March 2020 – MiddlesexCountySports.com

‘How Do You Thank People Who Have Saved Your Life?’

For basketball official Paul Liberty, it took a team of cool, trained heads to revive him when he collapsed during a game in Old Saybrook.

Outfielder and walk-on out of Xavier endured two-year wait to get into Hawks’ lineup and contributed out of gate before season canceled.

Middletown senior wishes he could have played in the state tournament. Still, at MHS he had “the most fun I’ve ever had playing the game.”

When the finality of the CIAC’s decision to cancel state tournaments hit home, coaches scrambled to make sense of it for their athletes.

Defending Class M champs put it all together in 2nd quarter; Vanessa Stolstajner scores 24 and Adela Cecunjanin has big game off the bench.

Seven new LED-fed towers are in place. The first night game of the high school season is April 24 between Xavier and Fitch.

New Coginchaug co-op football coach has ties to Morgan and Valley. “This is a labor of love and a passion and I’m ready to jump back in.”

Top seed Bellringers hold Stafford scoreless over final 13:26; Old Lyme up next in Class S quarters … Also, Portland loses at Putnam.

Old Lyme floors Morgan with decisive third-quarter run to win first conference title since 2011 … Aedan Using scores game-high 29.

Huskies play at a higher level in Shoreline tournament semifinal, win 70-62 as Zach Johnson scores 28 … Wildcats oust Cromwell.