[CORRECTION: This whole post is wrong!! The CIAC website initially reversed the result, and thus so did I. But the truth is that NEWINGTON WON!!! See new post above.]
Harumph.
And here I had this whole great lede planned… it would have been something like: “In an upset of apocalyptic proportions, the NHS boys volleyball team exorcised the demons of Newington’s beastly postseason history against archrival Southington, defeating the devilishly good Blue Knights on 6/6/06 to advance to the state championship game. The Indians, who were generally not given a snowball’s chance in hell of beating the previously undefeated, top-seeded Knights, will play either Staples or Trumbull on Friday for the Class L title.” Now I’ll never get to use it. Er, except I sorta just did… but you know what I mean…
P.S. In other, uh, fiery Newington news, for anyone who may have missed my reference to it yesterday, I just wanted to point out again that today is the 10th anniversary of el dia del fuego — the glorious day, during my freshman year in high school, when the building was evacuated not once, but twice, due to two separate, totally unrelated fires. You can read what I wrote about it at the time (a window into my pre-blog, Living Room Times days) and view some of my pictures (actually taken with a camcorder and then freeze-framed on my computer) of that memorable day in the life of NHS.
I can’t believe it’s been a decade since I was a freshman! I feel so… old!
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June 6th, 2006 at 6:50:24 pm
Southington won.
It’s because they’re better.
Eh, at least you might win when you play the South Park Cows. Especially now that coach Chef is gone.
June 6th, 2006 at 6:52:02 pm
Pro-Southington trash talk? On MY blog? Watch it, buddy. Free speech has its limits.
:)
June 7th, 2006 at 4:35:21 am
Brendan who or what was your source for this misinformation? Newington won!!!!! Going to state tourney!
June 7th, 2006 at 4:36:28 am
Here is the link to check the official results. http://www.casciac.org/scripts/display_bracket16.cgi?sport=bvb&class=L&year=2006
June 7th, 2006 at 5:16:27 am
I remember that … It was actually pretty funny… We all get back inside and a little while later it goes off again … And no one believes it…
June 7th, 2006 at 5:17:20 am
Yeah, Newington won. Here’s a link to The Herald’s article since the Courant doesn’t have anything up yet
http://www.newbritainherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16748968&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=17739&rfi=6
June 7th, 2006 at 5:19:10 am
And think about it this way, Breandan… We’ve known each other for a whole freakin’ decade!
June 7th, 2006 at 5:57:16 am
Newington defeated Southington 3-1. Scores were: 25-15, 25-17, 18-25, 25-15. Look in the papers man. NEWINGTON BEAT SOUTHINGTON!!!!
June 7th, 2006 at 7:16:43 am
HOLY COW!!!
June 7th, 2006 at 7:21:23 am
My source for the misinformation was the CIAC website. They got the result wrong initially!
Anyway, WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!
June 7th, 2006 at 7:22:38 am
Yeah, I thought you’d love this mistake!!!!
June 7th, 2006 at 9:31:16 am
Indeed. I haven’t been this happy to be wrong since Election Night 2000, when I put the Daily Trojan to bed with the headline “At the eleventh hour, Bush wins” … only to find out, when I got back to my apartment, that the media had taken Florida out of the Bush column, and the election was a tossup!
Alas, that reprieve from being right was only temporary. :) But this time around, I seriously doubt the Supreme Court is going to declare Southington the winner…