It was an unusual night at Ledyard High School.
Not only did both boys basketball teams on the floor have trouble getting to 20 points apiece, they had to wait a little while to get there due to a pair of accidental elbows Wednesday night in Fitch's 37-34 win.
Fitch's Rob Martin got the first in the first half as he took an elbow in the nose and began to bleed on the floor.
"He got hurt in the Waterford game (Friday night) and had a bad bruise on his back," Fitch coach Gary Ballestrini said. "He didn't practice Monday or Tuesday."
The game had to be stopped for about 10 minut es as the custodian had to clean the floor.
That rarely happens once in a game, it happened twice in this one.
In the second half, Fitch senior Jamal Gaston took an elbow to the mouth and he, too, began to bleed before he reached the bench which led to another call for the custodian.
"You have to play hard and there was contact, it was a physical game," Gaston said.
Both Fitch players returned to the floor although Gaston had to change his uniform.

There wasn't much more Stonington could have done to stop Shane Gibsonbut like most teams this season, the strategy became more one of stopping the rest of the Killingly Redmen.
Gibson, who will play Division - I college basketball next season, scored 37 po ints but it didn't bring Killingly a win as it fell to the Bears Tuesday night, 75-65.
"You knew he was going to score his points, the object was to make it as hard as possible," Stonington coach Michael Reyes said.
But even that was difficult as Gibson rained 28 points down on the Bears in the second half, 15 of those in the fourth quarter as he helped Killingly pull to wiithin four points late.
Unfortunately for the Redmen, even that effort was not enough as the Bears scored seven of the last eight points in the game to remain undefeated in the ECC Medium Division.
Gibson's 37-point effort was by far the biggest output of the night, offensively, for Killingly as the next leading scorer had six points.
"It hasn't been that way for the last four or five ballgames," Killingly coach Scott Derosier said of Gibson's one-man offensive show,."It reverted back to that (Tuesday night) and give Stonington credit for some of that, but we had open looks for other guys and they just didn't hit them."

You get the idea that the Grasso Tech Eagles are going to miss seniors Brittany Eccleston and Connie Scott.
The two combined for 42 points again on Tuesday night and led the Eagles to an easy win over Windham Tech.
Eccleston is the school's first 1000-point scorer, a number she surpassed earlier this season vs. Wheeler. The senior relies on her speed off the break but also can go inside when necessary while Scott is an inside presence that most Tech schools don't have an answer for.
"Connie is tough especially when she gets the ball under the basket," Grasso Tech coach Kevin Willoughby said. "Not too many people can stop her and, even though she's small, not too many people can stop her.She knows how to use her body and is very good under the basket."
The win over the Mighty Tigers put the Eagles in the driver's seat in the Constitution State Conference Eastern Division.

Shane Gibson had to work hard Friday night as the Plainfield Panthers weren't about to let him have the Killingly High School scoring record without a battle.
"I was looking for him the whole game and sometimes he would have three guys on him," Killingly senior guard Tom Derosier said.
"At the end of the first half, I tried to set a screen for him and there were, literally, three guys there so I had to pass it off," Derosier added.
Plainfield coach Bob Arremony said he didn't know that Gibson needed just 19 points to break the school record coming in but didn't really care as the game plan was in place and the Panthers weren't going to let the future Division I player beat them if they could help it.
It turned out they couldn't as Gibson still got the points he needed, 23, to help the Redmen to the 81-60 win and to pass Brad Leire for Killingly's all-time scoring record.

Will the Eastern Connecticut Conference get to play its girls basketball championship game at the Mohegan Sun this February?
That question was still up in the air but something good did come of the principals decision to allow the championship game to be played in the first place, the hurdle has been cleared.
It took the ECC about a month to get a positive answer from all of their member schools but one has to think now that the answer has been given that even if it doesn't happen this year, the door has been opened for next season.
Bob Yalen, the director of Sports and Entertainment at the Mohegan Sun, indicated to me that its still possible the ECC girls championship and a consolation game before it will be played at the Sun. But there is also the thought that more conferences may get involved and create a "tournament of champions"
. It's not likely that all the leagues will come on board this year but if the Sun wants to experiment a bit, why not let the ECC give it a try first and see if everyone is satisfied.
All of the ECC coaches that I have spoken too , and that has been most, have all been positive about the site and one can only hope that the top girls teams in the conference get a chance to play on a large stage.

Winning always makes everything else seem much easier.
Just ask the coaches at Bacon Academy.
That's what we did over the past couple of days and you can read about Bacon's triumphs in today's Norwich Bulletin.
All the way up the chain, people are pretty pumped.
From Kyle Davenport, a junior at Bacon Academy, who was sitting in the stands along with many of his fellow Bacon Academy students cheering on the boys basketball team.
There was Todd Henderson, a parent who has a son who plays football, but here he was on hand at a basketball game.
Boys basketball coach Kevin Fennell, wrestling coach Michael Voiland and girls basketball coach Dave Shea are all hoping the good spirits, which have led to a 32-4 start for the Bobcats, continues.
And if it does, it will make the job of athletic director Kevin Burke and vice-principal Ross Sward much easier.
Check it out, the "Bobcats on the prowl" in today's Norwich Bulletin and on-line at Norwich Bulletin.com.

Two girls could reach career milestones in high school basketball on this Tuesday night.
Lyman Memorial High School senior Kailee Grasso is just 22 points shy of scoring her 1,000th- career point and could do so tonight at home in Lebanon against Tourtellotte High School. Grasso has averaged 19 points per game thus far for the Bulldogs.
The Montville Indians also could have another 1,000 point scorer as senior Caitlin Quinn needs just 24 points to reach the magic number. Quinn's task may be a bit harder as the Indians are on the road to play Heather Buck and the unbeaten Stonington Bears tonight at 7 p.m.
Quiin's average has been on the rise, she's now over 15 points per game and has lit up the scoreboard from beyond the arc. Quinn scored 27 points in her last outing, an overtime loss to Bacon Academy on Friday night.

It's unfortunate that gymnastics has slipped back to the just four teams again but that just seems to be the way this sport ebbs and flows.
We just had one of the best seasons in the sport with Kasey Fillmore and Justine Basley creating excitement in Killingly ( a town that needed some perking up when it comes to athletics). Fillmore walked away with the New England title, the Redgals finished second as a team in the New Englands and won the Class S state title.
Unfortunately, as most local coaches of the sport were quick to point out, the Fillmores and Basleys of the world don't come along that often. The two nearest to them in the talent, Kerry and Kim Robitaille, performed for Killingly when Robin Deary-Fillmore just started coaching, 22 years ago. It's been over a decade since Joey Kochanski was part of the NFA team and no other squad really has seen that level of gymnast.
Will we again?
That seems to be a large question when you have gymnastics schools like Flip City closing its doors.
But one never knows because Fitch/Waterford, which dropped from the ECC as a team this season, could be back as a team as early as next season. The numbers are still strong at NFA and Stonington and Deary-Fillmore said she has some young gymnasts in the lower grades who are looking pretty strong.