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The 2019 GameTimeCT All-State Girls Volleyball team. Compiled by Dave Stewart. Photos by Hearst Connecticut Media. Designed by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. FIRST TEAM ♦♦♦ Player of the Year Paula Hernandez Woodstock Academy, Senior, Outside hitter Stats: The senior racked up 500 kills, 622 digs and 66 aces this fall while […]
DERBY — The Shelton High football team won the battle but lost the war Thursday.
The Gaels beat Derby 35-0 at Ryan Field in front of an estimated crowd of 650 in the 109th meeting between the schools. It wa…
SHELTON — Postseason was the theme Friday evening when Fairfield Prep and Shelton squared off in a heavyweight battle. Despite both teams having down campaigns in the win column by their standards, both the Jesuits and Gae…
WELCOME BACK to a jam-packed episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football talk in Connecticut with hosts Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley and, what a Week 10 it was. No. 1 Hand survives a gutsy effort by Shelton and Pete breaks down the thriller at the Surf Club and the […]
MADISON — It was a game that will be talked about for years to come.
No. 1 Hand coming in unbeaten since Week 2 of the 2017 season against Shelton, the team that beat them on that September night.
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TRUMBULL — Trumbull did its part with a resounding 6-1 victory against Shelton in a Class LL second-round state tournament game at Sebe Gangemi Field on Wednesday. Coach Silverio Vitiello’s Eagles, as the No. 8 seed, in mo…
EAST HAVEN — When it comes to championships this fall, the Southern Connecticut Conference is painted green and white.
Guilford finished off a historical four-day span Saturday night when its girls’ volleyb…
Trailing two games to one in the semifinals of the Southern Connecticut Conference tournament on Thursday, Shelton lost one of its top players to injury in its showdown with Cheshire at Murray Gymnasium. When senior all-SCC selection Reem Abdel-Hack left the match with a lower body injury, game four was tied at 3. From there, […]
WEST HAVEN — The Guilford girls’ soccer team’s strength all season long has been it defense. The Indians posted 10 shutouts during the regular season.
Guilford put up three more stellar defensive performanc…
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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MADISON — Hand boys soccer coach Greg Cumpstone had a few options when junior forward Scott Testori went out of Monday night’s SCC tournament semifinal with a hip flexor injury.
His choice was to move junio…
CHESHIRE — Shelton head coach Marvin Miller gave a pump of his fist when Noelle Garretson put his fourth-seeded Gaels in front of No. 1 Cheshire in their SCC girls soccer semifinal on Monday night. He limited himself to a …
Olivia Dubuc from Sheehan earned the Whitey Piurek Outstanding Female Player Award and Jack Loura from Cheshire earned the Tony Denegri Outstanding Male Player Award from Greater New Haven Soccer Officials Association on Sunday. The Career High girls team (below) took home the Mabel Petersen Female Team Sportsmanship Award following its first varsity season […]
NORTH HAVEN — Shelton’s Tyler Pjatak rushed for a career high 180 yards and five touchdowns on 14 carries as Shelton easily handled North Haven 41-12 in aSCC Tier I contest at Vanacore Field Friday night.
T…
It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.
The Bristol Eastern volleyball team, at least during the regular season, is finishing on top.
The Lancers, who knocked off three-time defendi…
FINE PERFORMANCES
Reem Abdel-Hack, Shelton: Abdel-Hack had 10 kills and 14 blocks as the Gaels knocked off previously-unbeaten Guilford 3-1 on Friday.
Kaitlyn Boland, Warde: The Mustangs’ se…
Welcome back to Uni-Browse. Trinity Catholic/Wright Tech won last week with 53% of the votes cast. This week, we are back on the road with teams sporting white as the visiting team. Vote at the bottom for your favorite uniform, this week. DARIEN Not only did Darien beat Greenwich last weekend, the Blue Wave looked […]
SHELTON — Shelton won a 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-18, 25-15) SCC girls volleyball decision from Jonathan Law at the Vincent J. Murray Gymnasium on Monday, in a match that had both coaches first looking back, and then taking a …
MILFORD — Senior midfielder Haley Oko bagged a hat trick to spark Shelton to a 5-0 Southern Connecticut Conference victory over Lauralton Hall on Friday afternoon in Milford. Oko, an outside right midfielder, opened the scoring three minutes in and the Gaelettes did not slow down in extending their unbeaten streak to eight games. Shelton, which has six victories and two draws since a 1-0 home defeat […]
MIDDLETOWN – Shelton had lots of time during its bye week to contemplate consecutive losses to Cheshire and Newtown. And whether it had the mettle to regain its footing in the Class LL playoff hunt.
The Gae…
SHELTON — Mark Gergely scored two goals and had two assists as Shelton defeated Lyman Hall 4-1 on Senior Night at Finn Stadium on Monday.
“We came out with a rough start to the season with a loss and a tie,…
SHELTON — They were two heavyweight teams throwing punches back and forth in the second half, until Newtown’s defense blocked a couple from Shelton.
Two big stops let the No. 5 Nighthawks take control and r…
SHELTON — The Shelton volleyball team captured a 28-26 decision in the fourth set to close out a 3-1 (25-17, 25-20, 21-25, 28-26) victory over Cheshire in the Vincent J. Murray Gymnasium on Thursday night.
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WELCOME back to an action-packed Week 5 episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of Connecticut high school football talk with hosts Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga. This week the gang revisits No. 2 St. Joseph’s mission statement 58-14 victory over then-No. 9 New Canaan at Dunning Field and wipes the egg off Pete’s […]
Last week’s top-10 matchup was one of two games that changed a few things in this week’s GameTimeCT Top 10 football poll. The other game that changed a few things, well, it nearly deprived us of a top-10 matchup this weekend. Shelton’s loss to Cheshire dropped the Gaels from fifth to, barely, 10th, just a […]
SHELTON — Marvin Miller called it “6 minutes of just superior soccer.” It took less time than that for the Shelton girls soccer team to put up the game’s only three goals.
Haley Oko scored a pair and Noelle…
SHELTON — Shut out in the first half, Cheshire scored two touchdowns in a span of 61 seconds mid-way through the third quarter to take the lead for good in handing 5th-ranked Shelton a 24-12 defeat before about 1,200 at Fi…
SHELTON — Guilford brought a perfect 8-0 record into its match with Shelton on Wednesday night. Shelton was 7-1, with its only loss at the hands of then unbeaten Cheshire.
By the way, Guilford had handed Ch…
A week after Ridgefield’s win over New Canaan shook up last week’s GameTimeCT top 10 and moved the Tigers to No. 8, nothing changed in the top 10 of this week’s poll. Everybody won; everybody stayed where they were, including No. 11 Southington. Right under them, though? That part of the poll got a bit jumbled. […]
