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The 2019 GameTimeCT All-State Field Hockey team. Compiled by Dan Nowak. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media. Designed by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Player of the Year Kyle Kirby Staples, Senior, Midfielder Stats: She was the team’s top scorer with 20 goals and 13 assists. She led the Wreckers to […]
The 2019 All-Pequot Conference Football Teams. Offensive Player of the Year: JAQUAN DUFOUR, Rockville Defensive Player of the Year: SAM ATTIANESE, Granby/Canton Coach of the Year: ERICK KNICKERBOCKER, Rockville Teddy Necoh Award for Perseverance: DAN BELSEN, Windsor Locks OFFENSE QB: Brandon Fratta, North Branford QB: Aaron Faiella, Coginchaug/East Hampton/Hale Ray QB: Jackson Rome, Granby/Canton QB: […]
NORTH BRANFORD – For most of the players in the Coginchaug/Hale-Ray/East Hampton football program, there is stability now that Eric Becker has completed three seasons as head coach. But for those three seniors, they are the last link to some rough times in the Blue Devils’ program before Becker arrived. Those seniors got to go […]
WETHERSFIELD — In the first 12 minutes of the CIAC Class S field hockey championship on Saturday, Granby was being outplayed by North Branford with the Thunderbirds dominating ball possession.
North Branfor…
CLASS L
VITALS
When: Today, 2 p.m.
Where: Wethersfield High
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CHESHIRE — While the North Branford and Immaculate field hockey teams are among the state’s top offensive teams, sometimes getting lost among all the goals is the exceptional defense they play. On Tuesday in the CIAC Class…
North Branford played an thrill-a-minute game Friday. It could have a thrill-a-minute weekend coming up.
The Thunderbirds went back and forth with Morgan, scoring 40 in the second quarter, winning 72-32. Th…
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STAPLES TOUGH IN A TOUGH CLASS L
Class L is loaded with talented teams but the one to beat is still No. 4 seed Staples with its depth and standouts in every phase of th…
CLINTON — A year ago when fierce rivals Westbrook and North Branford met in the Shoreline Conference tournament championship game, it was all Thunderbirds.
The Knights only got inside the 20 yard line four …
BRANFORD — There’s a reason why the North Branford field hockey team finished the regular season unbeaten.
The Thunderbirds have a lot of speed, play great defense and can score with any team in the state.
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Those who know North Branford field hockey coach Babby Nuhn understand she has historically shied away from publicity.
Nuhn prefers to keep herself and her team under the radar. Nuhn bristles even more when…
WESTBROOK — The Westbrook girls field hockey rallied for an improbable comeback Wednesday night as the Koplas sisters helped turn a 2-0 halftime deficit into a 2-2 draw against undefeated North Branford.
Pr…
Olivia Toto had a goal and an assist for the North Branford field hockey team, which defeated Morgan 2-0 Monday in a Shoreline Conference home win.
Ava Galdenzi also scored for the Thunderbirds. Jaime Matth…
To get your team’s games featured, email your postgame boxscores to GameTimeCT@gmail.com KILLINGLY — Jacob Nurse threw two touchdowns in Killingly’s win over Fitch. Nurse tossed a 20-yard touchdown to Josh Heaney with less than eight minutes left to lift Killingly past Fitch. Heaney caught two touchdown passes in the win. Jackson Lopes scored […]
Nine people will be inducted into The New Haven Tap-Off Club Hall of Fame on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Amarante’s Sea Cliff in New Haven. The inductees are as follows: Megan Rooney Borelli, a former three-sport, Register All-Area standout standout at Guilford, who went on to coach girls basketball at both Guilford and Hamden Hall […]
WOODBRIDGE — This is a story about Faith, Love and Hope and how they have contributed to the Amity field hockey team’s 5-1 start this season (not including Tuesday’s game with North Haven).
It could easily …
CROMWELL – The first five minutes for North Branford were a bear. Cromwell/Portland took advantage of a pass coverage mismatch to score on its opening drive, and, after picking off quarterback Brandon Fratta on the Thunderbirds’ first play from scrimmage, the Panthers got into the end zone again two plays later for a 14-point lead. […]
NORTH BRANFORD — The North Branford football team finished with a disappointing 2018 season with a 2-8 record and kicked off 2019 with a disappointing 27-21 loss to SMSA/University/Classical.
On Saturday, t…
The following are 25 high school field hockey players to watch this season in Connecticut. The list includes players representing CIAC schools and is in alphabetical order.
Tessa Albrecht, Norwalk, Jr., F: …
[Vitals] COACH — MARK BASIL (18th year, 118-66) CONFERENCE — Pequot PLAYOFF CLASS — S (239 boys enrollment) HOME — Colafati Field, North Branford 2018 RECORD — 2-8 2019 OPENER — Sept. 12 at SMSA/University/Classical, 6 p.m. TEAM WEBSITES — Maxpreps [Top Players] TYLER DINAPOLI, Jr., RB (5-11, 195) NATE RAYMOND, Sr., WR/DB (6-1, 182) BRANDON […]
This November, the CIAC will crown champions in boys soccer for the 20th time this century. In that time, 45 schools have claimed state titles in Classes S, M, L and LL, including years where co-championships were earned. Five schools, Farmington, East Catholic, Brookfield, Barlow and Avon have won titles in two different classes. Here […]
Welcome to the Long-Stick Podcast: State Playoff Edition. Based on Wilton’s 4-3 upset over No. 1 Darien in the FCIAC semifinals alone, it was a pretty insane league championship week in boys lacrosse. It settled down, somewhat, with New Fairfield’s dominant SWC title victory and Fairfield Prep’s SCC championship, which were sandwiched around New Canaan’s […]
WELCOME BACK to another episode of Inside the Circle, your weekly audio dose of Connecticut high school softball. It’s the long awaited STATE PLAYOFF edition, where hosts Ryan Lacey and Sean Patrick Bowley look back at the week’s conference championship games and see what they tell us about how the state tournaments will play out. Ryan […]
The Darien Blue Wave and New Canaan Rams girls lacrosse teams are no strangers to big games against difficult opponents.
When it came time to play each other Saturday, there was an added buzz in the air — a…
Fine performances
Wes Carpenter, Ridgefield: Scored four goals, including the last-minute game-winner, and had two assists in the Tigers’ 12-11 win over Yorktown (N.Y.).
Beckett Cashman, Gra…
FINE PERFORMANCES Mia Carbone, Mercy: Carbone racked up seven goals to lead the Tigers past Haddam-Killingworth 19-5 on Monday. Jane Charlton, New Canaan: Charlton racked up six goals and one assist as No. 2 New Canaan came from behind to defeat No. 3 Wilton, 11-6, on Tuesday. Carlee Crispens, Sheehan: The senior co-captain scored five […]
EAST HAVEN — North Branford junior Kayla Despres had never played in a game as long as the one she would partake in Saturday afternoon.
With four hits, including a clutch run-scoring double in the top of th…
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At the midpoint of its season, a 9-3 loss to Branford on Jan. 23, North Branford’s boys hockey team had a nothing-special record of 2-7-1 and had lost six in a row.
The Thunderbirds wiped that out, at least…
