Old Lyme boys face Morgan in tonight's Shoreline Conference basketball title game
Old Lyme will attempt to win its first Shoreline Conference boys' basketball tournament championship since 2011 on Thursday night when the top-seeded Wildcats face No. 3 Morgan in the title game at Polson Middle School in Madison.
The game, originally scheduled to start at 7 p.m., has been pushed back to 7:30.
Old Lyme (21-1) has plenty of motivation. The Wildcats lost an overtime thriller to Cromwell in last year's final and went on to finish second in the CIAC Division V tournament at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Old Lyme used a 22-2 run in the second half to beat the No. 5 Panthers 54-34 in Tuesday's semifinals. The Wildcats beat Morgan (15-7) 67-50 on the final day of the regular sason.
Men's basketball
• Fourth-seeded St. Thomas More toppled No. 5 Bridgton Academy 100-80 in the first round of the New England Prep School Athletic Conference Class AAA tournament. Jair Currie had 24 points and seven assists for the Chancellors, who will play at No. 1 Brewster in Saturday's semifinals at 2 p.m., while Chris Manon added 15 points, Zeke Blauner 12, Elijah Perry 12, Jared Garcia 10 points and eight rebounds, and Justin Hemphill eight points and eight rebounds.
• Coast Guard Academy's Kevin Jaskiewicz was named New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Coach of the Year while senior Packy Witkowski earned a spot on the All-conference second team.
Jaskiewicz, in his 11th season, led the Bears to their first NEWMAC championship since 2008 as the Bears became the first NEWMAC team to win three road games in the tournament. Coast Guard (14-13) will take a seven-game winning streak into Friday night's NCAA Division III tournament opener at Brockport.
Witkowski, who leads the Bears with 17.7 points per game, set the Bears' single-season record with 85 3-pointers, shooting a team leading 41.7 percent from behind the arc (85 of 204).
College baseball
• Ryan Solimine went the distance with seven strikeouts as Mitchell
College defeated Concordia College (Minn.) 11-1 in Auburndale, Fla. Montville's Jeremy Sagun and Jakari Pellegrini drove in three runs apiece for the Mariners (2-3), while Montville's Dougie DelaCruz added an RBI single during a five-run second. Pellegrini hit a three-run homer in the fifth.
College softball
• Mitchell ended its Florida swing dropping a doubleheader at the Spring Games in Clermont. The Mariners (2-6) lost to John Jay 5-4 and Saint Joseph's (Maine) 8-0 in five innings. Nene Capeles led the Mitchell offense with five hits on the day.
H.S. hockey
• Suffield/Granby/East Windsor beat the Eastern CT Eagles 3-2 in the Nutmeg Conference semifinals on Tuesday night. Steve Turchetta scored both goals for the Eagles, who won the last two Nutmeg titles. Evan Tower, Will Cannella and Kyle Marino had assists for the Eagles (10-10-1) and Wes Williamson had two shutout periods in the net. Devyn Jordan, Rylin Fowler, Tower, Cannella and Marino made the Nutmeg all-league team.