The 2019 Eastern Connecticut Conference girls' basketball tournament will begin on Wednesday with three first round games, one in Division I and a pair in Division II.

Eighth-seeded Ledyard will host No. 9 Fitch in a Division I game at 6 p.m., while No. 10 Wheeler visits No. 7 St. Bernard at 6 p.m. and No. 9 Lyman Memorial is at No. 8 Tourtellotte at 5:30.

The top four seeds in each division will host quarterfinal games on Thursday before the scene shifts to Plainfield High School on Saturday for four semifinal games, the Division II games at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and the Division I games at 3:30 and 5:30 p.m.

Norwich Free Academy will once again host the two championship games on Wednesday, Feb. 20, with the Division II final starting at 5:30 p.m. and the Division I final set to tip at 7:30.

New London, ranked No. 2 in the latest New Haven Register/GameTimeCT Top 10 state poll, is the defending I champion. Waterford, last year's Division II champion, is now in Division I.

The Whalers will host the Ledyard-Fitch winner on Thursday at 7 p.m. while No. 4 NFA hosts No. 5 East Lyme at 7, No. 2 Stonington hosts No. 7 Waterford at 6 and No. 3 Bacon Academy hosts No. 6 Woodstock Academy at 6.

In Thursday's Division II quarterfinals, the Tourtellotte-Lyman winner visits No. 1 Putnam at 6 p.m., the St. Bernard-Wheeler winner plays at No. 2 Plainfield at 6:30, No. 4 Griswold hosts No. 5 Windham at 6 and No. 3 Montville hosts No. 3 Killingly at 6.

Schedule changes

• All six scheduled local events were postponed by Tuesday's winter storm, with four local high school boys' basketball games moving to Wednesday: Williams at St. Thomas More, 4 p.m., and East Lyme at Waterford, NFA at Bacon and Stonington at Montville, all at 7. The East Lyme-Waterford game will be streamed live on theday.com.

In addition, the Mitchell College at Eastern Nazarene women's basketball game was postponed until Wednesday at 3 p.m. and the UConn Avery Point at Nassau Community College game was postponed indefinitely.

College indoor track

• Coast Guard Academy's Kaitlyn Mooney was named the Division III Women's National Athlete of the Week by the U.S. Track & and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. It was her second weekly national honor of the winter. Mooney, a sophomore, shattered a school record while running the second fastest indoor 5K time in NCAA Division III history on Friday at Boston University's David Hemery Invitational. Mooney finished in 16:27.30, less than four seconds behind the national record time of 16:23.40 set by Amy Regan of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.) in 2016.

Women's basketball

• UConn senior Katie Lou Samuelson was named a Top 10 candidate for the 2019 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award. The second-year award recognizes the top Division I shooting guard in the nation with the winner being announced during the NCAA Women's Final Four in Tampa, Fla. Samuelson is averaging 19.3 points per-game and leads the No. 4 Huskies with 59 3-pointers.