Without big ticket sales, pandemic cuts into schools’ athletic finances, may force hard decisions
‘Hard part is the unknowns’: Fall sports tweaked but ongoing two weeks in
Gymnasium bleachers are empty, but the court at least is full. Fewer runners stand at the start, but they’ll run. The meets are virtual, but swimmers’ times are real. Two and a half weeks into the COVID-19 fall of ‘20 high school sports season, play goes on with one eye on the metrics and another […]
The Thanksgiving Week GameTimeCT Top 10 Football Poll: Calm before the great feast
A quiet week meant a quiet poll. You’ve got to dip to 14th place to find a change in the GameTimeCT Top 10 football poll this week, a little Shelton surge after beating Fairfield Prep 49-19. There’s another at 19th, where Sheehan’s win over Hamden moved the Titans up two whole spots. No, those aren’t […]
The Week 2 GameTimeCT Football Poll: Top 9 remain same, Fairfield Prep takes over at No. 10
The top nine teams in the preseason GameTimeCT football poll all won, so the poll after Week 1 looks relatively familiar. The top six spots remained identical, led by Hand, which received 22 first-place votes for the second week in a row. Both Bloomfield and Newtown earned big shutout wins to start the season, but […]
The 2019 GameTimeCT Preseason Top 10 Football Poll: HAND is No. 1
Hand blew through the Class L football tournament last fall, outscoring three opponents 159-21, practically a coronation tour. A whole lot of key cogs of that team return, and the Tigers are a near-unanimous No. 1 in the GameTimeCT preseason poll. But the Tigers have some company in their division. No. 2 St. Joseph, last […]
25 CIAC football players to watch in 2019
A.J. BARBER Sr., Greenwich: The Class LL champs were hit hard by graduation, but Barber’s back after catching 10 touchdown passes last year and throwing one in the state final. PHOENIX BILLINGS Sr., Hand: Standout athlete, committed to UConn to play baseball, threw for 1,740 yards and 23 touchdowns last year and ran for […]
The 2019 GameTimeCT All-State Boys Lacrosse team
The 2019 GameTimeCT All-State Boys Lacrosse Team. Compiled by Mike Fornobaio. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media. Designed by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Player of the Year Andrew Calabrese Wilton Stats: Made 206 saves, stopping 57 percent of the shots he faced. … Played to a 7.4 goals-against average as the […]
10 hockey games to get out and see in 2018-19
Ridgefield at Fairfield Prep (Wonderland of Ice), Wednesday, 6 p.m.: The past two state champs: Not a bad way to get the season started. The rematch at the Winter Garden is Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Wilton at JBWA (Danbury), Wednesday, 7:40 p.m.: It’s the first game for the state’s newest co-op: That’s “Joel Barlow […]
Football: Wilbur Cross holds off Foran
MILFORD — It was an inch or two, a link of a chain, a fortunate spot that might’ve erased Foran’s overgenerous first half and Wilbur Cross’ scuffling second. The Lions’ fourth-down attempt with 44.4 seconds left came up just short Friday night. Wilbur Cross held on for a 27-22 win to open the SCC football […]
SWC football: Stratford ready to begin Petion era
STRATFORD — A group preaching togetherness huddles around to talk about their new football season after a scrimmage at Penders Field. “We’re family,” Stratford senior lineman Anthony Davis said. “Everyone’s on the same page,” junior receiver and defensive back Jasen Docteur added. They’re finishing each other’s thoughts: That’s a good start. The Red Devils took […]
Football: Experienced Ansonia squad looking for CIAC state championship No. 21
ANSONIA — Try to find out what sets this year’s Ansonia football team apart from other recent teams from the state’s small-school powerhouse, and the answers stand apart themselves. Coach Tom Brockett talks about experience. A couple of his key players talk about how young the team is around them. “We’ve got a lot of […]
Football: Time is now for Hubler, Foran
MILFORD — It’s senior year, and Foran quarterback Jared Hubler talked humbly at DeVito Field. He’s hoping to have a little fun this fall, he said, throw the ball around a bit. Throwing the ball around has traditionally been a strength for the Lions. They have been one of the most prolific offenses in the […]
Hockey: Johnny Longo named next Notre Dame-Fairfield coach
In the decade since his playing career ended, Johnny Longo said, he’s always had it in the back of his mind to get into hockey coaching. But starting a family, building a strength and conditioning business: Coaching waited, until now. Longo, 37, has been named Notre Dame-Fairfield’s boys hockey coach. “A place like Notre Dame: […]
American Legion: Trumbull eliminates Cheshire, reaches Super Regional final
MIDDLETOWN >> Trumbull’s American Legion team knew it was facing a good pitcher in Cheshire’s Adler Demac, but it didn’t think he was anything they couldn’t handle. Demac held Trumbull in check for six innings. Four hits in the top of the seventh ended a state tournament pitcher’s duel and sent Trumbull, a 2-1 victor […]
American Legion: Trumbull rallies past Stratford, advances in tournament
STRATFORD — It wasn’t exactly 7 o’clock thunder for Trumbull’s American Legion team Wednesday night at Penders Field. It was more like a pesky, relentless rainstorm, salvation on a sweltering evening. Five straight Trumbull singles started a six-run rally in the top of the fifth in the deciding game of its series against Stratford. Trumbull regained […]