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Newtown was the final team on the field when high school football was last played in Connecticut in 2019, riding off as CIAC Class LL champions.
With no football in Connecticut last fall and facing endless …
BERLIN — The last team to win a CIAC football game in Connecticut is Newtown.
That was the 2019 Class LL final that the Nighthawks won on the last play of the game — of the season — a few minutes behind the…
Friday afternoon, the two teams with state title aspirations again in 2021, faced off in the opening game on Water Tower 1 Field.
Chemistry, competition and of course, skill development are among the common themes mentioned by football coaches as their teams get ready for New Canaan’s Grip It and Rip It 7-on-7 tournament this weekend.
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Finally, football.
The Grip It and Rip It 7-on-7 tournament will return to New Canaan on Friday and Saturday, July 9-10, with a field of approximately 32 teams.
The FCIAC will be represented…
BASEBALL All-SWC Daniel Rodriguez, Bethel; Zak Droukas, Brookfield; Drew Martin, Brookfield; Jake Miceli, Brookfield; Brett Batka, Bunnell; Matt Scott, Barlow; Jason Green, Kolbe Cathedral; Tyler Kipp, Masuk; Gianno Merlonghi, Masuk; Jeremy Rodrigues, Masuk; Dan Gantert, New Fairfield; Matt Garbowski, New Fairfield; Braden Quinn, New Fairfield; Justin Leclair, New Milford; Dylan Goyette, Newtown; Andrew Amato, Weston; […]
NEWTOWN — Trumbull’s softball season will continue.
The No. 14 seed Eagles used a 17-hit attack and received six shutout innings from Mackenzie Bruggeman to defeat No. 11 Newtown 8-2 in the Class LL quarter…
WOODBRIDGE — The Newtown softball team has quickly transitioned into a dark horse in the Class LL tournament after knocking off No. 9 Amity 1-0 in eight innings in the second-round Wednesday.
Newtown advanc…
After capturing the SWC championship with a 7-4 win over Newtown in the final on Thursday, Joel Barlow has entered the Connecticut Girls Lacrosse Coaches Poll for the first time this season. The Falcons, who tied Newtown for ninth in the voting, join the FCIAC’s New Canaan and SCC’s Guilford as the three conference champs in […]
NEW MILFORD — News flash for anyone looking to compete with the Joel Barlow girls lacrosse team: The Falcons are very happy with defensive battles.
“We love low-scoring games,” Barlow coach Steve Coppock sa…
REDDING — Joel Barlow is 17-0. It is the South-West conference boys’ volleyball champions. It hasn’t given up a set. It isn’t enough.
“We’ve been using the term, job not finished all year,” Barlow coach Kev…
WESTON — Athletes took advantage of competing on the South-West Conference’s biggest stage at the league’s girls track and field championships at Weston High.
The chance for records to fall, personal best t…
REDDING — Some traditions have carried on through these crazy past 15 months, like high school athletes egging on their teammates during press interviews.
So, too, has Weston’s hold on the SWC girls tennis …
New Canaan completed an undefeated regular season and, for the fourth consecutive week, earned all the first-place votes in the Connecticut Girls Lacrosse Coaches Poll. At 15-0, the Rams are the only unbeaten team in Class L, and one of just three undefeated teams in the state: East Lyme in Class M and Old Saybrook […]
With the conference tournaments looming, there was no movement in the latest Connecticut Girls Lacrosse Coaches Poll released on May 17. New Canaan, which defeated CCC power Glastonbury on Saturday, held the No. 1 spot for the third consecutive week. The Rams are honing in on the top seed for both the FCIAC and Class […]
NEWTOWN — There are only a handful of games left this baseball season, and with playoffs looming, teams are fighting for positioning in conference and state tournaments.
As the dust begins to settle in the …
New Canaan tightened its grip on the No. 1 spot, while Newtown scored two key SWC wins and entered at No. 9 in the latest Connecticut Girls Lacrosse Coaches Poll. New Canaan (10-0) defeated No. 2 Darien for the second time this season, 10-9 in OT, and is unbeaten through 10 games. There was no […]
Ben Mason, a former standout fullback at Newtown High and the University of Michigan, has been dreaming about playing in the NFL all his life. On Saturday, that dream came true. The Baltimore Ravens drafted Mason with the No. 184 pick overall in the fifth round, kicking off the next phase of Mason’s football career. […]
Staples at Darien, Friday, 4 p.m.: The Wreckers, who lost to Wilton on Wednesday, face another challenge against defending FCIAC and Class L champion Darien.
Guilford a…
Daniel Hand at Cheshire, Friday, 6 p.m.: Two of the SCC’s traditional powers come into this game with matching 3-1 records. Hand has won three straight since a season-opening loss to Ludlowe, while Chesh…
WESTON — In a battle of two young but talented SWC boys lacrosse teams, little things might make a difference.
Newtown thought it made a few mistakes. Weston thought it brought something that’d been lacking…
After nearly two years on the shelf, baseball is back! And so is the GameTimeCT Top 10 poll. With little information to go on because of the lost 2020 season, voters were content to pitch their ballots for the usual suspects in this year’s preseason rankings. Voting in any preseason poll is an inexact science […]
Hailey Best won three events and took home all-around honors with a score of 36.6 to lead New Milford to the South-West Conference girls’ gymnastics championship. It was the second consecutive title, and eighth in the last 10 years for coach Bethany Mihaly. New Milford posted a score of 134.3. Pomperaug, led by Alaina Karp […]
WEST HAVEN — Knowing it was the last game of his high school career, Bethel/Brookfield/Danbury’s Kyle Boller was not going to let an opportunity slip away.
Scoring twice and adding two assists, Boller led t…
NEW FAIRFIELD — Having seen a double-digit lead slowly slip away in the fourth quarter, it was a welcome sight for Newtown coach Jeremy O’Connell to see senior Julia Gerace step to the free-throw line up by two points with…
NEWTOWN — You could easily hear Newtown boys basketball coach Tim Tallcouch yell out one specific word in the relatively quiet Nighthawks’ gymnasium Monday night.
“Help!”
That specific instr…
GameTimeCT · Newtown AD Matthew Memoli joins the show Matt Memoli played baseball at Shelton before becoming a coach and then an athletic director. He has seen almost every in and out in high school sports. Memoli joined the GameTimeCT podcast to talk about working as the Newtown athletic director during the COVID-19 pandemic. He […]
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 […]
When the first images were sent back of smiling school children in South Africa playing soccer wearing Nonnewaug jerseys, athletic director Declan Curtin could not have been prouder.
When the pictures of th…
