Guilford, the top team in Class L in the state, rolled to its 12th straight win with a workmanlike 3-0 (25-15, 25-16, 25-16) victory over North Haven.
The Hand and Guilford boys soccer teams played dead even this season: tying both games, including a scoreless tie on Tuesday afternoon at the Surf Club.
The Guilford girls soccer team, which has allowed just one goal this season, posted its eighth shutout in a 3-0 victory over rival Hand.
EAST HAVEN — Perhaps a lesser team might have folded when its senior starting quarterback was lost for the year in just the second quarter of the season.
Balanced scoring and solid defense helped the Blue Wave pull away in the second half of their win over the Tigers.
Ava Bucci scores twice as Guilford rallies for win
Senior Kayla Howard, a fixture for the Hand girls soccer team since she was a freshman, now tries to provide leadership and experience for the younger players.
The junior finished with three goals, including two on penalty kicks, to lead the Tigers in a mathcup of the last two SCC tournament champions.
Upstart Wethersfield held a rare lead over the state’s top-ranked team, but the Tigers roared back in the second half to win.
In the 2018-19 school year, Palmer went on to accomplish the impressive feat of winning two state titles as a coach in two different sports at two different schools in the same school year - Guilford field hockey Class M title, Hand girls tennis Class M title.
After blowing a fourth-quarter lead to Guilford last week, the Branford football team had to come out strong against Stratford and did just that.
The Mercy senior is still recuperating from her bout with mononucleosis, but managed two goals in a shutout win over Hand.
OLD SAYBROOK — Coginchaug/Hale-Ray/East Hampton committed two turnovers in the first six minutes of its season opener, and in the closing minutes Saturday the Blue Devils’ second unit got careless and allowed two scores.
MADISON — Phoenix Billings and the Hand football team understand the pressure which comes with being part of a team which has won two consecutive state championships. Billings and company showed no signs of that pressure Friday evening.
Southern Connecticut Conference rivals Guilford and Branford battled until the end of the season-opener for both teams
MADISON — The Tigers aren’t running from anything. In fact, they have embraced the idea of the journey to get there, not just focusing on the ultimate prize.
BRISTOL — The Madison Little league baseball All-Stars clicked in every phase of the game this season and that talent led the team to the state title, representing Connecticut in the Little League Baseball New England Regional tournament this week.
BRISTOL — As disappointing as Madison Little League’s opening loss was to Vermont on Sunday in the first round of the Little League New England regional, Madison manager James Maynard was confident his talented 13-player squad could rebound in the loser’s bracket.
BRISTOL — It’s been an impressive postseason so far for the Bradford, Vermont Little League team, which went 7-0 in its state tournament, tossing three shutouts along the way.
WILLIMANTIC — Oh, the pain.
KILLINGWORTH — It may have taken over 48 hours to complete, but Madison finished off its 6-3 victory over Mystic and clinched the Section 3 Championship on Wednesday night.
The Branford Road Race celebrated its 40th anniversary Sunday morning as the runners took their marks to compete in the annual father’s day 5 mile race.
MADISON — Notre Dame-West Haven’s Max Mariano found himself at the center of the two biggest plays of the game in Saturday’s Class L quarterfinals game against Hand.
The Hand girl’s tennis team capped off a perfect season Friday, defeating Lauralton Hall, 6-1, in the Class M state championship.
MADISON — As baseball lore goes, beating a team three times in a season is not easy, let alone four times, but that is exactly what Hand did on Thursday afternoon.
EAST HAVEN — Becky Flynn knew the game was over the moment she connected with the softball.
ORANGE — The season-long march to the Southern Connecticut Conference golf championship had the look of a wide-open race. Which team would have the most depth to prevail?
WEST HAVEN — Turnabout is fair play, and for the Guilford Indians, it’s resulted in an SCC girls lacrosse championship.
WEST HAVEN — The Fairfield Prep boys lacrosse program is typically loaded with talent and depth season after season.
After two years of disappointment in the SCC boys volleyball championship, Cheshire earned the right to celebrate once again.
WEST HAVEN — His Amity teammates had rallied to tie Hand with two out in the bottom of the fourth of the SCC baseball semifinals at West Haven’s Whitey Piurek Field. They had turned the lineup over to get Cole Kuchachik to the plate.
NEW HAVEN — If the Hand tennis teams were going to go wire to wire in the Southern Connecticut Conference, it would have to be through Amity one more time.
CHESHIRE — Southern Connecticut Conference girls lacrosse rivals Cheshire and Hand have been familiar foes in the SCC tournament, meeting for the 18th time (semifinals and finals combined) on Tuesday in the semifinals at Cheshire High.
MADISON — Dawn Fagerquist has never forgotten when an opposing coach once told her following a loss that the Hand boys tennis team “lacked desire.”
MADISON—The Guilford girls lacrosse team was due.
MADISON — There might not be an athlete in the state with more going on than Hand’s Phoenix Billings?
MADISON — Sometimes it takes just one break before things start to snowball. Just ask the West Haven softball team.
Five years ago, when Keldon LaRose and his family moved to Guilford from Utah, he didn’t know what to expect.
NEW HAVEN — Tyler Criscuolo, his nose a little crooked and his head held high, led his family onto the field Wednesday. This was Senior Day at Southern Connecticut, and anyone close to the Owls baseball program knows what the senior captain has endured this season.
FAIRFIELD — No one quite left Rafferty Stadium enthralled with their game Monday evening. Fairfield Prep, at least, left with a win in SCC boys lacrosse.
MADISON — Matt Downing couldn’t remember ever tagging a runner out at the plate for the final out of a game.
LEDYARD — Phoenix Billings has hit a few home runs in his time.
HAMDEN — The one liners were coming in at a fast and furious pace when Joe Linta began to venture down a road that few NFL player agents had ever navigated before when he represented an NFL hopeful he knows better than any of his previous clients.
