Boys Ice Hockey Pairings Announced for State Tournaments

Pairings for the three CIAC boys ice hockey tournaments were released Friday morning, and 13 squads from the north-central Connecticut region will be vying for state championships.

The tri-op team of Suffield-Granby-Windsor Locks, which moved up in class after capturing the Division II title last year, will open Division I tournament play on the road against Notre Dame-Fairfield.

Here are the first-round pairings involving area teams; click on the headers for the complete bracket from each division.

Division I (all games on Wednesday, March 9)
No. 13 Hamden (7-11-2) at No. 4 Northwest Catholic (15-5), 6 p.m.
No. 11 St. Joseph (10-9-1) at No. 6 Simsbury (14-5-1), 7 p.m.
No. 9 Fairfield Prep (8-9-2) at No. 8 Glastonbury (11-8-1), 7:30 p.m.
No. 10 Suffield-Granby-Windsor Locks (14-5-1) at No. 7 Notre Dame-Fairfield (9-11), 6 p.m
No. 15 East Catholic (7-13) at No. 2 Notre Dame-West Haven (13-6-1), 5 p.m.

Division II (all games on Tuesday, March 8)
No. 13 Branford (8-11-1) at No. 4 South Windsor (10-9-1), 7:40 p.m.
No. 12 East Haven (7-9-4) at No. 5 Conard (9-9-2), 8 p.m.
No. 9 New Milford (9-11) at No. 8 E.O. Smith-Tolland (13-6-1), 6:45 p.m.
No. 10 Farmington-Avon-Windsor-Lewis Mills (13-7) at No. 7 Cheshire (9-10-1), 7 p.m.
No. 16 Newington-Berlin-Manchester-Cromwell (7-13) at No. 1 North Branford (15-4-1), 4:30 p.m.

Division III (all games on Monday, March 7)
No. 13 Joel Barlow (8-11-1) at No. 4 Hall-Southington (12-7), 7 p.m.
No. 9 Bolton-Coventry-Rockville-RHAM (8-12) at No. 8 Brookfield-Bethel-Danbury (8-9-3), 3:15 p.m.
No. 11 Tri-Town (8-11) at No. 6 Lyman Hall-Haddam Killingworth-Coginchaug (11-6-3), 6 p.m.