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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…
BRIDGEPORT — Kevin Crawford spent one season at Seymour before returning this year to the high school from which he originally transferred.On Tuesday, he was reminded just how much he missed being at Bassick.The Lions put on a show during th…
Action from the Career-Harding game at the MLK Classic. #ctbb pic.twitter.com/y5DbJNuXON — Joe Morelli (@nhrJoeMorelli) January 16, 2018 BRIDGEPORT — It takes a lot to please Career boys basketball coach Larry Kelley. He has high expectations, as most coaches do of their respective programs. Now if the Panthers could play every quarter like they did […]
BRIDGEPORT — Neither man will take a single jump shot on Monday afternoon, but both understand the intricacies of what it takes to make it to the Division I level for basketball.John Bagley and Larry Kelley are at different ends of the coach…
BRIDGEPORT — The message Bernie Lofton delivered to his players to help them prepare for Monday’s game against Wilbur Cross involved not only scouting reports and X’s and O’s, but also a lesson in history.The longtime Bassick coach bro…
REDDING — Barlow certainly didn’t play its A-game Saturday afternoon. However, a so-so performance was still enough to get the Falcons past Harding.The Falcons pulled away late to defeat the Presidents 63-49 in a boys basketball non-confer…
BRIDGEPORT — For the fourth year in a row, Harding captured Bridgeport bragging rights after knocking off Central 39-12 on a chilly Thanksgiving day. “This is my first four year class,” Harding coach Eddie Santiago said. “And we’ve had our ups and downs especially with a lot of deaths in the inner city and our […]
The Southern Connecticut Conference has rejected Bassick and Harding’s proposal to become full-time members of the league. Bassick and Harding, a pair of Bridgeport schools, are now independents after the Constitution State Conference folded last spring. The two schools are in its first year of a two-year agreement as associate football members. SCC commissioner Al […]
BRIDGEPORT — To start the second half, Fairfield Prep coach Keith Hellstern decided to start calling Will Lucas’ number and he wasn’t going to stop calling it until someone on the Harding defense could stop his quarterback.Five runs and …
BRIDGEPORT — Instead of heading to the locker room at halftime, members of the Harding football team have gotten used to regrouping in a nearby hallway that leads to the field. Visiting teams, for the most part, have retreated to one of two end zones. These days, there’s only so many places to go at […]
When Harding’s football players arrived at practice Tuesday, they were greeted by boxes and boxes of sparkling white new cleats for ever on the team. A just reward for their 20-13 victory Hillhouse, last year’s Class M state champions? Their first victory as a member of the Southern Connecticut Conference? No, it was merely a perfect […]
MILFORD — Foran High football coach Jeff Bevino is most comfortable when Jared Hubler has the ball in his hands. And even after two fumbles by the star quarterback, rest assured that mentality isn’t going to change.“He’s a leader, a wa…
BRIDGEPORT — It was not a day for defense Saturday at Kennedy Stadium. In fact, North Haven had such problems containing Harding that head coach Anthony Sagnella decided to try a rather unusual approach on defense:“We were playing defense …
BRIDGEPORT — Eddie Santiago has never been the type to shy away from competition. He embraces challenges, like the one his football team will soon be facing. After beating up on the Constitution State Conference for two seasons, Harding is ready to test its might against a far more imposing foe. The Presidents will begin […]
Former NBA guard John Bagley has been named head boys basketball coach at Harding, where he starred in the late 1970s before a distinguished college and pro career. Chris Johnson, the Bridgeport citywide athletic director, told Connecticut Post that Bagley is a good fit for the school because he knows the community so well. Bagley comes […]
