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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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The Day’s All-Area Girls’ Indoor Track Athlete of the Year: Ledyard’s Kate Littler
Kate Littler’s freshman year at Ledyard High School, when considering a spring sport, she bought a lacrosse stick and goggles. That’s how close she came to not competing ...
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Norwich — Hailey Smith struck out six in a complete game performance and Aubrey Martin fueled the offense with a walk, two hits, two runs scored and an RBI, leading Norwi...
Waterford — Elliot Childs won four events as Waterford beat Stonington 122-27 in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Division II boys’ track meet on Wednesday.
Childs won t...
Old Lyme — The undefeated Old Lyme High School girls’ tennis team clinched the Shoreline Conference regular season title with a 7-0 win overf Cromwell on Wednesday.
The ...
Boston — The Miami Heat beat Boston with an unprecedented barrage of 3-pointers on Wednesday night to erase the home-court advantage the Celtics worked all season to esta...
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Toronto — Brad Marchand broke a tie midway through the third period and the Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 on Wednesday night to take a 2-1 lead in the fi...
New York — Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning after Oakland starting pitcher Joe Boyle was called for a balk on the previous pitch and the New York Yanke...
Cleveland — Connor Wong homered twice, Rafael Devers connected in his return to Boston's lineup and the banged-up Red Sox got another solid pitching effort in an 8-0 win ...
San Francisco — Francisco Lindor hit a pair of two-run homers and the New York Mets avoided a three-game series sweep on Wednesday with an 8-2 win over the San Francisco ...
Nadal says he is not 100% fit ahead of Madrid debut. Spaniard still unsure about playing French Open
Madrid — Rafael Nadal will play in the Madrid Open despite not being fully fit and didn't seem too optimistic about his chances of being ready for the French Open next mo...
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Los Angeles — Reggie Bush has his Heisman back.
The Heisman Trust reinstated the former Southern California tailback as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner on Wednesday, citin...
The No. 1 pick in the NFL draft already has traded hands, with Carolina sending it more than a year ago to Chicago in a trade to move up to take Bryce Young first overall...
Team Penske suffered a humiliating disqualification Wednesday when reigning Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden was stripped of his victory in the season-opening race...
After placing third at 160 pounds in the State Open as a sophomore, Lincoln Carlson made it his mission to come into the following year with a vengeance.
At 175 pounds, C...
New London — Nearly three and a half hours into Tuesday’s game, sophomore Tate Scherer came off the bench, shook off the bone-chilling cold and stepped to the plate.
Coas...
Colchester — Ethan LoVetere scored the game-winning goal with 1 minute, 33 seconds left in the fourth quarter Tuesday and the Bacon Academy boys’ lacrosse team defeated ...
Griswold — Cole Terni pitched a three-hitter over seven innings and Jack Treat closed out the game with a scoreless eighth as the Montville High School baseball team edge...
UConn officially added transfer Tarris Reed Jr. to the men’s basketball team on Tuesday.
And coach Dan Hurley is one happy Husky.
“We are very excited to have a big man w...
Cleveland — Tyler Freeman and Bryan Rocchio had RBI in the seventh inning, when Cleveland finally scored against Boston's Tanner Houck, and José Ramírez homered as the Gu...
New York — Infielder DJ LeMahieu left his first minor league injury rehabilitation game with Double-A Somerset in the second inning Tuesday night due to soreness in his r...
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The Day’s All-Area Boys’ Swimmer of the Year: Fitch co-op’s Evan Hespeler
After graduating several key swimmers last season, the Fitch High School cooperative swimming and diving team relied on Evan Hespeler to step into a far larger role both ...
Lancers relying on their passing game to remain unbeaten in girls’ lacrosse
Colchester — Taylor Shannon knew she was taking over a Waterford girls’ lacrosse team this season with an accomplished group of athletes, many of whom she’s known since ...
H.S. tennis: New London boys win their fourth straight
Norwich — The New London boys’ tennis team won its fourth straight match, beating NFA 5-2 on Monday.
Jonathan Silva, Niko Churis and Yamille Gonzalez scored winning point...
Local roundup: Ledyard girls’ lacrosse team has a record-setting day
Ledyard — The Ledyard High School girls’ lacrosse team set three program records in a 20-9 victory over Stonington in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Division II game o...
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