Gerry deSimas

Last week, the Avon High baseball team won their fourth game of the season with a 4-3 win over Bristol Central in 11 innings. The Falcons played more on Tuesday.

The Xavier boys golf team won the Walter Lowell Invitational for the second straight year with a tournament-record score of 302. (Photo courtesy Xavier Athletics)

Get ready for some higher scoring matches in the 2024-25 season. The National Federation of High Schools has approved nearly 30 rules recommendations from the NFHS’s wrestling committee, the NFHS said in a news release. The rule changes were approved by the NFHS’s Board of Directors. Beginning next season, takedowns will be worth three points

CANTON, May 1, 2024 – A pair of two-out doubles from Jackson Senecal and Ian Clark in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted the Canton High baseball team to a 3-2 win over East Granby in a battle of two of the top teams in the North Central Connecticut Conference Wednesday at Bowdoin Field.

Lyla O’Connor’s has hit eight home runs this season for the Warriors. She hit a home run in her seventh straight game on Wednesday in a win over East Granby.

Six Connecticut wrestlers earned medals at the recent U.S. Open wrestling championships in Las Vegas. Plainville’s Jaxsen Bailey, an eighth grade student at Plainville Middle School, won a pair of medals. He finished second in the Under 15 Greco Roman competition at 48 kilograms (105 pounds) and was eighth in U15 freestyle. Southbury’s William Henckel,

Farmington’s Caleb Smith, left, and Simsbury’s David Vayda represented the U.S. at the WAGT Finals in the Czech Republic in April.

AVON, May 3, 2024 – A third group of exceptional athletes and coaches was inducted into the Avon High Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday at the Golf Club of Avon. Tyler D’Onofrio (Class of 2011), Kevin Gormley (1990), Janet Lachmann Balthazar (1989), Bill Loeffler (1968), Ian McNeill (1998), Taryn Miller-Stevens (2003), Dushawne Simpson (1991),

CANTON, May 8, 2024 – Stan Krzanowski, who has spent the last 46 years volunteering his time and expertise in Canton with the Canton Little League organization, died on May 2 at the age of 82. Krzanowski has done a bit of everything with Canton Little League. He has been a coach, manager, player agent,

Last fall, the Connecticut Sun saw their season end in the WNBA semifinals with a loss to the New York Liberty, who eventually lost in the WNBA championship series to the Las Vegas Aces. It was the fifth straight year that the Sun had advanced to at least the semifinals in the playoffs. In 2022,