Basketball
Area boys teams receive CIAC tourney seeds
Area boys basketball teams found out their CIAC state tournament seeds on Wednesday. The best seed is of course Sacred Heart, No. 1 in Class L. Here are the seeds, from the top to the […]
Bristol
Basketball
CIAC GIRLS HOOP DAY 2: St. Paul, Bristol Eastern advance
Five local girls basketball teams played their first game of the CIAC state tournaments on Tuesday night. St. Paul and Bristol Eastern won their first round games and advanced. Kaynor Tech, Wolcott and Waterbury Career […]
Wrestling
WRESTLING STATE OPEN: Trelli finishes second, Barrett takes third
Bristol Central’s Chris Trelli finished second at 106 pounds in the State Open. When the CIAC Wrestling State Open began Friday, there were 13 wrestlers from Bristol schools competing. By the end of Saturday, only […]
Basketball
Four games, four blowouts in NVL boys quarterfinals Saturday
Sacred Heart’s Raheem Solomon launches a 3-pointer. He had four of them in a 31-point effort for the Hearts. The NVL boys basketball quarterfinals on Saturday all ended with one-sided margins. Here were the final […]
Basketball
BRISTOL’S WEEKLY ROUNDUP #9: Eastern boys see season come to an end
Bristol Eastern boys basketball saw its season come to an end with losses to Bristol Central and Berlin. The Lancers battled the rival Rams on Monday, but saw a nine-point halftime lead disappear in a […]
Basketball
NVL BOYS TOURNAMENT: Area teams own Top 5 seeds entering the quarterfinal round
Sacred Heart’s Raheem Solomon (11) and Kennedy’s Tyairus Sands (5) look to help lead their teams to a NVL Tournament title. The Top 5 teams in the Naugatuck Valley League boys basketball tournament should sound […]
Basketball
HIGH 5 OF THE WEEK: DeFillippi part of historic season for Mount Ida
Joey DeFillippi, Mount Ida College basketball DeFillippi (Mount Ida athletics) While playing at Bristol Central High School, DeFillippi helped lead the Rams to the brink of their first state final since the magical 1990 championship […]
Basketball
St. Paul girls shut down Holy Cross, win first NVL title
Johndrow (2) and Sanchez (22) The last time St. Paul girls basketball played Holy Cross inside the Jack Taglia Gymnasium at Kennedy High School, the Crusaders knocked off the Falcons for the NVL title. That […]
Wrestling
Thirteen locals ready for State Open wrestling
Bristol Eastern senior Zach Marquis owns the top seed at 182 pounds for this weekend’s CIAC State Open Wrestling Tournament. Here are the local seeds for this weekend’s CIAC State Open Wrestling Tournament (Friday and […]
Basketball
Eight local girls hoop teams qualify for state tournament play
All-Brass Division players Armani Weaver of WCA (left) and Izzy Plant of Holy Cross (right) helped their teams get to the state tournament. The CIAC girls basketball state tournament brackets have been released, and the […]