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I saw Westhill baseball coach DJ Mulvany this morning. The resumption of last Friday’s game with St. Joseph, which was played at Cooperstown, N.Y., and called for darkness with the score tied, 7-7, has now been moved to May 11, which is an off day for both teams.

The game was scheduled to be resumed Monday — which is Westhill’s bye — at St. Joseph, prior to the Cadets’ regularly scheduled game with New Canaan. Mulvany said there was concern that if the game went into extra innings it would affect the St. Joseph-New Canaan game.

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Brooke Nethercott

Kevin Keller of the Darien High School boys track team and Brooke Nethercott of the Greenwich girls golf team are this week’s winners of the BlueStreak-Overtime FCIAC Player of the Week awards.

Keller and Nethercott will each receive plaques and T-shirts from BlueStreak.

In the Blue Wave’s quad-meet victories over Westhill, Greenwich and Bridgeport Central, Keller finished first in the long jump (21-1), the 400 (51.8) and the triple jump (43-2), and third in the 200 (22.9). At the O’Grady Relays, Keller was part of a team that finished first in both the long jump and triple jump.

In last week’s matches, Nethercott shot a 40 (medalist honors) in a win against Danbury, a 43 (medalist honors) in a win against Fairfield Warde, a 41 in a win against Darien and Lauralton Hall and a 42 (medalist honors) in a win against New Canaan. Nethercott has been the medalist in five of the Cardinals’ six matches and is the team leader in lowest scoring average (41.8) and the lowest differential average (5.65) in competition.

Nominations are open now until Tuesday at noon for this week’s winners.

To nominate an athlete, click on the replica of the T-shirt the winners receive on the right-hand side of this blog, below the BlueStreak ad. Then email in the name of the person you are nominating. Please include all of the player’s statistics for the week as well as the team results.

The award will be judged on games/matches played each Monday through Saturday of each week. Please wait until an athlete is done competing for the week to submit your nomination.

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There is an exceptionally strong group of five males and five females for this week’s BlueStreak-Overtime FCIAC Male and Female Athlete of the Week awards.

The winners will receive a plaque and T-shirt from BlueStreak Sports Training in Stamford.

The male finalists are: PJ Santilli of the Trumbull baseball team, Billy DeMartino of the Westhill baseball team, Kevin Keller of the Darien track team and Josh Burger of the Fairfield Warde tennis team.

The female finalists are: Gina Treglia of the Fairfield Warde softball team, Caroline Ogden of the Ridgefield lacrosse team, Brooke Nethercott of the Greenwich golf team, Claire Feeney of the Greenwich lacrosse team and Shellyann Lindo of the Brien McMahon track team.

Check back tomorrow to find out who the winners are.

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I just got off the phone with Terry Hanratty, who told me he was watching an NBA playoff game and how much he prefers the college game to the pros.

“Oh, and Conor committed to Notre Dame,” he said.

Conor Hanratty, New Canaan High School’s 6-foot-4, 300-pound junior tackle, gave a verbal commitment to attend his father’s alma mater, Notre Dame, on Saturday. He met with the Fighting Irish’s new coach, Brian Kelly, before the start of the spring game.

“He told me on Thursday that he made up his mind and I told him you can’t commit until you talk to the coach,” Terry said.

Terry was the starting quarterback for Notre Dame from 1966-68 and led the team to a national championship.

Conor, who had offers from over a dozen schools, has been a part of New Canaan teams that have won four straight state titles.

Unfortunately Conor was asleep and I haven’t been able to reach New Canaan coach Lou Marinelli tonight but I’ll have more tomorrow.

Updated today at 6 p.m.: I met with Conor and New Canaan coach Lou Marinelli for over an hour today. I also spoke with Terry for about 45 minutes. I have interviewed Conor, who has a very low-key personality, before, but we got to sit and talk by ourselves, along with one of his teammates, Kevin Macari, for about a half hour about a wide variety of subjects. Conor doesn’t say a lot, but what he has to say is worth listening to.

I’ll have a complete story in tomorrow’s paper.

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Lost in all the attention of Vlad Ducasse and the two other Stamford high school football players involved in the NFL Draft was the bizarre circumstances surrounding Friday’s baseball game between Westhill and St. Joseph in Cooperstown, N.Y., the site of the Hall of Fame.

The experience was fantastic.

The game was bizarre.

The two teams were tied, 7-7, when the game was called due to darkness in the seventh inning, after a bases-loaded walk led to the Vikings evening the score.

The game will be resumed next Monday at St. Joseph at 3 p.m., prior to the Cadets’ regularly scheduled game against New Canaan. Westhill has a bye that day.

“There was a big play here, a big play there, a botched play, it was just back and forth,” Westhill coach DJ Mulvany said.

Westhill took a 1-0 lead before the Cadets evened the score. The Vikings then went ahead, 4-1, only to have the Cadets come back again to tie. Westhill took a 6-4 advantage before St. Joseph scored three times in the sixth.

Ryan Curto had a two-run homer in the fifth inning that gave Westhill the 6-4 lead before the Cadets’ three-run sixth, highlighted by Jerry Kramer’s go-ahead single. Billy DeMartino drew the bases-loaded walk that tied the game at 7-7.

The two teams shared a bus, had dinner together, toured the Hall of Fame Saturday and got along well.

“It was awesome,” Mulvany said. “Everything went smoother than I thought it would be. We got to play on that field, the kids behaved themselves. I don’t think anyone left being best friends but we left with greater respect for one another.”

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Former King star Silas Redd had four carries for 16 yards and made two tackles to help lead the Blue team to a 17-3 win over the White team in the Penn State spring football game.

Khairi Fortt, who played at Stamford High School, had one tackle for the white team.

It was the Penn State debuts for the two freshmen, who graduated from high school just four months ago.

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Virginia defensive tackle Nate Collins just signed a free agent contract with the New York Giants.

It was the dream location for the former King star, whose college roommate was Giants linebacker Clint Sintim.

“I worked out for them about a week and a half ago and they called me after the draft and they gave me the best offer,” Collins said. “I felt this was the best situation for me all along.”

Sintim is at Collins’ house now, where judging by the background noise a big celebration is going on.

I’ll have a story in tomorrow’s issue of The Advocate.

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Former Stamford High School football star Alex Joseph signed as a free agent five minutes after the draft ended with the Green Bay Packers.

Joseph played linebacker at Temple and was a teammate of Vlad Ducasse’s with the Black Knights.

“I started talking with the Packers around the end of the sixth round,” Joseph said. “It was hard watching the end of the draft. I was kind of losing hope. I just hope I’m one of those guys who stands out and goes from being a free agent to making a name in the NFL.”

I’ll have a full story in tomorrow’s issue of The Advocate.

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