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Volume 17, Number 10
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Nighthawks capture conference crown
Friday, March 11, 2022
RECORD BREAKER
By Kevin Arnold Special to the Record-Journal
WEST HAVEN — The Lyman Hall Trojans squared up for the final faceoff of the SCC/SWC Division II hockey championship game with 15 seconds on the clock. They had their first power play line on the ice — plus a sixth skater — for the game’s final 1:40, but Jared Anderson and the North Haven Nighthawks stood strong. A quick ice of the puck after that final faceoff secured North Haven’s 4-3 win Saturday at Bennett Rink. See Hockey, A5
Powered by two first-place finishes from Brendan Conners, pictured, the North Haven High School boys swim team placed third at the 2022 Southern Connecticut Conference championships. Conners bested the field in the 200 IM (1:55.57) and the 100 backstroke (50.52). His time in the backstroke was a meet record. Fairfield Prep claimed the team title at the SCC event, held March 2 at Southern Connecticut State University’s Hutchinson Natatorium. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
Miss Connecticut contestant is beautiful ‘inside and out’ By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
Emanuela Stakaj has always been intrigued by beauty pageants, but school work and other priorities had kept her from trying her luck in that world. Now, at the age of 20, Stakaj is giving beauty pageants a shot as a contestant in the Miss Connecticut USA competition. “I was excited to get into it, I applied for it and was accepted,” said Stakaj, a student at Quinnipiac University studying biomedical sciences. “Miss Connecticut was never something I thought I'd be doing myself,” the Wallingford resident said. However, she wants to make a positive impact in her community, and beSee Miss Connecticut, A2
Emanuela Stakaj poses with her parents Mirela and Valentin Stakaj at La Lupa restaurant in North Haven. Nicole Zappone, The Citizen Stakaj