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The 88th New Haven Register All-State Football Teams presented by GameTimeCT.com. Compiled by Pete Paguaga, Sean Patrick Bowley and Michael Fornabaio. Written by Michael Fornabaio. Designed by Sean Patrick Bowley. Portraits by Peter Hvizdak, Arnold Gold, Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga. Video montages by Pete Paguaga. For second team, third team and honorable mention […]
BRIDGEPORT — When he met an eighth grader named Troy Rainey, Harding football coach Eddie Santiago said, he saw this day coming, and way more. Rainey, though, was going to be an actor.
Santiago convinced hi…
BRIDGEPORT — The Warren Harding football claimed the Bridgeport city championship for the sixth consecutive year Thursday, handily defeating Bridgeport Central 30-3.
Harding’s Thanksgiving win streak dates …
BRIDGEPORT — Harding quarterback Nazjhir Curry and wide receiver Marcell Robinson have been friends since fourth grade. That relationship only grew stronger after Curry threw three touchdown passes to Robinson when the Pre…
NEW HAVEN — Harding had never won a Southern Connecticut Conference football game at Bowen Field.
Until Friday afternoon.
The Presidents, in just their third year as a member of the SCC, dom…
We called Bill Riccio on Monday to ask what it was like for the New Haven Football Officials Association’s commissioner, rescheduling so many crews through all this Eastern Equine Encephalitis shuffling.
We…
When Maloney and Platt met in the CIAC Class L football semifinals last season it was not just a big day for the town of Meriden.
It gave hope to a lot of high school football programs in the same situation…
East Lyme takes the lead 15-12 with 1:59 remaining #cthsfb pic.twitter.com/vCUHGGcmeP — Will Aldam (@AldamWill) September 28, 2019 BRIDGEPORT — Trailing Harding by three points and with just over two minutes remaining, East Lyme coach Rudy Bagos decided it was time to show his hand. He had quarterback Noah Perry laterally toss ball to Owen […]
DARIEN — With 40 seconds remaining in their basketball game against the Harding Presidents, the Darien Blue Wave had seen a 15-point lead advantage evaporate and were in danger of having their first bid to secure a state tournament berth slip away. Then a freshman stepped up and played the hero. Miles Drake took a […]
Sign up for GameTimeCT’s free Newsletter and get boys basketball news sent to your inbox FINE PERFORMANCES Derrick Tenney, Wethersfield: Poured in 51 points, a school record, and grabbed 15 rebounds in Wethersfield’s 90-84 victory in overtime against Bloomfield. Dev Ostrowski, East Lyme: Scored 41 points, including the 2,000th of his career, to help East […]
BRIDGEPORT — Along with all the other positions the school district has had to part with due to budget cuts was the district’s athletic director. In doing so, the city school board was able to shave $150,000 off of the millions it was trying to cut when salaries and benefits are included. Now, the athletic […]
AVON — They marched up in waves, friends and family, coaches and mentors, teammates and peers.
One group after another, they surrounded Taisun Phommachanh and smiled for snapshots. From Pop Warner coaches from Bridgeport to the…
The 2018 All-Southern Connecticut Conference (SCC) football teams. Players of the Year Tier 1 — JAKE ROBERTS, QB, Shelton Tier 2 — PHOENIX BILLINGS, QB, Hand Tier 3 — TERRENCE BOGAN, QB, Sheehan Coaches of the Year Tier 1 — KEITH HELLSTERN, Fairfield Prep Tier 2 — DAVE MASTROIANNI, Hand Tier 3 — SCOTT BENOIT, […]
BRIDGEPORT — When Coleman Adams walked outside Thursday morning and felt the freezing cold temperatures hit his face he figured he was in store for a memorable day one way or another. Little did the Harding senior know at the time that his fri…
FAIRFIELD — Next week Fairfield Prep hosts North Haven in a showdown of one-loss teams and looming further on the horizon is a Thanksgiving rivalry game against West Haven.
Given those facts Friday night’s game against Harding had all the ingr…
BRIDGEPORT — Phoenix Billings passed for three touchdowns, all in the first half, leading defending Class L champion Daniel Hand to an easy 51-12 victory over Harding.
Billings was 8-for-8 for 204 yards, all in the first half as the Tigers (4-…
BRIDGEPORT — The third time was the charm for the Harding football team.
In the team’s third home game at brand-new Lewis Field, the Presidents finally walked off winners, defeating Foran 34-9 Friday night.
“It is important to me wining our fi…
Welcome to Uni-Browse, where we will be taking a deeper look at high school uniforms around the state and letting you vote for your favorite each week. I have been a fan of uniforms for as long as I have been watching sports and it turns out, others are just as fascinated. I began writing […]
BRIDGEPORT — He took a fumble back 60 yards to help Amity take a win back to Woodbridge on Friday night, and Spartans senior Joe DiGello was still pretty excited afterward.
“I’ve been waiting since Thanksgiving for this one, dude,” DiGello sai…
Vitals COACH — EDDIE SANTIAGO (5th year, 26-17) CONFERENCE — SCC Tier II PLAYOFF CLASS — L (538 boys enrollment) HOME — John L. Lewis Memorial Field, Bridgeport 2017 RECORD — 3-7 2018 OPENER — Sept. 7 vs. Amity, 7 p.m. TEAM WEBSITE — Maxpreps | TWITTER — @WHHSPresidents Top Players COLEMAN ADAMS, Sr., WR/RB/S, (6-1, 185) JAHARIE MACK, Sr., […]
NEW CANAAN — The Harding Presidents have gone high-tech.
Well, sort of.
During Saturday’s 11th annual Grip It and Rip It 7-on-7 tournament at New Canaan High School, second-year starting quarterback Kevin Bednarz took to the field wearing a Go…
BRIDGEPORT — What is good for Harding is apparently good for freshman athletes throughout the school district.
The city school board — although still broke — added to that deficit on Monday by deciding 8-to-1 to fund about $59,500 to support n…
By Brian Lockhart, Connecticut Post BRIDGEPORT — Politics can be pretty brutal. So can football. Bridgeport’s cash-strapped high school football teams seem to be benefiting from this year’s gubernatorial race, with Democratic rivals Ned Lamont and Joe Ganim — the former using his wealth, the latter the city budget — giving money for safety equipment. […]
Derrick Lewis vividly remembers the first football game he coached at Jonathan Law — and not solely for the reasons one might think. On paper, the 2014 season opener wasn’t much of a game. The final score — Harding 38, Law 10 — might’ve elicited a few oohs and aahs, but it wasn’t one that […]
Former Harding and current Avon Old Farms quarterback Taisun Phommachanh announced Saturday his commitment to play at Clemson University. Phommachanh, who is considered the country’s No. 1 dual-threat quarterback and No. 88 prospect overall in the Class of 2019 by recruiting site 247 Sports, chose Clemson over offers from several other major programs including Florida, […]
STRATFORD — The Harding boys basketball team hoped to be paired against Stratford in the first round of the Division III state tournament for a very practical reason — a game against the Red Devils meant a short, two-mile bus ride.Playing …
BRIDGEPORT — The Bridgeport Central boys basketball team sent Harding-Miska Gymnasium out in style Thursday night.In what very well could be the last game played at the home of the Presidents, Central topped rival Harding, 69-60.“You’ve …
BRIDGEPORT — Connecticut high school boys basketball coaching royalty gathered courtside last Friday for the penultimate regular-season game at Harding-Miska Gymnasium.Vito Montelli and Charlie Bentley, who combined to win 20 state titles at…
BRIDGEPORT — On a night the Harding boys basketball program celebrated the past, the future gave them a reason to smile.Marcell Robinson’s layup off a feed from fellow sophomore Josue Rivera Pacheco in the final seconds gave the Presidents…
