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NEW HAVEN — It really was touch-and-go last summer whether or not the Hillhouse girls basketball team would lose its two cornerstones for the upcoming 2018-19 season to prep school.
“It was very close. Peo…
The 2019 GameTimeCT All-State Boys Track Team. Compiled by Dan Nowak. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media, Norwich Bulletin, NFA Athletics. Designed by Pete Paguaga. FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Athlete of the Year Tess Stapleton Ludlowe At National meet fifth in 55 hurdles emerging elite division (8.07), at New England won 55 hurdles (8.19) and won long […]
For the first time since 2000, the Norwalk girls basketball team are the No. 1-ranked team in the final GameTimeCT poll of the season.
Bear coach Ricky Fuller does not think his 2019 undefeated state champi…
Class L girls basketball: Hillhouse vs. Hand
CLASS LL
No. 2 New London (22-2)
vs. No. 1 Norwalk (24-0)
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SOUTHINGTON — The last three girls basketball coaches standing from the Southern Connecticut Conference shared a lot of love Wednesday morning.
All three coaches — Hillhouse’s Catrina Hawley-Stewart, Sheeha…
GETTING AWAY FROM THE SHORE
Cromwell has dominated the Shoreline with 49-straight conference wins in the regular season.
Knowing the team would be competing for a Class M state title, coach …
MONROE — From the opening tip, four Hillhouse senior starters had one thing on their minds.
Getting to Mohegan Sun to play for a state championship.
The No. 4 Academics swarmed No. 1 Notre D…
He had made the 145-mile drive from his Hamden home to Curry College in Milton, Mass., too many times to count. On Saturday, Melvin Wells Jr. brought a weightlifting belt, water and chalk. “Anytime I needed something,” Melvin Wells III said, “he’d be right there.” Unconditional love is not a sometimes thing, but sometimes it […]
SHELTON — The Notre Dame-West Haven boys basketball team had a week to think about losing in the SCC tournament final, falling short of winning its first league championship.
But that’s the beauty of a seco…
NEW HAVEN — Renard Sutton called it as he saw it: his Hillhouse Academics had underachieved this season.
But that’s the beauty of the postseason: a chance of redemption. And what better way to achieve that …
NEW HAVEN — The game plan was simple. Deny Makenzie Helms the ball.
For the Hillhouse Academics, the plan worked to perfection in the first half, and almost as good in the second.
While Helm…
The football community is reeling after a New Haven and former East Haven coach was among two killed in a car crash on Saturday.
The coach, Melvin Wells, 55, of Hamden, died after he was hit by a wrong-way …
Hamden 65, Law 49 OT BRANFORD — Justice Washington scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half as No. 5 seed Hamden came from 20 points down to defeat No. 4 Law 65-59 in overtime Saturday afternoon in the SCC tournament quarterfinals at Branford High. Law (16-5) dictated much of the action over the […]
WEST HAVEN — You had to wonder if Hillhouse would ever turn its boys basketball season around.
It’s been a struggle for the proud program, suffering through as many losses that in the glory days wouldn’t ha…
MILFORD — The third time proved to be the charm for the Hamden girls basketball team.
After two consecutive seasons of semifinal losses, the second-seeded Green Dragons finally advanced to their first ever …
Pretty good start to the conference tournament predictions. So far, the record stands at 38-9 overall. Day 3 Predictions Day 2 Predictions Day 1 Predictions Now, prognosticating gets a little tougher as conferences play semifinal matchups. If you’re a girls hoops fan, you have to love this slate of games tonight. NVL At Kennedy No. […]
NEW HAVEN — It was a good day for the Southern Connecticut Conference at the CIAC State Open indoor track and field championships with four individual boys wins, a win by Hillhouse in the boys 4×400 relay (3 minutes, 27.47…
Day 3 brings us to Super Saturday in girls basketball with a full slate of conference tournament games. Let’s go! BERKSHIRE LEAGUE No. 8 Wamogo at No. 1 Housatonic Regional: HOUSATONIC No. 5 Lewis Mills at No. 4 Nonnewaug: NONNEWAUG No. 7 Shepaug Valley at No. 2 Northwestern: NORTHWESTERN No. 6 Thomaston at No. 3 […]
It is conference tournament time for girls basketball. Let’s go! Thursday CCC No. 16 Conard at No. 1 Windsor: WINDSOR No. 15 Manchester at No. 2 East Hartford: EAST HARTFORD No. 14 Farmington at No. 3 Newington: Farmington could push Newington in this one. NEWINGTON No. 13 RHAM at No. 4 Glastonbury: A deceptively tough […]
NEW HAVEN — While the Hillhouse boys literally ran away with the team title in the CIAC Class M indoor track and field championships at Floyd Little Athletic Center, it took a win in the final event by Hillhouse to claim t…
The interest from Division I schools was there for Hillhouse’s Tanayja London. She said three scholarship offers, Manhattan, Bryant and Lafayette, were on the table for her to consider during the summer.
Bu…
NEW HAVEN — Wilbur Cross has been on the wrong end of its share of results to Hillhouse over the years, including some big blowouts. One of those blowouts occurred the last time the two teams met a month ago. To say head coach Kevin Walton was unhappy with how the Governors competed in that […]
NEW HAVEN — Notre Dame-West Haven is still undefeated — but barely.
The Green Knights needed every second Friday night to improve their record to 15-0 as Connor Raines canned a wide open layup at the buzzer…
NEW HAVEN — Deshaune Poole knows what it’s like to see nothing in front of him but the finish line.
The Hillhouse senior captured the 55-meter hurdles and the 300 meters for the second consecutive year and …
NEW HAVEN — When you win three consecutive league championships, you can call it a dynasty.
Well then, we can call Hillhouse a dynasty.
The Academics captured their third straight Southern C…
NEW HAVEN — The last thing Hillhouse coach Renard Sutton wanted to see was a larger number on the right side of his team’s record.
It’s been a long time since the Academics were below .500 in the month of J…
It’s been a while since Hillhouse has had a girls’ basketball team as good as the one that the Academics put out on the court this winter.
In fact, you have to go back to the Bria Holmes days early in this …
WEST HAVEN — The rankings in the latest Register/GameTimeCT boys basketball poll tell you that fifth-ranked Notre Dame-West Haven was supposed to win Tuesday night’s matchup at home against Hillhouse.
Histo…
