Newtown High School’s football and cheerleading teams had their Senior Night festivities delayed when the scheduled Senior Night football game between Newtown and New Fairfield on October 23 was postponed due to possible coronavirus exposure in New Fairfield.

Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team is undefeated six games into the regular season behind new Head Coach Ryan Lyddy. The team continued to defend its home turf with a 1-1 tie against the visiting Rebels of New Fairfield at Blue & Gold Stadium on October 15, then shut out host Abbott Tech of Danbury 4-0 on October 20.

After settling for a pair of ties and enduring two hard-fought 1-0 setbacks to begin the slate, the new-look Newtown High School girls’ soccer team got its first taste of victory this fall with a 3-1 triumph at New Fairfield on October 15. The team bounced back from a 2-0 loss to Immaculate of Danbury at Treadwell Park on October 19 with a 1-0 triumph over visiting Masuk of Monroe, at Blue & Gold Stadium, the next afternoon.

Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ cross country teams competed in Bethel against the Wildcats on October 20. The Nighthawk girls came out on top 24-31, led by second-place finisher Courtney Henchcliffe, who competed the course in a time of 21:32.47.

Newtown High School’s girls’ swimming and diving team had another record-setting performance. Coming off a meet in which the Nighthawks set a pair of pool event records, the team’s 200-yard medley relay team of Caroline Mahoney, Cate Fischer, Brianna Deierlein, and Payton Bradley set the pool record with a time of 1:55.31 during Newtown’s meet with Pomperaug of Southbury on October 15.

Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team, coming off a 3-1 win over Pomperaug of Southbury in the October 1 season opener, has won six consecutive matches in the minimum four games, culminating with a 3-0 (25-7, 25-10, 25-17) triumph at Abbott Tech of Danbury on October 19, and carries a perfect 6-0 mark into a rematch with Pomperaug, scheduled for Wednesday, October 21, at 5 pm (in Southbury).

The only team to truly test Newtown High School’s field hockey team in its first seven contests is Pomperaug of Southbury. The most recent field hockey exam of sorts took a little extra time — as in overtime — but the undefeated Nighthawks got the job done thanks to Shannon Kelleher’s clinching cage-finder 2:20 into OT.

Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team blanked Brookfield 5-0 in a road contest on October 8, and doubled up host Immaculate of Danbury 2-1 on October 13 to improve to 4-0-1 heading into Thursday’s home game with New Fairfield (Blue & Gold Stadium at 5:30 pm).

Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team defeated host Brookfield in a match that began on October 7 and had to be completed two days later due to a power outage. The Nighthawks won 3-0 (25-22, 25-18, 25-21).

Newtown High School’s field hockey team defeated visiting New Fairfield 6-2 at Blue & Gold Stadium on October 7, and toppled host New Milford by the same score on October 13.