Groton — The Mystic Schooners took advantage of shoddy defense to score three runs in the eighth inning and turn a one-run deficit into a 6-4 win over the Vermont Mountaineers in a New England Collegiate Baseball League game on Thursday night at Fitch High School.

Trailing 4-3 against new reliever Joe Rocchietti, Taishi Terashima (St. Bonaventure) led off with a walk and went to third on a single from Brett Bond (Missouri). One out later, Terashima scored on a passed ball to tie the game and Bond advanced to second. Martin Figuroa (Rhode Island) followed with a base hit to score Bond with the go-ahead run and took second on the throw home.

Rocchietti uncorked a wild pitch to move Figuroa to third, and pinch hitter Richard Slenker (Yale) singled to score Figuroa with the third run of the inning.

Bond and Figuroa (two RBI) each went 2-for-4, and Terashima scored two runs.

Ryan Thomas (Marist) struck out two in the ninth to earn the save. Matt Ardente (Seton Hall) allowed two hits and no runs over two innings of relief for the win.

Local golf

• East Lyme's Bill Hermanson, a member of Black Hall Club in Old Lyme, los to Monte Mullen of TPC River Highlands in the quarterfinals of the 114th Connecticut Amateur golf tournament at Wethersfield Country Club. Hermanson had a 1-up lead heading to the final hole, but Mullen won the 18th hole and advanced on the first hole of sudden death. Mullen lost later in the day to Corey Birch of Silver Spring CC, 2 and 1. Birch will play Zach Zaback of TPC River Highlands in the 36-hole final on Friday. Birch and Zaback are good friends and recent graduates of UConn.

Zone 6 Senior Legion

• Walker Sutman pitched a four-hitter and struck out 11 as Waterford defeated Moosup 4-1 on Wednesday night. Kevin Johnson had two hits and scored a run for Waterford (2-0) while Mike Burrows doubled.

• Mike Dellaporta drove in the lone run in Ledyard-Pawcatuck's 8-1 loss to Niantic on Wednesday night.

Zone 6 Junior Legion

• Nuriel Preciado scattered four hits over six innings as Ledyard-Pawcatuck defeated Niantic 6-2. Bradley Kent drove in two runs with a single during a four-run fourth for L-P (3-0).

Men's hockey

• UConn announced its 14-game home schedule for the 2016-17 season at the XL Center in Hartford. The Huskies begin their home season with back-to-back games at Alabama Huntsville on Oct. 7-8. They also have non-conference home games against American International (Oct. 21), Sacred Heart (Nov. 26) and Yale (Jan. 7).

The 10-game Hockey East home schedule includes: Boston University (Nov. 18), Boston College (Nov. 22), UMass Lowell (Dec. 3), UMass (Dec. 9), Vermont (Jan. 27), Merrimack (Feb. 4), Providence (Feb. 8) Northeastern (Feb. 17) and New Hampshire (Feb. 25).

College swimming

• The Connecticut College men's and women's swimming and diving teams have been honored with the Team Scholar All-American Award by the Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America. The Conn women had a 3.74 GPA for the spring semester, tied for third among Division III schools with St. Joseph's (N.Y.). The men had a 3.29 GPA to tie five other schools for 38th. Both teams are coached by Waterford's Marc Benvenuti.