The remaining four regular season games for Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team were initially canceled due to coronavirus protocol.

Newtown High School's boys' swimming and diving team visited Brookfield and fell 101-78 on February 20. The Nighthawks hosted Weston on February 23 and came away with a 95-76 victory.

Originally on hold amid the coronavirus pandemic due to being deemed high risk sports by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), there can be cheerleading, dance, and track competitions this winter after all.

It was quite a competitive, and rewarding, week for the Newtown-New Fairfield high school co-op hockey team. The Nighthawks skated to a 2-2 tie with New Milford on February 17, then overcame the Joel Barlow-Abbott Tech-Weston team 2-1 in overtime on February 20.

It was a disappointing week for Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team, which lost one game with its standout center out of the lineup, then may have lost one or two more opportunities to play due to coronavirus quarantine protocol impacting opposing teams.

Following a 4-0 start to the season, Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team had its toughest test thus far and came up just short in a 50-46 setback at Kolbe Cathedral of Bridgeport on February 20, then came up with a 55-26 triumph at Masuk of Monroe on February 23.

Coming off a February 11 game at Immaculate of Danbury in which the Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team couldn’t overcome a large first-half deficit, the Nighthawks set out to start faster in a home tilt with Weston two days later.

Although the Newtown-New Fairfield high school hockey team’s season-opening game ended in a 2-0 setback to the Bethel-Brookfield-Danbury team at Danbury Ice Arena on February 10, there were plenty of positive signs for Coach Paul Esposito and company.

Typically, by this point on the calendar, Newtown High School’s boys’ swimmers would have logged close to 50 days of practice and, thus, would be better conditioned with the postseason fast approaching.

Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team is off to a winning start.