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Bloomfield knocks out Hawks hoopsters
BLOOMFIELD — It wasn’t exactly the best ending to Woodland’s basketball season—a 95-69 Class M state tournament first-round loss to Bloomfield Tuesday night—but it will likely do little to belittle the success of this campaign for the Hawks’ program. The Black and Gold posted the second-best record in school history (8-13) and qualified for the... »
WRHS lifters power into 3rd at NVL meet
WOLCOTT — To diehard fans, football season is really never over. So to those fanatics, Saturday’s Naugatuck Valley League weightlifting championship at Wolcott High School was a major offseason milestone in preparation for next fall. The insiders knew how the competition would end, though—for the fourth consecutive year, Wolcott easily out-pumped the rest of... »
Hounds capture 4th straight NVL title
WATERBURY — The result was never really in doubt, although Naugatuck head coach Jim McKee wasn’t counting on anything until his team had clinched the Naugatuck Valley League championship last Friday at Kennedy. But the Hounds did just that—win their fourth-straight NVL title—in the penultimate race of the meet, finishing the championships with 517... »
NE Indoor: Moriello 8th; Pisco, Hawks 11th
BOSTON — In the fastest indoor mile in New England championship history—three girls broke the previous meet record—Naugatuck’s Rosa Moriello placed eighth Friday at the Reggie Lewis Center, in five minutes, 12.01 seconds. Arianna Vailas of Manchester Central, N.H. won, in 4:56.37, followed closely by Barrington, R.I.’s Sarah Barry, in 4:56.93, and Newton South,... »
Former NHS star Mariano LEC’s top rookie
KEENE, N.H. — Anthony Mariano had a pretty impressive basketball résumé when he arrived at Keene State College: He was a 2009 all-Naugatuck Valley League selection and a 1,000-point scorer, accomplishments that made him CN’s pick as the Naugatuck boys’ hoops player of the decade. But that résumé meant little, as soon as he suited... »
Runners’ maturity evident in NE prep
BOSTON — Naugatuck track and field coach Ralph Roper remembers—with a mix of personal humor and vicarious embarrassment—the first time Greyhounds star Tori Pisco ran on a banked track. “I was watching her go up around a turn,” he recalls. “But I didn’t see her come down the other side. She had... »
CLISE: Logo Legal Wedgie
By now, you’ve probably seen the pun-tastic headlines: “Car Company Rams Florida High School,” read one on the Web site of Miami’s NBC affiliate. If you haven’t, the gist of the story is this: Lake Mary High School agreed Feb. 9 to discontinue use of its ram’s head logo, after Chrysler threatened a trademark... »
Hawks battle but knocked from tourney
OAKDALE — One of the best seasons in school history ended Tuesday night for the Woodland girls’ basketball team in the first round of the Class M state tournament. The Hawks battled back from a 10-point first-quarter deficit but fell one bucket short, losing to No. 16-seed Montville, 56-54. Junior forward Heather Framski turned in... »
Swim teams compete at NVL trials
WATERBURY — The Naugatuck swim team treated Tuesday’s Naugatuck Valley League swim trials as a final tune-up for what has been its goal all season—taking home a fourth straight league crown. The Greyhounds, under head coach Jim McKee, have defeated all challengers during the NVL season, the most memorable contest a tense affair with... »
Naugy girls ousted from Class L tournament
WOODSTOCK — The Naugatuck girls’ basketball season is over, after a 45-39 loss to Woodstock Academy in the qualifying round of the Class L state tournament Saturday. The Centaurs’ (9-13) victory over the Greyhounds (8-13) earned them a first-round trip to No. 1 Northwest Catholic (21-0), where they lost, 68-27, Monday. For Naugy, it was... »