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A key Southern Connecticut Conference matchup takes place today (Friday) when the Hand boys' lacrosse team travels to Cheshire for a game at 5:30 p.m. in a rare Friday game for both teams.
Coming into this season, Hand lost a great deal of talent to graduation and had a rough start at 1-4. But the Tigers have reeled off three straight wins to climb to .500 at 4-4 and hope to keep that momentum going. They are 2-2 in the league.
Cheshire, one of the top two teams in the New Haven area this season with SCC foe Fairfield Prep, is off to a 6-1 start led by an extremely talented and deep team front to back. The Rams are actually unbeaten against state competition at 6-0 with its only loss to Lynnbrook, N.Y. on April 17. The Rams are 2-0 in the SCC.
Both teams have a balanced scoring attack with each team boasting a half dozen players contributing on offense.
Hand is led up front by Andy Bushnell and Paul Alberti and midfielder Jack Willson, who also excels on defense and in the transition game.
The Rams are led by "Mr. Everything" Todd Heritage who is among the top three scorers in the area with over 40 points this season. Midfielder-attack Mike Devine, coming off a solid ice hockey season where he was a Register All-Area selection, is right behind Heritage with over 30 points. Nick Carisio is another who contributes on both sides of the field each game and has over 20 points.
Hand and Cheshire have developed into one of the fiercest rivalries in the SCC and the matchups are always wild and exciting events no matter what the records might be. This is a key matchup for Hand to give them an indication of how far they have improved/developed since a 14-3 thrashing by Prep on April 13.

will run in Saturday's print edition.


All-State Girls' basketball will run in Sunday's edition.

The Register's All-Area boys' swim team, including MVP Ed Becker of Fairfield Prep, is running in Wednesday's editions.

BASEBALL
Shoreline
Portland at Westbrook, ppd. to today, 10:30 a.m.
Haddam-Killingworth at Valley Regional, ppd. to May 19, time TBA
Coginchaug at Cromwell
East Hampton at North Branford, ppd. to Thursday, 3:45 p.m.
Old Saybrook at Old Lyme, ppd. to today, 3 p.m.
Morgan at Hale-Ray, ppd., TBA
SCC interdivision
Xavier at Law, ppd. to today, 11 a.m.
West Haven at Foran, ppd. to today, 3 p.m.
Hamden at Hillhouse
Amity at Branford, ppd. to today, 3 p.m.
Lyman Hall at Wilbur Cross (Rice Field), ppd., TBA
Fairfield Prep at Hand, ppd. to Tuesday, 11 a.m.
Cheshire at East Haven, ppd., TBA
Preps
Brunswick at Hopkins, ppd. to April 17, 2:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL
Shoreline
Old Saybrook at Old Lyme, ppd., TBA
East Hampton at North Branford, ppd. to today, 7 p.m.
Portland at Westbrook, ppd. to today, 10:30 a.m.
Coginchaug at Cromwell, ppd. to May 24, 3:45 p.m.
Haddam-Killingworth at Valley Regional, ppd. to Tuesday, 3:45 p.m.
Morgan at Hale-Ray, ppd., TBA
SCC interdivision
Hand at Mercy, ppd. to Tuesday, 3:45 p.m.
Law at Sacred Heart Academy, ppd. to Thursday, 3:45 p.m.
Guilford at Hamden, ppd. to today, 1 p.m.
Foran at West Haven, ppd. to Tuesday, 3:45 p.m.
North Haven at Cheshire, ppd. to today, 11 a.m.
East Haven at Sheehan, ppd. to Tuesday, 3:45 p.m.
Branford at Amity, ppd. to today, 2 p.m.
Career at Lyman Hall, ppd. to Tuesday, 4 p.m.
Non-league
Platt Tech at Stratford, ppd. to Tuesday at Platt Tech, 10:30 a.m.
BOYS’ TENNIS
Non-league
Hall at Guilford, ppd., TBA
Fairfield Prep at New Canaan, ppd. to Tuesday, 4 p.m.
Shoreline
North Branford at Old Lyme, ppd. to April 20, 3:45 p.m.
Morgan at Haddam-Killingworth, ppd. to April 22, 3:45 p.m.
SCC
Branford at Hand, ppd. to Thursday, 3:30 p.m.
Preps
Hamden Hall at Hopkins, ppd. to April 19, 4:15 p.m.
GIRLS’ TENNIS
NVL
Seymour at Ansonia, ppd. to Tuesday, 11 a.m.
Shoreline
Old Lyme at North Branford, ppd. to April 20, 3:45 p.m.
Haddam-Killingworth at Morgan, ppd. to April 22, 3:45 p.m.
SWC
Immaculate at Stratford, ppd., TBA
SCC
Mercy at Branford, ppd. to Tuesday, 3:45 p.m.
Non-league
New Britain at Career (East Shore), ppd. to Monday, 3:45 p.m.
Waterford at Valley Regional, ppd., TBA

All-Area gymnastics will now be running in Saturday's print edition of the Register, including a feature on MVP for the second time, Valley Regional's Katie Frese.

All-Area and All-State girls' basketball will now be running April 17 and 18 in order to have them both run back-to-back. No all-area team is able to run this Sunday.

Check back for Friday's postponments.

Area lacrosse fans will be treated to a special doubleheader on Saturday at Fairfield University's Lessing Field.
The No. 14 Stags play host to No. 9 Loyola at 1 p.m. followed by one of the top high school matchups in the Northeast this weekend as defending CIAC Class L champion Fairfield Prep plays host to St. Anthony's of Melville, N.Y. at 4 p.m.
The icing on the cake for the Jesuits is that MSG cable network will be taping the Prep-St. Anthony game and broadcasting it at 9 a.m. on Sunday. The broadcast is one of 14 MSG telecasts featuring high school boys lacrosse in the New York Metropolitan area.
"If you love lacrosse you have to come down to watch these games," Prep coach Chris Smalkais said. "It doesn't get much better than this. You're looking at two fast-paced, exciting matchups on the college and high school level.
"We love playing elite teams like St. Anthony's. Win or lose, playing a game like that can only make you better."
St. Anthony's, ranked No. 7 in the nation in the LaxGuys' National Poll , is led by Princeton-bound midfielder Tom Schreiber.
The Jesuits are led by five players already committed to colleges - attackman Brendan Rotanz (Dartmouth), middie John McGoldrick (Middlebury), long stick middie Darric White (Middlebury), long stick middie Alex Matarazzo (Hartford) and middie Michael Carey (Gettysburg).

Check out our softball previews in Tuesday's edition of the Register. Mike Pucci will bring you a preview of the Lyman Hall softball team, last year's SCC champion, along with:
his top 25 softball players to watch
the area conference previews
his 5 plot lines and 10 games to watch this season
the Register preseason poll

You can view the area capsules online at www.nhregister.com.

Chris Hunn's baseball previews will be presented in Wednesday's editions.