Falls Village – With the arrival of hot weather, the same goes for a new athletics season at the Housatonic Valley Regional High School.
Mountaineers will be part of the teams in five different sports for the spring season: baseball, softball, butt, tennis and athletics.
Baseball started the university season with a scrum on March 31 at home against Wolcott Technical High School. Mountaineers will be trained by Bobby Chatfield this year. The last time that most of the HVRHS university players took in diamond, it was in August 2024 when Housy Juniors won the Summer Baseball Championship of the Northwest Connecticut of Babe League 4.
With a surplus of baseball players this year, the university junior baseball goes to HVRHS. Boys JV, trained by Russell Sears, will allow the season on April 5 on the road against Shepaug Valley High School.
Softball also starts on April 5 with a home match against Shepaug Valley. Coaches Pete Foley and Kaleigh Selino led the team to a 13-9 record and a trip to the Class S tournament last year. The Mountaineers will have to establish a new launcher on the mound after graduating the Star Anne Moran launcher in 2024.
Tennis boys and girls starts on April 7. The boys, trained by Jeff Tripp, will go to Lakeview high school for the first meeting of the season. At the same time, the girls, trained by Don Drislane and Mo Kirby-Dore, welcome Lakeview on the newly rehabilitated HVRHS.
The butt season begins with a revenge on the Western Connecticut Lacrosse Lacrosse Western Connecticut Connecticut Championship match. HVRHS, trained by Laura Bushey, will travel to play the Catholic high school St. Paul in title in Bristol on April 9. St. Paul beat Hvrhs 13-12 in a fascinating league final last May.
The track and the field should start on April 22 with a home competition against the Lakeview High School. HVRHS, trained by Alan Lovejoy, has a number of decorated athletes who return to the track this year, notably Kyle McCarron, Ava Segalla and Anthony Labadia, who participated in the CIAC State Open competition last June. Much more runners and return horsemen acquired the state experience last year during the CIAC Class S meeting in May.