softball

Winning an Olympic medal can be a long, arduous, sometimes solitary battle. But most any Olympian will admit that it wouldn’t mean nearly as much if they didn’t have teammates to do it with, and for.

The high school spring sports season begins competition on Saturday and the excitement level is very high after last season was canceled. “I can’t even put it into words because overall we just didn’t expect to lose a season and the fact that we get this full season with so many games and get to play with the girls...

Hundreds of softball players are finally making their way back to the field after the coronavirus pandemic cancelled many of their seasons. Fastpitch Nation Park opened their fields for the first time in more than three months to host several softball games throughout the weekend. Several precautions are now in place to protect public health. First, only uniformed athletes, three…

FastPitch Nation Park reopened in Windsor since being closed several months ago amid COVID-19 concerns. The park hosted its first tournament.

After the season was canceled, Southington arranged for the six seniors on the softball team to safely put on their jerseys one more time. “It’s a good feeling to put the jersey on one last time,” said senior infielder Kristin Rose. “It’s exciting.” The goal was to offer the girls a bit of closure after they never got to...

MCW United, a high school football co-op made up of Housatonic, Wolcott Tech and Wamogo, has an 0-29 record.

Tokyo 2020 is not going to be your grandparents’ Olympic Games. When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed five new sports were to be included in the Tokyo 2020 Games, it was a clear signal the organization was making a concerted effort to embrace youth culture. To that end skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing and karate, as well as the return...

Hundreds of high school girls are competing in a softball tournament at Fastpitch Nation Park in Windsor this weekend and the venue’s owner has a game plan in place for the triple-digit temperatures.

On the softball diamond, Southington and Norwich Free Academy met up for the Class LL title.

The high school softball regular season is winding down and South Windsor pitcher Maria Handchuk has a chance to head to states with an impressive streak under her belt.

The Windsor High School softball team hosted Military Appreciation Night on Friday during their game with Griswold.

Only a select few are good enough to play a sport in college and even fewer are talented enough to play multiple sports, but that’s exactly what two Trinity Bantams are doing.

February 6 is National Girls and Women in Sports Day and leading up to it, the women of Wesleyan University Athletics want to get more girls out and playing.

Mo’ne Davis, the first girl to pitch a victory in the Little League World Series, will attend Hampton University and play softball.

An Indiana high school football player told investigators that he killed a 17-year-old schoolmate because he was angry that she waited so long to tell him she was pregnant with his child that it was too late to get an abortion, authorities said Monday.

Teams across New England have practiced and prepared all summer for a chance to shine on the diamond in Connecticut at the East Regional softball tournament, but Monday’s weather put a damper on the event.

The addition of 3-on-3 basketball and BMX are two of several changes announced by the International Olympic Committee. Despite these new additions, there will be 285 fewer athletes competing than in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games.

Kelsie Whitmore and Team USA baseball teammate Stacy Piagno, 25, signed with the independent Sonoma Stompers of the Pacific Association earlier this week.

Ibtihaj Muhammad stood beaming on the podium in Budapest in 2013, flashing a bright smile, a world championship bronze medal and the red, white and blue hijab that perfectly encapsulated who she is as an athlete and a person. Muhammad, a New Jersey-born fencer, is a proud Muslim and an equally proud American. And this summer at the Rio Olympics,...

This weekend’s Texas 4A softball championship game between Needville and Huffman Hargrave turned ugly when Needville’s catcher used some techniques normally reserved for the football field.