This is a tough time of year to be a high school senior athlete.
Take, for instance, the Montville girls basketball team Wednesday night.
"I was trying to hold it in, but I came over here (where her team was) and some of the young girls are crying and saying they're going to miss us," Montville guard Caitlin Quinn said.
That was after the Indians lost to the Avon Falcons 47-35 in a Class M girls basketball semifinal game at Norwich Free Academy. The furthest Montville had ever advanced in the girls basketball tournament.
"It's tough having them leave," Montville coach Derek Wainwright said of Quinn and Lindsay Stergio.
"I have never coached without them and, from day one, it was supposed to be a four-year process with the goal being a state title this year.I watched those kids grow from freshman, getting the (heck) beaten out of them by teams every single day. They stuck with it and they're going to leave a legacy here. This is the best girls team Montville has had."
Montville's loss leaves just one local girls basketball team in the hunt for a state championship. East Lyme will battle Kolbe Cathedral at 8 p.m. Saturday at Central Connecticut State University.