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The Connecticut Whale women’s hockey team continues to add new players to join the Premier Hockey Federation squad this fall. The Whale signed Swedish Olympic goalie Emma Söderberg to a two-year deal, the team announced on Thursday. The University of Minnesota-Duluth graduate is a finalist for the IIHF Female Player of the Year. The Whale […]

The U.S. men’s national soccer team will host four-time World Cup champion Germany in a friendly match at Rentschler Field in East Hartford on Saturday, Oct. 14, as part of their preparations for quarterfinal matches in the CONCACAF Nations League in November. The Americans will face Germany at 3 p.m. and three days later, the […]

SUFFIELD, May 24, 2023 – The opening was there for the Ellington High girl lacrosse team. The Purple Knights and league champion Canton both had played three consecutive days and when the Purple Knights scored the first two goals of the second half, it gave them a three-goal lead with a little more than 18 […]

The Simsbury High boys varsity eight boat won the state championship Saturday at the Connecticut Public School Rowing Association’s state championship regatta on Lake Waramaug in New Preston for the second straight year and the 13th time since 2000. Avon High’s girls varsity four boat finished second with Lewis Mills fourth in the varsity 4 final. […]

Dwanna Bonner had a season-high 21 points, two assists and two steals as the Connecticut Sun won their home opener with an 80-74 win over the Washington Mystics on Sunday in Uncasville. The Sun (2-0) erased a 10-point deficit to win their second straight game before 7,048 at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Brionna Jones scored 15 […]

CANTON, May 6, 2023 – For most of his life, Canton’s Stan Krzanowski has been around the fields of our youth. When he was a youngster, he played Little League baseball on a field on River Road in the late 1940s where a storage unit business sits today. He played at the Dyer Avenue field […]

Defender Shannon Turner, who recently retired from the Connecticut Whale, was selected as one of seven recipients of the Premier Hockey Federation’s annual Foundation Award, the league announced on Thursday. The PHF Foundation Award is awarded annually to one recipient from each team who actively applies the core values of hockey to their community along […]

Avon High senior Isaiah Adams was selected as the state wrestler of the year at the recent Connecticut High School Coaches Association’s All-State banquet. It’s the first time that a wrestler from Avon has been selected for his honor, which dates back to 1995. Xavier head coach Michael Cunningham was selected as the state coach […]

December 30, 2020 The mulit-purpose field at Canton High was quiet throughout the spring with the cancellation of sports and the moving of school to distance learning due to the COVID-09 pandemic. It was the year of hard change, sorrow and pain. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has turned our world upside down. Things that we took for granted just nine months ago are a bad idea today due to the contagious virus that can kill. When we look back at this year, it will be the pandemic that is a part o...