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CROMWELL — Tied in the second quarter with less than three minutes left and in its own territory, Haddam-Killingworth called for fake punt. It failed and the Cougars never recovered. Cromwell/Portland scored four plays later and then after a Haddam-Killingworth fumble two plays later, the Panthers scored again to take a commanding two-score lead in […]
Cromwell/Portland’s potent passing attack meets Haddam-Killingworth’s tried-and-true ground game in an early-season clash of unbeaten Pequot-Sassacus teams on Friday night.
There’s also the possibility that the matchup of 3-0 squads at Cromwel…
NORTH BRANFORD — Add another team to the growing list of those that have found out giving North Branford an early lead is going to make it impossible to win.
Not with Sydney Senerchia on the mound for the Thunderbirds.
Haddam-Killingworth join…
During a nationally televised major-league game, one analyst said fans go to games to see offense. People pay to see players swing the bat and stockpile runs, he said.
That’s not the brand of baseball we’re seeing in the Shoreline Conference t…
HIGGANUM — The script is simple. Throw strikes, play good defense and take advantage of your opponents’ mistakes. “That’s what wins games, right?” Haddam-Killingworth coach Mark Brookes asked, rhetorically. It has won games for the Cougars. Including a 4-2 win over Westbrook on Monday afternoon, it has won the Cougars 12-straight games to open the […]
Few sports honor the past like baseball.
Prior to Trumbull High’s 5-3 win over Bunnell on Saturday, the school recognized the 1998 Class LL state championship team coached by the late Jerry McDougall with a ceremony originally scheduled for Fr…
EAST HAMPTON — Forget the final score for a moment. Haddam-Killingworth defeated East Hampton 18-3 in a Shoreline Conference interdivision game for its eighth straight win to start the season.
H-K looked nothing like an unbeaten team Monday — …
WEST HARTFORD — For about four events in the middle of the Wednesday’s CIAC Class S boys swimming championship, it was apparent two epic teams were going back and forth chasing the same dream.It was Borg-McEnroe of the 1970s. Or, perhaps, the …
NORTHFORD – It took the Lyman Hall/Haddam-Killingworth/Coginchaug co-op boys’ hockey team two games to score four goals to open the season. Ever since, the Trojans have been lighting up the scoreboard. After pummeling Joel Barlow, 11-0, on Dec 23, LHKC scored eight unanswered goals Wednesday afternoon to beat Hand, 8-0, in a Southern Connecticut Conference […]
HADDAM — Valley Regional/Old Lyme is in the playoffs. The Warriors cinched a CIAC Class S playoff berth with a 22-7 win over stubborn Haddam-Killingworth, 22-7, Friday night at H-K High School. Valley/Old Lyme spotted H-K an early 7-0 lead, but shut the Cougars out the rest of the way to win for the ninth […]
MILFORD — They can bring a CIAC girls volleyball championship back to their school for the first time in their lifetimes on Saturday, but the motivation for St. Joseph is way simpler. “Everyone’s just ready,” senior setter Grace Vocali…
Let’s begin by congratulating the fans, cheerleaders, bands, dance teams who showed up on Frigid Friday night to support their football teams. It was no fun in that cold, particularly in wind-tunnel places such as Rosek-Skubel Stadium at Mid…
HADDAM — Haddam-Killingworth pulled a huge Pequot League upset by beating Old Saybrook/Westbrook 14-7 at H-K High Friday night. The Cougars (6-3) got first half touchdowns from Cody Ellix and Jake Frith — both one-yard runs — to lead 14-0 at the break. They then held off OSW (7-2) in the second half limiting the […]
PORTLAND — The Morgan boys soccer team had been through this before. For three straight seasons the Huskies have battled their way into the Shoreline Conference tournament final. This year, they handed Old Saybrook its first loss of the season in the semifinals. The end result in Saturday’s tournament final was better than the previous […]
Connecticut field hockey lost one of its passionate pioneers on Friday morning when Haddam-Killingworth coach Patsy Kamercia passed away after a long battle with a rare form of cancer.Kamercia took a small school like Haddam-Killingworth and b…
HADDAM — The score sometimes lies.So it was Thursday afternoon in the Shoreline Conference boys semifinal soccer match between Haddam-Killingworth and Valley Regional. H-K won the game 1-0 on a second-half goal, but the game ought to go down…
HADDAM — Haddam-Killingworth’s football team climbed over the .500 mark with a 35-12 win over North Branford Saturday night at H-K High School. Leading just 14-12 at the half, H-K ran away with a 21-point second half to improve to 4-3. “This was a game where we were able to finish the job,” said H-K […]
PORTLAND — Haddam-Killingworth’s boys soccer team is rounding into tournament shape.With the Shoreline Conference and CIAC state tournaments looming, H-K won for the 10th time in 13 tries, beating Portland 3-1 in an SLC match at Portland Hig…
COVENTRY — Coventry/Bolton/Windham Tech defeated Haddam-Killingworth 46-21 Friday night to remain undefeated. The Patriots raced to a 30-7 half time lead on two first-quarter touchdowns by Shaun O’Connell who had two, one-yard runs, a 49-yard run by Nick Pronovost and a 32-yard run by Jordan Smith. H-K (2-3) got on the board on a second […]
HADDAM >> Bryce Karstetter threw for 258 yards and four touchdowns in leading undefeated Cromwell/Portland to a 43-7 Pequot League win over Haddam-Killingworth in front of 400 at H-K High School Thursday evening. Karstetter (12-for-22, one interception) had TD passes to Dianta Highsmith of 74 yards in the first quarter, a 31-yarder to Liam Coleman […]
CLINTON — Haddam-Killingworth led all the way in defeating The Morgan School, 21-7, in a Pequot League game played at the Peters Complex Friday night. The Cougars (2-1) scored twice in the first quarter on a 14-yard run by Dalton Modehn and a 67-yard run by Kevin Dougherty (13 carries, 202 yards). Jordan Callahan kicked both extra […]
DURHAM >> Quarterback Eli Rivera scored on a 3-yard run late in the game to break a tie and that plus Pat Ladas’ conversion run gave Coginchaug/Hale-Ray a 34-26 win over Haddam-Killingworth Saturday afternoon at the Wally Camp Athletic Conference. Rivera had a big day, throwing three touchdown passes in addition to his game-winning run. […]
HADDAM >> Woody Hayes would have been proud. The late Ohio State coach, a believer in the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense, would have enjoyed Haddam-Killingworth’s 49-32 win over the SMSA/University/Classical cooperative of Hartford Saturday night at H-K High. That’s because H-K ran 69 plays from scrimmage, every one of them on the ground, to the tune of […]
There is a wide variety of sports offered at area high schools beyond football and soccer. Here follows previews of high school girls swimming, girls volleyball, field hockey, cross-country and fall crew. Girls swimming Middletown The Blue Dragons were 10-1 last season, the team’s best record since the city’s two public high schools merged in […]
Just about every school has soccer. It may not be a big player on the national scene, but at the high school level it’s universal. Here follows the outlook for many of the boys and girls teams in the Greater Middletown area. BOYS Xavier The Falcons were 6-5-5 in 2016 and the hope is they […]
North Branford tops HK 2-1. Will play Hale Ray tomorrow in Shoreline final #ctsb pic.twitter.com/jBIfPO0RI9 — Mike Madera (@MikeMadera2) May 27, 2017 NORTH BRANFORD – Sophomore Angelina Ramada and her North Branford teammates are accustomed to winning Shoreline Conference championships. Winners of the last two conference titles, North Branford will return to defend its title again. Ramada’s […]
Haddam-Killingworth’s Giacomo Volpicelli defeated Saba Cecunjanin of Old Saybrook 6-4, 6-4 to win the Shoreline Conference boys tennis title Friday at Lyme Shores Tennis Center in East Lyme. Volpicelli defeated Valley Regional’s Jeff Riggio 6-0, 6-2 to advance to the final. Both players went into the finals undefeated in Conference play. Cecunjanin was 16-0 and […]
HADDAM >> Pitching, defense and just enough hitting. That was the formula Haddam-Killingworth used as Owen Marica fired a 1-hitter to outpitch Coginchaug’s Nate McDonald 2-0 in the quarterfinal round of the Shoreline Conference baseball playoffs at H-K Tuesday afternoon. Marica struck out six and the H-K defense turned two double plays behind him, one […]
CROMWELL >> Pitching and power. That’s the formula that fuels successful baseball teams and that’s what combined to give Haddam-Killingworth a key 3-1 Shoreline Conference win over Cromwell at Fran Monnes Field Monday afternoon. Luke Bauer fired a seven-strikeout four-hitter and catcher Tyler Popp slammed a long solo home run over the left field fence […]
