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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…
NEW HAVEN — Hillhouse boys basketball coach Renard Sutton has noted after every game he wanted to see the growth of his Academics, minus four starters from last year’s second consecutive Class LL state championship. Through four games, the growth has been as expected, even from the underclassmen. The fourth-ranked Academics hammered No. 9 Windsor […]
NEW HAVEN — We are a little more than two weeks into the girls basketball season, but things are already starting to shake out in the Southern Connecticut Conference. And from the look of things, everyone will be chasing Mercy. The Tigers have already defeated Hand on the road and handed Career a 53-34 loss […]
Kareem Dixon scored three touchdowns and John Anderson hand and interception return and ran for a touchdown in Creed/Career/Whitney Tech’s 61-28 victory over Bassick in the season finale for both teams. Creed finished the year 3-7 (2-4 SCC Tier 3). Bassick, which was playing in the SCC for the first season, finished 0-10 (0-6). […]
The 2016-17 New Haven Register All-Area Boys Basketball Team. Capsules by Joe Morelli. Photos by Catherine Avalone. Designed by Sean Patrick Bowley. ••• Stats: Area’s leading scorer (23.2 ppg.) along with 6.0 assists and 4.0 steals per game. Also made 69 3-pointers and finished with over 2,000 career points (his first three seasons were […]
CLINTON – Bacon Academy coach Dave Shea knew the key to stopping Career was to limit the play of star junior Ky’Jae Hargrove. Shea could not have imagined just how well the defense of his team would play. Holding the second-seeded Panthers without a field goal for a stretch of 11 minutes, 8 seconds in […]
NEW HAVEN – St. Paul wanted to keep Career’s flashy point guard Ky’Jae Hargrove from penetrating the lane and having her choice of scoring or dishing off to an open teammate inside. The Falcons got it half right as they limited Hargrove to just 10 points, but they allowed Career too many easy buckets off […]
NEW HAVEN – Speed. That was the big difference Friday night as Career took advantage of it on both sides of the ball en route to a 48-38 victory over Rocky Hill in the second round of the CIAC Class M girls’ basketball tournament. The win pushed the Panthers into the quarterfinals where they will […]
Ky’Jae Hargrove, Career: Guard has averaged 16.6 ppg. for the Panthers, who own victories over New London, Hand and East Haven. Career is the No. 2 seed in Class M. Savannah Marshall, Westbrook: The leading scorer in Greater New Haven at 23.1 ppg. Daughter of the former UConn standout Donny Marshall. The Shoreline Conference semifinalists […]
With the game tied 61-all and a mere half second remaining in regulation between Wilbur Cross and Career, there wasn’t a whole lot Wilbur Cross with its inbounds pass from the baseline. Just throw it up to someone open and hope that someone could tip it in, right? Well, then… that’s what happened. Junior guard Kwane […]
NEW HAVEN – Just another night in the Southern Connecticut Conference where, if you’re the hottest girls’ basketball team, you’re probably going to get beaten. The latest team to carry that mantle was Career, which had just been rewarded with the No. 4 ranking in the latest GameTimeCT/Register Top 10. However, eighth-ranked Mercy ended the […]
MADISON >> The top of the Southern Connecticut Conference girls’ basketball race is certainly wide open this winter. Friday night was another bit of proof that is the case as Career pulled off a 43-42 upset of Hand at the Polson Gymnasium in an interdivision contest. Career (11-2) handed Hand (12-3) its second SCC loss […]
NEW HAVEN >> The first half looked almost like a carbon copy of the first game Career played against Hillhouse: Career controlled the tempo, mad shots and frustrated the Academics. Career lost the first time around by just five and did lead for most of Monday’s first half at the Floyd Little Athletic Center. Then […]
