ECC softball and baseball tournaments not set in stone

The Eastern Connecticut Conference baseball tournament begins tomorrow, the softball tournament on Thursday, but not all that much is set in stone yet.
Take for instance, softball.
Waterford plays Fitch tonight at 7 p.m. at Washington Park in Groton. If the Lancers win, they're the top seed in the tournament and will play at home against the eighth seed on Thursday afternoon an, should they win, play at home again in the semifinals against the winner of the 4th and 5th seeded game who will play at East Lyme. Griswold, currently the second seed, will host the No. 7 while the three and six seeds play on the other field at Griswold. The winners then meet in the semifinals at 7 p.m. also at Griswold. A win by Fitch over Waterford tonight would flip that all around.
"Who knows what's going to happen when the two of them play," Griswold coach Rick Arremony said about tonight's game."Waterford just doesn't give up any runs (three in 19 games), they're good, they're really good. They have players that make plays everywhere and a pitching staff to help them. I think that's a big asset for them come Thursday when they have to play two games and they have two or three pitchers they can use, they probably will use two, but they could use three. Nobody else has that."
Still, the Wolverines feel as if they're ready to take on the challenge and would like nothing better than to avenge their 1-0 loss to the Lancers back on April 20.
"All of our girls, even our young girls, know what we're up against and we can't take anything lightly," Griswold pitcher Taylor Lane said. "I know it's the ECC's in this little small corner of Connecticut, but these teams are tough. We have two of the top 10 teams in the state (Waterford and themselves) and Fitch is on our heels, we know we have a fight."
On the baseball side, Wheeler got a boost from Griswold on Monday as the Wolverines win over Lyman means a Wheeler win over St. Bernard today in North Stonington gives them the outright ECC Small Division title, the first-ever ECC title in a boys sport for the Lions.
East Lyme's doubleheader win over NFA on Monday clinched them at least a share of the ECC Large Division title, Waterford can grab a piece of that tonight with a win over Fitch.
The baseball tournament begins Wednesday with games at Dodd Stadium, Stonington, Ledyard and Norwich Free Academy, with the semifinals Wednesday night at Stonington and Dodd Stadium.
The championship games for both baseball and softball will take place on Friday, baseball at Dodd Stadium, softball at Griswold High School.