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NEW BRITAIN — They know the tradition. They knew it’d been a while since their team won a State Open. Danbury’s boys track and field team was happy to change that Monday at Willow Brook Park.
The Hatters won three events, including the 4×400 r…
With the incredible run of success over the last three years, the legacy of the senior class is one that will go down in Derby High School folklore. However, before taking aim at a State Open title, the Red Raiders’ boys track and field team h…
Derby’s standouts Ja’Kwan Hale, Brian Jalowiec, Ken Little and Steven Stanley led the Red Raiders to the NVL championship Tuesday at Seymour High School Wednesday. Hale (top jumper), Jalowiec (top thrower) and Little (top distance) all took home honors in addition to their first-place finishes. Little was named the meet’s most outstanding senior. Hale set […]
DANBURY — It was the ultimate test of teamwork and team depth, and at the 38th running of the O’Grady Relays Friday and Saturday, no teams were better than the host Danbury High School boys and girls track and field teams.
The Hatter boys scor…
TORRINGTON — On a sneaky cold day turned frigid by the end, Torrington’s Red Raider baseball team (2-2, 1-2 NVL) parlayed nine singles into a 7-5 win over the Red Raiders from Derby (1-3, 0-2) Thursday afternoon at Torrington’s Fuessenich Park…
Like Law, Derby didn’t succeed in its first opportunity to qualify for postseason play. In fact, it took four tries. After three straight wins to get to seven wins, the Red Raiders suffered three consecutive losses, two of them to teams they had beaten earlier, Ansonia and Bristol Eastern. But finally on Feb. 12, Derby […]
NEW HAVEN — Kenneth Little Jr. won two individual events and ran on one first-place relay to lead Derby to the team title at the NVL indoor track championships Monday afternoon at the Floyd Little Athletic Center. Little Jr. won the 1000 (2:38.13) and 3200 (10:32.21) and anchored the Red Raiders’ winning 1600 sprint medley, […]
St. Paul’s boys basketball team has certainly done a 180 since the calendar flipped to 2018. Once mired in a four-game losing streak, the Falcons have blasted off in January. They won four straight to get back to .500 and then nearly toppled NVL power Holy Cross 55-49 last Friday. The excruciating setback might have […]
SHELTON – SHELTON — The outcome of the 107th meeting between Valley football rivals Shelton and Derby was no longer in doubt once the Thursday’s game hit halftime. The Gaels were well on their way to a 49-8 victory, their 13th straight in what has become a one-sided rivalry. Quarterback Jake Roberts, who accounted for […]
SEYMOUR — The latest rendition of the Seymour-Derby football rivalry began inauspiciously for the Red Raiders, who watched Bobby Melms take off for a 54-yard touchdown on the game’s first play.Unfortunately for the Red Raiders, the night d…
WATERTOWN — Derby’s girls defended their title without their top runner while Kennedy’s boys broke Naugatuck’s four-year reign at the NVL Cross Country Championships at Watertown’s Veterans’ Memorial Park Wednesday afternoon.Derby …
UPDATE: The game has been rescheduled to Thursday, Nov. 16, the bye week before Thanksgiving. The Seymour/Derby football game has been postponed to November 16th #cthsfb — Seymour Football (@SeymourFootball) September 22, 2017 —- For the second-consecutive year, the Derby-Seymour football game has been postponed indefinitely due to a contagious illness which could have impacted both teams. Last year, Derby had […]
NEW BRITAIN >> Brian Jalowiec won all three throwing titles and Ken Little won a pair in the 800 and as the 4×800 anchor as Derby’s boys track and field team claimed its first state championship since 1976 Thursday. Jalowiec claimed the shot put with a throw of 50 feet, 3 inches, the javelin with 173 […]
••• The 2016-17 New Haven Register Area Wrestling team. Capsules by Joe Morelli. Photos by Catherine Avalone and Peter Hvizdak. Designed by Sean Patrick Bowley. ••• Stats: Senior finished 45-0 at 152 pounds, winning both the SCC and Class M state championship meets for the third time and in addition, taking home the State Open and […]
The 57th anniversary of the Casey-O’Brien New Haven County Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame will be on Friday March 31 at Fantasia, 404 Washington Ave, North Haven. A reception will begin at 5:30 pm a with the march to the head table at 6:30 pm. Twenty-seven high school and […]
DERBY >> The Board of Aldermen Thursday voted in favor of relocating the existing high school baseball field not too far from its home base, rather than across town. The aldermen voted based on the recommendation from the Baseball Field Relocation Committee to relocate the baseball field, located next to the football field at the […]
DERBY >> The Board of Education announced Thursday that a private donor, whose father was a 1915 graduate of Derby High School, is donating $2 million for construction of a new fieldhouse and baseball field, which school officials are calling a real “game changer.” Superintendent of Schools Matthew Conway said the donation from Joan A. […]
Veteran Derby girls basketball coach Dave Cheverella, now in his 20th year, has been to the state tournament before. But none of the current players on the Red Raiders roster have been to the postseason — in any sport. Reaching the playoffs is something well within Derby’s grasp this year. The Red Raiders are 5-4 […]
The 2016 New Haven Register All-Area Boys Cross Country Team. Compiled by Joe Morelli. Photos by Peter Hvizdak. Designed by Sean Patrick Bowley. • • • Stats: Junior inished second in both the Class LL meet (15:50) and the State Open (15:47). Won the SCC meet for the second straight year (a personal-best 15:36 in a 5K), helping […]
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SHELTON >> He kicks the football, he catches the football and now he’s a Most Valuable Player. Shelton’s Joe Zoppi kicked three field goals — tying a state career record with 20 — caught two touchdown passes of 12 and 56 yards and was 5-for-5 on extra points to lead Shelton to a 44-8 win […]
DERBY >> Oxford thought its punishing rushing attack could impose its will entering an NVL Copper Division clash with Valley rival Derby. That script worked nearly to perfection Saturday. The visiting Wolverines scored on their first three offensive possessions and added a special teams touchdown in between en route to a 43-6 victory over the […]
DERBY >> Local lawmakers expect to score nearly $3 million in state funding for new athletic fields here. According to state Rep. Theresa Conroy, D-Seymour, state Rep. Linda Gentile, D-Ansonia, and state Sen. Joe Crisco, D-Woodbridge, the state Bond Commission is “expected to approve $2.99 million” for the Derby athletic field project when it meets […]
By Jean Falbo-Sosnovich jean.sos@snet.net @nhrvalley on Twitter DERBY >> Seven of Derby High School’s legendary athletes and coaches who excelled both on and off the playing field have been named to the 2nd annual Derby Athletic Hall of Fame. The 2016 Hall of Famers are: Alphonse Vitello (Class of 1941); Bill Duggan (Class of 1951); […]
TORRINGTON >> With just 16 healthy girls on the roster, Torrington’s girls soccer team, proved quality comes first in a 9-0 defeat of Derby at the Robert H. Frost Sports Complex Wednesday night. All 16 of the girls played, including two freshmen and two newcomers to soccer. Seven of them scored. All of them looked good […]
Vitals Coach: GEORGE FRENCH (7th year, 33-28) Conference: NVL Copper Division Playoff Class: S (200 boys enrollment) Home: DeFilippo Field 2015 Record: 6-4 (2-2 Copper Division) 2016 Kickoff: Twitter: @DerbyFTball | MaxPreps Top players ALIJAH ELLIS, Sr., WR/DB (5-8, 165) MIKE SZWAJA, Sr., OL/DL (5-10, 195) JOSH VEGA, Sr., WR/DB (5-10, 165) VINNY SIGNORE, Sr., […]
The 2016 New Haven Register All-Area Girls Track and Field Team. Compiled by Dan Nowak. Photos by New Haven Register Staff. Most Valuable Performer Jessica Drop Coginchaug, Senior Stats: At the New England meet she won the 3200 (10:17.54) and was second in the 1600 (4:49.47), at the State Open she won the 1600 (4:48.29) […]
Editor’s Note: Derby High School new Athletic Hall of Fame inaugurated its first class earlier this month. The first class is a who’s who of Red Raiders sports history. Below is an account of the first Hall of Fame Class, written by committee member Ray Silvernale. DERBY = It started with a dream. The desire to succeed burned deep within. […]
The 2015-16 New Haven Register All-Area Girls Indoor Track Team. Photos by Arnold Gold and Catherine Avalone. Most Valuable Performer Danae Rivers Wilbur Cross, senior Stats: At the New England Championships was second in the 1000 (2:50.68), at the State Open she won the 1000 in a meet record 2:50.26 and won the 1600 in […]
