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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…
The state Department of Public Health remained unmoved Monday by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Friday pitch for getting DPH approval for a full-contact fall football season. The CIAC Board of Control will meet this week to determine what comes next. DPH acting commissioner Deidre Gifford sent a Monday letter reaffirming what she said Friday […]
HARTFORD — They’ve brought their message to the state Capitol building, and they didn’t go quietly into winter. And maybe the governor heard. Players from at least 40 high school football teams around the state came to the Capitol on Wednesday evening, rallying to try to save a CIAC season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “It […]
As Connecticut high school football players prepared to rally Wednesday evening at the Capitol in Hartford to save their season, state legislators from both sides of the aisle urged Gov. Ned Lamont to join the dialogue. Lamont later casually pitched shifting the season to early 2021 in his daily press briefing. Meanwhile, state Senate Republicans […]
Over the past four months the CIAC’s decision on whether or not football would be played this fall has been changed a handful of times. We take a look back at the important dates and stories from the past four months. ♦♦♦ May 5 Connecticut becomes the last state to cancel spring athletics after being […]
When it canceled 11-on-11 football for 2020 on Friday morning, the CIAC said it will work with football coaches and state athletic directors to give football players “the best low and moderate risk experiences possible.” One possibility, though not one that had been popular with coaches while full-contact football remained on the table, is 7-on-7. […]
Participation in sports is great, the executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) said in a recent column. Transferring across state lines to play in a pandemic? Karissa Niehoff is a bit less enthused. As the CIAC and state Department of Public Health work out how fall sports will work […]
Wilton’s sports pause is over: Teams are clear to return to practice as soon as Friday, town superintendent of schools Kevin Smith told the Board of Education on Thursday night. Smith said that Wilton director of health Barrington Bogle approved the school’s plan to rejoin the first phase of the CIAC’s fall-sports plan, which includes […]
In the greater picture of the COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) participation survey ranks pretty low. But it won’t be coming this year, the organization’s executive director, Karissa Niehoff, said in her weekly column for NFHS.org. “With spring sports unable to even get off the ground, […]
Nonnewaug athletes will have a chance at a fall sports season after Regional School District 14’s Board of Education on Monday night reversed its decision and allowed students to return to conditioning and practice. The board voted to let athletes take part in activities under the CIAC’s latest plan, under which non-contact, small-group practices are […]
CHESHIRE — This CIAC update on the fall season wasn’t a football team bursting through a banner onto its field on homecoming. This was more dancing along the sideline, hoping to stay in bounds. CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini said Thursday morning that conditioning for all sports continues to go ahead and teams will continue […]
It was among the hardest decisions Rich Photos had to make in 40 years in sports, he said Tuesday night, and the president of Southern Connecticut Pop Warner football said he delayed it as long as he thought he could. Southern Connecticut Pop Warner has canceled its fall season after the state Department of Public […]
As some schools resumed conditioning for a football season that may not arrive, a potential timeline for that season came into focus on Monday. CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini had a two-and-a-half-hour conference call with around 20 state coaches on Monday, Hand coach Steve Filippone said. “He was very informative and helpful, letting us know […]
Dave Sollazzo has been a football coach for a long time, and this year he just plans to be a dad. Sollazzo has resigned after three years as Naugatuck’s head coach, leaving with a record of 23-9 and two playoff appearances. He plans to watch his son play football this fall: Chris Sollazzo will be […]
The 2019-20 GameTimeCT All-State Boys Hockey team. Compiled by Michael Fornabaio. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media and were submitted. Designed by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. Boys Hockey All-State Lineups FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Player of the Year Nick Maringola Cheshire, Senior, Goalie Stats: Had 45 saves or more in seven games. … Faced […]
The goalie had asked to drive himself to the game instead of taking the Cheshire boys hockey team bus from school, and it couldn’t have been a better day for that. “I remember it was such a nice day, I had the windows down. I was thinking, ‘this is going to be a good game,’” […]
FIRST TEAM Honorable mention Jeb Boyrer, Norwalk, Sr., F; Tyler Calhoun, Housatonic, Sr., D; Aaron Cholewa, WMRP, Sr., F; Lee Conlu, New Milford, Sr., G; Clayton Cowee, Enfield, Sr., F; Rhys Davies, Fairfield, Jr., F; Eric Dillner, Hand, Jr., G; Spencer Engstrom, Branford, Sr., F; Jack Esse, Fairfield Prep, Sr., F; Ryan Feher, South […]
A year ago, Jake Walker was the winning goaltender in the last high school hockey game of the year, a CIAC Division I champion with Fairfield Prep. On Tuesday morning, he found out there would be no champion this year. Walker started an online petition that has drawn more than 30,000 signatures in a few […]
North Haven’s Andrew Sacco is 6-1 in his career in the state tournament and has allowed over two goals twice in that span. What makes him so good during the postseason? #cthk pic.twitter.com/x0F8fbzzFP — Pete Paguaga (@PetePaguaga) March 10, 2020 NORTH BRANFORD — We’ve reached that time of the boys hockey season when goalie matchups […]
On Tuesday, March 10, the CIAC cancelled the remainder of its winter tournaments due to the impact of coronavirus. ♦♦♦ The 2020 CIAC Boys Hockey State Tournament scoreboard and schedule, culminating in the CIAC state championship games at Ingalls Rink in New Haven. Division links to official brackets on CIACsports.com. Scoreboard will be updated after […]
Here's Jack Manware's game-winner with 3.8 seconds left in Branford's 4-3 win over Hand. #cthk pic.twitter.com/Oa4V49oY5j — Michael Fornabaio (@fornabaioctp) March 1, 2020 NORTH BRANFORD — Branford’s team managers counted 58 shots for Hand on Saturday night at Northford Ice Pavilion, so 55 saves for Jared Yakimoff. The number felt a little high, but honestly […]
Sheehan's Anthony DeFilio talks about his game-winner #cthk pic.twitter.com/5QSHcQA1Er — Michael Fornabaio (@fornabaioctp) February 16, 2020 MIDDLETOWN — Three times, Lyman Hall/HK/Coginchaug showed the guts to come back against Sheehan, erase a deficit in a wild atmosphere at Wesleyan’s Spurrier-Snyder Rink, make a new game of it. And all three times the Trojans did, Sheehan […]
A Newtown visit to Shelton for the second year in a row, a Hand trip to Bloomfield and a matchup of two defending state champions are among the highlights of the 2020 Connecticut High School Football Scheduling Alliance slate that was announced on Friday. The alliance began in 2017 to create more competitive regular-season […]
The 2020 FCIAC football schedule opens the weekend of Sept. 11-12 with a coach returning to his former stomping grounds for the first time. Trumbull will visit Staples to begin the year. Eagles coach Marce Petrocchio spent 25 years at Staples, winning three CIAC championships. Each FCIAC team will play two out-of-conference games in […]
They rotate once more, and Fairfield Prep is back on top. The preseason No. 1 team in the GameTimeCT top 10 boys hockey poll, the Jesuits have reclaimed the top spot going into a Wednesday-night rematch with No. 2 Darien in Bridgeport. The Blue Wave beat Fairfield Prep 6-3 on Jan. 20 in Darien. Though […]
We round up top performers from the past week’s boys hockey games and look ahead to next week.
Fine performances
Matt Arena, Farmington…
