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WEST HAVEN — Two regular-season games couldn’t settle it. Two halves of regulation couldn’t settle it. Two overtime periods couldn’t settle it.
So penalty kicks were needed Thursday night to decide the best Southern Connecticut Conference girl…
MIDDLETOWN — In its first match this season against Shelton, even in defeat, Mercy coach Marcus Harley and the Tigers believed they were the better team. They were out to prove it on Monday, and it showed on the scoreboard. With the top seed in the SCC tournament still in play, the Tigers dominated the […]
We know about the old adage involving defense and championships. Mercy’s girls soccer team has a pretty good defense in place, but head coach Marcus Harley knows the Tigers need a reliable offense to be a serious postseason threat. Mercy scored just once against Guilford, but that was all the Tigers needed in a 1-0 […]
MONROE — Over the course of 48 minutes Friday, there were moments that gave Masuk football coach Joe Lato a jolt of optimism. Ultimately, though, they were just moments.
“That was a tale of two different teams right now,” Lato said after the P…
MIDDLEFIELD — Mercy golf coach Pete Golanski’s approach to managing his top player, Praewa Treekul, is about as hands-off as hands-off can be.
“How do I coach her? I put her on the course and shut the hell up!” he said.
Golanski has seen a num…
Isabella Santoro grew up and still lives in Durham, but there was never a doubt where she was going to attend high school. “Mercy was always the plan. I don’t think I had another school in mind,” Santoro said. “Cassie went there.” Yes, Isabella was following in her older sister Cassie’s footsteps. Cassie played for […]
It’s been just over three days since the final buzzer sounded at Mohegan Sun so we thought it would be a perfect time to relive each and every game from the weekend. The kicker? We put it all together in two quick minutes. The 2018 CIAC Winter Championship Weekend Scoreboard (Final)
MIDDLETOWN—They showed no Mercy all season long and the Tigers walked away with the biggest prize. The Mercy girls basketball program has the Class LL championship plaque in its trophy case. And the Tigers can celebrate their well-earned status as the No. 1 ranked girls basketball team in the final New Haven Register/GameTime CT Top […]
Bella Santoro of Mercy as its 2017-18 Gatorade Connecticut Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Santoro is the first Gatorade Connecticut Girls Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Mercy High School. The award recognizes both athletic and academic excellence, along with exemplary character The 5-foot-10 senior guard led the Tigers to a 27-1 […]
UNCASVILLE—The first shots were not going down for the Mercy. Good thing for the Tigers they got two, three and sometimes four looks at the basket each trip down the floor, dominating on the offensive glass all night long in the CIAC Class LL state championship game. That tenacious work on the glass coupled with […]
Earlier in this decade, it did seem like it was Mercy’s birthright to play in the Class LL girls basketball state championship game at the Mohegan Sun Arena.Four straight years, the Tigers reached the final game, losing three straight before b…
BRANFORD — Trumbull broke Mercy’s hearts last season, edging the Tigers in overtime to punch their ticket to Championship Saturday.One year later, the Tigers returned the favor.In the second semifinal meeting in as many years between Mercy and…
MIDDLETOWN — Bella Santoro and Meghan DeVille have a very special bond, created by the sport of basketball.Since they were both in second grade, and started playing the game together, the Mercy seniors have been joined together as friends, t…
MIDDLETOWN — In March, seniors can be unstoppable forces on the basketball court. The last journey through the state tournament can bring incredible responses from players. The Mercy High School girls basketball team played like a group that is hungry for its first state title since 2013 Thursday night as the No. 2 seeded Tigers […]
The Southern Connecticut Conference girls’ basketball trophy will reside in Middletown. Again. For the fourth time in the last five seasons, Mercy captured the SCC championship by beating East Haven, 64-40, Wednesday night before a packed house at East Haven High. The only time the Tigers haven’t won the SCC title in the last five […]
MILFORD — Junior McKenzie Helms is used to having the ball in big situations. In fact, Helms relishes the opportunity to make the big shot. Called upon to help East Haven advance in the Southern Connecticut Conference tournament, Helms came through, hitting a jumper with 5.3 seconds remaining in regulation to give second-seeded East Haven […]
HAMDEN — Having suffered its first loss of the season just two games prior, the Mercy girls basketball team was not going to allow that to stop it from claiming the top spot in the upcoming league tournament.Jumping out to a quick lead and n…
MIDDLETOWN — Another night, another blowout.Undefeated Mercy, tied for the No. 1 ranking in the New Haven Register/GameTimeCT poll with New London, blasted Branford 66-24 in a Southern Connecticut Conference game played in front of small gat…
NEW HAVEN — We are a little more than two weeks into the girls basketball season, but things are already starting to shake out in the Southern Connecticut Conference. And from the look of things, everyone will be chasing Mercy. The Tigers have already defeated Hand on the road and handed Career a 53-34 loss […]
MIDDLETOWN — To answer the question of just how good Mercy’s basketball team is, let’s look at the record.In its opener, the Tigers crushed Class M semifinalist Notre Dame-Fairfield. In their second game, they dispatched defending Class …
MADISON — It was only appropriate that the two teams involved in what’s currently the Southern Connecticut Conference’s biggest girls’ basketball rivalry were scheduled to meet in the first few days of the 2017-2018 season.Hand vs. Mer…
MIDDLETOWN — Before the season, Mercy High soccer coach Marcus Harley said things had to break right for his Tigers to have a successful season and one of those things was to win the time of possession. So far, so good. Mercy, undefeated at 3-0-1, dominated West Haven Monday afternoon at Tiger Field, beating the […]
There is a wide variety of sports offered at area high schools beyond football and soccer. Here follows previews of high school girls swimming, girls volleyball, field hockey, cross-country and fall crew. Girls swimming Middletown The Blue Dragons were 10-1 last season, the team’s best record since the city’s two public high schools merged in […]
Just about every school has soccer. It may not be a big player on the national scene, but at the high school level it’s universal. Here follows the outlook for many of the boys and girls teams in the Greater Middletown area. BOYS Xavier The Falcons were 6-5-5 in 2016 and the hope is they […]
ORANGE >> Finn Boynton vividly remembers the last round of competitive golf he played at Race Brook Country Club. It was almost a year to the day when Boynton, then a junior at Notre Dame-West Haven, was tied for the lead for the SCC championship standing on the 18th tee. Then he hit his drive […]
The Mercy girls golf team defeated Lauralton Hall 178-215 Wednesday to improve to 18-0 and give coach Peter Golanski his 300th career win. Medalist: Praewa Treekul 41 – Mercy Mercy: Meghan deVille 44-Christiana Bevilacqua 45-Taylor Tristine 50-Caroline Thompson 48 Lauralton Hall: Haley Bernier 59-Emily Totura 55-Liz Garfield 43- Caroline Grosso58 Record: Mercy 18-0 Boys Golf […]
MADISON – With Hand replacing a quartet of four-year players and Mercy starting a freshman pitcher, there were a lot of new faces on the softball field Friday afternoon. But it was a couple of the old faces in senior shortstop Hollis Wivell and pitcher Abby Geshwind that made the difference as the Tigers beat […]
MILFORD >> Trumbull’s magical season is going to end where every basketball team in Connecticut dreams of playing: Mohegan Sun Arena. The top-seeded Eagles fought off fifth-seeded Mercy 45-38 in overtime at Jonathan Law High School advance to the Class LL state championship this weekend in Uncasville. “I’m so proud,” Trumbull’s Taylor Brown said. “I […]
MIDDLETOWN >> Meghan DeVille and Bella Santoro. Those two Mercy stars were the difference as No. 5 ranked Mercy eliminated No. 4 ranked Middletown 54-38 in the first meeting between the two schools in front of a roaring sellout crowd of 950 in a Class LL quarterfinal round game played at the LaBella-Sullivan Gymnasium Thursday […]
