Gymnasts are moving in the right direction
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Their routines are getting sharper. Execution is getting cleaner. The Lady Knight gymnasts are improving with every meet, and it’s showing in their scores. Since their...
View ArticleSwimmers win easily
The Blue Knights earned their fourth and largest win of the season with a 100-77 rout of divisional Simsbury at Westminster School in their lone meet of the week on Friday, Feb. 2. The Knights clinched...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Blue Knights drop 3 against top competition
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The Blue Knights entered last week as winners of nine of their last 11 games. They left last week with three-straight losses. But two losses came against the top two...
View ArticleGirls Basketball: Lady Knights are gunning for the CCC tournament
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The Lady Knights broke the regular season into quarters. Southington’s loss to Simsbury brought the beginning of their final quarter of the regular season. From here on...
View ArticleIce Hockey: Warrior-Knights qualify for D-II tournament
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The coaching staff has been working on trying to get the team to move the puck faster and smother opponents with the floor check for most of the season. They haven’t been...
View ArticleWeekly scoreboard for the Feb. 16 edition
These are the scores for games played between Monday, Feb. 5 and Sunday, Feb. 11. For more in depth coverage, read us in print or on-line. Indoor Track Class LL Championship Saturday, Feb. 10 At...
View Article‘Jazzing’ it up with the Knights
The 20-member Southington High School jazz band added some Louisiana flair to a pancake supper fundraiser at the First Congregational Church on Sunday. The Mardi Gras even was sponsored by the SHS...
View ArticleSwimmers win easily at home opener
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Home sweet home. It took six meets, but on Friday, Feb. 9 the Blue Knight swim team finally held their home opener at the Southington YMCA. In a meet where they never...
View ArticleGirls basketball is on a roll
A poor shooting night from the foul line and the field didn’t stop the Lady Knights from beginning the week with a comfortable 47-30 victory at Suffield on Tuesday, Feb. 6. The Knights held a 19-point...
View ArticleIce Hockey sweeps DII opponent
In their lone game of the week, the Warrior-Knights met up with a competitive, Division II team they just saw a little over a week ago. Their first meeting with that team was arguably their most...
View ArticleGymnasts struggles continue at Valentine Invitational
The Lady Knights returned to Whiting Lane Elementary School in West Hartford for the third time this season on Friday, Feb. 9 where they placed sixth out of six teams with a score of 129.55 at the...
View ArticleBoys are battling the CCC
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Coach John Cessario pressed both hands against his face and wiped away his exhaustion with a groan. His Blue Knight basketball team won the game, but Cessario said he was...
View ArticleWrestlers scramble for CCC tournament title
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The Blue Knights closed out the regular season with their muscles flexed. A win in their final dual meet against a solid, conference foe clinched the CCC West Division...
View ArticleIndoor track: Knights sweep the pole vault
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The Southington High School indoor track teams might have fallen short of their team goals for a top 5 finish, but don’t feel too badly for them. On Saturday, Feb. 10,...
View ArticleFootball trio signs letters of intent
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Sammy Thomson, Tim O’Shea, and Jimmy Starr inked their names onto letters of intent in the Southington High School library on Friday, Feb. 9. All three were intricate...
View ArticleWeekly scoreboard for the Feb. 23 edition
These are the scores for games played between Monday, Feb. 12 and Sunday, Feb. 18. For more in depth coverage, read us in print or on-line. Indoor Track CT State Open Saturday, Feb. 17 At Hillhouse...
View ArticleSports listings for the Feb. 23 edition
FUNDRAISERS PAVERS FOR POSTERITY (BLUE KNIGHT BRICKS)—The Turf Committee is offering an opportunity to purchase bricks to help defray costs for the artificial turf field at Southington High School....
View ArticleSwimmers face top talent
Southington’s two-meet winning streak was snapped on Tuesday, Feb. 13 after the Blue Knights fell, 93-87, to divisional Conard at the Cornerstone Aquatics Center in West Hartford. The Chieftains...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Blue Knights are ready for the CCC
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Momentum’s a beautiful thing. The Blue Knights have won their last five games to close out the regular season and are heading to the CCC Tournament for the first time in...
View ArticleGymnastics: Peaking for states
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The Lady Knight gymnasts ended the regular season with their largest score, and Southington coach Kim Vaillancourt said that her girls are starting to look very clean in...
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