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Welcome back to the second episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs after a bad first week of picks for the three. On to week 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After 636 excruciating days, football returns to Connecticut. Xavier senior quarterback and UConn baseball commit DREW KRON talks to us about how he survived the COVID-19 pandemic, his vaccine advocacy and his excitement about finally getting to play football again. Also Jeff Jacobs joins Pete and Sean to discuss the (way too early?) 2021 Top 10 Poll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Welcome to a new podcast on the GameTimeCT Podcast Network. After all the great feedback on the staff picks we do for football, we decided to break it out into its shorter podcast series for the 2021 season. The show is hosted by GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga who is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

5:09 — Class M Champion: East Catholic coach Martin Fiori, Frank Mozzicato and Hank Penders 32:54 — Class L Champion: Hand coach Travis LaPointe, Anthony DePino and David Antonetti 1:06:11 — Class LL Champion: Norwalk coach Ryan Mitchell, Alistair Morin and Brendan Edvardsen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2021 baseball state championship preview and predictions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

State tournament semifinals preview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First two round roundup, quarterfinal preview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ludlowe coach Steve Swett, whose team knocked off New Canaan, 8-7 in 2OTs in the Class L qualifying round, joins the show to talk about his team's journey to the tournament. Plus! Sean, Mike and Dave break down and predict the six boys and girls state championship brackets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean Patrick Bowley and Will Aldam recap the 2021 conference tournament week and break down the 2021 CIAC tournament brackets with Aldam picking the winners. Join us. 0:00 -- 0:36: Opener with Masuk walking off with the SWC Softball Championship over ND-Fairfield. Masuk's Kat Gallant. 0:36 -- 8:25: Looking back at conference championship week. 8:25 -- 11:34: Class S Tournament Breakdown 11:34 -- 1...

State Tournament preview and predictions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conference tournament picks and #CTBase Fantasy Draft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the long-awaited 2021 postseason just about to get underway, we decided to boost the signal this week with two guests. First up is local lacrosse guru DAN ARESTIA, a New Canaan native, youth coach, Darien Athletic Foundation broadcast analyst and a contributor to Inside Lacrosse and Lacrosse Flash. Up next is our first girls lacrosse coach of the year, SIX-time state championship coach KRISTI...

No. 9 Woodland is unbeaten with one game remaining before the NVL tournament and 20-year coach Loren Luddy joins us to talk about the talent, the camaraderie and selflessness exhibited by her squad as they gear up for the posteason. Hosts Will Aldam and Sean Patrick Bowley discuss the slight shakeup in the Top 10 and glance at all of the other upcoming conference tournaments. RUNDOWN: 0:00 -- 18:4...

East Catholic coach Martin Fiori Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The intensity is amping up in Connecticut high school softball as the postseason inches closer. One of the hottest teams this year, of course, has been the unbeaten and No. 4-ranked Cheshire Rams, who are in the middle of a key stretch of SCC games this week. Joining us for the second time is head coach Kristine Drust, who talks about how her team overcame the lost time to produce an unbeaten seas...

High and Tight Episode V: Shelton coach Scott Gura Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greenwich's sixth-year coach Bobby Lutz joins the show to talk about how his Cardinals are overcoming a late start to the season during quarantine, their big win over No. 2 Ridgefield, and -- as a former player and assistant at New Canaan, and later former assistant at Darien, on how to keep up with the state's top programs. Mike Fornabaio and Sean Patrick Bowley recap No. 1 Darien's OT loss to Br...

It took us a few weeks but we're finally back with the first episode of Inside the Circle, GameTimeCT's softball podcast. This season we're joined by new beat writer Will Aldam who joins host Sean Patrick Bowley to give us an update on the 2021 season. PLUS! We're joined by East Haven coach Ed Crisafi, whose team reached the 2019 Class L final and is now looking to return against a stacked Class L...

Connecticut high school baseball mid-season report Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a two-year layoff, we're back with Season 2 of the Long Stick Podcast. Sean Patrick Bowley and Michael Fornabaio kick the tires on the start of the 2021 Boys Lacrosse season so far and bring on special guest Brian Adkins of Foran to talk about how teams have adjusted to the layoff and new rules since the COVID pandemic wiped out last year. RUNDOWN: 0:00 - 23:30 -- Breaking down GameTimeCT To...

Norwalk coach Ryan Mitchell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Fairfield coach Joe Garbowski joined the show this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

High and Tight Episode I: We are finally back Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe and Sean run down the Final 2021 GameTimeCT Boys Basketball Top 10 Poll, recap the conference championships and chat with 7-foot-1 center Donovan Clingan, coach Tim Barrette of No. 1-ranked, CCC Champion Bristol Central. 0:00-1:20 -- Bristol Central wins the CCC Championship montage. 1:20-18:23 -- Breaking down the Final Top 10 Boys Basketball poll teams, including Bristol Central, NVL Champio...

Joe and Sean look at the week that was and the week ahead in all of the state's conference tournaments and the end of the 2021 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices