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NEW HAVEN — There were sweeps for long gains, bruising sprints through the line and simple jaunts that gained yard after yard.
The Brookfield football team likes to the run ball. That much has been evident in wins over Masuk and Hillhouse to s…
FAIRFIELD — By the mid-point in the first half, Fairfield Prep boys’ soccer coach Ryan Lyddy had pulled his three attackers, Alex Whammond, Gavin Neumeyer and Andrew Neumeyer, and had them sitting comfortably on the Jesuits bench.
Their work w…
For the second straight off-season, the Southern Connecticut Conference has suffered heavy losses to prep schools. Eight key players from the league have departed and have reclassified at prep schools, including Hamden’s three top players from last year’s run to the program’s first league tournament title. Five key players left the SCC during the 2017 […]
NEW HAVEN — The defending CIAC Class L champions certainly looked the part Friday night.
Hand, ranked No. 5 in the GameTimeCT.com state poll dominated Hillhouse 43-6 at Bowen Field in the season opener for both Southern Connecticut Conference …
Vitals COACH — REGGIE LYTLE (6th year, 35-20) CONFERENCE — SCC Tier II PLAYOFF CLASS — M (516 boys enrollment) HOME — Bowen Field, New Haven 2017 RECORD — 6-4 2018 OPENER — Sept. 7 vs. Hand, 7 p.m. TEAM WEBSITE — MaxPreps | TWITTER — @HillhouseSports Top Players NEAL ELEY, Sr. RB/DB SHAMEEN BROWN, […]
Tyrese Sullivan is a two-time All-State basketball selection at Hillhouse, and a two-time team captain at the University of Rhode Island. He has also been a part of three CIAC championship teams at Hillhouse as an assistant coach. Add head coach to his impressive basketball resume. Formally approved by the West Haven Board of Education Thursday morning, Sullivan has been named the […]
Here is our annual breakdown of state championships by school. This list includes only CIAC sanctioned sports. It does include both Class and State Open titles. New England and national titles are not included. 2017-18 state championships by school Greenwich -10 Golf (I) Gymnastics (L) Gymnastics (Open) Girls Indoor Track (LL) Girls Indoor […]
MIDDLETOWN — When Manasseh Bekele crossed the line after putting the finishing touches on Hillhouse setting a Class MM record by winning the 4×400 relay, there were a few handshakes with his fellow anchor leg runners.
At the time, the blisteri…
NEW BRITAIN — As Gary Moore sat back and watched his Hillhouse girls track team cruise to the Class M state title on Tuesday at Willow Brook Park, he had the look of a proud parent. And that’s not just because his daughter, Leah, won the shot put with a throw of 37-9.75. Moore was […]
WOODBRIDGE — For Mike Gambardella, it was historic, 36 years in the making.
For Gary Moore, it was a bit “ho-hum.”
Gambardella, who took over the Shelton High boys track team in 1982, won the SCC championship for the first time on Wednesday at…
NEW HAVEN – Hillhouse senior girls track standouts Kristen Washington and Shayna Smith announced their college commitments with an official signing event at the Floyd Little Athletic Center on Thursday. Washington will be competing in indoor and outdoor track at the University of New Haven and Smith will compete both seasons at Southern Connecticut State. […]
DANBURY — It was the ultimate test of teamwork and team depth, and at the 38th running of the O’Grady Relays Friday and Saturday, no teams were better than the host Danbury High School boys and girls track and field teams.
The Hatter boys scor…
NEW HAVEN – Joey Kasperzyk remembers watching four of his teammates at Woodstock Academy signing national letters of intent last fall to play basketball at Division I schools. “I had to step up and work harder to be where I wanted to be. That (watching those signings) helped motivate me,” Kasperzyk said. Several months later, […]
Former Hillhouse standout guard Joey Kasperzyk has verbally committed to play basketball at Division I Bryant. The news was first reported Thursday afternoon by Adam Finkelstein from ESPN. Bryant has landed a commitment from @WAPrepHoop & @XEliteBasketbal 2018 guard Joey Kasperzyk. — Adam Finkelstein (@AdamFinkelstein) April 5, 2018 Kasperzyk, a two-time Register All-State selection and […]
WATERBURY — The battle between the two boys basketball titans with seven state championships between them the last five years finally came to fruition Friday night, fittingly, at a place called The Palace.The crowd of approximately 1,400 would…
Wednesday’s nor’easter has postponed nearly all of the boys basketball second-round games. A couple of those games in Division I will instead be played at neutral sites, and they involve a pair of teams that didn’t lose a game against CIAC competition this season. No. 2 seed Notre Dame-Fairfield (23-0) and No. 4 Sacred Heart […]
NEW HAVEN — The Hillhouse-Fairfield Prep boys basketball rivalry has had plenty of theater and great games over the past several years. It’s even better when the stakes are higher, like in Monday’s win-or-go-home Division I state tournament opening-round game at the Floyd Little Athletic Center. Through three quarters, the game was tied. Then Hillhouse […]
NEW HAVEN — Jaylen Ricks encouraged the Hamden faithful to rise up from their seats at the Floyd Little Athletic Center. Victor Rosario pumped his fist several times. Time still remained on the clock, but the Green Dragons had begun the celebration. They had beaten everyone they faced in the Southern Connecticut Conference all season […]
Hamden will be looking to earn its first Southern Connecticut Conference boys basketball championship Wednesday night. The Green Dragons need not look any further than to the opposite bench to understand what success is like as the top dog. The two programs left standing will battle for SCC supremacy Wednesday evening. No. 3 seed […]
NEW HAVEN – It didn’t have the buildup or a sellout crowd but the rematch was almost every bit as good as the original. Rayshawn Brewer and Davon Warner each had 20 points to help No. 4 seed Hillhouse held off No. 4 Notre Dame-West Haven 55-50 in the SCC tournament semifinals Monday at the […]
NEW HAVEN — Ky’Jae Hargrove limped off the court with 2:48 to play, in such pain from injuring her left ankle that she didn’t want anyone to touch it.But the Career senior had done enough in the first 29-plus minutes of the night as she …
NEW HAVEN — There wasn’t much fanfare, excitement or joy. For the current Wilbur Cross Governors squad, they treated Wednesday night’s regular-season finale as if it was business as usual.But no one from Cross had beaten Hillhouse in a …
HAMDEN — Mekhi Warren sat just a short distance from the Hillhouse bench, ice pack on his left knee, grimacing in pain.The senior forward went down late in the first half and had to be helped off the floor. Warren has already missed several …
NEW HAVEN — When it comes to indoor track in the Southern Connecticut Conference, Hillhouse sits atop the mountain. The Academics captured both the girls and boys titles Friday at the Floyd Little Athletic Center. It’s the first sweep for any school since 2005 when Amity took both titles. “I’m happy for the kids,” Hillhouse […]
Lyman Hall has relished being the underdog so far in the Southern Connecticut Conference boys’ indoor track season.The Trojans were the surprise of the SCC East Sectional last week as they upset favored Hillhouse, 97-91. It’s the first tim…
Congrats to junior Taniyah Thompson on scoring her 1000th point in the 2nd quarter vs Law. Hamden up 30-19 at the half. #goDragons pic.twitter.com/Y6OeCOhPok — Hamden Athletics (@AthleticsHamden) February 1, 2018 Taniyah Thompson finished with a game-high 34 points, including the 1,000th of her career, for the Hamden girls’ basketball team, which defeated Law 65-36 […]
Hillhouse coach Renard Sutton admitted it was the worst week the program has had under his direction after losses to both Career and Hand to fall to 7-5. “Absolutely,” said Sutton, now in his eighth year with three state championships to his credit. “We started off the season great, more than anyone expected, then we […]
Hand’s boys basketball team defeated No. 6 Hillhouse 46-45 on Wednesday night in, easily, the biggest upset of the SCC boys basketball season and, perhaps, the biggest Hand boys basketball victory since — I don’t know — Joe Trapani wore a Tigers uniform? It was, at the very least, the first Hand win over Hillhouse […]
NEW HAVEN – Michelle Shoop and her Amity girls basketball team are looking for some consistency. Hovering around the .500 mark, the Spartans are ready to break through. Monday evening in New Haven may be that moment. Rallying from a three-point deficit with under three minutes to play, Amity defeated Hillhouse 55-50 in a Southern […]
