Junior Colonials – State Champions

The Danbury Junior Colonials Pee Wee A squad (above) captured the Connecticut Hockey Conference (CHC) Division 7 state championship in Shelton on March 19 after defeating Newington, Wallingford and Darien. Front row, from left, are Michael Allwein of Newtown and Luiz Dibble. Middle row: Brian Allen, Nick Blaszka, Stephen Hallock, Justin Sullivan and Hunter Dolyak of Newtown. Back row: Coach Paul Esposito, Brett Klein of Newtown, Michael Rinaldi, David Landau of Newtown, Ted Benoit of Newtown, coach Rich Dibble, Brian Sjoblom of Newtown, Josh Branchflower of Newtown, Joe Hochrein, Steven Segiet and coach John Sullivan. Mising from photo was Anthony Noto. – Photo courtesy of Andrea Segiet. The Junior Colonials Squirt A squad (below) captured the CHC state championship on March 12 in Shelton after defeating Stamford (2-0), New Milford (2-0), Darien B (4-1) Darien A1 in the semi-finals (2-1) and West Hartford in the finals (4-1). Front row, from left, are Zach Anderson, Connor Hanley of Newtown, Brian Gunn, Patrick Norris, Nick Capriglione, Jake Mandl, Trevor Kurjiaka, Matt Sabia of Newtown and Christian Blais of Newtown. Back row: Coach Tim Hanley of Newtown, Brennan Battochio, John Meyers of Newtown, Tyler Hanley of Newtown, Erik Laaksonen of Newtown, Daniel Harrison of Newtown and head coach Dino Battochio.