Woodland All-Decade Girls’ XC
Team of the decade: 2009
Undefeated NVL champion; 5th-place finish at Class SS meet (school best)
Runner of the decade: Krista Albright
All-State (2003-04); All-NVL (2003-04); 4th-place...
Naugatuck All-Decade Girls’ XC
Team of the decade: 2008
2nd-place finish at NVL meet; 12th-place finish at Class L meet
Runner of the decade: Rosa Moriello
Class L champion (2008); All-State...
Moriello ninth at New England championship
MANCHESTER — It was a soggy, muddy day, the kind of day that made one girl cry before the race even started and every...
Moriello finishes fifth at XC State Open
MANCHESTER — Just six days after the class meets, at which no girl could break the 19-minute mark, six went sub-19 Friday afternoon in a blazing State Open at Wickham Park.
Naugatuck’s Rosa Moriello was among the speedy sextet, finishing fifth in 18 minutes, 54 seconds. She was bested by Nonnewaug’s Jackie Nicholas (18:22), Fairfield Warde’s Meg Ryan (18:23), Glastonbury’s Reid Watson (18:28) and Bunnell’s Lauren Sara (18:29).
Champs: Hawks girls, Naugy boys, Moriello
WATERTOWN — It was a day of repeats at the Naugatuck Valley League cross country championships: The Woodland girls won their second straight team title, Naugatuck’s Rosa Moriello captured her third consecutive individual crown, and the Naugy boys claimed their fourth team championship in a row.
The Hawks trio of Brittany Albright, Crystal Steinfeld and Melissa Kiley, who finished third, fourth and seventh, respectively, in 2008, were almost as impressive this year, taking fourth, fifth and eighth, in the same order. They, along with Sarah Melville (18th) and Kelly Smith (28th), made up the Black and Gold’s scoring five, who totaled 63 points. That was 14 lower than second-place Holy Cross, which Woodland had beaten by a single point only a week and a half before to secure back-to-back undefeated regular seasons.
Naugy boys, Woodland girls go undefeated
TORRINGTON — As members of the Naugatuck boys’ cross country team cantered along the Torrington High School course during Tuesday’s six-team meet, their...