Class M champion Sacred Heart-Waterbury, which won its third consecutive state title, was named the No. 1 team in The Courant final state high school boys basketball ratings on Monday, and Class L winner East Catholic-Manchester was No. 1 in the area ratings. Sacred Heart routed Notre Dame-Fairfield,...
UNCASVILLE — Nine seconds into the game, Mustapha Heron hit a three-pointer. "When I made the shot, I knew it was going to be rolling," he said. Powered by 32 points from the incomparable Heron, Sacred Heart trampled Notre Dame-Fairfield 101-49 in the Class M boys basketball championship game Saturday...
Chaylyn Martin's late block in a Class LL semifinal against Fairfield Prep on Wednesday night will forever be a part of Weaver basketball lore. That's impressive for someone who was cut from his AAU 10-and-under team by his current coach at Weaver, Reggie Hatchett. "We only had 10 uniforms," Hatchett...
SOUTHINGTON — The defensive challenge is the same for Class L championship game combatants Middletown and East Catholic-Manchester: how to guard all those guards. Both teams usually start four guards with Middletown's Caylen Williams, Ahmod Privott, Emmett Riddick and Makai Hunter and East Catholic's...
MANCHESTER — The Canton girls basketball team could not beat Bolton twice during the season. The Warriors lost in the regular season and again in the NCCC tournament semifinal in overtime. But when it counted the most — in the Class S semifinal — Canton figured it out. The Warriors broke open a...
SOUTHINGTON — When Canton girls basketball coach Brian Medeiros was on his way to interview for the job three years ago, he remembered seeing a sign on the way to the school. "When I was driving there on [Route] 44, there's a green and it has [a sign with] all the state championships they won,...
SOUTHINGTON — At the CIAC pre-championship girls basketball lunch at the Aqua Turf Club, a player from each state finalist team is invited to speak to the assembled players, coaches and media. Wednesday, Capital Prep senior forward Desiree Elmore used her opportunity to speak as a platform to contend...
NEW HAVEN — For most of Saturday's 200 yard freestyle race at the boys swimming State Open, Jack Doherty had the lead. The Middletown senior was the first to make the turn going into the final 25-yard stretch in the pool at Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale. But Ridgefield's Kieran Smith and Cheshire...
NEW HAVEN — It took the Darien boys hockey team 46 years to win the program's second Division I state title. The wait for No. 3 wasn't quite as long. Jay Dickson had two goals and Benjamin Brown had three assists as third-seeded Darien defeated No. 9 Fairfield Prep 4-2 Saturday for its second straight...
Joe Aresimowicz, a member of the Berlin High School football coaching staff since 2009, was named the school's varsity coach on Thursday. "I'm really honored to lead the team," said Aresimowicz. "I look forward to coaching the program." Aresimowicz succeeds John Capodice, who was dismissed on Dec....
SOUTHINGTON — In the last five years, the North Branford boys hockey team has gone from failing to make the Division II tournament field to back-to-back appearances in the championship game. "It is a learning process," North Branford coach Ralph Shaw said at the CIAC boys hockey luncheon at the...
MIDDLETOWN — At the end of Wednesday's Class L boys swimming championship at Wesleyan, South Windsor walked away with the best finish in school history. The Bobcats finished in third place with 468 points behind Class L champion New Canaan (788 points) and second-place Darien (745). Wilton took...
MIDDLETOWN — Karl Bishop of Cheshire High School repeated as Class LL champion in the 500 freestyle by setting a state record, but just barely lost out on doing the same in the 200 free. His second-place time was fast enough to break the Class LL record, though. "I knew [the times] were going to...