CIAC announces Saturday schedule for state soccer finals

Stonington boys and East Lyme girls will be part of four-game slate at Hartford’s Dillon Stadium

The CIAC has released the sites and times for Saturday's state championship boys' and girls' soccer matches.

The No. 2 Stonington boys will face No. 1 Ellington for the Class M title at 10 a.m. at Dillon Stadium in Hartford, the No. 13 East Lyme girls will play No. 6 Guilford in the Class M final at 5:30 p.m., also at Dillon Stadium, and No. 8 Old Lyme, the four-time reigning Class S champion, will play No. 3 Holy Cross for its fifth straight championship at 10 a.m. at Willow Brook Park in New Britain.

The Wildcats beat Northwest Catholic 2-0 in their semfinal on Wednesday night at Xavier in Middletown.

In addition, No. 11 Waterford will play No. 1 Seymour for the Class M volleyball championship on Saturday at 1 p.m. at East Haven High School.

Women's basketball

• UConn coach Geno Auriemma officially announced the signings of five members of the Class or 2024: Paige Bueckers, Aaliyah Edwards, Piath Gabriel, Mir McLean and Nika Muhl. The incoming class was ranked No. 2 overall in the nation by espnW. Bueckers is the nation's No. 1 overall recruit while McLean is ranked No. 21 and Edwards is No. 26.

"I think we've got a good mix of inside, outside, middle," Auriemma said in a release. "When you look at our team now, we're young in some ways. We're inexperienced in some ways. We don't have the kind of size that we've had in the past. "Even though we're going to be young next year, I think the depth and the experience that we have this year plus the youth next year. I like how we've been able to package a lot of different things into five different players. Not one of them is remotely like the other one, and that's a really neat thing."

• Bailey Hyland had 16 points and 10 rebounds to lead Trinity College to a 72-62 win over Coast Guard Academy in a nonleague game. Emma Puddington and Kyra Hartman had 14 points each and Puddington had eight rebounds for Coast Guard (3-1).

Men's basketball

• Roger Williams outscored Connecticut College 46-30 in the second half and came away with a 75-60 win in the nonleague game.

Jack Zimmerman and Matt Carlin scored nine points each, Dan Draffan had eight rebounds and Ben McPherron had seven rebounds for the Camels (1-2).