Woodland volleyball begins title defense
BEACON FALLS – The Naugatuck Valley League title defense of the Woodland volleyball team started Tuesday, and despite having an almost entirely new team,...
Naugatuck volleyball starting from scratch
It’s time to rebuild for the Naugatuck High School girls’ volleyball team.
After losing all six starting players—plus the first two players off the bench—to...
Patrizi poised to lead WRHS Volleyball
BEACON FALLS — The Woodland volleyball team returns just one starter from its 2009 Naugatuck Valley League championship squad. Luckily for the Hawks, that...
WRHS coach is wacky but wildly successful
Without saying this man’s name, I’m willing to bet almost any Woodland student or fan (even some from Naugatuck) can guess who this guy...
Woodland All-Decade Volleyball
Team of the decade: 2007
Best record in school history (19-2); NVL champion; Copper champion
Player of the decade: Jessica Patrizi
New Haven Register All-Area (2009); NVL...
Naugatuck All-Decade Volleyball
Team of the decade: 2001
Best record of the decade (18-5); NVL tournament champion
Player of the decade: Shannon Mesaros
All-State (2001); New Haven Register All-Area (2001);...
Volleyball alums still got game, humor
BEACON FALLS — It’s “the legacy that keeps on returning,” as Woodland volleyball coach Jim Amato says—the seemingly-instinctual migration of the Hawks’ volleyball alumnae...
Woodland spiked from Class M tourney
MILFORD — The winningest season in Woodland volleyball history came to an end last Friday in the Class M quarterfinals, as the fifth-seeded Hawks...
NHS volleyball season ends in round 2
NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck volleyball team ran into a perennial state contender when it took on Bunnell of Stratford Thursday in the second round...
Hawks spike Kennedy for NVL crown
ANSONIA – Woodland can party like it’s 2007 all over again.
For the second time in three years, the Hawks spikers are Naugatuck Valley League champions, as the Black and Gold beat top-seeded Kennedy, 3-1 (25-16, 27-25, 9-25, 26-24), in Thursday’s title game at Ansonia High.
After dominating the first game, the Hawks trailed by as many as six points late in game two. But Woodland steadily climbed out of the deficit and eventually took a 23-22 lead on the strength of senior Steph Badale’s five-point service run. The teams traded the next six points, each facing a game point at one point, until an epic rally featuring 25 exchanges of the ball ended when senior Emily Hutvagner found the center of the Kennedy floor for the kill.
