It’s a gorgeous day for baseball and softball state tournament games, so if you’re sitting inside reading this, get outside and go to a game.
For those hopelessly stuck indoors, here’s the link for SportingNewsCt.com’s broadcast of Amity/South Windsor or Notre Dame-West Haven/Shelton in the Class LL tournament.
The CIAC will post all scores live as they come in for both baseball and softball. Here are the links:
BASEBALL
Class LL
Class L
Class M
Class S
SOFTBALL
Class LL
Class L
Class M
Class S
Here are some early returns on baseball…
Shelton 8, Notre Dame-WH 2 (F) — So much for the newly-crowned SCC champs.
Amity 9, South Windsor 0 (F) — No such problems for the SCC runners-up.
In softball…
NFA 20, Ridgefield 1 – Ridgefield pitcher Ashley Higgins was not available due to a death in the family and, unfortunately, the Tigers had to go to an inexperienced pitcher. NFA’s reward? Masuk.
Bunnell 10, Staples 5 – Staples’ pitcher, we hear, was knocked out of the game with a line drive. …Bunnell now faces Amity in the second round.
Sacred Heart Academy 3, Bristol Eastern 1 – This is pretty amazing given that Eastern is a softball powerhouse.
7 p.m. update baseball — In Class LL SWC champion Masuk defeats FCIAC power Norwalk 3-2. …Taylor Lasko and Bunnell outlast Tom Lawrence and West Haven, 1-0. …Bunnell advances to play Westhill, a 16-0 winner over Naugatuck (uh oh. Is this further proof of a weak NVL?) …Ridgefield 7-6 over New Milford. …Class L — Law defeats Darien, 2-0, and advances to face Platt Tech. …Bethel will indeed play Fairfield Ludlowe in the second round. The Wildcats crushed (another) NVL team in Crosby, 13-2 (this does NOT bode well for Seymour’s record). …In Class M Weston advances (5-0 over Lewis Mills), St. Joseph advances (12-0 over Suffield) and will face East Catholic. …Wolcott beat No. 2 seed Cheney Tech, 7-3, (no shock here) and will play Foran, a 12-5 winner over Northwestern.
And, what were we just talking about? Seymour crushes No. 33 seeded Stonington 4-3 in the first round of Class M. Yikes, guys. Yikes.
In softball: Newtown defeated Greenwich 2-0 in the LL first round and will now face Simsbury for the right to (ahem) lose to Masuk. …Cheshire and Westhill both won 9-0 and will face each other in the second round. …In Class M Lauralton Hall defeated St. Joseph, 5-0.
Baseball, 7:18 update Trumbull, one of the only teams to actually play a second round game, defeated Newington 3-2 and advances to Saturday’s quarterfinals. They get a nice break.
SPB
I think it,s wrong to have the Trumbull @ Newington Game to be play back to back days. This is not right for now the winnner of the Stanford @ Shelton game. For they Trumbull now have there # 1 to pitch on Sat. with a day more off then the winner of the other .And this time of year this means alot. Bad job CIAC.
The CIAC really had nothing to do with it. The first-two rounds were scheduled for Monday-Tuesday.
While thunderstorms forced the postponement of most first-round games Monday, Trumbull managed to get its game in. So did Newington.
Incidentally, both teams just happened to be matched in the second round. So, while the rest of the state played the first-round, Trumbull and Newington went ahead with the regularly scheduled game.
Most athletic directors will agree, it’s best to get the games in ASAP to account for the weather’s unpredictability. It happens every year.
Does it help Trumbull? If they want to throw their first-round pitcher Dan Mahlstadt again, yes. For Trumbull’s quarterfinal opponent, there might be a disadvantage. But that’s high school baseball for you. The mark of a good team is overcoming speed bumps such as this.