News February 8, 2021
By Michael Letendre Last week, the original slate of games for the Bristol Central boys basketball was reviewed in this publication. And that schedule had all the heavy-hitters that the…
News February 8, 2021
By Michael Letendre For the second straight season, the Bristol Central boys basketball team is going to be denied a chance at a state championship. But, with an opportunity to…
News February 3, 2021
By Michael Letendre The evolution of the 3-pointer in scholastic hoop started during the 1986-87 campaign and in Bristol – at the public high school level – the use of…
News February 2, 2021
By Michael Letendre The pandemic has put the entire winter scholastic schedule in such disarray that a certain local basketball team, which was originally dealing with an ultra-competitive CCC Interdivisional…
News January 19, 2021
By Michael Letendre January 18 wasn’t a popular date for the Bristol Eastern boys basketball team to compete on, but every once in awhile, the Lancers battled their crosstown rival…
News January 10, 2021
By Michael Letendre Back in the day, January 9 was typically the date of the first showdown between the Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern boys basketball programs. And forty-five years…
News December 21, 2020
By Michael Letendre The Bristol Edition continues to look back at scholastic sports history in town as today’s focus is on the boys basketball program from Bristol Central. On December…
News December 13, 2020
By Michael Letendre A scholastic football fight between Bristol Central and Maloney of Meriden put the winter sports schedule in a bit of flux in the Mum City during the…
News December 12, 2020
By Michael Letendre Bristol Eastern high school was opened in the late summer of 1959 and while the fall scholastic sports campaign didn’t exactly go according to plan, at least…