Spring Openers Slated For Saturday For Regional High School Teams

HARTFORD/TOLLAND COUNTIES, CT — After the 2020 season was canceled due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the long-awaited regular season schedule for spring sports kicks off Saturday, with numerous games slated at high schools across Hartford and Tolland counties.

Plans approved by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) call for a full season of games, followed by state tournament competition. Saturday marks the first date games are allowed under CIAC guidelines, and 45 contests involving teams from the region are scheduled.

Golf is the only spring sport not competing this weekend, as matches involving local teams do not begin until Monday.

Saturday should be a great day to get outside and cheer on your favorite student-athletes, as the National Weather Service calls for partly sunny skies and a high temperature approaching 70 degrees.

Here is Saturday's full schedule of varsity action for softball, baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, boys volleyball, boys and girls tennis and track and field.

SOFTBALL

• Bristol Eastern at Berlin, 10 a.m.
• E.O. Smith at Manchester, 10 a.m.
• St. Paul at Ansonia, 10:30 a.m.
• Simsbury at Canton, 11 a.m.
• East Windsor/SMSA at Civic Leadership/Aerospace, 11 a.m.
• Coventry at Somers, 11 a.m.
• Windham Tech at Rockville, 11 a.m.
• East Granby at Granby, 11 a.m.
• Suffield at Wethersfield, noon
• Northwest Catholic at Maloney, 1 p.m.
• Windsor at Southington, 1 p.m.
• Ellington at South Windsor, 1 p.m.
• Stafford at Windsor Locks, 2 p.m.

BASEBALL

• MLC at SMSA, 10 a.m.
• Plainville at Somers, 11 a.m.
• Bristol Eastern at Maloney, 11 a.m.
• East Granby at Ellington, noon
• Enfield at Simsbury, noon
• Norwich Tech at RHAM, noon
• Ansonia at St. Paul, noon
• Hall at Berlin, 1 p.m.
• Rockville at Windham Tech, 1 p.m.
• Tolland at Southington, 1 p.m.

BOYS LACROSSE

• Granby at Wethersfield, 10 a.m.
• Xavier at Hall, 10 a.m.
• Rockville co-op at Cromwell, 10 a.m.
• Watertown at Canton, 10 a.m.
• Ellington at Somers, noon
• Southington at Cheshire, 12:30 p.m.
• Lewis Mills at Northwest Catholic, 4 p.m.
• Glastonbury at Wilton, 7 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE

• Conard at Farmington, 10 a.m.
• Enfield at E.O. Smith, 11 a.m.
• Guilford at Glastonbury, 11 a.m.
• Granby at Rockville, 11 a.m.
• Northwest Catholic at Southington, noon
• Wethersfield at Suffield, noon
• Rocky Hill at Cromwell, 1 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL

• Conard at Wethersfield, 11 a.m.
• Glastonbury at Norwich Free Academy, 11 a.m.
• Simsbury at Enfield, noon
• Rockville at Farmington, 2:30 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS

• Naugatuck at Southington, 11 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS

• Crosby at St. Paul, 10 a.m.

TRACK AND FIELD

• Prince Tech at Bloomfield, 9 a.m.

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