By Michael Letendre On January 26, 1999, the Bristol Eastern boys basketball squad battled Newington in a CCC South confrontation from the Thomas M. Monahan Gymnasium. And in that contest…
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By Michael Letendre Over the last two scholastic seasons, COVID-19 has played havoc with the winter scholastic schedule – knocking out, not one, but two championship postseason tournaments. I agreed…
By Michael Letendre It’s been a tough year for scholastic sports in Connecticut with cancellations, postponements, and limited postseason entanglements. Starting with the fall campaign, the scholastic season was delayed…
By Michael Letendre The CIAC finally announced the winter scholastic sports schedule for boys and girls basketball and boys swimming on Wednesday as practices are underway for the programs. Those…
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…
By Michael Letendre The Bristol Edition continues to highlight Bristol Central’s Class L state championship cross country team from 2010, putting together the exploits of Mike Duprey, Jacob Eschner, Connor…
By Michael Letendre With the news of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference finally allowing the winter sports season to begin practicing officially, a long awaited door opened for several athletes…
By Michael Letendre The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Board of Control approved the Winter Sports plan on Thursday – meaning sports would be commencing at the scholastic level. And once…
By Michael Letendre The winter scholastic sports campaign might be getting off the ground after all, even as COVID attempted to derail the entire season. The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference,…
By Michael Letendre On January 7, the CIAC Board of Control held a morning meeting to discuss the up-coming metrics that would help shape each scholastic sport during the upcoming…
By Michael Letendre The Bristol Central/Bristol Eastern volleyball city series battles went on for quite sometime, starting in 1997, with the Lancers usually capturing victory over three straight sets –…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The winning streak for the Bristol Eastern volleyball team against Bristol Central, now at 53 straight victories by the Lancers, started off quietly in 1995. …
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – Over the first five installments of the series between the Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern volleyball squads in The Bristol Edition, we’ve learned that the…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The Bristol Central volleyball team, after a string of good luck against its counterparts from Bristol Eastern in the mid-1980s, fell on hard times in…
By Michael Letendre (This is part 3 of a 4 part series) BRISTOL – From 1977 until 1983, the Bristol Central volleyball program didn’t have any success against its crosstown…
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…
By Michael Letendre Last weekend in The Bristol Edition, you read about Tony Floyd’s first game as head coach for the girls basketball team at Bristol Eastern while diving into…
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…
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…
By Michael Letendre In the winter of 1979, the Bristol Eastern girls basketball program had a new coach. His name was Tony Floyd. And fast forward to 2020, that same…