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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Thursday’s local schedule
SOFTBALL
College
Albertus Magnus at Coast Guard (2), 2:30 p.m.
TENNIS
College men
Conn College at Coast Guard, 3 p.m.
College women
Emerson at C...
The Day’s Vickie Fulkerson and Fitch track and field coach Rich Kosta have been selected for induction into the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
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The CIAC Class MM champion New London girls’ basketball team finished fourth in the season-ending GameTimeCT.com media and coaches’ poll.
New London beat Mercy on Sunday,...
St. Bernard, fresh off its victory 63-50 victory over Staples in Sunday’s CIAC Division II championship game at Mohegan Sun Arena, finished third in the final GameTimeCT....
Following is a list of the 2022-23 Eastern Connecticut Conference indoor track and field award winners:
BOYS
Division I
First team — Long jump: Zayshawn Gri...
New London previously won the Class M title in 2014 and the Class LL crown in 2017.
Staples dictated the pace in the first half of Sunday night’s CIAC Division II boys’ basketball final against St. Bernard. Top-seeded Saints put a stop to that to start the second half.
Mark Jones, a young man by any measure, nonetheless owns a lengthy basketball resume — all-state high school player and Division I college player.
BOYS
Division III
Waterbury Career 74, Bloomfield 58
Andrew Williams had a game-high 36 points and 18 rebounds as second-seeded Waterbury Career Academy ov...
The two Class MM state tournament semifinal games were held as a doubleheader last week, which allowed Mercy High School coach Tim Kohs to scout New London as the Whalers...
New Haven — A familiar refrain in the student sections of both schools: “God’s on our side” (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap). And not that any mere mortals could ever read th...
New Haven — All the work — the practices, bus rides, training tables, doubts, hopes and wonders, all the work that makes winning sweeter and losing wretched — created the...
Waterford — Griswold head coach Rob Mileski was talking to reporters following his team’s 63-54 loss to top-seeded Cromwell in Wednesday night’s CIAC Division IV boys...
Southington — If there was ever a place to transition from playing girls’ basketball to coaching it, this is the place for Cora Sawyer, Jada Lucas and Kendra Ferraro.
Ne...
Montville — St. Thomas More’s Tyler Betsey, a junior from Windsor, was named 2022-23 Gatorade Connecticut Player of the Year in boys’ basketball on Wednesday.
Betsey, a 6...
New London and St. Bernard will now be part of a boys’ basketball state tournament semifinal doubleheader on Wednesday at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Athletic Ce...
Montville — It’s not just any team that beats the Windsor boys’ basketball team twice in a season. Programs with state championship pedigree such as Bloomfield and Ea...
The CIAC has postponed Tuesday’s six games in the boys’ basketball tournament to Wednesday, due to a forecasted storm.
That includes the Division III quarterfinal between...
Boston — East Lyme’s Thomas Matlock and Stonington’s Josh Mooney became high school All-Americans with their performances at the New Balance Nationals indoor track and fi...
Derry, N.H. — Norwich Free Academy’s Trinity Ambruso had a memorable Saturday during her first appearance in the New England Championship gymnastics meet at Pinkerton Aca...
ON THE AIR
Thursday On The Air
Australian Rules Football
4 a.m., FS2 — AFL: Carlton Blues at Geelong Cats.
4:30 a.m. (Friday), FS2 — AFL: Melbourne Demons at Brisbane Lions.
Baseball
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