By Michael Letendre The scholastic football decade of the 2010’s started off with the program from Bristol Eastern winning several times on Thanksgiving. But about halfway through the decade, Bristol…
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By Michael Letendre The Bristol Central football team was a successful operation over the first six years of the 2000s against crosstown rival Bristol Eastern. But once Timmy Washington and…
By Michael Letendre Who won more of the Thanksgiving Day games between the football programs between Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern in the decade of the 1980s? You’ve got a…
Editor’s note- In a series that covers the Thanksgiving Day football battle between Central and Eastern, Mike Letendre will cover the rivalry one decade at a time. By Michael Letendre…
Editor’s note- In a series that covers the Thanksgiving Day football battle between Central and Eastern, Mike Letendre will cover the rivalry one decade at a time. By Michael Letendre…
By Michael Letendre Mike Lorenzetti – the former Bristol Central pitching sensation – could cause Iona College men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino to do a double take when the nearly…
By Michael Letendre In 1988, the Bristol Eastern football program won the Class MM Championship, defeating South Windsor by a 22-19 final to win the only Bristol public school gridiron…
By Michael Letendre The Bristol Eastern volleyball program emptied the tank this past fall and left it all on the court over a spirited – and exciting – postseason run….
By Michael Letendre The rumor mill was swirling last Friday night at the Bristol Eastern football game against Bloomfield. A half-hour before tipoff, I was asked about the possibility of…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The Bristol Eastern football program is looking for a .500 finish to its campaign in 2021 and step one of that process was attempting to…
By Michael Letendre PLAINVILLE – The Bristol Central football team battled Plainville in a primetime CCC Tier 3 showdown on Friday night. Both teams were on a mission to keep…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The auditorium at Bristol Central high school was abuzz with excitement on Wednesday as a certain 7-foot-1 center from the boys basketball team made his…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – When will this train-ride for the Bristol Eastern volleyball team end? Who knows and who cares because the tenth ranked Lancers kept its postseason ledger…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – Maybe one day this postseason, the Bristol Eastern volleyball team will have to play on the road in someone else’s gymnasium. However, that scenario won’t…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – It’s Week 10 of the Connecticut scholastic football slate and Bristol Central is looking to knock its opponent out of the postseason picture on Friday….
By Michael Letendre STORRS – Dismissing what the Bristol Eastern girls soccer team accomplished in 2021 would be foolish. Because after a rough and rocky start to the campaign, the…
By Michael Letendre (Photo by Herve Letendre) BRISTOL – Along the way in Bristol Eastern’s 3-0 sweep of Torrington in the first round of the CIAC Class L volleyball state…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – After a grueling week of four matches in a matter of six days – leading to the 2021 Central Connecticut Conference Girls Volleyball Tournament Championship…
By Michael Letendre STORRS – The Bristol Eastern girls soccer program, the 27th rated team in the Class L field, ended its season on Monday night in first round play….
By Michael Letendre Hannah Webber dominating at the net. (Photo by TJ Dowling) KENTUCKY – On November 5, the American Volleyball Coaches Association recently announced its second annual AVCA High…