A pair of local schools will be changing divisions this fall in the new CIAC football playoff classification format, which was released on Monday.

Ledyard, a Class M team a year ago, will move down to Class S and swap places with the Valley Regional/Old Lyme cooperative program, which moves from Class S to Class M.

The rest of the local schools will remain in the same classes — Norwich Free Academy in Class LL, East Lyme, Fitch and New London in Class L, Thames River (Norwich Tech, Grasso Tech, St. Bernard) and Waterford in Class M, and Montville and Stonington in Class S.

The CIAC used its tournament success modifier for the second straight year to balance the four divisions, moving designated schools of choice up one playoff class from they reached the semifinals the previous two seasons.

St. Joseph, for instance, the 2017 and 2018 Class S champion, would have fallen into the Class M category this fall with an enrollment of 390 (the Class M minimum is 388), but was bumped up to Class L based on its back-to-back championships.

Killingly had a similar fate. The Redmen, a school of choice because of its vo-ag program, would have dropped to Class S this fall based on enrollment (387), will remain in Class M because they've made back-to-back state semifinal appearances.

Among the other ECC schools, Woodstock Academy will be in Class L, newcomer CREC (a co-op of Aerospace, Civic Leadership, Metro Learning) will be in Class M along with Griswold, which will co-op with Wheeler for the first time, and Bacon Academy drops down to Class S along with Plainfield and Windham.

Resetarits staying with Wolves

• The New England Black Wolves announced that Joe Resetarits has accepted the teams franchise designation for the 2019-20 NLL season. A forward, Resetarits was acquired in a trade with Rochester on March 6 and finished with 13 goals and 11 assists in seven game with the Black Wolves. He has 162 goals and 228 assists in his career.

"We are extremely excited to have Joe accept our franchise offer and to have him remain a member of the Pack," Black Wolves general manager Rich Lisk said in a release. "When we traded for Joe it wasn't just for the rest of the season. We had Joe in our sights for a long time and this is a long-term play for the Black Wolves."

Schooners win in 10

• Nolan Kessinger (UMass) singled home the winning run in the bottom

of the 10th inning as the Mystic Schooners beat the Danbury Westerners 5-4 in the NECBL on Sunday night. Under speed-up rules the bottom of the 10th started with Shane Kelly (Bryant) placed on second base. Matthew Toke (Seton Hall) singled Kelly over to third and Kessinger drove him in. The Schooners (7-2) took a 4-2 lead with four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. David Beam (East Tennessee) had an RBI single to get Mystic on the board and former Montville standout TT Bowens (Central

Connecticut) followed with a three-run homer.

Tigers fall

• The Vermont Lake Monsters scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning and held on to beat Connecticut 4-3, spoiling the Tigers' New York-Penn League home opener on Sunday night. The Tigers (1-2) trailed 4-2 entering the bottom of the ninth. Clark Brinkman scored on Jordan Verdon's groundout to make it 4-3 but Ildemaro Escalona struck out with runners on second and third to end the game. Brinkman singled, doubled and scored twice and Verdon drove in two runs.

Junior Legion

• Niantic scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 4-4 tie and beat Tri-Town Red 7-6 in a Zone 6 game on Sunday. Ty Chiasson and Ethan Vinelli had two hits each for Niantic (3-0) and Greg Morgan got the win in relief.