Southington — Paul and Ann Dagle of East Lyme have been named the recipients of the Connecticut Sports Media Alliance’s Bob Casey Courage Award and will be honored at the organization’s 81st Gold Key Dinner on Oct. 22.

The Dagles lost their 19-year-old son, Brian, to suicide in November, 2011, while he was a sophomore in college.

Since then, the Dagles opened the Brian Dagle Foundation, “dedicated to the healing of grieving adults as well as community education on suicide prevention and awareness.” The Dagles also organized the Lax2Live lacrosse initiative, speaking at 18 high school and college lacrosse games this season throughout southeastern Connecticut, recognizing Brian’s love of the sport while acknowledging the mental health challenges of student-athletes.

Ann is the president and executive director of the Brian Dagle Foundation, with Paul serving as vice president.

The CSMA also announced that The Day’s Vickie Fulkerson will be the recipient of the Art McGinley Award for meritorious service.

The five Gold Key recipients for 2023 include Waterford’s Jan Merrill-Morin, the former record-setting long distance runner, and former Norwich Free Academy coach and athletic director Gary Makowicki.

The Gold Key Dinner will be held beginning 2 p.m., Oct. 22, at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington. Tickets are $75 and are available by contacting CSMA president Tim Jensen of Patch Media Corp. at (860) 394-5091 or tim.jensen@patch.com.

College baseball

• Ben Huber hit a clutch home run, UConn allowed one run over the final four innings and the Huskies defeated Florida A&M 9-6 Saturday in an elimination game at the NCAA tournament Gainesville Regional.

UConn led 5-4 heading to the eighth inning, then scored three runs on a sacrifice fly and Huber's two-run home run. The Huskies added a run in the ninth on a sacrifice bunt by Korey Morton. David Smith had two hits and drove in two runs.

Devin Kirby (7-1) pitched four innings in relief, allowing two runs on four hits. Justin Willis pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 12th save.

Solo home runs by Ty Hanchey, Jared Weber, Janmikell Bastardo and Joseph Pierini kept FAMU (29-30) close, but the Rattlers managed only four other hits.

Zach Morea (4-4) was the losing pitcher in relief.

No. 2-seed UConn (44-16) advances to play Sunday against the loser of Saturday’s later game between top-seeded regional host Florida and No. 3-seed Texas Tech.

H.S. boys’ lacrosse

• Cam Elenteny had two goals and an assist in No. 7 Stonington’s 20-5 loss to No. 2 Weston in the quarterfinals of the Class S state tournament. Nathan Mahoney, Ethan Mahoney and Ben Massengale added one goal each and Tyler Simao had an assist for the Bears, who finished the season 17-3. Weston moved on to Wednesday’s semifinals to meet No. 3 New Fairfield.

H.S. baseball

• No. 3 Haddam-Killingworth defeated No. 6 Old Lyme 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Class S tournament. H-K advanced to meet No. 10 Lyman Memorial in the semifinals Tuesday at a site and time to be announced. Old Lyme finished 18-7.

• No. 7 St. Joseph eliminated No. 15 Waterford in the Class M state tournament quarterfinals, 12-1. St. Joseph will meet No. 3 Nonnewaug in the semifinals. Waterford finished 15-10.