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Wednesday, December 04, 2024
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Wednesday, December 04, 2024
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Whalers no match for Hand in Class M football quarters
Madison — It begins on summer’s green fields, in T-shirts and shorts, with the hopes and dreams of a season awaiting. It’s almost unfathomable at the time that it could e...
Willimantic — Ledyard and Windham, two fierce Eastern Connecticut Conference rivals, waged an epic CIAC Class SS quarterfinal battle on Tuesday.
The outcome was decided ...
Bridgeport — Jax Higgins threw for two touchdowns and ran for a third as No. 5 Waterford beat No. 4 Bullard Havens 21-12 in the CIAC Class SS football quarterfinals on Tu...
East Lyme — Al Opsahl has been named the head coach of the boys’ swimming program at East Lyme High School, athletic director Kevin Marcoux said in a release on Tuesday.
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Class M Quarterfinals
Hand 45, New London 6
Class SS Quarterfinals
Windham 17, Ledyard 14
Waterford 21, Bullard Havens 12
Killingly 75, Ellington 14
Class S...
Four teams from the region, three from the Eastern Connecticut Conference, get to keep playing high school football this week, beginning with the Connecticut Interscholas...
New London — Connecticut College experienced a deja vu feeling when the NCAA Division III men’s soccer Final Four field came together.
Washington & Lee, the team that Con...
Following is a list of 2024 Eastern Connecticut Conference football award winners:
Players of the Year
Division I: Hayden Allard (Killingly); Division II: Malac...
New London — Connecticut College pulled away in the second half for an 81-68 win over Roger Williams in a nonleague men’s basketball game on Sunday.
The Camels outscored ...
Ledyard — Good things tend to happen when AJ Adamick has the football in his trusty hands.
And the football is in Adamick’s hands a lot in Ledyard’s single wing attack, w...
Boston — Old Lyme junior Chase Gilbert qualified for the Foot Locker Cross Country Nationals with her fifth-place finish on Saturday at the regional meet at Franklin Par...
East Lyme — Jax Higgins was headed to the left, then bounced back to the right side of the field, eluding tacklers, for a 59-yard gain in the second quarter on a rain-so...
Norwich — Raise your hand if you’ve read this line before: “Fletcher leads New London High to victory.”
Ah, bloodlines. They run like a current through this proud family,...
Groton — Ledyard had its own version of the victory formation at the end of the Thanksgiving football game on Thursday.
With the final seconds running down, the Colonels ...
Six high school football teams from the region and five overall from the Eastern Connecticut Conference qualified for the state playoffs Thursday.
New London (Class M), K...
Stonington — Westerly outscored Stonington 18-0 in the second half and went on to beat the Bears 24-6 on Thursday morning.
Stonington still leads the series 74-73-17 but ...
Thanksgiving Day
New London 52, NFA 21
Waterford 41, East Lyme 7
Ledyard 20, Fitch 14
Westerly 24, Stonington 6
Griswold/Wheeler 54, Plainfield 0
Killingly 47, Woods...
Few other teams in Connecticut high school football opened the season with a harder schedule than New London: road games at Hand and Windham, whose combined regular-seaso...
The Bacon Academy girls’ soccer team had three players named recently to the Connecticut Girls’ Soccer Coaches’ Association Class M all-state team.
Elizabeth Glover, Mi...
West Hartford — Riddick Burroughs ran for a 45-yard touchdown and threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to Jason Colon as the Bacon Academy/Lyman Memorial high school football t...
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Basketball
5 p.m., ESPN2 — NCAA women: Oklahoma at Louisville.
6:30 p.m., FS1 — NCAA men: Baylor at UConn.
6:30 p.m., CBSSN — NCAA men: Florida Atlantic ...
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Morgan Tuck named Connecticut Sun general manager. Darius Taylor takes on new role
Mohegan — Morgan Tuck has been named general manager of the Connecticut Sun and will replace Darius Taylor, who will become the team's chief basketball strategist and dir...
Freshman Sarah Strong scores 22 points to lead No. 2 UConn past Holy Cross 88-52
Storrs — Freshman Sarah Strong scored 22 points and No. 2 UConn outscored Holy Cross by 30 points in the second half of an 88-52 victory on Tuesday night.
Kaitlyn Chen sc...
Miami in trouble as Alabama rises in the latest College Football Playoff rankings
Miami's playoff hopes took an all-but-final nosedive while Alabama's got a boost Tuesday night in the last rankings before the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket is...
No. 25 UConn shakes off 'humbling week,' hosts Baylor to start another challenging 3-game stretch
Storrs — The visit to Hawaii for the Maui Invitational was not exactly a trip to paradise for two-time defending national champion UConn.
Coach Dan Hurley was very much i...
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