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The 2020 GameTimeCT All-State Girls Hockey team. Compiled by Dave Stewart. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media. Designed by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Skater of the Year Catherine Martin Darien, Junior, Defenseman Stats: Helped lead a Wave defense which allowed just 21 goals and pitched eight shutouts in 19 games […]
HAMDEN — Down the stretch in the fourth quarter of the CIAC Class L Second Round game, there was no codebreaking necessary to pick up on the plays being called by Pomperaug.
“1-Villa, 2-Villa, 3-Villa,” sho…
FORWARDS Kori Bartko (Avon), Nora Birmingham (Ellington), Demeri Carangelo (Hamden), Maddie Epke (Guilford), Kaleigh Harden (New Canaan), Nelle Kniffin (Darien), Meghan Lane (Wilton), Grace Melanson (Simsbury), Taylor Nowak (West Haven). DEFENSEMEN Tess Csejka (Amity), Shelby Little (Avon), Catherine Martin (Darien), Brooke McNabola (West Haven), Sydney Orszulak (Greenwich), Julia Swanson (East Catholic). GOALIES Caitlyn Caldon (South […]
FIRST ROUND Monday, March 2 No. 7 EAST CATHOLIC/GLASTONBURY/SOUTH WINDSOR (ETB) 1, No. 10 WEST HAVEN/SHA 0 WHSHA 0 0 0 – 0 ETB 0 0 1 – 1 ETB: Mary McKiernan 1g. Saves: WH – Hannah Davey 22; ETB – Caitlyn Caldon 34. No. 5 SUFFIELD CO-OP 4, No. 12 NOTRE DAME-FAIRFIELD CO-OP 0 NDFF […]
FINE PERFORMANCES
Caitlyn Caldon, East Catholic/Glastonbury/South Windsor (ETB): The senior goalie was once again solid as she collected 29 saves in a 1-0 victory over the Avon co-op on Friday. Caldon also …
When New Canaan won FCIAC and state championships last winter, it may have seemed like a familiar sight. In reality, it hadn’t happened in a while for the Rams, who had last won a conference title in 2012, and last took th…
NORTH HAVEN — North Haven and Jonathan Law were certainly familiar with each other.
After all, the two teams had played each other twice in the last seven days.
Just four days after North Ha…
It’s safe to say that New Canaan’s Kaleigh Harden isn’t using Google Maps to find her way up and down the ice. If something is on her route, she’s simply coming through.
“She’s just absolutely fearless,” Ne…
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Madison Andrews, Stamford/Westhill/Staples: Andrews scored four goals as SWS snapped a four-game…
FINE PERFORMANCES
Caitlyn Caldon, East Catholic/Glastonbury/South Windsor (ETB): Caldon, ETB’s senior goalie, collected 27 saves in a 4-3 win over West Haven/SHA at Bennett Rink on Saturday. ETB has won six…
NEW LOOK NEW LONDON
During its recent run of success, the New London girls basketball teams have all had a mix of size inside, crafty guards up top and depth off the bench.
That formula has …
BRIDGEPORT — Guilford trailed early and greatly Friday at Webster Bank Arena, but the Indians’ girls hockey team had a few key things going for it. One, the Indians had rebounded from a similar deficit to win last weekend….
West Haven/SHA coach Erin Blake affectionately refers to Taylor Nowak, Megan Froehlich and Jianna Cohrs as her “Conehead Line,” a nod to the 1980 US men’s hockey team and the movie “Miracle.”
For opposing d…
TOP PERFORMERS
Caitlyn Caldon, East Catholic/Glastonbury/South Windsor (ETB): Caldon, a senior, stopped all 20 shots she faced as ETB blanked defending state champion New Canaan, 2-0, on Sunday at the Newin…
DARIEN — New Canaan’s Rich Bulan reached a coaching milestone with his 500th career victory on Monday night.
Few of the first 499 could have been much wilder.
Kaleigh Harden whipped in a goa…
HAMDEN — All-Staters Maky Johnson and Taniyah Thompson, who starred for Hamden during last year’s run to an SCC championship and the Class LL semifinals are gone, now, off playing Division I girls basketball at Albany and East Carolina, respectively. But Hamden still has spunky point guard Asya Brandon to direct this relatively new cast […]
WEST HAVEN — First-year Sacred Heart Academy head coach Jason Kirck has a young squad. Youth does not matter when a team is poised.
For Kirck and his team, that poise came through down the stretch Friday ev…
WEST HAVEN — The West Haven-Sacred Heart Academy and Hall-Conard girls hockey teams have gotten quite familiar with each other this week, playing for the second time which yielded nearly identical results as West Haven-SHA…
High school and prep hockey will help open the three-day Connecticut Ice weekend event at Bridgeport’s Webster Bank Arena on Friday, Jan. 24. Guilford’s girls hockey team meets West Haven/Sacred Heart Academy at 4:15 p.m. to begin the evening. The boys prep school game follows at 6:15, Westminster against Loomis Chaffee. And at 8:45 p.m., […]
MILFORD — Sacred Heart Academy used a third quarter run to gain some separation from Law, then held on for a 45-39 girls basketball victory in the Jonathan Law Holiday Classic at the James Richetelli Sr. Gymnasium on Friday afternoon. The Sharks, who improved to 4-0 overall, led 17-16 at the half. They ripped off a 12-0 run, ignited by […]
SHELTON — The quest for its first Southern Connecticut Conference girls volleyball title since 2010 got off to a roaring start for Shelton at Murray Gymnasium against visiting Sacred Heart Academy on Tuesday night.
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After a slow start in the first half of the season, the West Haven volleyball team knew it had to take everything one step at a time. Those steps are on the verge of leading to a postseason berth.
Behind a …
FINE PERFORMANCES
Emma Appleman, Guilford: The team captain had 49 kills and 24 digs over three matches, as the Indians defeated Shelton, defending Class LL champion Amity, and East Haven, all 3-0, during t…
Ella Babashak, Wilton: A senior, Babashak produced first-place finishes in the 100-meter butterfly (1:06.94) and the 400-meter freestyle (4:38.46) for the Warriors, which defeated Staples, 107-79.
Nora Berg…
WALLINGFORD — Deshaune Poole of Hillhouse and Meredith Bloss of Guilford have been dominant in their events in the SCC over the years and that dominance continued at the Southern Connecticut Conference boys and girls track…
Welcome Ray Degnan to the SHA Athletic family! He will take over for SHA’s beloved Mr. Bedocs next year as SHA’s AD! Coach Bedocs is re-retiring after 48 years in education! The Athletic department wishes him much health and happiness! #SHAsharks pic.twitter.com/ZmEcZNqaxb — SHA Athletics (@SHA_Sharks) May 10, 2019 Raymond Degnan III will become Sacred […]
Congratulations to Coach Redding and the Track & Field team on their 1st ever SCC West title! Making SHA proud!! #cttrack #SHAsharks pic.twitter.com/12rex5EiMH — SHA Athletics (@SHA_Sharks) May 15, 2019 NEW HAVEN — Aliya Cameron won the 100-meter hurdles and the triple jump to help the Sacred Heart Academy track team win its first SCC […]
Jason Kirck was content to remain as an assistant varsity boys basketball coach at his alma mater, Notre Dame-West Haven.
He wasn’t seeking to leave to become a head coach again until recently, when the gir…
HAMDEN — For years growing up, Kayla Cameron and her younger twin sisters Aliya Cameron and Meaghan Cameron competed in youth gymnastics.
They loved the sport, but Kayla Cameron wanted to do something diffe…
