By KEVIN ROBERTS STAFF WRITER The story of the 1999 Southington softball state championship team is equal parts family, resolve, and redemption. The Lady Knights had to overcome the near-death experience and uncertainty surrounding their head coach, then they had…
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR Since the first class of inductees was celebrated in 2010, the Southington Sports Hall of Fame selection committee has teased sports fans each year with a seemingly endless list of locals whose careers have continued long…
HARTFORD—The University of Hartford Department of Athletics has signed Tom Poitras to a contract extension that will keep him as head coach of the Hawks’ men’s soccer team through the 2021 season, Hawks director of athletics Mary Ellen Gillespie announced…
Cris Allen, a 1985 graduate of Southington High School and a member of Florida Southern College’s (FSC) 1988 NCAA Division II National Championship baseball team, was named to the 2018 Hall of Fame Class of the Sunshine State Conference (SSC).…
Hundreds flocked to the Aqua Turf last night for the induction of eight athletes, one coach, one booster, and two teams into the Southington Sports Hall of Fame. Emcee Mike Prairie, along with the help of Mazzarella Media put on…
This past summer, the 2011 Male Observer Athlete of the Year, Sal Romano, made three starts with the Cincinnati Reds, but that shouldn’t surprise any of us. Next year will mark 30 years since Rob Dibble made his major league…
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR With three minutes remaining in the first half of Southington’s first round soccer game, a Blue Knight player snatched a loose ball at midfield to kick-start the offense. Another player controlled the soccer ball for about…
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR Colleen Klopp stepped away from her defender and called for the basketball as the clock was winding down in overtime of the NCAA tournament basketball game in 2001. Her first shot? Nothing but net. The next…
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR The Blue Knight wrestling team was on a roll in the winter of 2001, and whispers were already beginning to ripple through the crowd at home matches. Could this be the year? Will this be the…
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR The former Lady Knight coach shook his head and laughed as he talked about one of his earliest memories of Leslie Dunn at a softball camp in the 1980s. Every year, Joe Piazza would dare his…
