halted for at least 30 minutes. […]
GUILFORD >> Tommy Cattaneo spent most of the Guilford High School baseball season out of commission with a broken wrist. He pitched a few innings at the end of the season and, now at full strength for American Legion season, Cattaneo pitched the best game of his life as Guilford Post 48 edged Cheshire Post […]
FAIRFIELD – Cheshire hasn’t appeared in a CIAC boys’ lacrosse championship game since in 2010. And against FCIAC runner-up Wilton, it didn’t appear the Rams drought would end. But the seventh-seeded Rams pulled off the biggest upset of the tournament, stunning the heavily favored sixth-seeded Warriors, 15-14, Wednesday night at Rafferty Stadium on the campus […]
SEYMOUR >> Chelsea Avila hasn’t been able to play in the field all season due to an ankle injury, but she let her bat do the talking Friday night. The Seymour junior laced a single to center field to drive in the winning run as 4th-seeded Seymour rallied to score two runs with two outs […]
BRANFORD – Over the first nine games of the season, Branford was playing like a team under pressure and very tight. After a loss to East Haven, Branford coach Steve Malafronte told his Hornets to play loose and to just have fun. What a difference it’s made. Branford (18-6) is the hottest team in the […]
CHESHIRE – Over the first two games of the Southern Connecticut Conference boys’ volleyball championship match, Shelton only led once. And that came early in the first few moments of the first game. But then the Gaels (16-5) made a strategic change in their defense and roared all the way back to stun previously undefeated […]
WATERBURY – A year ago, Holy Cross was beaten by Oxford in the Naugatuck Valley League championship game. One of the Crusaders’ goals this spring was to get back to the title game and win it. Mission accomplished. Holy Cross junior righthander and tournament Most Valuable Player Fran Phelan allowed just three hits as the […]
NEW HAVEN – Gigi Speer had been in a hitting slump for the last couple of weeks, but she had a good day hitting inside Thursday after school. It obviously paid off as Speer belted a triple into the gap in left-center to bring home the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning […]
MADISON >> Before the season started, there were some questions about just how good the Hand softball team could be considering how young they were. Those questions have been answered. The Tigers came from behind twice Wednesday afternoon to beat East Haven, 10-7, and clinched the Southern Connecticut Conference Quinnipiac Division title. Hand (14-5 overall) […]
BRANFORD – Nine years of pent up frustration ended Tuesday night for the Branford girls’ lacrosse team. It had been since 2008 since the last time the Hornets had beaten Southern Connecticut Conference rival and state power Hand. That streak ended in the final 39 seconds as Sophie Spencer scored the game-winner with 39 seconds […]
