The latest winter storm to hit the region Tuesday night forced Eastern Connecticut Conference officials to move tonight's boys' basketball tournament semifinal games from Waterford to Fitch High School.

Waterford is unable to host tonight's doubleheader because its girls' basketball team, which was scheduled to open the Class M state tournament at home against Rocky Hill on Tuesday, had that game postponed until tonight at 6, making the Francis X. Sweeney Field House unavailable to host the ECC semifinals.

Fitch made its facility available and the games, which will be livestreamed on www.theday.com starting at 5:15 p.m., begin at 5:30 with top-seeded New London playing No. 5 Windham followed by No. 2 Ledyard against No. 3 Waterford at 7:30. The championship game will will still be played at Waterford on Friday, although the starting time was pushed back from 7 to 7:30 p.m.

The doors at Fitch will open today at 4:45 p.m., with tickets costing $6 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens.

The entire local schedule was snowed out on Tuesday, including the Shoreline Conference boys' basketball tournament semifinal between No. 2 Old Lyme and No. 6 Coginchaug. The game will be played at Old Lyme today at 5 p.m.

The CIAC also postponed its entire schedule of first round girls' basketball tournament games until today including games involving six locals schools. ECC champion Norwich Free Academy opens play in Class LL at home against Darien at 5 p.m. while Ledyard visits Simsbury at 7. In Class M, Montville visits Bullard-Havens of Bridgeport at 5, Stonington is home against North Branford at 5:30, Waterford hosts Rocky Hill at 6, and New London hosts Ellington at 7.

Local honors

• NFA athletic director Gary Makowicki, who recently was named Connecticut High School Coaches' Association Athletic Director of the Year, will be honored with a CIAC Merit award on Saturday, March 21 at the Cabaret Theater at Mohegan Sun, prior to the state of the boys' and girls' state championship basketball games. Makowicki, an NFA graduate and former coach, has been the Wildcats' AD for the past 22 years. He was inducted into the CHSCA Hall of Fame in 2008.

• Coast Guard Academy juniors Meghan Fornaro and Torie Sutherland were named to the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference all-conference women's basketball team while Alex Ivansheck was named Coach of the Year in voting by the NEWMAC's 11 head coaches.

Fornaro, who was named to the first team, earns all-conference honors for the first timer. She led the Bears and was third in the NEWMAC with 16.6 points per game. She also led the team in field goal percentage (48 percent), assists (90) and steals (62), while finishing second with 5.3 rebounds per game. Sutherland was named to the second team for the second straight season after averaging 11.5 points and a team-high 8.6 rebounds per game.

Ivansheck, in her third season, led Coast Guard to its third straight NEWMAC tournament after back-to-back 1-17 conference records before she took over. Under Ivansheck, a Norwich Free Academy graduate, Coast Guard won 19 games for the second straight season finishing (19-8 overall), won a school-record 12 straight games and advance to the NEWMAC tournament semis for the first time since 2008.

• Connecticut College junior men's hockey goalie Tom Conlin was named to the New England Small College Athletic Conference second team. Conlin has allowed just 2.25 goals per game and has a .924 save percentage in 23 starts for the Camels. He made 33 saves in Conn's overtime victory over Hamilton last Saturday, a victory that powered the third-seeded Camels into NESCAC tournament semifinals for the first time in program history. Conn will play No. 4 Williams on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Amherst.

Conn College senior women's hockey goalie Kelsie Fralick was named to the All-NESCAC first team while Kristin Steele was selected NESCAC Coach of the Year. Fralick had a .939 save percentage and a 1.89 goals against average in 15 conference games, leading the NESCAC with 399 saves and helping the Camels earn a NESCAC tournament bid. She finished here career with 2,016 saves.

Steele was honored by her coaching peers for the first time in her 14-year career. After posting a 4-9-3 league record and earning the No. 8 seed last season, she guided the Camels to a 7-7-2 conference record as Conn earned the No. 4 seed in the NESCAC tournament, the highest ranking in program history. Under Steele's direction, the Camels have made eight consecutive appearances in the NESCAC tournament, advancing to the semfinals three times.