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After winning the Class M boys lacrosse championship with Weston on Saturday, senior goalie Andrew Albert is the state’s Bob Scott Award recipient as well as an All-American. Connecticut had 16 All-American selections, including four goalies. The state’s coaches also released their all-state teams in three classes. The Bob Scott Award goes to a senior […]
MADISON — They have won 14 of their past 16 games, they haven’t allowed more than nine goals in any of those 16, and they’ve given themselves a chance to earn their school its first boys lacrosse state championship. Hand’s boys lacrosse players were loving every minute of a 14-3 win over Masuk on Tuesday […]
Here’s your winner: Jake Fratarcangeli to Liam Kessler with the 2OT snipe as Ludlowe takes out New Canaan 8-7 in the Class L qualifying (lol) round #ctlax via @NCTV78 and @IanNicholas25 pic.twitter.com/fJKFWFAEot — Sean Patrick Bowley (@SPBowley) May 29, 2021 All season, Fairfield Ludlowe has been a thorn in the sides of some of the […]
Seriously, Staples D Kevin Lynch, we know you're a confident group, but did you ever expect a game like 16-2 in a conference semi? #ctlax pic.twitter.com/ROVsInF0jD — Michael Fornabaio (@fornabaioctp) May 27, 2021 WESTPORT — If you expected a running-clock, over-by-halftime, 16-2 win for No. 4 Staples over Wilton in the FCIAC boys lacrosse semifinals, […]
WEST HARTFORD — Since they were little kids, their softball-coach dad taught Becca and Steph Markie all they know about the game. On Tuesday at Hall, they had to use it against him. It was senior day at Hall, where Becca Markie is the Warriors’ only senior and Steph is a junior catcher. Their opponent […]
Big wins for New Canaan and Staples shuffled the top of the GameTimeCT Boys Lacrosse Top 10 poll this week. New Canaan’s 11-8 victory over Ridgefield propelled the Rams into second. Fairfield Prep’s 13-9 win at Staples leapfrogged the Jesuits into third, ahead of Ridgefield and Staples. The 10 teams remained the same as last […]
HARTFORD — The sixth graders at the school in Hartford loved handball, and their physical education teacher casually dropped that if they liked handball, did he have another sport for them. Six years later, seven of those sixth graders were on the roster of the Capital Prep/Classical team that played the first varsity boys […]
The latest tweak to the CIAC’s plan for spring sports was a minor one on Tuesday: It no longer requires that teams use separate sets of baseballs during ballgames. The original plan for this spring, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, had the home team provide all the game balls, then split them between the teams. Each […]
The theme in the run-up to the 2021 boys lacrosse season, with 672 (your favorite dirty adjective) days between the 2019 Class L final and the six games scheduled for Saturday morning at 10: Nobody really knows anything… Nobody, except that Darien is No. 1 in the GameTimeCT poll, a unanimous choice to start the […]
Greenwich’s boys lacrosse team will miss the start of the spring season in COVID-19 quarantine, coach Bobby Lutz confirmed Wednesday. The Cardinals will resume activities on April 21 and are scheduled now to open their season a day later at Staples. Greenwich was to play Monday at Brunswick, but that game is off at least […]
Hand’s boys hockey season is over after the Tigers went into COVID-19 quarantine, pulling them out of the SCC/SWC Division II playoffs. The Tigers, ranked 10th in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 poll, had quarantined three other times this season and played only five of a possible 12 games. SCC/SWC BOYS HOCKEY TOURNAMENT BRACKETS Hand […]
We started our survey results with hockey coaches’ favorite rinks. Now, while we continue to wait for 2021-21 to begin, here are a few more responses coaches had to some of our other questions about the barns they haunt all winter (usually). As mentioned in Part 1, we asked these questions promising anonymity for their […]
While we were waiting for the 2021-21 hockey season to start, we bothered the state’s coaches with a short survey. Well, it started short, and then it stretched out. We’ll share some of the actual hockey content in the coming weeks, but for starters we asked some fun (we hoped) questions, promising anonymity in […]
If there is a high school hockey season in Connecticut, it appears it will go off without the Eastern Connecticut Eagles. “Unfortunately, since we are a co-op and the ECC has decided that there will be no winter co-op sports, we will not be allowed to participate even if the CIAC puts something together,” Eagles […]
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Board of Control discussed a calendar for the rest of the school year on Thursday, but the uncertainty of how the COVID-19 pandemic might progress kept them from deciding anything about that calendar. And since spring sports didn’t compete at all in 2020, the board still wants to give them […]
Over the past three months a lot has happened. The CIAC cancelled 11-on-11 football, while independent football teams were created around the state. The CIAC has also made a decision to postpone the beginning of the winter season. Back in early September, we ran down the series of events that got us to the cancellation […]
The CIAC announced Tuesday high school sports would begin no earlier than Jan. 19 A proposal to hold the winter high school season is in front of the state’s governing body for interscholastic sports, but could restrict thousands of athletes from participating if the spread of COVID across the state continues. The proposal, set to […]
The voicemail, asking about how this fall sports season was going as it neared the finish, had idly wondered if Mark Berkowitz might be in the Weston athletic director’s office on Veterans Day.
He wasn’t, t…
The governors of the six New England states and New Jersey announced the suspension of interstate public and private school hockey and youth hockey until at least Dec. 31, similar to a policy announced last week for Connec…
Masuk has withdrawn from the SWC South Division boys soccer tournament. Athletic director John DeGennaro confirmed the team’s withdrawal on Wednesday and that it was related to COVID-19, but he said he couldn’t divulge whether it involved positive tests on the team or contact with others. Top-seeded Weston advances to Saturday’s final, which it will […]
The state Department of Public Health released updated guidance on youth and amateur sports on Monday that mirrors the sector rules announced Thursday by Gov. Ned Lamont. The new guidance doesn’t recommend practices or games in sports deemed higher risk for transmitting COVID-19, such as tackle football or wrestling. Lamont announced on Thursday that games […]
Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday that COVID-19 spread in and around hockey has led to around 45 infections in the state. “I’m not positive it’s exclusive to hockey,” Lamont added, but the governor has discussed hockey a couple of times in his press conferences this week, saying that activities around the sport and its regional […]
The Founders League announced Friday that its winter conference schedule, like its fall season, is canceled. “In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and after many discussions prioritizing community health, safety and well-being,” the announcement reads, “the Founders League has unanimously, and with great regret, decided to cancel all Founders League interscholastic competition for the […]
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Board of Control met Thursday to establish further guidelines for a potential winter season, including the number of games a team will need to play to be eligible for the state tournament. “It was solely for scheduling purposes,” CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini said. “Our leagues and athletic directors need […]
Derby’s Board of Education voted Tuesday night to allow Derby High School football players to use school equipment in independent tackle football. There was no objection heard in the hybrid meeting, though there was at least one abstention. Derby’s board joins Meriden’s, which last week approved allowing its high schools to use school equipment and […]
NORWALK — All the confidence Tommy Brown needed for this would’ve-been football season and beyond came from a game 11 months ago. Without its standout quarterback on Nov. 9, Norwalk gave the start against Danbury to junior Tommy Brown. He was 13 for 27 for 246 yards with three touchdowns and no turnovers in a […]
Updated story at 5:45 p.m. While announcing plans on Tuesday for an “alternative season” in the spring for sports that lose most of their seasons to the COVID-19 pandemic, including 11-on-11 football or any other fall or winter sport, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference came out against independent football and urged schools not to let […]
Though full-contact club football remains unpopular, one city is close to getting on the field.
Meriden on Thursday granted Maloney and Platt permission to play 11-on-11 football in the city this fall, prov…
