New Haven — Ian Ratchford, who guided the UConn Avery Point baseball program for the last four seasons, was named head baseball coach and coordinate of athletics facilities and operations at Albertus Magnus College on Friday.

Albertus Magnus is a Division III program and a member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference, which will include Mitchell College for the first time this fall.

"Ian Ratchford brings a diverse background as a coach and leader both at the collegiate level and on the summer circuit within the New England Collegiate Baseball League," Albertus Magnus athletic director Mike Kobylanski said in a release. "He has demonstrated an ability to support student-athletes on their academic and athletic journeys at the NCAA Division II and III levels, as well as the National Junior College Athletic Association. Ian is also extremely well-versed on the local recruiting landscape. We look forward to seeing Ian usher in the next chapter of our program in the coming years."

Kobylanski was the athletic director at Avery Point before joining taking over as the Falcons’ athletic director in 2022.

"I am extremely grateful for this opportunity to be a part of the Albertus Magnus community and look forward to creating relationships within the athletic department and the entire campus,“ Ratchford said. ”I am excited to get to work with our student-athletes, coaches and staff at this great institution."

Ratchford guided the Pointers to three postseason appearances and two Subdistrict titles during his four season at Avery Point and finished with a .613 winning percentage. He also spent two seasons managing the Danbury Westerners of the NECBL, guiding Danbury to its first NECBL championship in 2021.

College baseball

• Third-seeded Texas Tech held on to defeat No. 2 UConn 3-2 in the opening round of the NCAA Gainesville (Fla.) Regional. The Huskies (43-16) will play No. 4 Florida A&M, a 3-0 loser to top-seeded Florida, in an elimination game of the double-elimination regional at noon.

Texas Tech (40-21) starter Mason Molina no-hit the Huskies until the sixth when Dave Smith grounded a ball up the middle that deflected off Molina’s glove for a single. An inning later, with the Huskies trailing 3-2, Ben Huber and Jake Studley walked to open the seventh and moved up on a wild pitch before Ryan Daniels’ infield out scored Huber and Madix Dalena singled to right scoring Studley.

UConn stranded Korey Morton at third in the eighth and didn’t threated in the ninth.

H.S. state tournament

• Five local baseball teams and the Stonington boy’s lacrosse team will play quarterfinal round games in the CIAC tournament on Saturday. The seventh-seeded Bears, the last local boys’ lacrosse team still playing, visits No. 2 Weston at 3 p.m.

In baseball, two local teams will play in the Class S quarterfinals when No. 2 St. Bernard plays No. 10 Lyman Memorial in a game that has been moved to Mitchell College at 1:30 p.m. No. 6 Old Lyme will visit No. 3 Haddam-Killingworth in another Class quarter at 1:30 p.m., while No. 2 East Lyme hosts No. 10 Berlin in the Class L at 1 p.m. and No. 5 Waterford hits the road to face No. 7 St. Joseph in a Class M game at 3 p.m. in Trumbull.