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NAUGATUCK — All nine Law batters had at least one hit as the 13th seed beat 12th-seeded Naugatuck 5-2 on Friday night in the CIAC Class L quarterfinals.
Law (15-8) advanced to its first state semifinal in 30 years. It’ll face top-ranked, top-s…
NAUGATUCK — Too many times this season, Pete Tucci has watched his Norwalk baseball team have a bad inning and wind up falling in defeat.
On Saturday, the Bears showed how far they’ve come as a team, shaking off their latest bad inning to come…
STAMFORD — If nothing else, the Stamford boys basketball team has followed a pattern in many of its games.Build a big lead, nearly squander that lead, and then hold on down the stretch and escape with a victory.In Tuesday night’s CIAC Divi…
TORRINGTON — Naugatuck’s Jean Lukau was the difference in a 49-46 boys basketball win over Torrington that was tight from start to finish at Torrington High School Tuesday night.Both teams started with 7-2 records in the NVL and no Iron Di…
We’ve made it. The long, grueling grind that is the regular season is finally over. All 12 weeks are in the books — so is Thanksgiving. The playoffs are here. The quarterfinals begin Tuesday at the sites of the higher seeds at 6:30 p.m. The 2017 CIAC Football Playoff Schedule The semifinals, however, have been […]
NAUGATUCK — Ansonia High star running back Markell Dobbs and his teammates had a strange feeling when they ran out for the second half of their Thanksgiving Day game against rival Naugatuck. They were actually in a close game — holding a slim 10-point lead over the Greyhounds. Dobbs, who has rarely played in the […]
Ansonia and Naugatuck have played 117 times, making it the third longest-running Thanksgiving football rivalry in the state behind Stonington-Westerly, R.I., and Norwich Free Academy-New London.The rivalry has been tamed somewhat recently beca…
pic.twitter.com/P4nzlaRVND — GHS SOCCER (@GHSSOCCER1) November 18, 2017 NEW BRITAIN — Sebastian Sanzaro’s goal with 17 minutes, 41 seconds remaining lifted Glastonbury’s boys soccer team to a 1-0 victory in the Class LL championship game Saturday at Veterans Memorial Field in New Britain. This is the third Glastonbury boys soccer championship in four years, but […]
NEWTOWN — In a game that seemed destined for penalty kicks, one came a little earlier than expected. And it ended the Norwalk boys soccer team’s season. Vinicius Knupp’s penalty kick goal just 1:08 into overtime proved to be the difference as top-seeded Naugatuck held on for a 1-0 Class LL semifinal victory over No. […]
SEYMOUR — It’s not the type of start to the season the Seymour High girls soccer team was hoping for during the offseason. A year after qualifying for the NVL tournament and missing the Class M state tournament by one game, the Wildcats wa…
TORRINGTON >> Torrington girls basketball (10-3) played a world-beating first quarter, then coasted to a 53-22 win over Naugatuck Saturday evening at Torrington High School. “We came out on all cylinders and then we took a break,” said Coach Mike Fritch. “That first quarter (25-0) was the best we’ve played all year.” Naugatuck (6-9) drubbed […]
The Crawford boys put on a show in Seymour’s 65-64 victory over Naugatuck Friday night. Junior Jaylen Crawford scored 18 points and sophomore Kevin Crawford scored 17 in the victory, Seymour’s fourth straight. Five of Kevin Crawford’s points particularly stood out: His insane, full extension dunk on a fast break and then his driving layup […]
Craig Bruno has resigned as Naugatuck’s football coach after four seasons, he announced today. Bruno, who came over in 2013 after a successful 12-year career at Bunnell, coached the Greyhounds to a 30-12 record, including a state playoff berth in 2014 — Naugatuck’s first since 2001. The Greyhounds lost to Darien in the Class L-Large semifinals. […]
ANSONIA >> Although Ansonia has loftier goals — like winning a 20th CIAC state title — the Chargers still look forward to playing on Thanksgiving morning against rival Naugatuck. Despite the once-fierce rivalry being rather lop-sided in recent years, Ansonia-Naugatuck is still one of the bigger treats on the Thanksgiving week schedule. Ansonia senior quarterback […]
NAUGATUCK >> Torrington’s girls volleyball team showed its full range of superpowers in a 3-1 (25-12, 25-18, 21-25, 25-15) win over Naugatuck in an NVL Tournament semifinal match at Naugatuck High School Tuesday night. “It’s why they’re 21-1,” said Naugatuck coach Kevin Wesche. “They’re tremendous athletes and they can hit from anywhere.” Game One featured […]
TORRINGTON >> Eleven minutes into a boys soccer match at Torrington High School Monday night, Naugatuck’s Gabriel Carrelo got open for a 20-yard shot high into Torrington’s net. The 1-0 score stayed put for the rest of a game featuring the ebb and flow of energy in a fast-paced evenly-matched game. “It was two hungry, […]
NAUGATUCK >> Naugatuck quarterback Michael Plasky threw four touchdown passes and ran for two more TDs on the way to a Greyhound 52-0 mauling over Torrington at Naugatuck High School Friday night. Each team came in with the scars from a sound beating by NVL favorite Seymour on their resume and a flip-side big win […]
Vitals Coach: CRAIG BRUNO (4th year at Naugatuck, 117-46-1 overall) Conference: NVL Iron Division Playoff Class: L (651 boys enrollment) Home: Veterans Field 2015 Record: 5-5 2016 Kickoff: Sept. 9 vs. Derby, 7 p.m. Team website: MaxPreps Top players Tyler Deitelbaum, Sr., WR/DB Devon Biancarelli, Sr., WR/DB Matt Johnson, Sr., OL/DL Mike Plasky, Jr., QB Brandon Papp, […]
TORRINGTON >> Naugatuck’s baseball team beat Torrington 4-0 Friday afternoon in a game that screamed the importance of every play, every pitch, in a contest of evenly-matched teams. Both teams were 7-5 at the start. Naugatuck’s leadoff batter, Corey Plasky, reached on the game’s only error in the top of the first inning. Torrington starter […]
TORRINGTON >> With one more game left in the regular season, Torrington’s girls basketball team guaranteed itself a .500 season with a 38-34 win over Naugatuck Thursday night at Torrington High School. In an ugly brand of basketball that’s done the job for a 10-9 record, the Red Raiders lost a turnover battle with Naugy, […]
Update [Friday]: We miscalculated Torrington’s state tournament prospects. This buzzer-beater put T-Town in! (Corrections below). Just days after seeing Zak Mancini’s potential tying buzzer-beater go awry in a 63-60 loss to Wolcott, Torrington’s boys basketball team got their dramatic final shot to go down Thursday night. Down two to Naugatuck with five seconds remaining, Torrington senior […]
TORRINGTON >> Torrington’s Zak Mancini came out firing and never quit Monday night, leading the Red Raiders to a 71-64 win over Naugatuck at home. Mancini spread six 3-pointers over both halves, finishing with 31 points for the night. “Hats off to him. He’s a great shooter and he did a lot without the ball,” […]
Congratulations go out to Naugatuck’s Matt Johnson whose essay on what it means to be a teammate was the grand prize winner in our Walter Camp National Awards Weekend give away. As the contest winner, Matt read his essay at Friday’s Walter Camp All-America Team media conference brunch and received all-accommodations paid invitation to the Walter Camp National Awards […]
NAUGATUCK >> The anticipation was almost too much for the two-headed running back tandem of Tajik Bagley and Tyler Bailey to handle. Host Naugatuck possessed the ball for nearly the entire first quarter. Once the vaunted Ansonia offense took the field, however, the antsy play makers went to work and made up for lost time […]
WATERTOWN >> The NVL’s two undefeated regular-season cross country girls and boys teams held their top spots in the NVL championships at Watertown’s 3.1-mile Veteran’s Memorial Park course Wednesday afternoon. Derby, 13-0, took the girls race 41-50 over second-place Watertown. Naugatuck, 15-0, won the boys race 54-85 over Woodland. Derby’s Red Raiders claimed their first […]
NAUGATUCK >> Alijah Ellis is a sprint specialist for Derby’s track and field team. And on Friday night, with Naugatuck’s football team 14 yards away from possibly tying this wild, back-and-forth game on the final play, the junior amped his track game to a whole new level. Even though he didn’t have to. Ellis jumped […]
TORRINGTON >> Naugatuck’s boys soccer team scored two early goals, then couldn’t find another in a 2-0 win over Torrington Wednesday evening. “We should put way more goals in,” said Greyhound C.J. Carrelo, who took a beautiful cross from Yan Silva and whistled his shot into the left side of the Torrington net four minutes […]
TORRINGTON >> Torrington (3-0) was pure Phoenix Friday evening, rising from a halftime deficit to a thundering 57-26 win over Naugatuck (2-1) at the Robert H. Frost Sports Complex. “We said at halftime, great teams make comebacks and we did,” said senior quarterback Connor Finn, who paired with senior wide receiver Zack Mancini for three […]
BRASS Crosby Third-year quarterback Michael Marshall returns as one of the NVL’s most experience passers, giving the Bulldogs hope they can end a run of six losing seasons. But there are plenty of holes to fill elsewhere. Coach David Jurewicz is confident his team will compete. Team Preview Holy Cross The Crusaders […]
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