Monday, September 16, 2013
Pucci's Top 10 Ballot
Here's how I voted for the 2013 New Haven Register Top 10 Football Poll after Week 1.
The Poll will be posted
on-line later tonight and appear in Tuesday's print editions.
1. Ansonia
2. Xavier
3. New Canaan
4. NFA
5. Newtown
6. Middletown
7. Southington
8. St. Joseph
9. Greenwich
10. Shelton
11. New London
12. Masuk
13. Darien
14. Fairfield Prep
15. West Haven
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
CHSCA to induct nine into Hall of Fame
Eight
coaches and one media member will be honored as 2013 inductees to the
Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame at its 37th
annual
ceremony on Nov. 21 at the Aqua Turf in Southington at 7 p.m.
Coaches Richard W. Albonizio, John Robert Blomstrann, Robert Stephen
Freimuth, Charles Tony Gorman, Jack Hunt (posthumously), Dennis Lobo, Fred
P. Williams,
Terri Ziemnicki and media member Sean Barker will be inducted.
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Albonizio has coached football at Greenwich since 1997 winning three
state championships. He also won one while at Trinity Catholic in 1993.
He has 155
victories at Greenwich and 389 total coaching career victories coming into the 2013 season, which
includes wrestling and track, which he coached at Port Chester (N.Y.),
where he was also head football coach.
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Blomstrann has coached boys soccer at E.O. Smith since 1980. He entered
the season with 481 victories and his teams have won five state
championships and
21 league titles.
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Freimuth coached baseball for 27 years at Plainville and also soccer at
Bristol Central for seven years. He won five baseball state
championships and his
teams made eight semifinal appearances. Plainville won nine Northwest
Conference titles under Freimuth and he was named CHSCA Coach of the
Year in 1997.
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Gorman coached boys basketball, soccer, baseball and cross country at
Henry Abbott Technical from 1967-1988. He had 270 career basketball
victories and
won six Western Connecticut Conference championships. He also served as
athletic director from 1979-2007.
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Hunt coached football at Ansonia for 19 years, during which he had a
193-26 record, won seven state championships and nine Naugatuck Valley
League titles. Hunt died on Nov. 22, 2012 at age 66.
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Lobo has coached boys cross country and track and field at Granby
Memorial since 1967. His boys track team won a state title in 1984 and
he has five league
titles. He has 357 track and 521 cross country victories and was named
CHSCA boys cross country Coach of the Year in 1989.
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Williams has coached girls basketball, since 1967, and also boys soccer
and girls soccer at Northwestern Regional in Winsted. He has 905 total
coaching
career victories, and his girls basketball team won a state
championship in 1990. His teams have also won 10 girls basketball league
titles and seven boys soccer league championships.
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Ziemnicki has coached field hockey, since 1989, and girls lacrosse,
since 2008, at Avon and Granby High Schools. She has 288 career field
hockey victory
and her teams have been to the state championship game three times. She
has five league titles in field hockey and two in girls lacrosse. She
was named Class S Coach of the Year in 1992.
- Barker has been the sports editor of the New Haven Register since
2006 and has held numerous supervisory and writing positions since 1991,
many focusing on high school
coverage. He has won multiple writing and section awards from the
Associated Press and Connecticut Society of Journalists. He also is a
McGinley Award winner for meritorious service to the Connecticut Sports
Writers Alliance.
Tickets for the dinner are $46 and available in advance by contacting
the CHSCA office at P.O. Box 632, Southington, CT 06487 or by calling
860-628-4122
or e-mailing John Fontana at
jfontana01@snet.net. Doors open at 6 p.m.