Another season on the tracks is just around the corner, and two young racers from town are revving up for all of the excitement coming off championship seasons at the Nutmeg Kart Club in Berlin.

Tennis players looking to hit the ball around can do so at their leisure any time, but there is a formal option for enthusiasts as a once prior-established group and tournament are on the comeback trail.

Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team started the season off with a tough 4-3 win against visiting Joel Barlow of Redding, at Blue & Gold Stadium, on April 2.

Newtown High School's boys' volleyball team opened the season with two straight wins, beating FCIAC teams Darien on the road on March 30 and Danbury at home on April 1.

Newtown High School's softball team began the season with a 21-2 triumph over host Darien on March 30. Angela Carriero drove in more than a third of the Nighthawk runs, knocking in eight with a grand slam, two-run double, and two-run single. Carriero also scored four runs.

In a grand start to the campaign, the Newtown High School baseball team plated seven runs in the first inning on the way to a 13-2 triumph at nonconference foe Foran of Milford on March 30.

Newtown High School’s boys’ outdoor track and field team, coming off a tie for the Colonial Division championship with New Milford last spring, is again striving for success in the South-West Conference.

Newtown High School’s girls’ outdoor track and field team is coming off a South-West Conference championship last spring and striving to pick up where it left off.

Winners of the South-West Conference championship in three of the last four years, Newtown High School’s girls’ golf team is rebuilding following the graduation of six seniors — including standout Sarah Houle — last year.