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Saturday, September 23, 2023
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Saturday, September 23, 2023
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Judge hits 3 homers for 2nd time in a month as the Yankees slow down the Diamondbacks, 7-1
New York — Aaron Judge became the first player in Yankees history with two three-homer games in one season, and New York cruised to a 7-1 victory over the Arizona Diamond...
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East Hartford — Duke heads to UConn on Saturday for one of those games coaches love to warn players about.
The 18th-ranked Blue Devils are chasing their first 4-0 start s...
Montville – An opportunistic Montville team recovered fumbles on five of Ledyard’s first six possessions Friday night.
The Wolves took advantage and seized control of the...
Groton — Sophia Pacheco (200-yard freestyle, 100 freestyle) and Anna Orphanides (50 freestyle, 100 butterfly) each won two individual events as the Fitch High School coo...
Montville — Abbey Egan's goal with less than 3 minutes remaining in the game Friday lifted the St. Bernard School girls’ soccer team to a 1-0 home victory over Montville...
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Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson was honored as the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in a row.
She is the eighth player to win the award multiple time...
FOOTBALL
College
Duke at UConn, 3:30 p.m.
Coast Guard at Springfield, 3:30 p.m.
High School
Avon at East Lyme, 6:30 p.m.
SOCCER
College men
Mitc...
East Rutherford, N.J. — Three games into the season and less than a year after making the playoffs for the first time since 2016, it's time for the New York Giants to hit...
Santa Clara, Calif. — Christian McCaffrey scored a touchdown in his 12th straight game, Brock Purdy threw two TD passes and the San Francisco 49ers won their 13th straigh...
New York — Gerrit Cole retired the first 16 hitters and pitched eight outstanding innings to strengthen his Cy Young Award credentials as the New York Yankees moved back ...
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East Lyme — Ava Korineck scored the game’s only goal in the second half as East Lyme handed Fitch its first loss, 1-0, in an Eastern Connecticut Conference field hockey g...
Philadelphia — Nick Castellanos homered and drove in four runs to reach a career-best 103 RBIs in a season, and the Philadelphia Phillies maintained their hold on the top...
Cincinnati — Two-time Women's World Cup winner Julie Ertz played her final match for the United States, an emotional 3-0 victory over South Africa in an exhibition on Thu...
FOOTBALL
High School
VGW Techs at Thames River, 6 p.m.
Bacon Academy at Weaver, 6 p.m.
Ledyard at Montville, 6 p.m.
Valley/Old Lyme at Cromwell/Portland, 6 p.m....
New London — Nyarah Dudley had 15 service points, including 10 straight to end the third set, as the New London High School volleyball team blanked Wheeler 25-18, 25-22,...
New London — It turns out that some local McCoys have their own set of Hatfields, otherwise known as the New London Whalers.
To explain: Fitch’s Calvin McCoy III is the s...
Minneapolis — Alyssa Thomas tied a career-high with 28 points, DeWanna Bonner had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Minnesota Lynx 90-75 on Wedn...
New York — Kevin Gausman tossed six shutout innings, outpitching Michael King as they traded strikeouts all night, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 6-1...
Arlington, Texas — With all of their All-Stars back in the lineup, the Texas Rangers are starting to feel good again going into their most important stretch of the season...
FOOTBALL
High School
Stonington at Waterford, 6 p.m.
SOCCER
High School girls
Windham Tech at Norwich Tech/Holy Family, 3:45 p.m.
Griswold at Wheeler...
ON THE AIR
Saturday On The Air
Australian Rules Football
2:55 a.m., FS1 — AFL playoffs: Carlton Blues at Brisbane Lions.
1 a.m. (Sunday), FS2 — AFL women: Fremantle Dockers at Essendon Bom...
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UConn’s Collier leading the Lynx as they meet Sun in decisive Game 3 Wednesday
From the moment 6-foot-1 forward Napheesa Collier set foot in a gym as a member of the Minnesota Lynx, a first-round WNBA Draft pick for the organization in 2019, head co...
High school notes: Clarke ‘thrilled’ to take over as Fitch girls’ soccer coach
One of the hardest things for Aly Clarke about taking over as the head coach for the Fitch High School girls’ soccer team is that Clarke can no longer play for the Falcon...
H.S. roundup: Bacon Academy girls upset No. 1 Waterford 1-0 in ECC Div. II soccer matchup
Waterford — Audrey Palmer’s goal with 19:42 left in the first half Tuesday was all Bacon Academy needed to post a 1-0 Eastern Connecticut Conference Division II girls’ so...
H.S. cross country: NFA edges ECC Division I rival Fitch 26-31 and sweeps boys’ quad-meet
Groton — Norwich Free Academy placed its top five runners in the top 10 to edge Eastern Connecticut Conference rival Fitch 26-31 on the way to a quad-meet sweep on Tuesda...
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