It didn’t take long for the lead pack of four teams to establish itself early in the regular season and that’s the way it stayed. At one point, all four schools had identical records. By tournament’s end, No. 1 Kennett (18-3-0) clearly stood alone. The ...

If you’ve been around sports in any capacity for any length of time, you’ve surely heard the phrase: “It’s hard to beat the same opponent three times in a season.” Trite? Sure – but also more than occasionally accurate. In claiming the program’s second State ...

In the final analysis, the chasm was wide, perhaps wider than anyone had anticipated. No. 1 Bedford (19-1-1) left absolutely no doubt with its 7-0 whitewash of Concord that secured the Bulldogs’ second straight D1 State title. They started fast and never let up, driven ...

It’s a good thing Barrington stormed out to a 3-0 lead in the deciding Game 3 of the best-of-three Rhode Island Division 2 state title game. Rogers/Middletown/Rocky Hill (RMR) started to heat up in the second and third. But it was too little too late, ...

Wire to wire, Woodstock Academy was the No. 1 team in the HNIB News Connecticut Division III rankings. The Centaurs won the CIAC championship in only their fourth varsity season, dropping only one game to Division III opponents and earning key wins among teams from higher ...

Winner of seven in a row to end the season, Guilford tops the HNIB News final Connecticut Division II Top 10 after winning the CIAC tournament over No. 2 Watertown/Pomperaug. That avenged two regular-season losses to W/P. No. 3 New Fairfield/Immaculate, No. 4 Farmington Valley and No. ...

Other teams looked like the team to beat early. Other teams made runs late. The most consistent team in Connecticut all season? Ridgefield, the Division I state champion for the first time, topping Hockey Night in Boston’s Connecticut Division I rankings after a 6-2 win ...

There wasn’t anything all that magical or unusual about Ridgefield’s game plan in the Connecticut Division I championship against Northwest Catholic. “Coach put a lot of time into watching that team,” Ridgefield sophomore forward Nicky Cullinan said. “He got us prepared. In practice … we ...

The play that made Guilford the 2017 Connecticut Division II champion, the play that put Vic Vicenzi’s Watertown/Pomperaug team behind for good: Vicenzi had seen it before. Every day. At every practice. Of every hockey team. “It was a textbook three-on-two,” the Watertown/Pomperaug coach said ...