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WELCOME to the FINAL episode of Courtside with Joe Morelli, your weekly podcast covering all things Connecticut boys basketball with GameTimeCT’s head beat writer with an assist from point guard (and GameTimeCT producer) Sean Patrick Bowley. After yet another exciting weekend of championships at Mohegan Sun Arena, we return after a couple weeks off for an action-packed episode […]
UNCASVILLE — Ryan O’Connell ran the break, Jay Jay Brennan hit him with the pass and O’Connell threw a thunderous dunk to the delight of the Waterford fan base at the Mohegan Sun Arena. There was a still a minute to go but the result was no longer in doubt. The kings of the Mohegan […]
DIVISION I
No. 1 East Catholic (26-1)
vs. No. 6 Windsor (23-3)
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Trinity Catholic girls basketball coach Mike Walsh will step on the court Saturday afternoon at the Mohegan Sun Arena to try to become the second known CIAC coach to lead the same school to both a boys and girls state cham…
Through an official statement released Tuesday afternoon, New Britain Superintendent Nancy Sarra has responded to allegations that some Wilton High School students were chanting a racial slur during Friday night’s boys bas…
From the video, this much is certain: With a New Britain player at the foul line, Wilton student fans in the bleachers behind the basket begin to chant.
Undetermined is exactly what the students were chanting. Was it a dis…
WILTON — Third-seeded Wilton and sixth-seeded New Britain were tied after 31 minutes, 29.5 seconds in Friday night’s Division II boys basketball state tournament quarterfinal at the Zeoli Field House. And no one could have predicted how the final 30.5 seconds of New Britain’s 64-63 victory would play out. After a Shamah Charles basket in […]
HARTFORD — Joe Reilly scored 22 points and Jaylin Hunter added 21 points as top-seeded East Catholic used a dominant second quarter to advance with a 99-50 CCC quarterfinal victory over Berlin at Bulkeley High School’s Babe Allen Fieldhouse Saturday. East Catholic 99Berlin 50CCC Quarterfinals Final. Just run this Joe Reilly 3 on loop and […]
The 2019 Central Connecticut Conference boys basketball tournament will tip off Thursday, Feb. 21 at the sites of the higher seeds, and continue with quarterfinals at Saturday, Feb. 23 at Bulkeley. BOYS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT HUB The semifinals will be Feb. 26 and championshiship on Feb. 28, both at Bulkeley. East Catholic (20-0) is the top […]
STAMFORD — To say the Stamford boys basketball team needed a win would be an understatement.
After losing a heartbreaking game against New Canaan Thursday night in which a New Canaan player threw in a half-court game-winning sh…
The 87th New Haven Register All-State Football Teams. Compiled by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. Written and designed by Sean Patrick Bowley. Portraits by Arnold Gold and Pete Paguaga (Marquez). Video montages by Noah Finz, CT Sports Now. For second team, third team and honorable mention selections, click the link below. COMPLETE NHR All-STATE LINEUPS | […]
The semifinals are set and will be Sunday, Dec. 2. at sites of the higher seeds. The championship games will be held Saturday, Dec. 8 at sites and times to be determined. Schedule changes noted in red. You can purchase tickets online here. Sign up for the Whistle Newsletter from GameTimeCT and get this and other […]
The 2018 All-Central Connecticut Conference Football Teams. Division I East East Hartford –Jaquan Allen, Jonathan Cruz, Rafael Custodio, Jaydon Gardner, Quinton Haughton, John McNeil, David Ortiz, Raquan Tompkins, Samuel Valentine Enfield –Freddy Centrella, Brendan DeBarber, Andrew Diaz, Cameron LeBlanc, Wyatt Raymond, Joel Stewart Glastonbury –Dylan Clemens, Drew Daniels, Kirill Fioletov, Brandon Myers, Ryan Smith, Matthew […]
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of the GameTimeCT football podcast. Thirty-two teams entered postseason season play on Tuesday and now 16 teams are left as the season heads towards the semifinals this weekend. We saw a handful of good games across the board and a couple of routs. You can check out the full postseason […]
GREENWICH — Despite the bit of uncertainty that comes with playing an unfamiliar opponent, one of the aspects Greenwich took some comfort in heading into Tuesday’s Class LL quarterfinal-round game against New Britain was the fact the game was …
As Greenwich High School football coach John Marinelli stated while discussing his team’s upcoming postseason matchup against New Britain, “something has to give at some point of the game.”
The Cardinals’ balanced offense includes an effective…
We’re here. We’re finally here. After a long season filled with all kinds of twists and turns — not to mention bouts with weekly inclement weather that had schools so punchy by Thanksgiving week they were postponing games on account of “cold” (It turned out chilly, but otherwise was a sunny and relatively pleasant Thanksgiving […]
The 2018 CIAC Class LL football quarterfinal preview capsules. Compiled by Pete Paguaga and David Fierro. More quarterfinal previews: CLASS L | CLASS M | CLASS S All games Tuesday, Nov. 27, 6:30 p.m. No. 8 New Canaan at No. 1 Shelton WHERE – at Finn Stadium, Shelton TICKETS – Adults $10, Students/Senior Citizen $5 ON […]
Ansonia beat Naugatuck for the eight-consecutive year and upped its win streak over NVL teams to 85 games in the annual Thanksgiving Day classic between the two programs. New Canaan held on to beat Darien in the annual Turkey Bowl for the second-consecutive year. Greenwich smothered Staples to complete a 10-0 regular season and the […]
BERLIN — Shawn Robinson and Tahje Yopp combined for 316 yards on 50 carries and accounted for all five touchdowns as New Britain steamrolled Berlin 33-14 in the Wishbone Bowl Friday night at Sage Park. With the victory, New Britain closed its regular season with a five-game win streak and clinched its first Class LL […]
CIAC Real-Time Qualifying Tables: CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS M | CLASS S Seventeen teams in, 15 spots remaining. More than half of the CIAC playoff field has been filled. And with a handful of games played Friday night, including two clinchers, some of the scenarios have changed, as well. Here’s what’s what […]
While there were no great upsets among the GameTimeCT / New Haven Register Top 10 teams, there was one minor change as the 2018 regular season heads into the final week before the annual Thanksgiving extravaganza. New Britain (8-1) has been voted into the No. 10 spot after its 48-6 victory over Enfield. Despite beating […]
What a statement by the @NBHurricanes tonight. @_Tahjeyopp + co. put up 63 (!!) on East Hartford and improved to 7-1. @NBHSCT #cthsfb pic.twitter.com/fN0m1wQJb5 — Elliott Polakoff (@ElliottPolakoff) November 3, 2018 NEW BRITAIN — The night’s work was done for New Britain seniors Shawn Robinson and Tahje Yopp and it was certainly a performance worthy […]
The 13-second video clip starts with the game officials shaking hands with the four captains of the New Britain High football team. It ends with those four players refusing an official’s request to shake hands with the Southington High captain…
Before undefeated CCC foes New Britain and Southington kicked off Friday night, New Britain’s captains stirred the pot. Each team’s captains met at midfield for the coin toss and were expected to shake hands. The Southington captains walked over, but the New Britain captains kept their hands locked with each other. No pregame handshake. Southington […]
NEW BRITAIN — Southington was 94 seconds away from losing to New Britain for the first time in a decade on Friday night. Less than a minute later, the Blue Knights had all but wrapped up a victory. Quarterback Jacob Drena engineered a six-play, 80-yard drive that began with 1 minute, 34 seconds left in regulation […]
Week 5: No. 9 Southington (4-0) at New Britain (4-0), 6:30 p.m. NEW BRITAIN – Nothing has really changed in 10 years. When two young running backs met at their first youth football practice, little did they know that they would always share a backfield and start a very close friendship. “The first time I […]
NEW BRITAIN — New Britain quarterback Tahje Yopp had no idea his team’s top running back, Shawn Robinson, had entered the game for the first time to start the second half until he got the play call from the sidelines. “I didn’t know until we called ‘White,’ and Shawn was at running back,” Yopp said. […]
Vitals COACH — TEBUCKY JONES (8th year, 36-36) CONFERENCE — CCC Division I West PLAYOFF CLASS — LL (1,206 boys enrollment) HOME — Veterans Memorial Stadium, New Britain 2017 RECORD — 5-5 2018 OPENER — Sept. 7 vs. Conard, 7 p.m. Top Players SHAWN ROBINSON, RB (5-9 185) KAIYON GUNN, RB/WR (5’9 165) TAHJE YOPP, […]
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