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While the Connecticut boys and girls high school indoor track season is dominated by developmental meets in the regular season, one of the most anticipated meets of the season for coaches is the prestigious 38th annual Yal…
NEW HAVEN — Windsor trailed the entire second half. The Warriors were never even tied with Hillhouse in a top four state showdown.
But Windsor dug down deep trailing by 8 with less than 2 minutes left and f…
NEW HAVEN — One of the teams Wilbur Cross knew it had to beat this winter to be considered among the Southern Connecticut Conference’s girls’ basketball elite was Hillhouse.
The Governors did just that Frid…
NEW HAVEN — Steve Jefferson doesn’t miss being the head coach of a varsity basketball program, but he isn’t closing the door on it if another opportunity arises.
But if Jefferson doesn’t return, he does lea…
NEW HAVEN — Last season was far from a blue-chip season for the Hillhouse Academics. In fact, it was a subpar season.
A 13-11 campaign, including losses in the SCC boys basketball tournament quarterfinals a…
View this post on Instagram Amity’s Abby Eschweiler with the bucket with 3.8 seconds to lead Amity to a 50-48 win over Hillhouse tonight #ctgb We love you guy in green shirt! Everyone high five that man! A post […]
The Norwalk girls basketball team finished last season with an unbeaten record and as the unanimous No. 1 team in the Top 10 poll. The Bears lost a few key pieces to graduation but bring back enough talent that voters stuck with them as No. 1 this preseason. They also have a new head coach: […]
NEW HAVEN — This football season has been one of two different halves for Hillhouse.
The Academics had a rough start. losing their first four games. But they turned their fortunes around on offense and defe…
The New Haven Gridiron Club is accepting reservations for its annual announcement of the Levi Jackson Team on Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Cascade Banquet Facility in Hamden. Also being feted will be leading college players from the University of New Haven, Southern Connecticut State University and Yale. The Jackson Team honors the memory of […]
MILFORD — In a game of big plays, the Hillhouse game with Foran came down to the big boys up front when the Academics defeated the Lions 44-34 at the Vito DeVito Sports Complex on Friday.
Coach Reggie Lytle’s Hillhouse …
From the start, coach John Acquavita’s goal for Wilbur Cross was to get better every week. He knew there would be tough times, with an inexperienced line and other challenges.
The Governors weren’t positive…
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…
Nine people will be inducted into The New Haven Tap-Off Club Hall of Fame on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Amarante’s Sea Cliff in New Haven. The inductees are as follows: Megan Rooney Borelli, a former three-sport, Register All-Area standout standout at Guilford, who went on to coach girls basketball at both Guilford and Hamden Hall […]
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…
BLOOMFIELD — Everyone knew the offensive weapons Bloomfield had returning, almost too many, the kind that helped the No. 7 Warhawks to a 48-0 win Friday night over Hillhouse at Phil Rubin Stadium.
But this …
CHESHIRE — The Cheshire and Hillhouse football teams, meeting in the season-opener on Friday, had high expectations this year coming off late-season success in 2018.
The Rams won three of their last five ga…
[Vitals] COACH — REGGIE LYTLE (7th year, 39-26) CONFERENCE — SCC Tier II PLAYOFF CLASS — L (550 boys enrollment) HOME — Bowen Field, New Haven 2018 RECORD — 4-6 2019 OPENER — Sept. 13 at Cheshire, 7 p.m. TEAM WEBSITES — Maxpreps [Top Players] GREG CHAMBERS, Sr. DE/RB (6-1, 210) KINARD FULLER, Sr. DE/TE (6-2, 200) DEMELLE […]
Here is our annual breakdown of state championships by school. This list includes only CIAC sanctioned sports and team championships. It does include both Class and State Open titles. New England and national titles are not included. Here’s a look back at 2017-18 2018-19 state championships by school Bloomfield (7) Football (S) Boys Indoor Track […]
Patience is a virtue in track and field and it paid off for Xavier junior Robbie Cozean at the New Balance National Track and Field meet held Thursday-Sunday at AT&T Stadium in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Connecticut boys and girls athletes are producing solid performances in the Freshman Division, Emerging Elite Division and Championship Division as Day 2 concluded on Thursday at the New Balance National Outdoor Track and …
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 […]
They count their state high school track titles as one. And why shouldn’t they? Gary and Michele Moore have amassed 43 of them at Hillhouse, the latest two in a sweep at the CIAC Class MM meet on Thursday, and their extended family of brilliant runners and throwers over nearly three decades is long […]
NEW BRITAIN — Hillhouse pulled off a clean sweep at the Class MM track and field championships.
The Academics defended their boys title, while the girls also claimed the top prize Thursday at Willowbrook Pa…
NEW HAVEN — It was a proud day for the Hillhouse track and field team and its coaching staff as five student-athletes signed their National Letters of Intent.
De’Janay Davis, Jalynn McCown, Jada Boyd, Ayesh…
Former Hillhouse girls basketball standout Bria Holmes will have her No. 23 jersey retired in a ceremony to be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Hillhouse gymnasium.
The former Register All-State and All-Ar…
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…
Boys Results Team scores: 1. Shelton 125.5, 2. Hillhouse 119, 3. Amity 111.5, 4. Hand 81, 5. Sheehan 69.5, 6. Law 62, 7. Cheshire 50, 8. (tie) Foran and Lyman Hall 28, 10. Guilford 26.5 Winner in each event and regional finishers among top three 100: 1. Michael Rodia (Shelton) 10.98; 200: 1. Deshaune Poole […]
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…
