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New League Steps To Plate For Summer Ball Experience

Middletown and Cromwell will field teams in the Connecticut Elite Baseball Association, an alternative to the canceled Legion season.

Fields, playgrounds, basketball courts still closed in Middletown. “There won’t be anything official until it’s official,” Mayor Florsheim says.

Middle school coach Craig Franklin and player mom Laurie Peterson had unbreakable connections with the Highlanders program.

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.