BOYS

Division I

No. 1 East Catholic 79, No. 6 Windsor 74

Matt Knowling had 19 points, 11 rebounds and six assists as East Catholic beat its Central Connecticut Conference rival to win its fourth state title in six seasons before 6,783 at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Jaylin Hunter had 24 points, 10 rebounds and three steals and and Joe Reilly scored 20 for the Eagles (27-1), who have won six state titles.

Amir Spears scored 22 for the Warriors (24-4) and Corey McKeithan scored 20.

East Catholic is a lock to finish as the No. 1 team in the season-ending GameTimeCT/New Haven Top 10 poll, which will be released earlier in the week.

The Eagles also won the rubber-match against Windsor. They beat the latter during the regular-season, 74-52 (Feb. 15). The Warriors beat them in the CCC final, 87-85 (Feb. 28).

Knowling’s dunk broke a 19-all tie with 6 minutes, 23 seconds left in the first half of Saturday’ sand started a 20-6 run.

Hunter’s dunk pushed East Catholic ahead, 39-25, with 1:51 left in the half and it never relinquished the lead.

The first day’s overall attendance was 11,872.

Division IV

No. 4 New Canaan 55, No. 3 Granby 39

Alex Gibbens made all five of his field goals, including three 3-pointers, and scored 13 points to lead New Canaan to its eighth CIAC state title and first since 1962.

The Rams (20-5) won 22 games over the previous five seasons and hadn’t made either the state or Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference tournaments since 2009.

Matt Brand scored 12 and Ryan McAleer added 11 points for New Canaan.

Rowen Heinze had 13 points, seven rebounds and three blocks for the Bears (23-4) and James Shelansky scored 10.

The Rams trailed 15-9 after the first quarter. They outscored Granby 35-14 over the second and third quarters.

GIRLS

Class L

No. 4 Hillhouse 39, No. 19 Hand 34

Tanayja London scored a game-high 17 points with 12 rebounds as Hillhouse won its state-record 10th CIAC state title.

The Academics (24-4) shared the CIAC record with Westbrook prior to Saturday. Norwich Free Academy (seven) is tied for third. It was also Hillhouse’s sixth state title under head coach Catrina Hawley-Stewart.

The Hillhouse boys’ basketball team has also won a CIAC-record 24 state titles.

Tyree Allen Chappell had 11 points, six rebounds and three steals for the Academics.

Sara Wohlgemuth had 12 points and seven rebounds for the Tigers (14-13) and Julia Kuhn scored 12 with three steals.

Hillhouse scored the game’s first 14 points and led 16-1 with 2:30 left in the first quarter.

A layup by Hand’s Summer Adams tied the game at 29 with 6:23 remaining in the game.

Tyree Allen Chappell, who injured her ankle less than two minutes into the game, made a go-ahead 3-pointer 20 seconds later.

Class S

No. 7 Trinity Catholic 52, No. 1 Canton 45

Iyanna Lops scored 17 of her game-high 26 points during a dominating second quarter with nine rebounds and seven blocks to lead the Crusaders to their fourth state title.

Caitlyn Scott had 12 points and six assists for Trinity (22-5), which finished 2-18 two seasons ago.

Abigail Charron had 15 points and three steals for the Warriors (26-2) and Paige Brown scored 10.

Trinity trailed 18-10 after one quarter. Lops jumpstarted the Crusaders, who outscored Canton 23-4 in the second quarter.

Lops opened the second with back-to-back 3-pointers, followed by a layup to tie the game at 18 with 6:40 left in the first half.

Lops made another 3-pointer with 4:42 left in the second quarter to put the Crusaders ahead to stay, 23-20.

The championship capped off an unusual year for the Crusaders. Head coach Mike Martino unexpectedly resigned at the end of December due to family reasons, according to GameTimeCT. The team was 5-1 at the time.

Mike Walsh, who retired as Trinity’s boys’ basketball coach, was approached to take over and did. Walsh coached the boys’ program to 633 wins and seven state titles.