State championship odyssey

I always love to see where state championship Saturday will take me, because it's always an adventure.
This year is no exception as I begin this Saturday at Palmer Field in Middletown where the New London Whalers are playing the Knights of Ellington for the Class M baseball championship.
I love Palmer Field, it's a great baseball venue, I just hate getting here. Coming from my home in Killingly, there's only one route that's even semi-direct and it's two-lane blacktop all the way on Route 66. It's a great road through the middle of the Connecticut countryside, but you don't get any where very fast.
From here, provided the weather doesn't go downhill, it's off to West Haven for the Class L girls softball championship game between Waterford and Darien at 3:30 p.m.
We finish off tonight at 7 p.m. in Stratford at DeLuca Field as Fitch meets Masuk for the Class LL girls softball state title.
Matt Stout, meanwhile, is headed to Trumbull to cover St. Bernard's Division II girls lacrosse state championship match with Immaculate at 3 p.m..
We'll keep you up-to-date as time, and facilities, permit.

Montville leading, 3-1, in M quarterfinals

You almost wonder if both Montville and Ellington had proms last night.
Neither is playing the smoothest of baseball right now in their Class M quarterfinal meeting at ECSU in Mansfield.
The Indians have already committed three errors in the game, but have managed to build a 3-1 lead through three innings.
Montville scored one in the first on a RBI ground out by Tyler Seeley. After the Knights answered with a run in the top of the second, Montville added two more in the third off Ellington lefty Brian Francolini.
Jesse Sutherland singled hard past short to score J.P. Morales who had reached on an error. Sutherland came home on a triple by Alec Brown.
Derek Wilcox (8-0) is pitching for the Indians.