Lakeville Journal Sports

SALISBURY — Despite the wrong kind of precipitation and wildly fluctuating temperatures, the Junior Nationals ski jumping and Nordic Combined championship events were held in Salisbury and Cornwall Feb. 22 through Feb. 26

NEW PRESTON — Sunny skies greeted the record number of runners who came to Lake Waramaug for the Polar Bear Run on Sunday, Feb. 27.

After last year’s event was canceled, 626 runners were eager to race the 7.6 mile Lake Waramaug course again.

SALISBURY — Willie Hallihan of the Salisbury Winter Sports Association said on Sunday, Feb. 20, that “all systems are go” for the Junior Nationals Nordic Combined competition this weekend in Salisbury and at Mohawk Mountain Ski Area in Cornwall.

SALISBURY — For a small rural town, Salisbury has had a large number of participants in winter and summer Olympics.

SALISBURY — A team of junior jumpers representing the Salisbury Winter Sports Association (SWSA) braved stormy and frigid temperatures to compete in the Empire Games last weekend in Lake Placid, N.Y.

With seven jumpers, SWSA fielded the second largest team besides the Lake Placid group.

On Tuesday evening, Jan. 25, at home in Falls Village, Housatonic Valley Regional High School varsity boys basketball played hard against rival Northwestern Regional High School from Winsted, but came up short with a 70-59 loss.

Casting about for a suitable topic for the Bleak Mid-Winter Edition of Tangled Lines, I decided it is far too early to write the traditional “tackle fondling” column.

And because it has not been very good fishing weather, I can’t regale the customers with timely tales of angling derring-do.