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Sixteen teams from across the state will head to Hand high school to participate in the Grip It and Rip It tournament hosted by the Hand football team on Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29. Hand is joined by last season’s No. 1 team Greenwich, Darien, Notre Dame-West Haven, Berlin and others. The teams, […]
It was announced Monday that for the fifth consecutive season, the FCIAC and the SCC will play each other in one game for the next two seasons in baseball. Sheehan, Jonathan Law and Wilbur Cross from the SCC and Trinity Catholic from the FCIAC will not participate. For 2021, the home and away teams […]
NEW BRITAIN — Officials were going over the contingency plan just in case the CIAC Division II Golf team title would need to be decided in a playoff.
Matthew Doyle’s brilliance made all chatter of extra gol…
MADISON — Notre Dame-West Haven’s Max Mariano found himself at the center of the two biggest plays of the game in Saturday’s Class L quarterfinals game against Hand.
First, the junior hit a two-run home run…
The Hand girl’s tennis team capped off a perfect season Friday, defeating Lauralton Hall in the Class M state championship.
Hand won six out of the seven matches, winning all four singles matches in straigh…
MADISON — As baseball lore goes, beating a team three times in a season is not easy, let alone four times, but that is exactly what Hand did on Thursday afternoon.
Behind a four-run sixth inning Hand defeat…
EAST HAVEN — Becky Flynn knew the game was over the moment she connected with the softball.
The East Haven junior rightfielder got all of a 2-0 pitch right down the middle and belted it over the fence in le…
ORANGE — The season-long march to the Southern Connecticut Conference golf championship had the look of a wide-open race. Which team would have the most depth to prevail?
The Hand Tigers believed they had t…
Cheshire trailed perennial SCC power Amity 3-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning of the SCC Championship game and appeared destined to bookend their SCC season with losses to the Spartans. But the Rams rallied with three runs and won it on Matt Downing’s single to right, which ultimately brought Matt Costello home with […]
Juvenile success
Storyline: New Fairfield won last year’s Class M championship, beating Guilford by a goal in the quarters and Hand by two in the final. The Rebels brought just about everybody back and has …
For three months, we’ve followed 98 teams’ battle to get to McMahon in mid-June. In a week, we’ll be down to 12. Who’ll be the three celebrating CIAC boys lacrosse titles?
Class L
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After two years of disappointment in the SCC boys volleyball championship, Cheshire earned the right to celebrate once again.
Top-seeded Cheshire defeated No. 2 Hand 3-1 (25-27, 25-17, 25-13, 25-18) in a re…
NEW HAVEN — If the Hand tennis teams were going to go wire to wire in the Southern Connecticut Conference, it would have to be through Amity one more time.
The Spartans’ boys and girls teams stood in the wa…
WEST HAVEN — His Amity teammates had rallied to tie Hand with two out in the bottom of the fourth of the SCC baseball semifinals at West Haven’s Whitey Piurek Field. They had turned the lineup over to get Cole Kuchachik to…
The conclusion of the conference tournaments means the state competition in each boys and girls tennis class will soon commence.
The CIAC Class LL boys tennis tournament is scheduled to get underway on Frid…
CHESHIRE — Southern Connecticut Conference girls lacrosse rivals Cheshire and Hand have been familiar foes in the SCC tournament, meeting for the 18th time (semifinals and finals combined) on Tuesday in the semifinals at C…
WALLINGFORD — Deshaune Poole of Hillhouse and Meredith Bloss of Guilford have been dominant in their events in the SCC over the years and that dominance continued at the Southern Connecticut Conference boys and girls track…
MADISON – When Hand’s Kevin Tracy stepped to the plate with the winning run on third in the bottom of the 11th inning of the SCC baseball quarterfinals vs. rival Guilford, he wanted to not only win the game, but make up for allowing it to get to that far in the first place. Just […]
Cheshire lost its first game of the year, 1-0 to Amity. Since then? The Rams have roared back with a 19-game win streak, including a dominant, 9-0, victory over those same Spartans, and have completed the regular season 19-1. And so it the defending Class LL champion Rams take the No. 1 ranking into the […]
Two student athletes – Shelton’s Erin Keary and Hand’s Thomas LaTorre have been named the recipients of the 2019 SCC “Comeback Player of the Year” awards. Both students suffered severe injuries, yet were able to overcome them to become outstanding role models in their respective schools. A corporate sponsor of the Southern Connecticut Conference (SCC), […]
It’s tournament time for boys and girls tennis teams in the FCIAC and NVL, while the postseason will soon begin in the state’s other conferences.
The FCIAC girls tournament commenced on Tuesday and three of…
Welcome back to the No. 1 podcast for high school baseball in Connecticut. Pete is back from England, but the High and Tight duo is not back in studio. Instead, Pete and Scott took the show on the road to Eli’s in Orange. Courtesy of Tom Hanley and the staff at Eli’s in Orange we were able […]
MADISON — The Amity bats were silent through the first three innings on a cold Tuesday afternoon, before a five-run rally in the fourth inning propelled the ninth-ranked Spartans to a a 6-3 victory over sixth-ranked Hand.
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With about a week remaining before baseball conference tournament pairings are finalized and get underway, fascinating results across the state have created another shakeup in the latest Top 10 poll. Cheshire is still No. 1, but the Rams were the only team to stay put while carnage ruled across the rest of the poll. The […]
MADISON — When the Weston and Daniel Hand boys lacrosse team both scored in the first three minutes of Saturday’s game on the turf at Hand, it became clear that this would be a dog fight in this key game between Class M powers. But instead of an offensive showcase, the game became a defensive […]
MADISON — Dawn Fagerquist has never forgotten when an opposing coach once told her following a loss that the Hand boys tennis team “lacked desire.”
It’s also something she uses to inspire her team before ev…
Fine performances
Wes Carpenter, Ridgefield: Scored four goals, including the last-minute game-winner, and had two assists in the Tigers’ 12-11 win over Yorktown (N.Y.).
Beckett Cashman, Gra…
After weeks of volatility, there now seems to be a consensus on, at least, the top three baseball teams in the state as we head into the final couple of weeks of the regular season. Cheshire remained No. 1 for the third-straight week. Same for Staples at No. 2. For the second-straight week, Amity remained […]
They say hitting is contagious, but apparently, so are no-hitters.
Last Monday, four pitchers across the state acheived the feat as bats fell silent.
Connor Derry (Morgan), Jack Donofrio (Si…
