The high school hockey regular season may be over, but a baker's dozen teams from north central Connecticut are still active as state tournament competition begins Monday.
Three area teams will compete Wednesday in the Division I tournament. Simsbury, seeded seventh, will host #10 Notre Dame-Fairfield; #9 Glastonbury travels to #8 Hamden; and #14 South Windsor visits #3 Darien. Starting times for those games have yet to be announced.
In Division II, #16 Conard hosts a play-in game Monday at 7 p.m. against #17 Newtown, while #18 Suffield-Granby-Windsor Locks travels to the Terry Conners Rink in Stamford for its play-in game against #15 Trinity Catholic at 5:30 p.m.
At least four area teams are involved in first-round action Tuesday night in Division II. #2 East Catholic hosts the Trinity Catholic/Suffield-Granby-Windsor Locks winner at 6 p.m. at the Champions Skating Center in Cromwell; #7 Northwest Catholic hosts #10 Daniel Hand at 7:20 p.m. at the International Skating Center in Simsbury; #12 Fermi-Enfield-East Granby-Stafford visits #5 Branford at the Northford Ice Pavilion at 7 p.m.; and #14 Farmington-Avon-Windsor travels to the Danbury Ice Arena to face #3 Brookfield-Bethel-Danbury at 6 p.m.
Newington-Berlin-Manchester is the top seed in Division III, and will play Thursday against the winner of Monday's matchup between #8 New Fairfield-Immaculate and #9 Housatonic-Northwestern-Wamogo. Other Division III games Thursday include #3 Rockville-Bolton-Coventry-Lyman Memorial against #6 E.O. Smith-Tolland-Windham, and #4 Hall-Southington against #5 Masuk.
Click here for complete brackets in Division I, Division II and Division III.