* No. 2 seed
Hillhouse (New Haven) (21-2) won its fifth Southern Connecticut Conference Championship with a 55-43 victory over top seed
Career Magnet (New Haven) (21-2).
Drew Crudup scored a game-high 23 points for the Academics at the TD Bank Sports Center on Wednesday.
* Second-seeded
Crosby (Waterbury) (19-4) won its eighth Naugatuck Valley League Championship in a row with a 77-61 victory over top seed
Holy Cross (Waterbury) (20-2) Wednesday at Wilby (Waterbury) High. Tournament and League MVP
Marvin Hampton scored 18 points for the Bulldogs.
* Sixth-seeded
Old Lyme (13-10) overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat top seed
Valley Regional (Deep River) in overtime 63-61 in the Shoreline Conference title game. George Logan scored a game-high 28 points for the Wildcats.
* Dan Upchurch scored 17 points and earned MVP honors in helping
Notre Dame Catholic (Fairfield) defeat
Pomperaug (Southbury) 61-52 in the South-West Conference final.
*
New London (23-0), No. 1 in the state, defeated Stonington (18-6) 80-41 for the Eastern Connecticut Conference title, its fourth straight. Tourney MVP
Kris Dunn scored a game-high 24 points.
*
Bassick (Bridgeport) topped
Stamford 57-51 in the Fairfield County Conference Championship game with a balanced scoring attack that saw Demetrius Thomas and Marlon Bennett each scored 12 points.
STORYLINES*
Bill Reilly and
Paul Amarone each scored in the No. 3
Hamden boys hockey team's 2-0 SCC Division I victory over No. 4 Notre Dame (West Haven).
* SCC hockey coaches have voted to discontinue the Division II conference tournament after this season's. The schools' athletic directors will have the final vote on the subject this week. The conference's Division I teams have not played in a postseason tournament in recent years, the feeling being it is too close to the state tournament.
* The CIAC girls basketball tournament enters the quarterfinal round this week. Two of the best matchups, both in Class LL:
Glastonbury (21-2) at
Manchester (21-2) for the third time this season, T-Hawks have won two;
Lauralton Hall (Milford) (18-4) at
Mercy (Middletown) (22-2), No. 2 in the state poll.
*
Bacon Academy (Colchester) won the State Open wrestling championship, while
Glastonbury took the State Open gymnastics title.
Paul Rosano, the former assistant sport editor of The Hartford Courant and sports editor of The New Haven Register, covers Connecticut for MaxPreps.com. He may be reached at pjrosano@cox.net.
