For fans that simply can't get enough conversation about high school sports, the CIAC presents CIACcast. The 'Cast will feature news you might have missed, a behind-the-scenes look at the CIAC, and conversations with media members, coaches and other notable figures from the Connecticut High School sports world. Check out the CIACcast regularly to insure you are part of the conversation.
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Connecticut's premier high school football podcast hosted by Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga for GameTimeCT.
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The Bright Lights Podcast shines a light on the young women playing high school basketball around the state of Connecticut, the basketball capital of the world! The BLP will rank teams and players every week, all season long, with player and team features. If you are a women's basketball fan, this is the show you won't want to miss!
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 2 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:45 — Intro 2:46 - 4:14 — New Britain (1-0) at East Hartford (0-1) 4:15 - 5:29 — Thames Rivers (0-1) at Northwest United (1-0) 5:3…
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Coach's Corner: Amity coach George French
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Amity coach George French joined Sean Patrick and Pete Paguaga for the first episode of the new spin off Meat Grinder podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's opening season win over Shelton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy GameTimeCT
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New Canaan, Greenwich lead Fairfield County reign over Week 1 | The Meat Grinder (S7 E2)
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And we’re off! Week 1 is in the books, including a massive slate of enticing Alliance matchups between the major conferences. What happened? What did we learn? Well, if anything, we learned that the FCIAC, out of the starting gate, has taken a massive lead on everybody else — especially the SCC. Thanks to dominant efforts by New Canaan, Darien, Gre…
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The GameTimeCT Pick'Em podcast and board has returned for Week 1 of the 2024 football season. The Rundown 0:00 - 2:33 — Intro 2:34 - 5:03 — Holy Cross at Woodland 5:03 - 8:11 — Southington at Fairfield Prep 8:12 - 13:23 — Greenwich at West Haven 13:24 - 17:48 — New Canaan at Maloney 17:49 - 20:43 — Berlin at Branford 20:44 - 23:13 — Cheshire at Dar…
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2024 Connecticut High School Football Season Outlook: The Meat Grinder (S7, E1)
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Kickoff, at last! Hello again and welcome to the Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut brought to you by the gang at GameTimeCT.com and hosted by Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga. In this first episode of Season 7, we look back at everything that's happened this past offseason, starting with the deaths of two of …
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CIAC Girls Basketball State Championship Results
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CIAC Girls Basketball State Championship Results from Class LL Class L Class M and Class SBy Jamar Smith
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The Bright Lights CT Podcast Conference Championships
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We have the latest news on all the Women's CIAC action across CT! Plus, 10 young women in CT cracked 1,000 points for their careers, we'll tell you who they are.. and preview the conference championships. ECC conference NCCC conference CCC conference FCIAC conference SWC conference NVL conference SCC conference Shoreline Conference CTC conference B…
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Bright Lights CT Podcast Top 25 JRs and Top 15 SOs
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The Bright Lights CT Podcast shines a light on the top 25 Women's #HighSchoolBasketball JR Players in the #CIAC We count down from 25 to the top player in #Connecticut and the Top 15 SophomoresBy Jamar Smith
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The Bright Lights CT Podcast shines a light on the top 25 Women's #HighSchoolBasketball Players in the #CIAC We count down from 25 to the top player in #ConnecticutBy Jamar Smith
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2023 CIAC championship recap and season finale show | The Meat Grinder (S6 E16)
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Welcome to 16th and final Season 6 episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. After six great championship bouts ad CCSU and UConn’s Rentschler Field, we’ve crowned our 2023 champions and voted in the final GameTimeCT Top 10 poll and the STAPLES WRECKERS are No.…
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Joe Aguiar and Jamar Smith bring you the best of Women's Basketball from the Basketball Capital of the World! We'll be covering Women's High School Hoops in CT, at UCONN, the CT Sun and more! Top 25 teams, players rankings, the most comprehensive coverage you can find!By Jamar Smith
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Thanksgiving wrap and quarterfinal pick'ems show (S6 E13)
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Welcome to another thrilling edition of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut with GameTimeCT's Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga, and the weekly GameTimeCT Pick'ems Podcas: CIAC quarterfinal edition. And what a Thanksgiving week it was as we completed the CIAC state playoff field. There were upsets galore in …
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The 2023 Thanksgiving week playoff update & pick'em podcast show | The Meat Grinder (S6 E12)
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Welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of High School Football in Connecticut and because we live in Connecticut, and we're fast approaching the last Thursday in November, everybody should know what that means. Yes, turkeys, it's Thanksgiving Football Week in Connecticut, the final regular season game of the…
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The GameTimeCT Pick'Em podcast and board has returned for Week 11 of the 2023 football season. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:34 — Opener 2:35 - 4:15 — Conard (1-8) at Hall (6-3) 4:16 - 5:20 — ATI (7-1) at Bullard Havens (7-2) 5:20 - 6:07 — Waterford (2-6) at Weaver (1-7) 6:08 - 7:19 — Granby/Canton (8-1) at SMSA co-op (8-1) 7:20 - 8:47 — Fairfield Prep (2-6…
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Setting the Thanksgiving Table with CIAC playoff scenarios (S6 E11)
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We’ve reached the penultimate week of the 2023 regular season, the week where we set the Thanksgiving table and learn, definitively, who is in and who needs what to qualify for the CIAC playoffs. And, yes, your crack staff at GameTimeCT hunkered down with our slide rules and abacuses this weekend so that we may give you our best estimates on the la…
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Special Episode ! Boston Herald reporter Danny Ventura joins the show
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Welcome to back to another episode of the Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut. Do not adjust your YouTube or Spotify. It is Friday and it is a very special episode of the Meat Grinder. Last week’s drop of the Alliance playoff proposal got our gears going, we discussed it amongst ourselves, and then had a lengthy di…
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The GameTimeCT Pick'Em podcast and board has returned for Week 10 of the 2023 football season. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:54 — Intro 2:55 - 4:17 — Windsor (7-1) at Berlin (6-2) 4:18 - 5:02 — Wilcox Tech (3-4) at Platt Tech (5-3) 5:03 - 6:42 — Killingly (5-3) at New London (5-3) 6:43 - 7:44 — Ludlowe (6-2) at Wilton (6-2) 7:45 - 9:07 — Oxford (8-0) at Ans…
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Turkey Day in September? No, Thanks! Plus, Oxford coach Joe Stochmal | The Meat Grinder (S6 E10)
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We knew it was coming and here it is. The Alliance brass has interrupted the season with their latest call to remove Thanksgiving Day as Connecticut's crown jewel of sporting events. The idea: Dump a century's worth tradition in favor of a balanaced schedule based on class, 50% more (whyyy??) playoff teams, the ending the season before the wrestlin…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 9 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 4:10 — Intro 4:10 - 6:02 — CCC: Maloney (6-1) at Southington (5-2) 6:03 - 7:05 — Bullard Havens (5-2) at Wilcox Tech (3-3) 7:06 - 8…
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It was a Big Weekend of 'Firsts' | The Meat Grinder (S6 E9)
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It was a weekend of firsts across the state as October drew to a close. Notre Dame-Fairfield is 7-0 after beating Masuk for the first time since 2005. Coming off its first loss of the season, No. 7 West Haven handed No. 4 Newtown its first loss. Shelton, meanwhile, handed No. 6 North Haven its first on-field loss of the season while returning to th…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 8 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 3:07 — Intro 3:08 - 4:46 — Maloney at Hall 4:47 - 5:41 — Thames River at Cheney Tech 5:42 - 7:34 — Stonington at Windham 7:35 - 9:4…
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Best Haven? North Haven; Plus: Newtown's Dan Farina (S6 E8)
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Triumph and sadness ruled yet another rainy week of football. First, at the opening of the new Ken Strong Stadium turf, North Haven — ranked in the preseason, but dropped following its forfeit to Darien Week 1 — completed its march back to the top 10 with a near-perfect 21-13 upset victory over No. 2 West Haven. The following night, Windsor, in its…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 7 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 2:21 — Intro 2:22 - 3:45 — Enfield at Berlin 3:46 - 5:03 — Wilcox Tech/Kaynor Tech at ATI 5:04 - 6:35 — Fitch at Killingly 6:36 - 8…
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The Meat Grinder (S6 E7): Fitch's Mike Ellis and the Curse of the GTCT podcast; Plus: The Midseason Player Draft
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Welcome back to another edition of The Meat Grinder, Connecticut's award-winning high school podcast brought to you by GameTimeCT. We've reached the midpoint of the 2023 season, and what better way to celebrate than diving into a very special Meat Grinder midseason double album. Yes, like the rock legends of old — The Beatles, Floyd, The Stones, Ze…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 6 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 4:11 — Intro 4:12 - 6:18 — Waterford at Ledyard 6:19 - 9:09 — Staples at Wilton 9:10 - 10:33 — Windsor Locks co-op at Haddam-Killin…
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The Meat Grinder (S6 E6): All's Fair in Love and Football | Plus! Darien's Andy Grant
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Welcome to another edition of The Meat Grinder, Connecticut's only award winning high school football podcast, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. It was a bye week for half the state, yet somehow we have jam-packed show because plenty happened. With everybody focused on Camren Kemp's Hamden homecoming on his birthday, it was junior quarte…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 5 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 2:51 — Intro 2:52 - 4:38 — Maloney at Glastonbury 4:39 - 6:31 — O'Brien Tech at VGW Tech 6:32 - 8:49 — New Canaan at St. Joseph 8:5…
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The Meat Grinder (S6 E5): Reigning in the Rain | Plus! North Branford coach Anthony Salvati
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Thanks to another round of nasty weather — this time a wave of torrential rain that drenched much of Connecticut and made playing football a slippery endeavor — it was a chaotic Week 4 of high school football. For those who played Friday night, the rain disrupted just about every football team's delicate offensive choreography, which scripted some …
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 4 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 4:01 — Intro 4:02 - 6:14 — Wethersfield at Berlin 6:15 - 9:25 — Bullard Havens/Kolbe at Northwest United 9:26 - 11:50 — ATI at Tham…
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The Meat Grinder (S6 E4): Return of the FCIAC | Plus: new MSW Co-Op coach Kevin Sullivan
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After a rough showing in the Alliance’s first week, the FCIAC roared back with three Top 10 Alliance victories in Week 3, including No. 1 Greenwich’s thrilling 30-28 win over No. 3 Maloney, unranked Staples' 34-27 takedown of No. 2 Southington, and New Canaan’s reaffirming 33-12 win over No. 10 Windsor. Though Newtown dampened league spirits when i…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 3 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 5:00 — Intro 5:01 - 7:22 — Oxford at Seymour 7:23 - 8:46 — Bullard Havens/Kolbe at Cheney Tech 8:47 - 12:11 — Capital Prep/First Ac…
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The Meat Grinder (S6 E3): 3 Big Games, 3 Tough Calls | Plus: Bunnell coach Ty Jenkins
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Welcome to another edition of The Meat Grinder, Connecticut's only award winning high school football podcast, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. A supposed off-week was anything but as several big results rocked the early 2023 season — Cheshire topped Shelton in overtime, Darien rallied to beat McMahon and Hand bested Fairfield Prep in o…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 2 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 3:41 — Intro 3:42 - 4:57 — Avon at East Catholic 4:58 - 6:23 — Prince Tech/Innovation at ATI 6:24 - 8:25 — Fitch at New London 8:26…
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 0:53 — Intro 0:54 - 2:47 — Woodland at Holy Cross 2:48 - 3:58 — Trumbull at Hamden 3:59 - 5:13 — Wilton at Berlin 5:14 - 6:48 — Rockville at …
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The SCC’s big dogs, West Haven, Shelton, Hamden and Cheshire knocked off the FCIAC’s big dogs in a stormy (figurative and literal) start to the 2023 Connecticut High School Football season. Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley return to break down the Top 10 carnage and hit on some of the big performances of Week 1. While Masuk’s coaching situation…
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Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga return with a full hour of 2023 Connecticut High School football season previews in the Season SIX premiere episode of the Meat Grinder. The guys look over what's new, who's who and what's what; go on some rants, run down the GameTimeCT preseason Top 10 football poll and, finally, make their state championship p…
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High and Tight (S5, E9): All four state baseball champions join the show to recap the state finals
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the ninth and final episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The champions were crowned this weekend at Palmer Field and all four champions joined the show this week. Class S champion: Haddam-Killingworth coach Mark Brookes joined the show with Joseph G…
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High and Tight (S5, E8): State Championship Breakdown and state finals predictions
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the eighth episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The duo is alone this week because the state championship matchups are set. The two break down the last two weeks of the tournaments and select which team they think will be celebrating on Palmer Field…
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High and Tight (S5, E7): State Tournament Breakdown and Predictions
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the seventh episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The duo is alone this week because the state tournament pairings have dropped. The two break down each class and select their final fours and champions for each class. Rundown 0:00 - 1:24 — Introducti…
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High and Tight (S5, E6): St. Bernard Grant Livingston joins the show
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the sixth episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The duo is joined by St. Bernard baseball coach Grant Livingston. Livingston helped lead St. Bernard to the 2007 Class S state title as a player and is now leading the program as the head coach. He has …
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High and Tight (S5, E5): Trumbull coach Phil Pacelli joins the show
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the fifth episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The duo is joined by Trumbull baseball coach Phil Pacelli. The longtime Trumbull coach has led his team to an 12-4 record this season. Pacelli is a Trumbull guy through and through, playing for the Eagl…
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High and Tight (S5, E4): Hamden coach Mike Dwyer joins the show
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the fourth episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The duo is joined by Hamden baseball coach Mike Dwyer. The second year coach has led his team to an 8-2 start. Dwyer played at Hamden before playing at Newbury College and has been coaching in the Gree…
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High and Tight (S5, E3): Abbott Tech coach Dave Simone joins the show
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the third episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The duo is joined by Abbott Tech baseball coach Dave Simone. The Abbott Tech coach has been leading the Wolverine program for 10 years. He played at Immaculate before going on to play at UConn-Avery Poi…
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High and Tight (S5, E2): Southington coach Stan Switala joins the show
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the second episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The duo is joined by Southington baseball coach Stan Switala. The Southington coach joined the Blue Knights coaching staff last season after 18 years coaching in California. The trio talks about the bi…
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High and Tight (S5 E1): Welcome back for the 2023 High School Baseball Season
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GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back for the fifth season of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast. The duo is thrilled to be back behind the microphone to talk all things Connecticut High School baseball. In the first episode of the season, the two talk the preseason top 10 poll, top players to keep an eye this season and…
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The Meat Grinder (S5 E16): No. 1 Greenwich's Anthony Morello
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In this episode hosts Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley look back at six state championship games, examine what happened and what worked and what didn't during the games at Central Connecticut State's Arute Field and UConn's Rentschler Field. They also look at all of the state's final rankings — the GameTimeCT Top 10 Poll, The Day of New London'…
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The Meat Grinder (S5 E15b): UConn football coach Jim Mora Interview
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It's State Championship Weekend and we have a special guest to help preview the state finals. UConn coach Jim Mora joins hosts Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley to talk about the football state championships being held at Rentschler Field, UConn and Arute Field, CCSU. Mora also talks about the taking the job at UConn, the season the team has had…
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The Meat Grinder (S5 E15): The State Championship Bonanza and Pick'ems Show
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It's State Championship Weekend! The matchups are set. The annual CIAC championship has been conducted and the title venues —— Central Connecticut State's Arute Field and University of Connecticut's Rentschler Field —— are ready to host Saturday's six championship games.Join hosts Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley has they talk about the weekend…
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The Meat Grinder (S5 E14): The Quarterfinal Wrap & Semifinal Pick'em Show
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After a competitive and ofen surprising round of 24 state quarterfinal games, we've reached the final four of the 2022 Connecticut high school football season. That is, it's the final four in six state championship divisions, or the final 12.Welcome to yet another very special Meat Grinder / Pick'ems Podcast crossover show, in which hosts Pete Pagu…
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The Meat Grinder (S5 E13): The 2022 Turkey Wrap & Quarterfinal Pick'ems
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Welcome to the Annual Turkey Wrap Episode of the Meat Grinder, our look back at all the thrills, chills and spills and clean up after the Thanksgiving Week regular season finale. Despite the CIAC's best efforts to dilute the playoffs to the point where only 11 of 48 playoff spots were up-for-grabs heading into the week (and a mere seven on Thanksgi…
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