Cross Country

NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck boys and girls cross country teams come into this season back at the starting line and looking to find replacements...

WATERTOWN — For the second consecutive year, Naugatuck’s Muad Hrezi is the best cross country runner in the Naugatuck Valley League. Hrezi won the league...

NAUGATUCK — Jeff Lownds was the first coach hired when Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Falls opened its doors in 2001. He had...

By Ken Morse, Citizen’s News BEACON FALLS — When it comes to going the distance, the Woodland boys and girls cross country teams are always...

By Ken Morse, Citizen’s News NAUGATUCK — After a storied career leading the Greyhounds on the cross country course and the track, Bill Hanley’s coaching...

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.

MANCHESTER — The Naugatuck boys and girls cross country team ran their final race of the season Saturday at the Class L state meet...

With a fourth-place finish in the Class SS cross country championships and a pair of All-State runners for the first time in a decade,...

MANCHESTER — Naugatuck cross country has certainly made a case of being recognized as elite. After the boys and girls teams finished first and fifth...