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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…
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…
