Back at Sun, Golden Bears looking for biggest prize
THOMASTON — As practice wound down on Wednesday afternoon, the Thomaston High girls basketball players and coaches speculated when they would be playing the Class S championship game. When the Bears...
View ArticleChampionship experience (soccer) could pay off for Crusaders
WATERBURY — Even before the Holy Cross High girls basketball team steps on the Mohegan Sun Arena court Sunday morning in its first state final appearance since 2017, several players can boast state...
View ArticleHoly Cross honors former Hearts player battling cancer
BY KEVIN ROBERTSREPUBLICAN-AMERICANWATERBURY – Founders Week is an important one at Holy Cross High, but Friday’s spirit assembly took on a greater meaning when junior Eilyn Maldonado was...
View ArticleThomaston wins Class S girls basketball championship
UNCASVILLE — When it mattered most, the Thomaston High girls basketball team lived up to its moniker. Like a bear going after a pot of honey or a picnic basket, top-seeded Thomaston was ferocious on...
View ArticleZac attack: Cross’ junior guard hits 1,000-point mark in state title win
UNCASVILLE — First and foremost, Holy Cross junior Mya Zaccagnini wanted to win a state championship. That task was well in hand against Bacon Academy on Sunday morning at Mohegan Sun Arena as the...
View ArticleFamily affair for Holy Cross’ state title-winning team
UNCASVILLE — When Holy Cross freshman Isabella Lombardo was one of four players coming out of the Class M girls basketball championship game with 13 seconds remaining, she gave coach Frank Lombardo,...
View ArticleMany similarities between Crusaders’ 2 state champs
As the Holy Cross High girls basketball program prepared for, played and won its second state championship Sunday, coach Frank Lombardo thought about his first, which came in 2007. There are strong...
View ArticleGirls basketball notebook: Thomaston singers’ national anthem provides Bears...
UNCASVILLE — When it was time for the national anthem before Saturday’s Class S girls basketball state championship game between Thomaston and Coventry, a Golden Bear senior student-athlete stepped up...
View ArticleSam Conti’s road to recovery: Knee injuries, pain of not playing far too...
Sam Conti is a junior at Nonnewaug High who tore her ACL on Dec. 26 while skiing. In a monthly column series, Conti, the sports editor for the Nonnewaug Chief Advocate journalism program, describes an...
View ArticleBarlow: Housatonic’s Segalla a star for all seasons
By STEVE BARLOW FALLS VILLAGE– When Housatonic High’s Sydney Segalla arrives at Boston College in the fall, she will be the fastest woman in the 159-year history of the Chestnut Hill, Mass., school.And...
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