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Meriden Sports

Passing showers left a rainbow as runners warmed up before the start of the three-mile Meriden Fun Run on the track at Platt High School in Meriden on Wednesday. The fun runs will be held every Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. on the school’s track until Aug. 19.

PHOTOS: Weekly Fun Runs start in Meriden 

The Meriden Parks Department kicked off the weekly Fun Run series at Platt High School Wednesday despite passing showers. Dozens ...
 
Maloney’s Kody Talento, right, seen here wrestling Berlin’s Aidan O
MERIDEN — Like any wrestler, he was a solo warrior on the mat because that’s just the nature of the game. As a linebacker in footb ...
Lea White of Maloney, seen here sliding home in a softball game last spring against Platt, has successfully rounded the college recruiting bases. She’s en route to UMass-Lowell, a Division I program in America East. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
MERIDEN — Lea White was 9 or 10 years old, maybe as young as 8.A decade down the road, Maloney softball coach Scott Aresco isn’t ...
Platt’s Jaylen John lowers the boom on Middletown running back Tyreece Lumpkin during a 2018 game at Falcon Field in Meriden. John, a two-time All State player with both the Connecticut High School Coaches Association and the Walter Camp Foundation, will continue his career at Southern Connecticut State University.Record-Journal file photo
MERIDEN — The pipeline of talent running from Greater Meriden to Jess Dow Field just got richer.Platt All-State lineman Jaylen Joh ...
The sun has set on the American League baseball season before it even rose. Connecticut, following the lead of the rest of the Northeast and much of the nation, officially canceled the 2020 season. Area programs, most notably Meriden Post 45 and head coach Doug Wedge, are looking to fill the void with an independent league for local teams. Record-Journal file photo
MERIDEN — American Legion baseball players fell behind deep in the count Tuesday. They aren’t necessarily down on strikes just yet ...
Maloney’s Kody Talento, seen here battling Berlin’s Aidan O
MERIDEN — There’s at least one score that works out in favor of senior student-athletes who lost their final high school season to ...
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The easing of out-of-season coaching rules announced Thursday by the CIAC Board of Control gives spring coaches like Platt baseball skipper Tim Redican (far right) the opportunity to work with his players through Aug. 17 — online for now, in person if the state re-opens recreational facilities and eases social distancing rules. Record-Journal file photo
CHESHIRE — The CIAC didn’t waste time offering relief to high school coaches who lost the 2020 spring season to the coronavirus pa ...
The student section cheers as the Sheehan football team charges onto Riccitelli Field for a 2018 state playoff game. How to manage crowds in the era of COVID-19 is one of the issues the CIAC and its member schools will be addressing in the weeks to come. Record-Journal file photo
MERIDEN — In high school sports circles, the pressing question of the last eight weeks was, “Will there be any kind of a spring se ...
Hopes for a spring scholastic sports season died by slow degrees. These signs at Cheshire High School (above) and Platt High School (below), erected shortly after the state shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic in March, never came down. Nor will they. Connecticut schools were officially closed Tuesday for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year and, with it, the 2020 spring sports season was cancelled as well.
MERIDEN — A day long dreaded and long expected arrived Tuesday.Connecticut schools were officially closed for the rest of the 2019 ...
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I rejoined the Record-Journal 22 years ago this very week.My first night back, I covered a softball game between Trish Wodatch’s ...
Hikers head up the Tower Trail at Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
I was making my rounds to some of the local fishing spots to see how the fishermen were doing last Saturday and, when I pulled int ...
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