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Saturday, May 11, 2024
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Mitchell College captures GNAC baseball championship in its first season in the league
New London — Relying on guts, heart and adrenaline, senior Cam Varney battled his way through the bottom of the ninth inning on Friday while trying to close out the Great...
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Will Albrikes was the two-time defending Eastern Connecticut Conference singles champion last summer when he attended camp at Smith Stearns Tennis Academy in Hilton Head,...
Norwich —Dylan Schroth, a 2009 Westerly High School graduate who spent the previous two seasons at Ellington, was introduced Friday as the new football coach at Norwich F...
Stonington — The Stonington girls’ tennis team remained unbeaten with a 7-0 win over East Lyme in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Division I match on Friday.
Grace Dug...
Boston — Vladimir Tarasenko and Carter Verhaeghe scored on the same Bruins double-minor, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 14 shots and the Florida Panthers beat Boston 6-2 on Fri...
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Indianapolis — Andrew Nembhard made a 31-foot, tiebreaking 3-pointer with 16 seconds left, Tyrese Haliburton scored 35 points and the Indiana Pacers rallied in the fourth...
Los Angeles — Sean Burroughs, a two-time Little League World Series champion who won an Olympic gold medal and went on to a major league career that was interrupted by su...
Las Vegas — The betting public is throwing money on Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever as the WNBA prepares to open one of the more-anticipated seasons in league history...
Rome — Novak Djokovic took a little while to get going in his first match in nearly a month.
He cleaned up his game after dropping his first two service games with some s...
Charlotte, N.C. — Xander Schauffele has been a mainstay near the top of the leaderboard most of the year. Now he’s hoping to close the door.
Schauffele shot a 4-under 67 ...
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Clifton, N.J. — Nelly Korda has no intention of letting anyone run away with the Cognizant Founders Cup and end her bid to become the first player to win six straight LPG...
Toronto — The WNBA is heading to Toronto, according to media reports.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the women’s professional basketball league has a...
Boston — Donovan Mitchell scored 29 points, Evan Mobley had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the top-seeded Boston Celtics 118-94 on Thursday n...
Mohegan — DeWanna Bonner, the team’s senior member entering her 15th year, has the same mentality entering every WNBA season.
“The goal is always to win a championship, n...
On his toughest days, Connor Lewis is happy about his decision to change his career course to enter the coaching profession.
That’s a sure sign that Lewis is right where ...
New London — Chris Gibbs allowed one run over seven innings to lead the top-seeded Mitchell College baseball team past No. 2 Johnson & Wales 3-1 in Game 1 of the Great N...
Groton — Grace Cosmopoulos went 4-for-4 with four RBI and a home run Thursday and the Fitch High School softball team defeated Norwich Free Academy 7-1 in an Eastern Con...
Rome — For a brief stretch on Thursday, Rafael Nadal looked every bit of a weary 37-year-old player nearing retirement.
Struggling to produce pace off both sides with his...
New York — Yordan Alvarez and Jon Singleton each hit long homers in the first inning for the Houston Astros, who beat the New York Yankees 4-3 on Thursday night to avoid ...
Fort Lauderdale — The Florida Panthers know what awaits them on Friday night. A fired-up crowd in Boston, an angry bunch of Bruins, probably a good amount of chirping and...
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5:30 a.m., FS2 — AFL: Western Bulldogs at Richmond Tigers.
2 a.m. (Sunday), FS2 — AFL: Brisbane Lions at Adelaide Crows.
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Charlotte Hornets hire Celtics assistant coach Charles Lee to be their next head coach
Charlotte, N.C. — The Charlotte Hornets named Charles Lee as their head coach on Thursday, hoping he'll turn around the long-struggling NBA franchise.
The 39-year-old Lee...
East Lyme heats up at just the right moment to earn Division I title over Fitch in boys’ track
East Lyme — At this point in the high school track season, the weather and competition heats up. It’s also when the East Lyme boys’ team usually rises to the occasion.
Th...
H.S. track roundup: St. Bernard boys, girls take a pair of Division IV titles with sweep of Lyman
Lebanon — Uliana Pokutnia won the 100- and 200-meter events and Liberty Frechette took the 300 hurdles and high jump as the St. Bernard School girls’ track and field team...
H.S. roundup: Stonington edges Old Lyme 4-3 in girls’ tennis
Old Lyme — Grace Duggan and Gwen McGugan won singles matches for the Stonington High School girls’ tennis team and the Bears edged defending Class S champion Old Lyme 4-3...
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