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It has been almost two years but softball is back, and the GameTimeCT Top 10 Poll along with it. There are many unknowns entering this season after a lost 2020 spring, but that hasn’t stopped the voters from gathering whatever information they could to rank the top teams in 2021. But, like every other sports […]
After nearly two years on the shelf, baseball is back! And so is the GameTimeCT Top 10 poll. With little information to go on because of the lost 2020 season, voters were content to pitch their ballots for the usual suspects in this year’s preseason rankings. Voting in any preseason poll is an inexact science […]
Senior guard Sarah Ericson scored 20 points, had seven rebounds and two steals to lead Norwich Free Academy to a 57-33 victory over Waterford in the ECC Southern Division championship game Thursday at NFA. It was NFA’s second-consecutive ECC title after winning last year’s Division I championship. NFA, the No. 1-ranked team in the GameTimeCT Top […]
Zeth Nolda has been hired as Waterford’s next football coach, the school announced in a press release Monday morning. He replaces John Strecker, who retired in January after spending six years as head coach and 25 with the program. A Waterford alumnus, Nolda had served as an assistant under Landry for five seasons. Prior to […]
If there is a high school hockey season in Connecticut, it appears it will go off without the Eastern Connecticut Eagles. “Unfortunately, since we are a co-op and the ECC has decided that there will be no winter co-op sports, we will not be allowed to participate even if the CIAC puts something together,” Eagles […]
Jared Burrows of Waterford has been named the 2019-20 Gatorade Connecticut Baseball Player of the Year. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. Gatorade had announced earlier this spring that it would continue to acknowledge student-athletes even […]
High school teams and organizations across the state have come up with some creative ways to stay together while still practicing social distancing over the past few weeks. Here are some of our favorites. If you’d to share a video from your team or school did, please let us know @gametimect on Twitter or Instagram. […]
The score stays 2-0 as the time runs out and the Wildcat’s are CONFERENCE CHAMPS!!! #cthk #bannersznnn pic.twitter.com/zCaycCrh19 — Wildcats Hockey (@WildcatsPuck) March 6, 2020 Behind junior goalie Cam Begley’s 19-save shutout, Suffield/Granby/Windsor Locks defeated Tri-Town 2-0 Thursday night at Champions Skating Center in Cromwell to win the Nutmeg Hockey Conference championship. Senior Tyler Gazdik, […]
The 2020 Eastern Connecticut Conference Girls Basketball tournaments will tip off Wednesday, Feb. 19 with play-in games and conclude with the championship games on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at Mohegan Sun. The quarterfinals will be held Thursday, Feb. 20 at the sites of the higher seeds and the semifinals Feb. 22 at Norwich Free Academy. No. […]
TRUMBULL — The scholastic basketball season is under way and it is time to reshuffle the deck. But that doesn’t mean that Waterford and Trumbull didn’t have a few cards left up their sleeves when they met Friday night.
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Warrior Mentality
Windsor finished as the second-best team in the Register/GameTimeCT Top 10 poll last year. The starting backcourt, Corey McKeithan and Amir Spears, returns as the state’s best. The Warrior…
The 2019 CIAC Football Playoffs begin Wednesday, Dec. 4 (after a postponement due to weather) with quarterfinal rounds at the sites of the higher seeds. They will continue with semifinals Monday, Dec. 9 at sites of the higher seeds, and conclude Saturday, Dec. 14 at either Trumbull’s McDougall Stadium, or Veterans Stadium at Willowbrook […]
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 […]
Nurse 4 yd TD for Killingly. Take 15 7 lead opening possession 3rd over wtfd #cthsfb pic.twitter.com/0NsY9elYg4 — Joe Morelli (@nhrJoeMorelli) December 10, 2019 WATERFORD – It took almost a half for Killingly to get its offense going. Once it did, there was no stopping the Redhawks and its sophomore tailback. Jack Sharpe rushed for […]
The 2019 CIAC Class M football semifinal preview capsules. Compiled by Pete Paguaga. Written by Pete Paguaga. Update: Monday, Dec. 9 The Weston-Rockville semifinal has been moved to Simsbury High School due to weather. 2019 CIAC PLAYOFF SCOREBOARD / SCHEDULE More semifinals previews: CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS S All games Monday, Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m. […]
Photo gallery courtesy of The Day of New London WATERFORD – How often do you see a high school football team put together two 17-play drives in the same game – or better yet, in the same postseason game? Waterford managed to do it twice on Wednesday night in its Class M state quarterfinal. The […]
The 2019 CIAC Class M football quarterfinal preview capsules. Compiled by Pete Paguaga. Written by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley. 2019 CIAC PLAYOFF SCOREBOARD / SCHEDULE More quarterfinal previews: CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS S All games Wednesday, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. ♦♦♦ No. 8 SMSA/University/Classical at No. 1 Rockville WHERE –Weaver High School, Hartford […]
EAST HAVEN — The Seymour volleyball team is comprised of a calm and resilient group of players. Even when they were hit with a curve ball on the way to the state finals, it was coach Cathy Federowicz who got nervous, not her Wildcats. “I saw them this morning, they were very confident, and then […]
CLASS LL
VITALS
When: Saturday, 7 p.m.
Where: East Haven High School
Seeds/Records: No. 8 Trumbull (20-4) vs No. 3 Westhill (23-4)
Tickets: Ad…
WOODBURY — After a close opening-game loss to No. 2 Nonnewaug at Woodbury Middle School Friday evening, No. 11 Waterford jumped on big opening leads in the next three games on their way to a 3-1 (25-27; 25-19; 25-15; 25-18…
[Vitals] COACH — JOHN STRECKER (5th year, 13-27) CONFERENCE — ECC Division II PLAYOFF CLASS — M (430 boys enrollment) HOME — Alumni Field at Waterford HS 2018 RECORD — 3-7 2019 OPENER — Sept. 13 vs. Plainfield, 6 p.m. TEAM WEBSITES — Maxpreps | TWITTER — @lancer_sports1 [Top Players] RYAN BAKKEN, Sr., QB/DB SAM MENDERS, […]
Here is our annual breakdown of state championships by school. This list includes only CIAC sanctioned sports and team championships. It does include both Class and State Open titles. New England and national titles are not included. Here’s a look back at 2017-18 2018-19 state championships by school Bloomfield (7) Football (S) Boys Indoor Track […]
There is no debate: Staples is No. 1. The Wreckers left no doubt with a 3-0 win over Southington in the Class LL championship game Saturday afternoon at Palmer Field. In this postseason, the Wreckers defeated four of the top seven teams in the final GameTimeCT Poll. They beat No. 6 St. Joseph and No. […]
WELCOME BACK to the final 2019 episode of Inside the Circle, GameTimeCT’s high school softball podcast and it’s the end of the road. The season is over. This is the last podcast of the year. The state champions have been crowned with Southington, Masuk, Waterford and Somers (first time!) bringing home CIAC championship plaques and, just yesterday, Masuk […]
They started the season there and ended there. It took Masuk five weeks and a second straight Class L championship to get back to the top of pile, but a 26-1 record was enough for the Panthers to claim the No. 1 spot in the GameTimeCT Top 10 Poll for a second straight time at […]
WEST HAVEN — The 2019 Waterford softball team serves as a perfect example for all high school sports teams how a team can evolve from one that gets clobbered the first week of a season to earning a state title on the final…
MIDDLETOWN—Jared Burrows wanted nothing more than to pitch in the state championship. The Waterford junior got his wish and boy, did he make the most of it. Burrows pitched a complete-game shutout, striking out 10, including the final batter of the game as No. 15 Waterford defeated No. 1 Berlin 1-0 in the CIAC […]
IT’S CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND and welcome to the penultimate Inside the Circle softball podcast from GameTimeCT. Hosts Ryan Lacey and Sean Patrick Bowley — who, of course predicted these matchups all along — take you through just about everything that happened during this week’s semifinal games, including Norwich Free Academy’s pitching adventures in its 4-2 LL victory […]
CLASS LL
NFA VS.
SOUTHINGTON
When: Saturday…
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