Hockey regroups, reaches conference finals
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER With their semifinal victory in the CCC South tournament, the Warrior-Knights looked like they did before they lost their teammate, Drew Booth, during a controversial...
View ArticleWrestling: Calo wins back-to-back New England titles
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The third time’s the charm. After falling short in his bid for Class LL and state open titles, Paul Calo finally won when it counted the most. With a 9-0 major decision...
View ArticleKristen’s Kloset moves to the high school, March 23-24
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER The Southington community is once again coming together in memory of DePaolo Middle School honor student Kristen Warner, who died in a 2004 car crash at age 13. Each year,...
View ArticleWeekly scoreboard for the March 16 edition
These are the scores for games played between Monday, March 5 and Sunday, March 11. For more in depth coverage, read us in print or on-line. Boys Basketball CIAC Division III Tournament First Round...
View ArticleSports listings for the March 16 edition
REGISTRATION SOUTHINGTON TRAVEL KNIGHTS BASEBALL—Registration is underway for the 2018 spring season of the Southington Travel Knights Baseball program. Open to kids ages 9-18 and coaches. New...
View ArticleSwimmers, divers explode into the postseason
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER On Saturday, March 10, the Blue Knights advanced swimmers to the Class LL finals at a rate never seen before. Southington sent eight swimmers to the Class LL qualifying...
View ArticleBoys Basketball reaches the quarterfinals
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Blue Knight players’ eyes welled with tears, and Southington’s locker room was silent after their quarterfinal loss. Coach John Cessario said that he took a mental...
View ArticleHockey falls in Conard rematch
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER In the co-op’s first challenge of the CIAC Division II tournament brackets, the 13th-seeded Warrior-Knights were one and done. On Tuesday, March 6, Hall-Southington fell...
View ArticleFormer Blue Knight inducted into the SSC Hall of Fame
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...
View ArticleCommentary: CIAC missed the mark
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER When I first heard about Drew Booth’s serious head injury, I was saddened. When I saw game footage of the hit Booth took from Conard’s Brendan Battiston against the...
View ArticleWeekly scoreboard for the March 23 edition
These are the scores for games played between Monday, March 12 and Sunday, March 19. For more in depth coverage, read us in print or on-line. Boys Swimming Class LL Finals Wednesday, March 14 At...
View ArticleSHS students organize walk-out to protest gun violence
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Southington High School and the Southington Police Department placed the school on lockdown at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to allow students to participate in a...
View ArticleDiving: Saving the best for last
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER It was no surprise that Chase Galayda broke the school’s 11-dive record for the third season in a row. It was no surprise that he qualified for the State Open diving...
View ArticleSwimmers chase records at state open
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER On Saturday, March 17, Southington sent two relays to the State Open Swimming Championship, and both came away just shy of school records at Yale University’s Payne...
View ArticleFrom the director’s chair: Winter season wrap-up
As Southington High School heads into the final stretch of the school year, the Observer sat down with athletic director Greg Ferry to review the winter season and discuss some of the major changes...
View ArticleUnified sports hosts hoops tourney
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The images of smiles, laughter, and one helping another in need filled the Southington High School gymnasium. The arms of players were stretched out across teammates’...
View ArticleGirls Lacrosse preview: Lady Knights are ready to take the next step
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Southington coach Jill Pomposi said that making last year’s Class L Tournament for the first time since 2014 was awesome, but the Lady Knights want to do even better this...
View ArticleBoys Lacrosse preview: Blue Knights get back to basics
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER If the majority of the players on your team aren’t playing and training in the offseason, you’re not going to be successful. That plays a part in the overall success of...
View ArticleVolleyball preview: Blue Knights prepare for another run
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The Blue Knights held a preseason meeting before tryouts in the high school’s cafeteria. Discussed at the meeting were the philosophies of Southington coach Lou...
View ArticleBaseball preview: Young team embraces rebuilding challenge
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER They lost in the second round of last year’s state tournament. They almost all of their starting lineup from last season. They lost most of their experience. But they...
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