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Five CIAC boys soccer players from Connecticut were named to the All-American Team by the United Soccer Coaches for the 2019 fall season. Timmy Donovan, a junior forward from Litchfield, had 36 goals and 4 assists this season with 78 goals and 19 assists in three seasons on the varsity. He is an All-State […]
MADISON — Hand is 48 minutes from a chance at a three-peat.
The Tigers, the No. 1 team in the New Haven Register/GametimeCT.com state poll throughout the entire season, walloped Newington, 52-0, in the CIAC…
The 2019 CIAC Football Playoffs begin Wednesday, Dec. 4 (after a postponement due to weather) with quarterfinal rounds at the sites of the higher seeds. They will continue with semifinals Monday, Dec. 9 at sites of the higher seeds, and conclude Saturday, Dec. 14 at either Trumbull’s McDougall Stadium, or Veterans Stadium at Willowbrook Park […]
The rumbles came early on Thanksgiving, maybe mistaken at first for the wind blowing down trees in the distance on that otherwise-gorgeous fall morning, but unmistakable soon enough. Those scores they were announcing over the PA systems? They were seismic. THANKSGIVING STORY LINKS | PLAYOFF SCOREBOARD | STAFF PICKS New Canaan’s 20-0 win over Darien in […]
The 2019 CIAC Class L football quarterfinal preview capsules. Compiled by Pete Paguaga. Written by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. 2019 CIAC PLAYOFF SCOREBOARD / SCHEDULE More quarterfinal previews: CLASS LL | CLASS M | CLASS S All games Wednesday, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. ♦♦♦ No. 8 Wilton at No. 1 St Joseph WHERE – McDougall Field, Trumbull […]
What was unofficial by the numbers has become official by committee on Friday, and the CIAC football playoff pairings are set.
The committee made no changes to the pairings that became apparent by the end o…
GUILFORD — It didn’t take very long for Hand to show why it will go into next week’s CIAC state playoffs as the No. 1 team in the state.
The Tigers scored early and often as they dominated Guilford, 61-6, W…
HARTFORD — Scott Testori brought his pair of Class L state championship rings to Monday’s state semifinal against Guilford, a game Hand won in penalty kicks.
Testori decided to bring them again on Saturday …
VITALS WHERE/WHEN: Yale University’s Kiphuth Pool, Sunday, 2 p.m. Defending champion: Greenwich | 2018 runner-up: Cheshire WATCH LIVE: NFHS Network (Subscription Required) DIVING RESULT: GREENWICH’S FRIAS EDGES WESTON’S KATZ TO WIN TITLE SWIMMERS TO WATCH Emma Babashak, Wilton, (seeded third 500 freestyle, 5:05.30, seeded fifth 100 butterfly, 57.47); Maddie Bergin, North Haven (seeded second in 50 freestyle, 24.01, […]
WETHERSFIELD — Guilford field hockey coach Kitty Palmer’s basic philosophy against an opponent is to score early and often to set the tone of the game, especially when the competition is a strong rival, like SCC foe Hand o…
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VITALS
When: Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Veterans Stadiu…
CLASS L
VITALS
When: Today, 2 p.m.
Where: Wethersfield High
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From the first day of preseason practice, the Hand boys soccer team embraced the ideas of winning a fourth consecutive Class L state championship.
The Tigers took on the philosophy of focusing on each game …
NEW HAVEN — Patience can lead to wonderful rewards.
The North Haven girls swim team completed a three-year quest Wednesday night, capturing its first-ever Class M championship at Southern Connecticut’s Hutc…
TRUMBULL—After being frustrated in front of the cage for 60 minutes, all they needed was a little more space.
It didn’t take long for No. 7 Daniel Hand to utilize the extra real estate of seven-on-seven fie…
WELCOME BACK to a jam-packed episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football talk in Connecticut with hosts Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley and, what a Week 10 it was. No. 1 Hand survives a gutsy effort by Shelton and Pete breaks down the thriller at the Surf Club and the […]
MIDDLETOWN — This is what you expect from the best boys soccer rivalry the Southern Connecticut Conference has to offer: a fourth meeting with a berth in the state championship final on the line.
That’s wha…
North Branford played an thrill-a-minute game Friday. It could have a thrill-a-minute weekend coming up.
The Thunderbirds went back and forth with Morgan, scoring 40 in the second quarter, winning 72-32. Th…
That game everyone was pointing to in the preseason? It lived up to the hype, and it affected a few votes in the GameTimeCT football poll. Hand’s 21-14 win over Shelton on Friday at the Surf Club kept the Tigers in the No. 1 spot they’ve held all year. Three voters, though, swung their first-place […]
MADISON — It was a game that will be talked about for years to come.
No. 1 Hand coming in unbeaten since Week 2 of the 2017 season against Shelton, the team that beat them on that September night.
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MADISON — Look closely on Hand’s 2017 football roster, and you’ll find the player who has become the top running back on the No. 1 team in the state, the senior who has put his name in the school record book a couple of ti…
After another stable week in the GameTimeCT football poll, we’ve got another week where some big matchups could produce some changes in the Top 10. No. 1 Hand meets preseason No. 6 Shelton at the Surf Club on Friday night. No. 9 Ridgefield gets another crack at a top FCIAC team, visiting No. 4 Greenwich […]
From the start, coach John Acquavita’s goal for Wilbur Cross was to get better every week. He knew there would be tough times, with an inexperienced line and other challenges.
The Governors weren’t positive…
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STAPLES TOUGH IN A TOUGH CLASS L
Class L is loaded with talented teams but the one to beat is still No. 4 seed Staples with its depth and standouts in every phase of th…
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FOUR HAND
Winning a state title is not easy. Winning three straight puts you among the all-time great teams, but four straight state championships? You have to go back …
MIDDLETOWN – There haven’t been many instances during Hand’s winning streak when an opponent has been within striking distance of the Tigers after two quarters. Friday night, however, was one of those times. Xavier didn’t allow Hand to catch fire in the first half, trailed by just 10 at the break and had the ball […]
WEST HAVEN — Guilford is the most successful team in Southern Connecticut Conference tournament history, reaching half of the championship finals ever played.
But there has been a recent title drought for t…
MILFORD — Fourth-seeded Jonathan Law played almost a perfect match to dispatch No. 5 seed Daniel Hand, 3-0 (25-12, 25-11, 25-7) in an SCC quarterfinal match at the James Richetelli Sr. Gymnasium on Monday night.
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This week’s GameTimeCT Top 10 football teams are the same 10 football teams that were in last week’s top 10. There’s one little difference. Southington’s 35-7 win over previously unbeaten Simsbury has moved the Blue Knights up a spot, a season-high seventh, in this week’s poll. That comes at the expense of undefeated Ansonia, which […]
