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There was no ceremony this year to honor the recipients of the New Haven Athletic Awards due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But Erik Patchkofsky, the citywide athletic director, still wanted to go through with handing out the a…
Girls Ice Hockey First Team Forward: Madison Epke (Guilford), Taylor Nowak (West Haven), Demeri Carangelo (Hamden), Megan Froehlich (West Haven); Defense: Tess Csejka (Amity Regional), Brooke McNabola (SHA); Goalie: Bethany Karp (Pomperaug) Second Team Forward: Reilly Sargolini (Hamden), Leigha Howland (Foran), Haley Cable (Amity Regional), Catie Gregory (Newtown; Defense: Olivia Gill (Guilford), Caroline Cadelina (Amity Regional); Goalie: Christina Meadows (Branford) Boys […]
Hillhouse is returning to the Southern Connecticut Conference for baseball this spring — albeit with some reinforcements.
Hillhouse and Career Magnet will be forming a co-op this season to play in the SCC. …
SHELTON — Shelton boys basketball coach Brian Gardiner had reason to be concerned when Career paid a visit to Murray Gymnasium on Tuesday night.
Yes, his Gaels had won six of their last seven, but the last …
NEW HAVEN — With the boys basketball season starting a week later than last year, plenty of clubs are still working out the kinks as we turn for the new decade.
Kolbe Cathedral coach John Pfohl said it hims…
Olivia Dubuc from Sheehan earned the Whitey Piurek Outstanding Female Player Award and Jack Loura from Cheshire earned the Tony Denegri Outstanding Male Player Award from Greater New Haven Soccer Officials Association on Sunday. The Career High girls team (below) took home the Mabel Petersen Female Team Sportsmanship Award following its first varsity season […]
NEW HAVEN — With the mid-point of the season passing by, there were some similarities between both the East Haven and Career girls volleyball teams. Each has sustained a losing streak of two games or more, and each had a p…
It was announced Monday that for the fifth consecutive season, the FCIAC and the SCC will play each other in one game for the next two seasons in baseball. Sheehan, Jonathan Law and Wilbur Cross from the SCC and Trinity Catholic from the FCIAC will not participate. For 2021, the home and away teams […]
WALLINGFORD — Deshaune Poole of Hillhouse and Meredith Bloss of Guilford have been dominant in their events in the SCC over the years and that dominance continued at the Southern Connecticut Conference boys and girls track…
NEW HAVEN — After watching his pitching staff surrender 26 runs in two losses already in the week, Jonathan Law baseball coach Greg Semler put the ball in the hands of Zach Merchant for his team’s Thursday afternoon game against Career Magnet at New Haven’s West Rock Park. Merchant didn’t disappoint either himself or his […]
EAST HAVEN — The last time East Haven and Career met, it was in a totally different setting and the game meant a lot more.
Back on March 17, East Haven won the CIAC Class M state championship, its first state crown, on Bella Ra…
Career girls basketball coach Steve Bethke confirmed that he has not been allowed to coach the team since the start of preseason practice last month.
Bethke said he has been sidelined due to an alleged incident that occurred at…
FAIRFIELD — By the mid-point in the first half, Fairfield Prep boys’ soccer coach Ryan Lyddy had pulled his three attackers, Alex Whammond, Gavin Neumeyer and Andrew Neumeyer, and had them sitting comfortably on the Jesuits bench.
Their work w…
All Jo-El Hutchinson wanted was an opportunity to continue playing football.
For he and his Whitney Tech teammates, that wasn’t a foregone conclusion for this season. Last fall, Whitney Tech was in a co-op with New Haven schools Creed and Care…
UNCASVILLE — Two times earlier this season, East Haven figured out a way to top Career. The third time the teams met did not look as if it would go the way of the Yellowjackets. Then, the group of Kylie Schlottman, MaKenzie Helms, Olivia Coyle and Isabella Ragaini took over. Battling back from eight points […]
The East Haven girls basketball program will be making its first appearance in a state championship final when the second-seeded Yellowjackets take the floor Saturday at the Mohegan Sun Arena. “I think it means a lot to community at large,” East Haven coach Anthony Russell said. “We’ve heard about the great boys teams at East […]
The last jump, oh, the last jump was for his grandmother. “Everything I do,” Dyshon Vaughn said, “I dedicate to her.” The Career High senior was sitting in third place at the New Balance Nationals Indoor meet at The Armory in New York. Saturday already was going to be a good day. With one dash, […]
This time a year ago, Career’s Dyshon Vaughn was a basketball player. On Saturday, he became a national champion in indoor track and field. Vaughn, who came out of nowhere to win the SCC, Class S, State Open and New England championships, added one last medal and crown to his sterling resume. On his final […]
STRATFORD — Sometimes even the most unselfish player needs to take over a game. Career Magnet senior point guard Ky’Jae Hargrove scored 14 of her game-high 20 points in the second half, leading 20th-seeded Career Magnet to a 39-34 win over Weston in a CIAC Class M semifinal at Bunnell High School on Saturday. The […]
BRIDGEPORT — The Bridgeport Central boys basketball team’s first state playoff game in three years was worth the wait for Barry McLeod and Co. The No. 14 Hilltoppers made their return to the postseason count, defeating No. 19 Career Magnet 62-56 in the first round of the Division II tournament on Tuesday. “It’s a good […]
WALLINGFORD — Career junior Carmen Rosemond and her teammates remember the bitter taste of being upset in last year’s state semifinals against Bacon Academy. It may have taken a year, but the Panthers will now get a chance to avenge that l…
NEW HAVEN — Contavio Dutreil said it was the first time he had ever done it in a game.Block a shot? Dutreil has done that hundreds of times to his opposition in the FCIAC. No, the Trinity Catholic forward waved his finger after blocking a Ca…
NEW HAVEN — Ky’Jae Hargrove limped off the court with 2:48 to play, in such pain from injuring her left ankle that she didn’t want anyone to touch it.But the Career senior had done enough in the first 29-plus minutes of the night as she …
Ky’Jae Hargrove finished with 18 points, including the 1,000th of her career, to help lead the Career girls basketball team to a 65-42 win over Greenwich Saturday in a non-conference game at New Haven. Kayla Emery added 12 points for the Panthers (11-6). Kim Kockenmeister led all scorers with 21 points for Greenwich (5-10). St. […]
NEW HAVEN — After suffering just its second loss of the season on Monday, the East Haven girls’ basketball team needed a quick start Thursday night. The Yellowjackets needed a big lift on the defensive end of the floor.East Haven got exact…
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 […]
NEW HAVEN — Both the Wilbur Cross and Career basketball teams are enjoying solid starts to the season. It comes as no surprise each team was ready for the test of playing each other as the midpoint of the season approached.In a games of runs…
Action from the Career-Harding game at the MLK Classic. #ctbb pic.twitter.com/y5DbJNuXON — Joe Morelli (@nhrJoeMorelli) January 16, 2018 BRIDGEPORT — It takes a lot to please Career boys basketball coach Larry Kelley. He has high expectations, as most coaches do of their respective programs. Now if the Panthers could play every quarter like they did […]
BRIDGEPORT — Neither man will take a single jump shot on Monday afternoon, but both understand the intricacies of what it takes to make it to the Division I level for basketball.John Bagley and Larry Kelley are at different ends of the coach…
