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2021 CIAC Spring State Championship Scoreboard [FINAL]

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♦♦♦ TICKET INFORMATION ♦♦♦ Baseball Class LL Norwalk 1, Westhill 0 Saturday, June 12 at Palmer Field, Middletown, Noon ON THE AIR/WEB: NFHS Network (subscription required) ROSTERS/TEAM INFO  ••• Class L Hand 3, Berlin 0 Saturday, June 12 at Palmer Field, Middletown, 7 p.m. ON THE AIR/WEB: NFHS Network (subscription required) ROSTERS/TEAM INFO  ••• Class […]

Baseball

Mozzicato pitches East Catholic to first CIAC baseball title since 1997, beats Northwestern

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  MIDDLETOWN — As the 17th and final Northwestern batter struck out, East Catholic catcher Hank Penders tossed his glove and helmet to the side and made a straight line toward Frank Mozzicato. “He’s a scary dude to run after you now, he used to be a little squirt, but now he is bigger than […]

Boys Lacrosse

Behind Daly, Burbank 17th-seed St. Joseph tops East Catholic for third-straight Class S boys lacrosse title

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TRUMBULL — His team won its third straight CIAC Class S boys lacrosse championship Saturday morning at McDougall Stadium, and Brendan Talbot was dreading leaving to head back across town to St. Joseph. “It’s going to be a sad bus ride back,” Cadets coach Talbot said after a 13-9 win over East Catholic, “knowing that […]

Baseball

Winn tosses gem, Mozzicato closes it out as East Catholic tops Waterford, reaches first final since 2011

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  BRISTOL — Many around the state were speculating who was going to start for East Catholic in the Class M semifinals after the game was rained out on Tuesday. Would it be future MLB draft pick Frank Mozzicato, who only threw 74 pitches on Saturday? Or would it be the sophomore, TJ Winn who […]

Baseball

Mozzicato loses no-hit streak, leads East Catholic past Weston into Class M semifinals

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MANCHESTER — When Weston learned they would be facing Frank Mozzicato and East Catholic in the Class M baseball quarterfinals, the team altered how they took batting practice. “We spent three practices cranking up the (pitching) machine up to 95 (mph),” Weston junior Chris Amato said. “Just hammering left-handed curveballs off the machine, just cranking […]

Baseball

Rich Eisen didn’t want to to be a jinx, but East Catholic ace Mozzicato agrees to talk his no-hit streak ahead of anticipated Class M quarterfinal

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With each no-hit inning pitched, national attention on East Catholic ace and University of Connecticut commit Frank Mozzicato has grown exponentially since his hitless streak began April 26. The 6-foot-2, flamethrowing left hander hasn’t allowed a hit since East Catholic’s game vs. Manchester. He’s struck out 102 batters over his last 42 innings and has […]

Baseball

East Catholic’s Mozzicato has not allowed a hit in a month, a no-hit streak of 27 innings

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The last hit Frank Mozzicato gave up came in the fifth inning of East Catholic’s game on April 26 against Manchester. That’s it. Nobody has a hit off him since, a streak of four plus games and 27 innings without a single ball finding a safe landing spot. “He’s not trying to go out there […]

Baseball

Mozzicato pitches 17-strikeout no-hitter as No. 1 East Catholic dominates showdown with No. 3 Southington

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  SOUTHINGTON — After striking out a batter to end the sixth inning, East Catholic pitcher Frank Mozzicato turned around and waved to the section of Southington students up the first base line Monday night. The fans had been yelling at Mozzicato all game — and he loved it. “Just hearing the chirps, it fuels […]

The GameTimeCT Top 10 Baseball Poll (May 3): Hand reaffirms No. 1 status, Staples drops to 7

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Hand took over at No. 1 last week and was first put to the test by Shelton before having to come back from down 11 in the fifth inning against West Haven with Danny Weinstein winning it with a walk-off home run 13-12. Not much movement in the poll this week, except for Staples dropping […]

Girls Lacrosse

Girls Lacrosse Games to Watch for Week Three

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Staples at Darien, Friday, 4 p.m.: The Wreckers, who lost to Wilton on Wednesday, face another challenge against defending FCIAC and Class L champion Darien.

Guilford a…

Girls Lacrosse

Connecticut’s top girls lacrosse performances for Week Two

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Emma Abbazia, Greenwich: The freshman had eight goals and three assists as the Cardinals started the season 2-1. That included a four-goal, one-assist performance in an 11-10 win over Staples in the seas…

Baseball

The 2021 GameTimeCT Preseason Top 10 Baseball Poll: STAPLES is No. 1

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After nearly two years on the shelf, baseball is back! And so is the GameTimeCT Top 10 poll. With little information to go on because of the lost 2020 season, voters were content to pitch their ballots for the usual suspects in this year’s preseason rankings. Voting in any preseason poll is an inexact science […]

2021 All-CCC Winter Teams

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The 2021 All-Central Connecticut Conference Winter Teams. This post will be updated as more teams are released. BOYS BASKETBALL REGION A Riley Fox, Fr., Conard Ty Calloway, Sr., Enfield Matthew Walker, Sr., Hall Will Gaumer, Jr., Hall Andre Timothe, Sr., Hartford Public Matt Curtis, Jr., Northwest Catholic Hayden Abdulah, Jr., Northwest Catholic Amarre Spence, Sr., […]

The Final 2021 GameTimeCT Top 10 Boys Basketball Poll: BRISTOL CENTRAL is No. 1

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You run through the kind of competitive gauntlet the Bristol Central boys basketball team went through last week, you earn the right to finish No. 1. Bristol Central won the Central Connecticut Conference’s championship Bracket 1 by defeating three teams ranked in the top five of the Register/GameTimeCT Top 10 poll: fourth-ranked Windsor, second-ranked Northwest […]

Boys Basketball

Clingan’s late basket in OT lifts Bristol Central over East Catholic, to first CCC title since 2003

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MANCHESTER — It wasn’t beneath the klieg lights of Mohegan Sun. It wasn’t in front of an overflow crowd at Bulkeley’s Babe Allen Field House. Yet, the pressure was real Friday night, in the waning moments of the Central Connecticut Conference Championship game at sparsely populated East Catholic gymnasium. Bristol Central had squandered a 20-point […]

Conferences adapt playoffs as COVID issues end some team’s seasons

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Daniel Hand boys hockey coach Brian Gonsalves wishes the focus were on a few other numbers, like the two points Tatum Fitzmaurice needed to become the school’s all-time leading scorer, the 40 games the Tigers have won over…

Girls Hockey

Connecticut’s top girls ice hockey performances features a few rivalry standouts

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TOP PERFORMERS
Kolby Becker, Hamden: Becker, a junior, scored a pair of goals in Hamden’s 3-1 victory over the Daniel Hand co-op Saturday at Northford Ice Pavilion.
Caroline Cadelina, Amity …

Boys Basketball

CCC to have top teams square off to determine boys, girls basketball champions

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It appears there will be a true Central Connecticut Conference champion crowned in boys and girls basketball later this month, albeit using a different format than in past seasons. The CCC has approved having all 32 teams playing in the tournament, likely to begin on March 22, in the proposal obtained by Hearst Connecticut Media. […]

Girls Hockey

ETB Storm has become pipeline for women’s college hockey

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Frank Usseglio, coach of the ETB Storm girls ice hockey team, was scrolling through the Twitter timeline, something he said he tends to do when he has “nothing to do,” and he came across a familiar name. “Western New England was introducing their players for the new program and there’s Maggie Gould of Hamden,” Usseglio […]

Boys Basketball

Survey says: CT coaches rank top high school boys basketball coaches

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Ken Smith has long been at the forefront helping out kids, especially those who have played for him for over his three-plus decades as coach at Windsor High. Currently, he is a part of the CARE (Coaches Advancement for Racial Equity) Committee, a group that recently formed to help try to run the state basketball […]

Boys Basketball

East Catholic’s Matt Knowling: The 2019-20 GameTimeCT Boys Basketball State Player of the Year

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East Catholic has had a successful boys basketball program for quite some time. In the last seven seasons, the Eagles have been a state title contender every single year. The Eagles have won four Central Connecticut Conference championships and three state championships in the last seven seasons. And it’s been future Division I players passing […]

Boys Basketball

The 2020 GameTimeCT All-State Boys Basketball First Team

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  The 2020 GameTimeCT All-State Boys Basketball team. Compiled by Joe Morelli. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media and were submitted. Designed by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. Boys Basketball All-State Lineups FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Player of the Year Matt Knowling East Catholic, Senior, Forward Stats: The 6-4 guard/forward averaged 24 points, eight rebounds and […]

Girls Hockey

The 2020 GameTimeCT All-State Girls Hockey team

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  The 2020 GameTimeCT All-State Girls Hockey team. Compiled by Dave Stewart. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media. Designed by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Skater of the Year Catherine Martin Darien, Junior, Defenseman Stats: Helped lead a Wave defense which allowed just 21 goals and pitched eight shutouts in 19 games […]