By Andy Hutchison
Published: Dec 14, 2018 04:03 PM
Basketball games certainly aren't won the opening quarter, but Newtown High School's boys' cagers seized a 16-7 lead after one stanza then withstood every comeback effort by visiting Torrington, never relinquishing the lead en route to a 65-55 victory in the season-opener, at NHS, on December 13.