Sheer stupidity.
That's the only way to describe the vandalism in East Lyme which grounded the bus fleet and grounded the East Lyme athletic schedule at the same time.
The administration of the school decided that since school had to be closed due to the incident, sports had to be postponed too.
That wasn't all that big a deal for the East Lyme girls basketball team who just had their state tournament game with Bunnell pushed back to tonight.
It was a much bigger deal for the Fitch/East Lyme/Ledyard cooperative hockey team which was scheduled to play St. Bernard in the Eastern Connecticut Conference semifinals.
Without the East Lyme players, the cooperative could not put a team on the ice and the league was forced to declare St. Bernard the winner.
A couple of reasons for that.
Ice time tends to be a valuable commodity, miss your appointed time and you're out of luck.
NFA had already booked the ice today for a re-scheduled game with Rocky Hill, the winner of that game advances to state tournament play.
It won't go down as a forfeit, it just is listed as the cooperative not being available to play all because of vandalism.
Let's hope those who did the damage are caught and prosecuted.