UConn junior Tim Cate, a left-handed pitcher who also spent consecutive summers as a member of the USA Collegiate National team, was selected in the second round of Major League Baseball's annual draft late Monday night by the Washington Nationals.

Cate, 20, was the No. 65 overall pick. Cate set UConn's career strikeout record (270) this season despite missing a month with a forearm injury. He returned just in time for the postseason and pitched 5.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen to lead the Huskies to a win over LIU Brooklyn in the Conway Regional of the NCAA tournament on Saturday.

Cate, who pitched at Cheney Tech in Manchester, finished with 14 wins in 37 appearances for the Huskies. He was a freshman All-American and the American Athletic Conference Rookie Pitcher of the year in 2016 and was an All-AAC first-team pick in 2017 when he became the first UConn pitcher to register at least 100 strikeouts (101) in a single season.

Cate's "slot value" in the draft, according to MLB.com, is just under $1 million ($986,200), although he can negotiate that price tag with the Nationals.

He was the only state college or high school player to go in the first 10 rounds, which concluded on Tuesday. Rounds 11-40 will be held Wednesday, and among the players expected to go is Waterford High School pitcher Mike Burrows. He will attend UConn this fall if he doesn't sign a pro contract.

NECBL

• The Mystic Schooners opened their 2018 New England Collegiate Baseball League season with an 11-4 loss to the Valley Blue Sox at Fitch High School. The game marked the debut of new Mystic manager Rob Bono. Trailing 5-1 in the seventh, Brett Rodriguez (Wofford) hit a three-run homer to pull the Schooners within a run, 5-4, but Valley broke the game open with six runs in the eighth. Sebastiano Santorelli (Seton Hall) had a pair of hits for Mystic.

H.S. golf

• East Lyme, the Eastern Connecticut Conference Division I champion, was the top local finisher at the CIAC Division II boys' tournament at Fairview Farms Golf Club in Harwinton, placing eighth overall with a medal total of 334. Avon won the team title with 293. In addition, Waterford finished 14th (355) and Fitch was 17th (368).

Individually, the medalist was Avon's Michael Hanratty with a 1-under 71 while the top local finishers were Waterford's Ryan Sadowsky and Fitch's Colin Fahey, who each shot a 5-over 77 to tie for 11th place. East Lyme's Ben Bohmbach also cracked the Top 20, tying for 16th with a 78.

Also for East Lyme, Evan Kluge shot an 83, Matt Orefice an 84, Richard Logan Rolfe and 89 and Quenten Dean a 96. For Waterford, Bruce Taggart shot an 88, Nicholas Hynes a 91, Joseph Lathrop a 99 and Tanner Correia a 108; and for Fitch, Drew McCormack shot an 88, Charlie Bresnahan a 99, Ryan Sherman a 104 and Nishant Patel at 114.

• In the CIAC girls' tournament at Tashua Knolls CC in Trumbull, ECC champion Caroline Petchark of Waterford, the only local qualifier, shot a 10-over 82 to finish in 11th place. New Canaan was the team champion, winning a three-hole sudden death playoff over Fairfield Warde, while Newtown's Sarah Houle shot a 2-under 70 to earn medalist honors.

H.S. baseball

• The CIAC postponed all of its semifinal games, including the Class M game between No. 18 Ledyard and No. 3 Wolcott, due to the forecast of rain and pop-up thunderstorms. All eight games, to be played as doubleheaders at four sites — Municipal Stadium in Waterbury (Class LL), Dunkin' Donuts Park in Hartford (Class L), Palmer Field in Middletown (Class M) and Muzzy Field in Bristol (Class S) — will be played on Wednesday.

The Ledyard-Wolcott game will start at 3:30 p.m., followed by the other Class M semifinal between No. 9 Seymour and No. 12 St. Joseph at 7.

In a release, CIAC officials said, "While it may have been possible to get some games in, there (was) a very high likelihood that some sites would not have been able to complete both games. Because of the pitching rule in baseball, every effort is made to be sure that the semifinals in a division are both played on the same day.

• Five local players have been selected to play in the 45th annual Connecticut High School Coaches Association Senior All-Star games on Tuesday, June 12, at Plainville High School. The District IV team, which includes Montville's Doug Delacruz, East Lyme's Matt Malcom, Old Lyme's Jace Funaro, Waterford's Walker Sutman, and New London's Aiden Brennan and Elijah Martinez, will play the District III stars in the first of two games at 4:30 p.m. Norwich Tech's Tim DeLuca is the head coach.

In addition, Ledyard's Ken Turner (Blue team) and New London's Zane Mikula (Gray team) have been selected to play in the Junior Select All-Star game on Wednesday, June 13 at 6:15 p.m., also a Plainville. From that game, a group of the best 18 players will be chosen to play for the Connecticut Junior Select All-Star team against a team from Massachusetts on Saturday, June 23 at 12:30 p.m. at Muzzy Field.