May 26—SUFFIELD — Hitting was contagious.

Up and down the line-up — one through nine — the Ellington High baseball team put on quite the display in the championship game of the NCCC tournament.

"We just put a lot of good swings together," Ellington coach Jim Pointek said. "The philosophy we teach is let the ball come in and take a lot of right-center swings.

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