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Took a ride up to Cronwell with former Trumbull coach Jerry McDougall to attend the annual Governor’s Cup press conference at the Radisson. Not a lot to talk about except to say that this year’s game will be held at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, June 28, 7 p.m.

Connecticut is once again going to be without a few key Division I players, who will be off to their respective colleges taking summer courses to get ahead before the 2008 season. How many? Pretty much all of them.

Greenwich’s Jonathan Meyers and Chris Bisanzo, Fairfield Prep’s Masengo Kabongo, Staples Ryan Sedlacek, Ansonia’s Erik Kuraczea, among others will not attend. But Torrey Mack and Octavias McKoy of Stratford will. So will Alex Thomas, the all-everything tailback from Ansonia. So it’s not an accurate representation of what CT has to offer, but it’s still a good roster.

Besides, we kinda have to take it easy on Rhode Island. The Ocean State has lost five straight and it’s coach, Keith Kenyon of North Kingstown, is very conscious of that dubious distinction and vowed to make an concerted effort to show up this year after losing 59-27.

Here are the rosters:

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The Jewish Community Center has announced the rosters for its Schoolgirl Classic next month. The JCC schoolboy/schoolgirl classic will be played April 12 at 6:30 at the JCC, 4200 Park Ave., Bridgeport.

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Got a call today from Notre Dame-Fairfield’s Vinny Laczkoski with the Connecticut roster for the Jewish Community Center of Bridgeport’s 47th annual Schoolboy/Schoolgirl Classic at 4200 Park Ave. in Bridgeport on April 12 at 6:30 p.m.

The roster comes a day after organizer Ken Liberman announced that Stonington’s Heather Buck, the UConn recruit and Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year in girls basketball, is expected to participate in the Connecticut girls East-West game.

Here’s the Connecticut boys’ roster as of now. Obviously, it’s subject to (and usually does) change.

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Multi-tasking is a pain, and I’m still recovering from almost being run over by the Bloomfield players after they stormed and danced on the press table.

But I’m able to take a deep enough breath to say that the Class M final is underway, and that the game is tied 14-14 after the first quarter.

The scoreboard operators briefly gave Hartford Public an extra basket. But Hal Levy and Jim Bransfield quickly corrected the referees.

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(Yawn). With 20 minutes to go, I’ve arrived at Detrick Gymnasium for the the first half of the boys basketball championship. Since the great people here at Central Connecticut State (led by the ever helpful Jason Stronz the assistant CCSU sports information director) do everything but open doors ahead of you, my computer is up and running, I’m stress-free and… It’s running diary time.

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Congratulations to coach Gary Lindgren and the Amity boys hockey team for winning their first state championship tonight, 5-1, over Fairfield.

Brian Kownacki scored four of Amity’s five goals — including a natural hat-trick in the second period — to turn a 1-1 game into a bona fide route. Andrew Goldwitz added Amity’s last goal. Alec Mansfield had 24 saves for the Spartans.

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This just came over on the CIAC’s wire (they have a wire? amazing) and it’s good news on the baseball front, at least in my humble opinion.

Here’s the unadulterated version from CIAC HQ:

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Great games down at Ingalls Rink on Wednesday night.

Unfortunately for everybody who might have thought otherwise, but Fairfield Prep vs. Notre Dame-Fairfield was a forgone conclusion despite the excitement.

Notre Dame-Fairfield was down 2-0 to Glastonbury but scored five goals in the third period to win 5-2. I don’t care if it was 8-0, Notre Dame-Fairfield wasn’t losing to Glastonbury.

Over in the other semifinal, Conard was tied with Prep 1-1 going into the third.

Final: Fairfield Prep 4-1.

So much for that great regular season where . And so we have yet another all-Fairfield final.

In fact, this season just proves that the regular season in hockey means absolutely nothing. You can beat Fairfield Prep silly in the regular season, twice even, but get them in the playoffs and its over for you.

So I’m proposing that we cancel the regular season. It just has no impact on the playoffs. What’s the point?

Maybe we can just play whomever we want before mid-February, kinda like a season-long exhibition schedule, and then start the playoffs with an all-inclusive field. Only two or three Division I teams didn’t make their field anyway. So why not just let them all in?

Maybe we just tweak the whole playoff. Maybe we could use something like the Great 8 in Massachusetts to spice things up a bit.

Somebody do something because what we’ve got just doesn’t work enough. I have no problems with Prep and ND getting in the final every year. But, one of these years, the seeds have to hold, no?

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It’s 30 minutes to game time up here at CCSU for the Class S semifinals. Since they take care of us media types up here, it’s time for a running diary.

I’ll eschew the sharp, detailed commentary since I have to actually pay attention to the game. So don’t expect anything funny. (That’s Saturday).

29:19 before game time and the Crosby side, as expected, is 60 percent full. The students have come out in force. They also have their own radio broadcast on WATR. So, if you can, it should be streaming live on their website watr.com

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…Unless you’re talking about Class S. Even then, it’s a stretch.

All but one of our local teams went down in Class LL last nite: St. Joseph, Fairfield Prep (hard, btw), Bassick (to Harding), Notre Dame-WH.

That’s not including Trinity Catholic as a local this time. We were using them to prove a point last time. Technically, they’re the Advocate’s baby.

Anyway, here’s the final four of Class LL:

No. 15 Harding vs. No. 3 Crosby, at CCSU Wednesday, 7
No. 4 Trinity Catholic vs. No. 2 Windsor, at NHAC Wednesday, 7

Elsewhere, Stratford defeated Sheehan and advanced to play (gasp) SWC rival Bethel in an interesting Class M semifinal at Kennedy.

Tonight in the ever intriguing (if not extremely skewed) Class S, we actually have a worthy opponent for Kolbe Cathedral when it faces Ansonia tonight at Bunnell.

Ansonia wasn’t exactly a juggernaut in the NVL, where it went 9-11 and lost two games by over 30 points. But in Class S, the 30 seed is suddenly one of the best teams in the tournament.

Ansonia won’t be a awed by allyoop dunks like Gilbert’s players were. But, honestly, it hasn’t cut through this bracket like Kolbe Cathedral has.

They’re still going down tonight as Kolbe Cathedral continues its magical (?) ride to the Class S final.