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2021 CIAC Spring State Championship Scoreboard [FINAL]

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♦♦♦ TICKET INFORMATION ♦♦♦ Baseball Class LL Norwalk 1, Westhill 0 Saturday, June 12 at Palmer Field, Middletown, Noon ON THE AIR/WEB: NFHS Network (subscription required) ROSTERS/TEAM INFO  ••• Class L Hand 3, Berlin 0 Saturday, June 12 at Palmer Field, Middletown, 7 p.m. ON THE AIR/WEB: NFHS Network (subscription required) ROSTERS/TEAM INFO  ••• Class […]

Softball

Special Senior Day: Hall’s Becca Markie plays against dad, Newington softball coach Steve

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WEST HARTFORD — Since they were little kids, their softball-coach dad taught Becca and Steph Markie all they know about the game. On Tuesday at Hall, they had to use it against him. It was senior day at Hall, where Becca Markie is the Warriors’ only senior and Steph is a junior catcher. Their opponent […]

Newington ditches ‘Indians’ for ‘Nor’Easters’ in latest mascot change

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Newington announced it was rebranding itself as the ‘Nor’Easters’ this week as the trend of Connecticut’s high schools dropping Native American mascots continued to sweep across the state.  Newington’s Board of Education on Monday approved a formal recommendation to drop the Indians mascot in favor of the new one, which was unveiled during a special […]

The Final 2021 GameTimeCT Girls Basketball Top 10 Poll: NFA is No. 1

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Here is an idea: Find a high school gymnasium somewhere in the middle of the state, invite the top four teams in the GameTimeCT Girls Basketball Poll including their coaches and trainers, nine officials to work 3 games, a scoreboard operator and someone to do the scorebook. Nobody else. Then roll the ball out and decide on […]

Football

Pete’s Picks: The 15 senior football players we wish we could have seen this fall

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  I am not going to sugarcoat this in any way, we didn’t have a football season this fall. I know it sucked and wasn’t what everyone wanted. That said, we still wanted to recognize some of the best players in state and tell them this: we wish we could have seen them play this […]

Boys Cross Country

25 CIAC boys cross country runners to watch in 2020

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  Sean Ahern, Middletown, Sr. Placed eighth individually in the 2019 Boys Class L Championship meet after finishing 22nd as sophomore. Placed 30th in 2019 State Open. Luke Anthony, East Lyme, Jr. Led East Lyme to its third straight Class MM and ECC championships. Placed second individually in both races. Ethan Aspiras, Woodstock Academy, Sr. Busted […]

The GameTimeCT Top 10 Girls Basketball Poll (March 1): Notre Dame takes No. 1 ranking into states

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The 2020 girls basketball conference tournament semifinals and championship did not shake up the poll as much as expected. CIAC GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE/SCOREBOARD Ridgefield was the exception, leaping all the way to No. 9 following its run to the FCIAC championship after not getting any votes the week before. Hamden, which made a similar […]

Girls Basketball

CCC Quarterfinal roundup: Doherty helps rally 14-seeded E.O. Smith past Glastonbury

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  GLASTONBURY – When the moment called for it, Courtney Doherty wanted the ball in her hands. The senior drilled a corner 3-pointer with under two minutes to give No. 14-seeded E.O. Smith the lead for good in its 50-42 win over No. 6-seeded Glastonbury in the CCC quarterfinals Saturday afternoon. “Absolutely I wanted the […]

Boys Basketball

2020 CCC Girls Basketball Tournament Bracket

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The 2020 CCC Girls Basketball Tournament will begin Thursday, Feb. 20 with the first round at the sites of the eight higher seeds and conclude with the final three rounds at Glastonbury High School. The quarterfinals will be held all day Saturday, beginning at 11 a.m. at Glastonbury. The semifinals will be Tuesday, Feb. 25 […]

Girls Basketball

The GameTimeCT Top 10 Girls Basketball Poll (Feb. 16): ND-Fairfield No. 1, Sheehan joins as postseason nears

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Notre Dame-Fairfield marches on, remaining the unanimous No. 1 as the 2020 girls basketball postseason draws just days closer. The GameTimeCT Top 10 stayed mostly the same with the only losses being NFA’s one-point loss to Bacon Academy and Southington’s two defeats. GIRLS BASKETBALL NOTES: WOODLAND’S MEDER SCORES; ABBOTT TECH TURNAROUND; HALE RAY FORFEIT The […]

The GameTimeCT Top 10 Girls Basketball Poll (Feb. 9): ND-Fairfield still No. 1, Staples moves to 2; Hand, Southington return

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The CCC and FCIAC are taking turns filling out the bottom of the GameTimeCT Top 10 Girls basketball poll each week. This week, Norwalk and Stamford got bounced and Southington and Berlin are in. The CCC leads, this week, with three ranked teams while the FCIAC, SWC and ECC each placed two. Hand is also […]

The GameTimeCT Girls Basketball Top 10 Poll (Jan. 26): ND-Fairfield still No. 1; NFA, Wethersfield, Staples surging

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Many of the state’s Top 10 girls basketball teams took losses this week, including No. 1 Notre Dame-Fairfield. The Lancers lost to Hudson Catholic of New Jersey, 61-48, just two days after their competitive and narrow victory over No. 2 Newtown. WEEK’S FINE PERFORMANCES / GAMES TO WATCH (JAN. 26) Regardless, Notre Dame stayed No. […]

Girls Basketball

The GameTimeCT Top 10 Girls Basketball Poll (Jan. 19): Newtown reaches No. 2 ahead of No. 1 ND showdown

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Notre Dame-Fairfield holds steady as the unanimous No. 1 and they’re about to face the state’s No. 2 team. With New London losing to South Kingstown (RI), 74-45, enough voters saw fit to bump up Newtown, Notre Dame-Fairfield’s SWC rival, to the No. 2 spot. They did so just in time as the Nighthawks play […]

Boys Hockey

Boys hockey notes: Northwest Catholic counts its blessings, hopes for health

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Northwest Catholic boys hockey coach Dan Melanson says he’s good at counting his blessings, and the first month of this season has given him chances to do so.
The Lions played without eight regulars, ill or…

Girls Basketball

Give and Go Podcast: Newington coach Marc Tancredi joins the show

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Welcome back to “Give and Go” the girls basketball podcast for its second season. Scott Ericson returns and is joined by is joined by new co-host Will Aldam. The duo catches up on the past month of the season and then is joined by second-year Newington head coach Marc Tancredi. Tancredi has helped lead the Indians to […]

Girls Basketball

The GameTimeCT Top 10 Girls Basketball Poll (Jan. 12): ND-Fairfield No. 1; CCC claims four ranked teams

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There wasn’t much movement in the poll as the top teams took care of business last week. Stamford and Newtown did flip spots, but otherwise the top 5 was the same. Notre Dame-Fairfield looked like the No. 1 team in dismantling both of its opponents last week, including Bethel. The CCC, meanwhile, made some inroads […]

Boys Hockey

2019-20 Boys Hockey Storylines to Watch

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ROPE-A-DOPE
Many teams that begin their season 0-2, 1-4 and 3-6 can make plans elsewhere for mid-March. Not Fairfield Prep, which could trademark its way of building and teaching an inexperienced team, test…

Football

The 2019 CIAC Football Playoff Brackets / Scoreboard [FINAL]

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  The 2019 CIAC Football Playoffs begin Wednesday, Dec. 4 (after a postponement due to weather) with quarterfinal rounds at the sites of the higher seeds. They will continue with semifinals Monday, Dec. 9 at sites of the higher seeds, and conclude Saturday, Dec. 14 at either Trumbull’s McDougall Stadium, or Veterans Stadium at Willowbrook […]

Football

The 2019 Class L Football Quarterfinal Preview Capsules

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The 2019 CIAC Class L football quarterfinal preview capsules. Compiled by Pete Paguaga. Written by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. 2019 CIAC PLAYOFF SCOREBOARD / SCHEDULE More quarterfinal previews: CLASS LL | CLASS M | CLASS S All games Wednesday, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. ♦♦♦ No. 8 Wilton at No. 1 St Joseph   WHERE – McDougall Field, Trumbull […]

Football

Wethersfield beats Newington, both clinch spots in Class L playoffs

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  WETHERSFIELD – On Newington’s first play from scrimmage the Wethersfield defense ripped the ball free and Nick Thompson picked it up and kept running for a touchdown. The Eagles never stopped running, shutting out Newington 35-0 on Wednesday night. The win clinched a spot in the Class L playoffs for the Eagles for the […]

Football

Week 4 football notebook: Schedule changes shuffle officials

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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…