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St. Bernard community prays for Wilson brothers
Oct. 18—MONTVILLE — Lacrosse team captains on Friday morning placed team jerseys on the St. Bernard School auditorium stage to pray for the recovery of 17-year-old Skyler Wilson and remember his brother, 14-year-old Carson Wilson. Other members of the team stood in the aisle and formed an arch with their sticks as the captains walked to the stage. The jerseys were placed next to photographs of ...
NL football players speak out about unruly student behavior
Oct. 17—NEW LONDON — If nothing else, the recent events surrounding New London High School football — although nothing pertaining to the team whatsoever — have nonetheless sustained the aggravating, but quite real, "nobody said life was fair" lesson. Unruly fan behavior from the Sept. 27 home game against Thames River prompted school administration to implement several new fan behavior ...
Griswold/Wheeler overcomes early deficit to edge Bacon Academy
Griswold/Wheeler rallied from an early two-touchdown deficit and escaped with a 28-27 victory over Bacon Academy/Lyman Memorial on Saturday in Colchester. The upset-minded Bobcats (0-5) stunned the Wolverines with sensational long touchdown plays while building a 21-7 lead in the first half. Griswold/Wheeler, however, answered with 21 straight points before thwarting the Bobcats' potential...
Old Lyme's Gilbert wins third straight Shoreline cross country title
Oct. 17—Chase Gilbert was speaking earlier this season about the course where the Shoreline Conference cross country championships are run: Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison. "I love my conference course," said Gilbert, a junior at Old Lyme High School, who ran the state's fastest time of the season — 17 minutes, 6.5 seconds — in winning last year's Shoreline meet. "The thing about flat ...
Zanor column: NFA names softball coach
Just thought I’d empty out my reporter’s notebook while looking forward to seeing the Celtics raise banner No. 18 to the Boston Garden rafters when they open their season against the New York Knickerbockers on Tuesday. Yup, it’s still the Boston G-ah-den in my book … Top runner ups Every once in a while...
This year's Huskies will need to win Hurley's love
Oct. 17—ROCKY HILL — Coach Dan Hurley says he likes his UConn basketball team. He just doesn't love his team the way he did last year's version. At least not yet. That hopefully comes much later in the season. "It takes a while," said Hurley during the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast Thursday at the Sheraton Hartford South hotel. "The end product of last year's team was not how ...
Lyman Memorial girls' cross country wins first ECC championship since 2006; East Lyme boys repeat
Oct. 18—NORWICH — Lyman Memorial girls' cross country coach Chantal Fields kept checking her cell phone to find team results from the Eastern Connecticut Conference championship race on Thursday at Norwich Golf Course. While Fields already figured out the Bulldogs had won the school's first ECC title in the sport since 2006, she wanted to wait for the official results before informing her ...
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