Wednesday, February 20, 2008

For the most part, the Eastern Connecticut Conference boys tournament pairings look to be set.
Norwich Free Academy, by virtue of its win over fifth-seeded Windham, will be the top seed and will be just one of two teams who receive first-round byes.
The other will be New London, also undefeated, and sitting in the second-seed spot.
The third seed will be Killingly which will have a play-in round game at home Thursday night against Wheeler.
Ledyard, Bacon, Montville and East Lyme all finished 7-9 in the league schedule which does toss things up in the air for the 10 through 13 spots. If my interpretation is correct (and it may not be) Ledyard is 2-0 in the mini-conference between the four who are tied, Montville is 1-1 and both Bacon and East Lyme are 1-2. That makes Ledyard the 10th seed, Montville No. 11, East Lyme (by virtue of a win over Bacon) 12-seed and Bacon 13th.
That leaves this scenario for the play in games Thursday, Bacon at Stonington, East Lyme at Windham, Montville at Woodstock and Ledyard at Plainfield. Putnam, the 8th seed, hosts Waterford.
The quarterfinals will be played Saturday at St. Bernard. New London hosts the semifinals and championship games on Wednesday and Friday of next week.

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