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NEW HAVEN — Down three touchdowns and with his starting quarterback sitting on the bench injured, Wilbur Cross coach John Acquavita admitted he was in damage control mode Thursday morning, just attempting to salvage something out of the final moments of what was a solid season for the Governors. But once the assessment was completed, […]
NORTH HAVEN – Defending Class L baseball champion Notre Dame-West Haven grabbed its first lead Saturday afternoon in the top of the fifth inning and appeared to seize all the accompanying momentum that went with it. But against a veteran North Haven squad that had spent a good part of the 2017 campaign erasing deficits, […]
WESTBROOK – As Thursday afternoon wore on, the crowd assembled at Westbrook High for the Class M girls tennis final slowly drifted from the near to the far end of the complex as it became apparent where this round between rivals Hand and Guilford would eventually be decided. With all the other matches complete, the […]
WESTBROOK – As Thursday afternoon wore on, the crowd assembled at Westbrook High for the Class M girls tennis final slowly drifted from the near to the far end of the complex as it became apparent where this round between rivals Hand and Guilford would eventually be decided. With all the other matches complete, the […]
WEST HAVEN >> You come at the king, you best not miss. And, although Fairfield Prep scored a pair of runs in the top of the first, it had a chance Saturday afternoon to get more before Amity starting pitcher Teddy Hague wriggled his way out of the jam. By the time their first turn […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” caption=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] WEST HAVEN On a cold, rainy night last October, Reggie Lytle visited Ken Strong Stadium for the first time as a head coach, and Hillhouse was beaten so badly by West Haven that only a couple of late Academics touchdowns kept the then-50-point rule from being an issue. […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” name=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] Zach Davis finished his 2016 season with another record-breaking performance on Thanksgiving, running for what previously seemed like an unfathomable 543 yards on 26 carries and seven touchdowns in a 58-22 win over Lyman Hall. It only wasn’t headline news because Davis broke his own record and now holds […]
NEW HAVEN – Hillhouse has won five football state championships, three in the last decade, but it will do something in 2016 the program has never done in its long history: host a CIAC playoff game. The Academics dug themselves an early hole, but climbed out nicely in the second quarter to beat city rival […]
TRUMBULL >> Branford field hockey coach Cathy McGuirk was disappointed after her team’s 1-0 loss in the Class M semifinals to New Canaan Wednesday night, but she was still smiling. Four decades of experience have taught her that sometimes it’s just not meant to be. After conceding an early goal and nearly going a couple […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” name=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] Without a dancing partner to open the 2016 season, Notre Dame-West Haven decided to go outside the box… at least the Connecticut box. Bishop Hendricken, out of Warwick, R.I., happened to also be looking for a game on Sept. 9, and it made perfect sense for the two to […]
WEST HAVEN – Since former Notre Dame star Sean Goldrich returned from starring at the University of New Hampshire, he’s been pitching some of the trick plays he learned to coach Tom Marcucci and staff. Marcucci liked a couple of them enough to throw them into practice, but it always needed to be the perfect […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” caption=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] MADISON Handshake lines at the end of high school football games can be long enough, often morphing from something resembling straight into a parabola before everyone can get through and into their postgame huddle. At Hand games this year, though, particularly as the season winds down, there’s been […]
EAST HAVEN – Amity was the defending Southern Connecticut Conference volleyball champion and had beaten rival Cheshire twice in the regular season. But the aura surrounding the Rams — who had been in the SCC title game every year but two dating back to 1995 — is still formidable. So when the Rams won Game […]
[aesop_image imgwidth=”720″ img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Harding-Bassick-to-SCC.png” credit=”Graphic Sean Patrick Bowley” align=”center” lightbox=”on” caption=”Bassick and Harding are joining the SCC as football-only members. Click to enlarge.” captionposition=”left”] [aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” caption=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] Harding and Bassick were added to the SCC for football this week, a sentence that is extremely strange to type, but not nearly as weird as […]
Life’s about overcoming objects that are being thrown at you. — Zion Setal (@ZionSetal) September 3, 2016 [aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” caption=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] It was August 27, just a week into full practice, when Zion Setal’s thoughts turned to just how far his Wilbur Cross team could go this, his senior, season. They were […]
NORTH HAVEN >> When you’ve prevailed in as many games as the Shelton football team has the last three seasons against as tough a schedule as the top tier of the Southern Connecticut Conference has to offer, winning can become an art form. Friday night against defending Class L finalist North Haven at Vanacore Field, […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] The news of North Haven throwing the ball 35 times Friday against Notre Dame hit some people as shocking, especially paired with the fact that the Indians lost a game they were winning by two touchdowns. If you’ve been in underground bunker waiting for the apocalypse for the last decade, North […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] The rumor mill always did run faster than reality and with the proliferation of social media in recent years, it has tended to move tangentially as well, further skewing the lines between truth and fiction. First, new Hamden coach Tom Dyer had gotten rid of three seniors in the lead up […]
SHELTON >> Host Shelton was in a bit of an unfamiliar place Saturday night early in the second quarter against SCC Division I rival Xavier. Riding a 26-game regular-season win streak, the Gaels were not only down on the scoreboard, they were getting manhandled by a Falcons team that wanted no part of a second […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” caption=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] Zach Davis had stood waiting for a Cheshire kick nine times before and none came within 30 yards of him. But there was renewed hope midway through the fourth quarter when the Rams were forced to punt to Sheehan for the first time all evening. Cheshire was already leading […]
CHESHIRE >> Sheehan star Zach Davis took the second play from scrimmage 65 yards for a touchdown. That was about the end of the highlight reel for the Titans Friday evening. A resurgent Cheshire squad that has eyes on a return to glory swarmed and crushed Sheehan, scoring touchdowns on eight of its first nine […]
[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#86b3e9″ text=”#040000″ width=”content” align=”center” size=”1″ quote=”Schools are an important socializing institution, imparting those shared values through which social order and stability are maintained. Schools bear central responsibility for inculcating the fundamental values necessary to the maintenance of a democratic political system. When children attend racially and ethnically isolated schools, these ‘shared values’ are […]
[aesop_character img=”http://www.gametimect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ray-Curren-Headshot.png” caption=”RAY CURREN” align=”right” force_circle=”off”] There have certainly been some SCC classics at Bowen Field over the years. The most prominent, recent one that comes to mind was actually a Hillhouse loss in 2012 when the Acs were on the verge of an upset over Xavier before the Falcons stormed back from a 28-point […]
NEW HAVEN >> It was a moment that many involved with New Haven athletics, particularly Hillhouse, thought they would never see. But finally, after nearly four years of stops and starts, delays and frustrations, Friday night football came to Bowen Field for the first time in its storied, but checkered history. On a steamy night […]
We’ve been through this more than a couple times over the years since the SCC decided to divide itself into divisions by enrollment (give or take) more than a decade ago. But it’s worth revisiting: What is the biggest goal of high school athletics as it relates to the SCC? Is it about maximizing the […]
The Hyde Leadership school — the one that took up residence in Hamden, at least — and the Southern Connecticut Conference were conceived and implemented at approximately the same time more than two decades ago. Athletics were a big part of the Hyde experience from the time it opened and, as a New Haven school […]
STRATFORD- Holy Cross hadn’t won a state softball title since 1989 until it beat Thomaston for the CIAC Class S title last June. Sarah Lawton and the Crusaders didn’t feel like waiting three decades for another one. Lawton, who pitched a shutout in last year’s title game, repeated the feat Saturday afternoon as top-seeded Holy Cross […]
Darien 12, Fairfield Warde 5 final. The dynasty wins its 4th straight CIAC title. #ctglax pic.twitter.com/RW7OtFES4r — GameTimeCT (@GameTimeCT) June 11, 2016 MILFORD – The Darien girls lacrosse machine rolled on Saturday morning, topping FCIAC rival Fairfield Warde 12-5 in the Class L final, the fourth straight state crown and 8th in 10 years for […]
MIDDLETOWN -Notre Dame coach Don Martone insists his team isn’t doing anything differently than it was when the Green Knights appeared to be headed for a mediocre finish at 6-8 with just six games left in the regular season. ND won all six of those remaining games and less than a month later finds itself […]
