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Girls' Cagers Ride Second-Quarter Run To Second-Round Playoff Victory

By Andy Hutchison

Published: Mar 02, 2018 12:00 am

Update: The game time for the March 5 quarterfinal-round contest has been changed to 6 pm. The contest is at Trumbull High, as originally planned.

Newtown High School's girls' basketball team outscored visiting Hamden by 16 pointsÃÂ in the second quarter to pull away en route to a 56-39 triumph in the second round of the Class LL state tournament, on March 1.

With the win, the sixth-seeded Nighthawks earn a trip to No. 3 Trumbull in the quarterfinals on Monday, March 5. No. 11 Hamden, one of the top teams in the Southern Connecticut Conference, saw its season end.

Cyleigh Wilson scored 15 of her 16 points in the first half, including nine on a trio of 3-pointers in a game-changing second stanza.

The game was even at 16 apiece after one quarter of play. Newtown went on a 20-3 run in the second period to claim a 36-19 halftime lead. It was 49-31 after three quarters.

Rylee Mulligan had 15 points for NHS. Jackie Matthews and Nicki DaPra added seven apiece.

Cyleigh Wilson scored 16 points in Newtown's win over Hamden. (Bee Photo, Hutchison)

Jackie Matthews drives on the baseline. (Bee Photo, Hutchison)

Nicki DaPra makes a move with the ball. (Bee Photo, Hutchison)

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I want to clarify something that was not clear in my letter. Newtown DOES have an affordable housing plan, put together with the aid of the Council of Governments (COG) in 2022 and approved by the LC that year. The strategies in that plan are to "encourage", "support", "explore", "promote" various aspects of state and local affordable housing programs. Those strategies are largely repeated in the Housing Chapter of the Plan of Conservation and Development being finalized now. Newtown needs to measure its performance against those strategies and refine them to reflect the current situation and evaluate whether we are eligible for a moratorium on 8-30(g) projects if we have met the criteria. It's a question of being more specific and more rigorous in what we as a community would like to see to address this real and serious need, rather than to be on our heels when a developer proposes a project on their terms. An independent look outside the application process would be best for that. Thank you. Peter.

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