Connecticut's premier high school sports website
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…
SCC South Division TOURNAMENT BRACKET Sign up for the GameTimeCT newsletter North Division TOURNAMENT BRACKET FCIAC TOURNAMENT BRACKET
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…
Fine performances
Kacy Adams, Notre Dame-Fairfield: Made 45 saves in Fairfield Prep’s 3-1 win.
Noah Behrens-Gould, Hall/Southington: Made 33 saves in a 5-4 win over the East Haven co-op.
…
EAST HAVEN — It wasn’t anything close to a defensive masterpiece on either side, but Guilford just keeps on rolling.
The Indians (7-2, winners of five straight, and on top of the CIAC Division II standings) continued to play ba…
The 2018 GameTimeCT All-State Girls Soccer Team. Compiled by Joe Morelli. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media, McKenzie Sullivan photo from the Journal-Inquirer and Meadow Mancini photo from Watertown girls soccer. Designed by Pete Paguaga. FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Player of the Year Jessica Mazo St. Joseph Stats: Finished with 17 goals and 12 assists fot the […]
The 2018 All-Pequot League Football Teams. Players of the Year SASSACUS: TOBEY CALLENDER, Haddam-Killingworth UNCAS: JULIEN RIVAS, Stafford/Somers/East Windsor Coach of the Year BRIAN MAZZONE, Stafford/Somers/East Windsor Ted Netcoh Award LUCIANO DUFFY, Old Saybrook/Westbrook Sassacus Offense QB–Bryce Karstetter, Cromwell/Portland QB–JP Nye, Morgan RB–Tobey Callender, Haddam-Killingworth RB–Nick Braga, Valley Regional/Old Lyme WR — Jason O’Brien, Valley Regional/Old […]
CLINTON — Morgan girls’ soccer coach Steve Sullivan called it the longest 25 minutes of his life.
He probably was exaggerating a bit, but the Shoreline Conference champions withstood fierce pressure to beat fellow Shoreline Conference rival No…
MILFORD — North Branford may not have gotten a chance to play on its home field one final time this season, but the Thunderbirds still got the desired result in a one-and-done postseason format.
Caitlin May’s first-half goal stood up for No. 1…
CLINTON — Whenever fierce Shoreline Conference field hockey rivals Westbrook and North Branford get together, it’s usually a tough defensive struggle and the trend continued on Friday in the Shoreline Conference tournament final.
Both defenses…
Familiar rivals get together as the North Branford field hockey team faces off with Westbrook in the Shoreline Conference tournament championship game Thursday at Indian River Complex in Clinton at 7:30 p.m., in an event that showcases some of…
It has been an interesting season for Old Saybrook.
When coach Mandy Tuthill decided to step down after the third game of the season due to personal reasons, the Rams were 1-2 and without a head coach.
Former Old Saybrook player Nancy Gatta st…
North Branford goalkeeper Allie Augur missed the last Shoreline Conference game with what head coach Pat Kozloski is calling “a lower body injury.” Kozloski would not be more specific when asked, but did say Augur, a senior headed to Boston College next season, should be back in action this week. “She doesn’t want to sit […]
BRANFORD — It had been 33 years since Branford and North Branford last met on the gridiron and not much was different Friday night than the last time the two teams met.
Branford dominated from the opening kickoff and took a 42-12 victory over …
Week 3: North Branford (1-1) at Branford (2-0), 7 p.m. BRANFORD – The border war is back, at least for one night only. It took one school’s closing, another program halfway across the state dropping its varsity team and a game of schedule musical chairs for the Branford and North Branford football teams to finally […]
NORTH BRANFORD — The Old Lyme girls soccer team has owned the Shoreline Conference for years.
The Wildcats not only have dominated the regular season, but also won four straight tournament titles. Then North Branford derailed Old Lyme’s drive …
NORTH BRANFORD — Save for a brief stint as a lineman when he was 11-years old, basketball has always been Nick Wright’s thing, not football. He averaged 9.2 points per game as a junior, helping Cromwell’s boys basketball team win a state championship last winter. But as Wright made insane grabs and jukes over and […]
Vitals COACH — MARK BASIL (17th year, 116-58) CONFERENCE — Pequot Sassacus PLAYOFF CLASS — S (252 boys enrollment) HOME — Colafati Field, North Branford 2017 RECORD — 4-6 2018 OPENER — Sept. 7 at Granby Memorial, 7 p.m. TEAM WEBSITE — Maxpreps Top Players NICK MANCINI, Sr. RB/LB (5-10, 190) COLBY ANASTASIO, Sr. OL/DL (6-0, […]
NORTH BRANFORD — There was a time, albeit a brief one, when Allie Augur actually played the forward position on the soccer pitch. But that was still when she was in elementary school and the sport was relatively new to her. The other position Augur tried was goalkeeper – the position Augur both fell in […]
Three state girls soccer players were named to The American Family Insurance ALL-USA Preseason Girls Soccer Team last week. They are: Allie Augur, North Branford, goalkeeper, senior (committed to Boston College) Kacey Lawrence, Masuk, forward, junior (committed to Michigan) Jessica Mazo, St. Joseph, midfielder, senior (committed to UConn)
So the East Haven and Branford football teams won’t be playing twice after all this fall. Both teams will instead pick up a team in the Pequot Conference. Branford will host North Branford in week 3 on Sept. 21 while East Haven will play at Coginchaug in week 9 on Nov. 2. These moves transpired […]
It’s only fitting that the lone team to post an undefeated record would finish atop the final edition of the GameTimeCT/Register Top 10 poll. Masuk finished off its season in style, rolling through the Class L tournament en route to its fourth state championship in school history and first under coach Leigh Barone. Masuk completed […]
STRATFORD — Ball possession, balanced scoring and physical play combined to give New Fairfield the edge it needed against North Branford in the CIAC girls lacrosse Class S semifinals on Tuesday.
Turnovers didn’t help the Thunderbirds’ cause ei…
NORTH BRANFORD — It’s been a struggle lately for Sydney Senerchia.
Certainly not on the mound, where she’s been amongst the state’s best all season, but at the plate.
That changed Friday afternoon when Senerchia hit a rocket off the bottom of …
