Derby’s Board of Education voted Tuesday night to allow Derby High School football players to use school equipment in independent tackle football. There was no objection heard in the hybrid meeting, though there was at least one abstention. Derby’s board joins Meriden’s, which last week approved allowing its high schools to use school equipment and […]
New Britain rallies for five-set win at Lewis Mills
BURLINGTON — Now that high school sports are finally being played, do they really mean anything?
New Britain and Lewis Mills squared off in a thrilling five game girls volleyball match Friday evening in whi…
New Britain school board rebukes Mayor for public support of Cochran’s return as head football coach
New Britain’s Board of Education on Friday publicly rebuked Mayor Erin Stewart’s support for the re-hire of former coach Jack Cochran as head football coach, calling her share of Cochran’s application “unfair and negligent.” The terse statement comes just two days after Stewart, the 32-year old three-term Republican mayor of New Britain since 2013, Tweeted […]
Middletown’s Pope reaches milestone in loss to New Britain
NEW BRITAIN — Aside from seeing Donte Pope score his 1,000th high school point, Middletown might not feel good about anything else from Monday night’s game.
New Britain, however, left the gym with a hop in …
Tebucky Jones resigns at New Britain after nine seasons
Tebucky Jones, the former All-Stater at New Britain who won a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, has resigned as head coach after nine seasons, he told the New Britain Herald Thursday. “My journey’s over,” Jones told the Herald. “I had a great time. I enjoyed my time here and I enjoyed coaching the […]
Skates tosses 4 TDs, Berlin tops New Britain, earns improbable 4th-straight playoff berth
QB Justin Skates has 4 passing touchdowns in Berlin’s playoff clinching win over New Britain #cthsfb pic.twitter.com/tviUKiOPS7 — Will Aldam (@AldamWill) November 23, 2019 NEW BRITAIN — Berlin’s focus was simple entering its game with rival New Britain Friday night. The Redcoats needed to defeat New Britain, a team they had lost their last two […]
Uni-Browse: New Britain, Newtown, Staples, Torrington
Welcome back to Uni-Browse. Each week of the high school football season we will give you four uniforms to vote on to see who looks the best on the field. This week, we are going with road whites as the theme. Unfortunately, none of these road teams got to play on grass and dirt, […]
Thaw’s big plays, Staples’ ‘spirit’ leads Wreckers past New Britain
NORWALK — It was the kind of play that could turn a football game around, slicing Staples’ lead more than in half. New Britain blocked a punt, took it in for a score late in the third quarter: A week ago, Staples might’ve …
CCC Football 2019: NEW BRITAIN preview
[Vitals] COACH — TEBUCKY JONES (9th year, 45-38) CONFERENCE — CCC Division I West PLAYOFF CLASS — LL (1,494 boys enrollment) HOME — Veterans Memorial Stadium, New Britain 2018 RECORD — 9-2 2019 OPENER — Sept.13 vs. South Windsor, 7 p.m. TEAM WEBSITE — Maxpreps [Top Players] TARIK HETMYER, Sr. WR (5-9, 155) TYREE PINNOCK, […]
25 CIAC girls volleyball players to watch in 2019
Reem Abdel-Hack, Shelton, Sr., MH: The returning All-SCC first team middle had 64 blocks and 125 kills as a junior.
Lindsey Abramson, Cheshire, Sr., OH: An All-SCC first team and All-State second team selec…
UNI-BROWSE: Greenwich, Law, New Britain, Staples
Welcome back to Uni-Browse. Each week we will take a look at four baseball uniforms from around the state and let you vote for your favorite. Last week, New Milford won with 52% of the vote with 706 votes cast. That is our highest vote total yet on Uni-Browse. Thank you and keep it […]
Courtside with Joe Morelli podcast Episode XIII: Championship recap and No. 1 East Catholic’s Luke Reilly
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 […]
Waterford surges past New Britain in Division II final, wins back-to-back state basketball titles
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 […]
2019 CIAC Boys Basketball Championship preview capsules
DIVISION I
No. 1 East Catholic (26-1)
vs. No. 6 Windsor (23-3)
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Championship Notebook: State final coaches cherishing championship chase
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…
New Britain responds to Wilton apology over alleged inappropriate comments from members of student section
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…
Wilton to apologize for chants directed at New Britain player during game
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…
After wild final 30 seconds, New Britain hangs on to defeat Wilton, advance to D2 semifinal
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 […]
CCC Tournament Roundup: East Catholic romps, faces Farmington next; Glastonbury hangs on, meets Windsor
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 CCC Boys Basketball Tournament bracket
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 […]
Bell scores 22 as Stamford hangs on to beat New Britain
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 First Team
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 2018 CIAC Football Playoff Scoreboard [FINAL]
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
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 […]
GameTimeCT Football Podcast: Quarterfinals recap, semifinals outlook and predictions
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 […]
Muir, defense lead Greenwich past New Britain into Class LL football semifinals
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 …
Greenwich defense braces for New Britain’s rushing attack in LL quarterfinals
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…
The Postseason GameTimeCT / Register Top 10 Football Poll: GREENWICH is No. 1 as playoffs kick off
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 Class LL Football Quarterfinal Preview Capsules
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 […]