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PORTLAND — Before Valley Regional coach Kevin Woods could praise his own players, who had just delivered his 200th career win, he had to send his regards to the coach he opposed Monday night.
“I have to jus…
CLINTON — The spark came from senior center Rob Zirlis, who got the ball in the post, peeled off his Valley Regional defender with a drop step and threw down an uncontested dunk for Morgan’s first bucket Saturday.
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Saying the two sides have come to “an understanding,” Region 4 school district has rescinded its request for Valley Regional/Old Lyme coach Tim King’s resignation, superintendent Brian J. White announced in a joint statement with King Monday night. King, a physical education teacher and Valley’s football coach since 1997, had been asked by White to resign […]
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY First Team Kaylee Gravel, Jr., East Hampton Isabel Berardino, So., Haddam-Killingworth Savannah Garcia, So., East Hampton Caitlin Wiley, Jr., Old Saybrook Catherine Minegar, So., Old Saybrook Jessica Starr, Jr., East Hampton Grace Mikan, So., Cromwell Ava DiMatteo, Jr., Haddam-Killingworth Carlina Castro, Fr., Old Saybrook Madeleine Morgado, So., Old Lyme Second Team Kathy […]
The 2020 Shoreline Conference girls basketball tournament will tip off Thursday, Feb. 20 with play-in games and conclude Friday, Feb. 28 with the championship at Old Saybrook. The quarterfinals will be held Saturday, Feb. 22 at sites of the higher seeds and the semifinals will be Tuesday, Feb. 25 at Coginchaug. Cromwell is the four-time […]
It hasn’t been easy for Fairfield Prep in its first nine games, winning just three, but last week’s performances at home could help jumpstart its season. First, the Jesuits hung tough with fourth-ranked Notre Dame-West Haven 48-47. Three days later, also at Alumni Hall, Prep stunned then fifth-ranked Hillhouse 53-50. LATEST BOYS BASKETBALL TOP 10: […]
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: […]
HIGGANUM — Having started the season with a woeful 2-5 record, Valley Regional/Old Lyme football turned its season around by winning its final three games, including a 20-2 win over Haddam-Killingworth on Tuesday.
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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…
CLINTON — If one were to look at the Valley Regional girls’ volleyball team’s regular season 7-13 record, it would have been easy to write them off when it came to tournament time.
Yet improbably, No. 6 see…
CLINTON — Neither of Friday’s participants in the Shoreline Conference girls soccer tournament final qualified for last year’s field. In fact, both teams finished below .500.
Both teams pulled seeded upsets…
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 […]
STAFFORD – It was an emotional week for the Stafford/East Windsor/Somers football program. The death of coach Brian Mazzone’s father, Gary Mazzone, in Wednesday’s B-17 crash at Bradley Airport weighed heavy on the players hearts. “I told these guys that I worried that they felt they were going to have to win for me,” […]
OLD LYME — Third-year Coginchaug Co-Op coach Erik Becker couldn’t have expected a better present on his 42nd birthday: A convincing 39-14 victory over Valley Regional/Old Lyme, consistently one of the Pequot League’s best, at Old Lyme’s James Gardner Field Saturday. Coginchaug and its various co-ops had never beaten Valley its 10 years as a […]
[Vitals] COACH — TIM KING (22nd year, 148-87) CONFERENCE — Pequot PLAYOFF CLASS — M (Co-op) HOME — Richard B. Blythe Field, Deep River 2018 RECORD — 7-2 2019 OPENER — Sept. 13 vs. Morgan, 6:30 p.m. TEAM WEBSITES — Maxpreps | TWITTER — @Defend_TheHill [Top Players] JACK COX, Jr., QB BRIAN RANKIN, Sr., WR/DB COLBY […]
The the latest Top 10 GameTimeCT softball poll remained largely unchanged as conference championship season got underway. The top six — St. Joseph, Masuk, Trumbull, South Windsor, Cheshire and North Haven — remained in their places as all survived the week without a loss. All 10 teams from last week remained in the poll. NOTEBOOK: […]
It was a much more straight forward week for the No. 1 team in the state. For the second week in a row No. 1 St. Joseph collected every single first-place vote to remain. The Cadets breezed through the comfortable part of their FCIAC schedule to improve to 18-0 this spring. St. Joseph is once […]
Haddam-Killingworth scored two runs in the second inning and they held up, and right-hander Jon Civiello notched his fourth win of the season in the Cougars’ 2-1 victory over host Cromwell at Fran Monnes Field on Thursday….
In the space of just a few hours on Wednesday afternoon, West Haven went from hunters to the hunted.
And suddenly the Blue Devils are in a position to compete for postseason hardware.
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OLD LYME — Jared Ritchie ripped down a rebound, turned and fired a pass to Aedean Using, who took three dribbles then hit a breaking Raymond Doll downcourt for an uncontested layup with just more than a minute left in the first half of Tuesday’s Shoreline Conference semifinal game. The trio of Old Lyme juniors […]
The Shoreline boys basketball tournament will begin Saturday, Feb. 23 with quarterfinals at the higher seeds. The semifinals will be on Tuesday, Feb. 26, also at the sites of the higher seeds. The championship will be Friday, March 1, 7 p.m. at Polson Middle School in Madison. Sign up for the GameTimeCT newsletter East Hampton is […]
Day 3 brings us to Super Saturday in girls basketball with a full slate of conference tournament games. Let’s go! BERKSHIRE LEAGUE No. 8 Wamogo at No. 1 Housatonic Regional: HOUSATONIC No. 5 Lewis Mills at No. 4 Nonnewaug: NONNEWAUG No. 7 Shepaug Valley at No. 2 Northwestern: NORTHWESTERN No. 6 Thomaston at No. 3 […]
SWC Tournament KOLBE CATHEDRAL 53, WESTON 27 BRIDGEPORT — Gracen Kerr scored a game-high 16 points to lead Kolbe Cathedral over Weston, 53-27, in the quarterfinals of the SWC girls basketball tournament Friday night at the Shehan Center. Brianna Meekins added 12 points for the third-seeded Cougars (18-3), who will play at second-seeded Newtown in […]
Cromwell beats Valley 42-36 to advance to 16-0!! #ctbb pic.twitter.com/z78Ty1hO4n — CHS Sports (@_CHS_Sports_) February 6, 2019 DEEP RIVER – Cromwell coach John Pinone finally got his wish. After 16 lopsided wins, the Panthers had to fight their way out of Valley Regional’s gym to remain unbeaten. Nothing came easy for either team Tuesday night. […]
Sign up for GameTimeCT’s free Newsletter and get boys basketball news sent to your inbox FINE PERFORMANCES Derrick Tenney, Wethersfield: Poured in 51 points, a school record, and grabbed 15 rebounds in Wethersfield’s 90-84 victory in overtime against Bloomfield. Dev Ostrowski, East Lyme: Scored 41 points, including the 2,000th of his career, to help East […]
When Taniyah Thompson of Hamden scored her 1,000th career point midway through her junior season, the record was in sight.
Midway through her senior season, it is hers.
Friday against Career…
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 […]
DEEP RIVER – Trailing by 13 with under a minute left in the Principal’s Cup Thanksgiving week game vs. rival Haddam-Killingworth, Valley Regional/Old Lyme went to the deepest part of its playbook. Quarterback Nico Santos hit Jason O’Brien with a 7-yard hitch, O’Brien then lateraled the ball to a streaking Nick Braga, who ran the […]
DEEP RIVER — Valley Regional/Old Lyme had the play. It had the open receiver and, with a good throw, it was going to at least tie Pequot Sassacus rival Cromwell/Portland and send the game into a second overtime. Throwing proved difficult all night for the Warriors, whose regular quarterback, Ryan Santos, had been hobbled with […]
