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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 […]
Editor’s note: Stats from the last official track postseason (2019-2020 indoor track season) were used along with stats from most recent indoor dual meet results (in March) where applicable plus recent…
Jonathan Law’s Catherine Burns took one last bow when coach Pat Simon’s senior co-captain won the vault (9.05) and all-around (35.2) and took second place in the uneven bars (8.6) and balance beam (8.95) to lead her team to its second consecutive Southern Connecticut Conference championship with a score of 135.15. While Simon’s team […]
MADISON — The last time Hand and Cheshire got together a couple of weeks ago, Hand was coming off a two-week quarantine without a practice. Cheshire won in double overtime.
Hand went on to play five more ga…
MILFORD — Southern Connecticut Conference gymnasts from Foran, Mercy, Hamden, Law and Hand will compete as individual teams over a six-day period to determine the league’s best.
Amy Bodnar from Milford will…
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…
Hand’s boys hockey season is over after the Tigers went into COVID-19 quarantine, pulling them out of the SCC/SWC Division II playoffs. The Tigers, ranked 10th in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 poll, had quarantined three other times this season and played only five of a possible 12 games. SCC/SWC BOYS HOCKEY TOURNAMENT BRACKETS Hand […]
When he took the head football job at Haddam-Killingworth 14 months ago, Erik Becker thought he’d coach there for the rest of his career. Only in a dream would he go somewhere else. On Monday, Becker’s dream became reality when he was named the fourth head football coach in Hand football’s 50-year history. “This is […]
Hand’s Jason Wallack verbally committed to play soccer at Division I Monmouth on Tuesday.
Wallack was a part of three Class L state championships with the Tigers and this past season, helped lead Hand to an…
CHESHIRE – For 32 minutes, Cheshire was chasing Hand, trying to keep the Tigers’ big height advantage from being the dominant force.
After tying the game on a prayer at the buzzer of regulation, the Rams he…
MADISON — Caitlyn Hunt didn’t score for nearly 13 minutes, but when the Sheehan senior center got going, the Titans began to roll.
And that enabled eighth-ranked Sheehan to defeat Hand 47-38 Friday night in…
TOP PERFORMERS
Maya Boyhen, West Haven/SHA: The junior forward had three points on one goal and two assists in West Haven/SHA’s 5-3 victory over Guilford in a battle of unbeaten teams at Bennett Rink on Tue…
NORTHFORD – A year ago, Sheehan and Hand were two of the top teams in the CIAC Division III and II ranks before the season was stopped halfway through the state tournament because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In the interest of propelling the Hand football program into the future, Steve Filippone says he has resigned from his second stint as head coach. Filippone, 64, coached Hand for 27 years and won seven state championships before retiring after the 2016 season. But when his replacement, Dave Mastroianni, abruptly resigned in February for personal […]
I am not going to sugarcoat this in any way, we didn’t have a football season this fall. I know it sucked and wasn’t what everyone wanted. That said, we still wanted to recognize some of the best players in state and tell them this: we wish we could have seen them play this […]
GameTimeCT · GameTimeCT’s Pretend Top 10 Football poll for the 2020 season What if we got to play a football season in Connecticut in 2020? What if this pandemic never happened, everything proceeded as normal and we played a full season with 10 games apiece, with no players transferring to other states or needing to […]
When Hand boys soccer coach Greg Cumpstone told Scott Testori to get to the high school as soon as he could on Monday, he had no idea what was coming.
“I thought maybe I was getting a plaque for the State P…
Many football teams and fans around the country claim to rely on a figurative “12th man” to help the team to victory by being so loud and boisterous that the team gains an advantage. The Morgan football team literally used a 12th man against Hand in 1975 on a play that would eventually end […]
Scott Testori never publicly revealed the colleges he wanted to play soccer for next fall. But he always had a No. 1 choice in mind.
On Thursday night, the Hand senior forward verbally committed to that No….
MADISON — The seniors on the Hand boys soccer team have rarely felt the sting of losing throughout their stellar careers. It’s been all about championships for the Tigers.
But the 2020 season was going to b…
MADISON — It looked as if arch-rivals Hand and Guilford were going to play to a scoreless tie on Tuesday night. Neither team had had many good chances as the clock wound down towards the final eight minutes.
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CHESHIRE — With the exception of last year, either Cheshire or Hand has been one of the participants in the Southern Connecticut Conference field hockey championship game over the last decade.
And it’s been…
MADISON — It had been almost seven months since Scott Testori played in a live soccer game.
There was no premier soccer season this spring, just some practices and some friendlies during the summer.
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Maura Carbone, Trumbull: The sophomore forward has led Trumbull (3-0) offensively with three goals and an assist in three games, a pair of wins over St. Joseph and a win over Fairfield Ludlowe.
Katie Goyda,…
Sam Montalto, Stonington: The junior striker scored his 50th career goal in a win over Waterford. Montalto had hat tricks in wins over Ledyard and Waterford. Last season, Montalto broke Joe Ponte’s single-season school rec…
MADISON — Despite dominating possession for most of the first half, it took 31 minutes into the second half for Hand to get on the scoreboard.
And when the Tigers finally got on the board, the goals kept co…
MADISON — Rival boys soccer teams Guilford and Hand squaring off more than twice in a season is not uncommon. The teams met four times last season, twice in the postseason.
But Hand and Guilford playing in …
The Southern Connecticut Conference will open its 7-on-7 fall football season on Oct. 10.
SCC commissioner Al Carbone confirmed that the league principals approved a proposal of a five-week season, ending t…
MADISON — The Hand boys soccer team should be preparing for the chance to win a fifth straight Class L state championship.
That’s what the Tigers do: they play for championships. They also do a good job of …
