Shelton — Blake Gianakos pitched a one-hitter through five innings Friday, striking out 10 and walking none, as the East Lyme Little League baseball team (ages 10-12) defeated Wallingford 11-0 in the losers’ bracket final of the Connecticut state tournament Final Four.

East Lyme will meet Stamford National in the championship round at 11 a.m. Saturday. If East Lyme wins that game, the teams will play a second game to decide the title at 11 a.m. Sunday. Stamford edged East Lyme 6-3 earlier in the week.

Jonathan Menchaca hit a two-run homer in the first inning to start the East Lyme offensive attack, which yielded 12 hits, and Brady Donovan had a two-run single in the second.

Menchaca finished with three RBI and Gianakos, Donovan, Alexander Biscotto and Owen Ament each had two hits. Alexander Mitchell threw one inning in relief of Gianakos.

Ledyard’s Forster earns Good Sport Award

• Marc Forster, who has been a volunteer assistant softball coach at Ledyard High School since 2011, following the graduation of his daughter Jenny from the program, was chosen to receive a John Wentworth Good Sport Award from the Connecticut Sports Media Alliance.

Forster is on his fourth varsity coach, providing a consistent presence for the Colonels every afternoon following his "day job" as a history professor at Connecticut College. "To me, it's part of my life as an educator," Forster said of coaching. Forster and his wife Tina live in Ledyard.

Forster will be honored Sunday, Oct. 20, at the alliance’s annual Gold Key Dinner at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington. Tickets are $75 and may be reserved by contacting CSMA president Tim Jensen at (860) 394-5091 or by emailing tim.jensen@patch.com

Gold Key recipients at this year’s dinner are longtime Windham High School football and wrestling coach Brian Crudden, former Hand High School and Yale football coach Larry Ciotti, retired Pomperaug High field hockey coach Linda Dirga, award-winning sportscaster George Grande and Wesleyan women’s basketball coach Kate Mullen.

NECBL

• Maddix Dalena (UConn) was 2-for-3 with a double and a two-run homer in the third inning as the Mystic Schooners defeated the North Shore Navigators 5-2 in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.

Cian Sahler (Fordham) and Matt Brinker (Northeastern) also had two hits each for Mystic (22-17). Left-handed starting pitcher Dan Driscoll of Waterford (Eastern Connecticut) earned the win, allowing one run on two hits over six innings, and Max Haug (George Washington) pitched three innings in relief to earn the save.

On Thursday, Jack Goodman (Northeastern) was 3-for-5 with two home runs and five RBI as the Schooners outslugged the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks 16-11. Goodman hit a solo homer in the first inning and a three-run shot in the third for Mystic, which scored nine runs on five hits in the third. Sahler, Christian Scanlon (Merrimack), Jayden Hylton (Stetson), Dalena (UConn), Scotty Young (Old Dominion) and Juan De La Cruz (Stetson) added two hits each for the Schooners and Evan Hamberger (Spokane Falls CC) earned the win in relief.