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WEST HAVEN — When two bitter rivals meet, records can be thrown out the window. When they share the same rink, the emotions are higher.
For 45 minutes, both the West Haven and Notre Dame-West Haven hockey t…
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Madison Andrews, Stamford/Westhill/Staples: Andrews scored four goals as SWS snapped a four-game…
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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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…
WEST HAVEN — Friday’s city boys basketball rivalry had a similar feel — and outcome — to the first matchup three weeks ago.
Notre Dame-West Haven led comfortably for much of this game, yet couldn’t put West…
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 — With a five-game losing streak in hand, Jared Pliszka and the West Haven hockey team had the perfect remedy. A contest against arch-rival Hamden was sure to get the Westies going.
Behind 28 sav…
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…
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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…
WRECKERS READY
After a loss opening night to Bethel, the Staples girls basketball team caught fire, winning eight in a row until losing 44-40 to Trumbull, Friday night.
The game before Trumb…
WEST HAVEN — Ty Sullivan knows full well the importance of his West Haven High boys basketball team faring well in this stretch of games.
With a loss to Amistad in its rear-view mirror, and games next week …
MILFORD — Elena Petrie is just one of the West Haven gang.
Petrie, a sophomore forward, stepped out of the shadows with a five-point scoring splurge midway through the fourth quarter when West Haven won a 3…
Being a defending champion comes with it’s own unique challenges.
When you’re beset with injuries and illnesses, and face a difficult schedule to open a new season, those challenges are magnified.
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Caitlyn Caldon, ETB: Caldon amassed 35 saves and allowed just one goal to help ETB tie the Amity co-op, 1-1, on Jan. 4 at Astorino Rink in Hamden. For the season, Caldon has a 1.49 goals agai…
14 high school basketball players from Connecticut schools were nominated for the McDonalds All-American Games. Nominated girls Shamaria King, Watkinson School Megan Landsiedel, Stamford Maranda Nyborg, Bethel Sara Wohlgemuth, Hand Nominated boys Periklis Basimakopoulos, Shelton Justice Ellison, Windsor Brian Geitner, Tolland Matt Knowling, East Catholic Zach Laput, Notre Dame-West Haven Corey McKeithan, Windsor Guy Ragland, […]
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…
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Demeri Carangelo, Hamden/Wilbur Cross/Sheehan/Lyman Hall: Carangelo passed a career milestone as she notched her 100th career point in the Hamden’s 6-1 victory over Daniel Hand on Dec. 23. Ca…
A 6-0 start, including a tournament win in Massachusetts, has Notre Dame-West Haven atop the GameTimeCT boys hockey top 10 poll in Week 4 of the season. The Green Knights, runner-up to Fairfield Prep last year, have three in-state wins in addition to their win in the CM Christmas Tournament. They’ll make two trips into […]
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…
WEST HAVEN — Notre Dame-West Haven’s boys basketball team faced, perhaps, its biggest test of the young season when it played host to crosstown rival West Haven and its new coach Ty Sullivan. Despite missing its starting and backup forward, which allowed Notre Dame to just about have its way inside for most of the […]
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., […]
For three games to start the season, the West Haven hockey team made things look easy, outscoring its opponents by 17 goals.
Things were different Saturday afternoon.
Facing a St. Joseph tea…
NEW HAVEN — With the boys basketball season starting a week later than last year, plenty of clubs are still working out the kinks as we turn for the new decade.
Kolbe Cathedral coach John Pfohl said it hims…
ROPE-A-DOPE
Many teams that begin their season 0-2, 1-4 and 3-6 can make plans elsewhere for mid-March. Not Fairfield Prep, which could trademark its way of building and teaching an inexperienced team, test…
The Connecticut Division I boys hockey championship does not always go to the Catholic schools, nor to the FCIAC powers in the southwest corner of the state, but that’s the way to bet. In particular, the way to bet is Fairfield Prep, winner of 11 out of the past 20 titles under coach Matt Sather, […]
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NEW CANAAN-DARIEN DOMINANCE
The two FCIAC rivals have accounted for 11 state championships in the 14 years since the Connecticut High School Girls Hockey Coaches Associat…
FAIRFIELD — Sean Nelson ran for three touchdowns, leading Fairfield Prep to a 28-0 win over West Haven Thursday morning at Rafferty Stadium.
Nelson finished with 118 yards, including a 38-yard run on the se…
The New Haven Gridiron Club is accepting reservations for its annual announcement of the Levi Jackson Team on Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Cascade Banquet Facility in Hamden. Also being feted will be leading college players from the University of New Haven, Southern Connecticut State University and Yale. The Jackson Team honors the memory of […]
