T he Waterford Micro A Football team won the 2006 Southern New England Youth Football Conference championship—the first league title for the Lancers’ youth program in many, many years. Last year, the nucleus of coach Mark Riemann’s champions split up, some playing for the Junior Lancers (under 125 pounds...

By Larry Kelley There’s no reason for Montville football coach Tanner Grove and the rest of the Indians to deny it. The Indians are thinking CIAC football playoffs. After an impressive 49-20 blowout of Stonington and an obligatory walkthrough against undermanned Tourtellotte, Montville stood 8-0 with...

There will be no question what the score is any more at Montville Youth Football League (MYFL) games, thanks to a brand new, high tech scoreboard sign. Or where the kids are playing: in Montville. The new sign went up a few weeks ago, thanks to effort spearheaded by Bill Clark, Oakdale, one of the MYFL...

By Larry Kelly Thomas J. Amanti, principal of Montville High School, stood on the last row of the bleachers next to the press box and smiled as he peered out to the middle of the football field. “I love the big ‘M,’” Amanti said, referring to the 10-yard-wide, orange “M” on the 50-yard line on the Indians...

Montville loves its sports. When it comes to youth football, everyone in town is a Montville Indian – the name all of the teams use in the Montville Youth Football League (MYFL). The football league is one of those things that define Montville. The non-profit, all-volunteer youth sports organization...

No question that Montville is a baseball town. With two Little Leagues, a Babe Ruth League and now older girl's softball, there are ample opportunities for players, fans and supporters to get involved. Montville's leagues depend on the volunteered energy, time and talents of families and friends...

Jeremy Chapman loves baseball. He grew up playing a lot of it in Quaker Hill. The Waterford High graduate, a sophomore in sports management at Mitchell College in New London , has the distinction of having been named Pitcher of the Week in the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC)...

Jeremy Chapman loves baseball. He grew up playing a lot of it in Quaker Hill. The Montville resident, a sophomore in sports management at Mitchell College in New London , has the distinction of having been named Pitcher of the Week in the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) three...

Olivia Satti is 10 years old, but she’s already well aware of what her last name means to wrestling in southeastern Connecticut. “My dad always says I have to live up to the family name,” she said last week, beaming with more than an ounce of pride in her relatives and her sport. You see, the Sattis...