Patch Live Look-In: Berlin loses in quarters

7:15 p.m. Both teams have been out and stretched and are warming up. 

Bacon looks big and strong but Berlin seems pretty loose. 

Bacon beat Berlin in the Class M State Championship in 2009 and is unbeaten at 24-0 this season. 

Bacon is coached by Dave Shea, a former minor league pitcher, who has won more than 300 games coaching boys basketball and 300 more coaching girls. 

Shea's granddaughter Katie Maloney is a Division I player, reportedly choosing between Brown and Fairfield. 

Game starts at 7:30 

7:45 p.m. Berlin girls are down 6-2 midway through the first period against Bacon Academy in the Class L quarterfinals.

7:52 p.m. Bacon 15, Berlin 6 after one quarter in the Class L quarters.

8:00 p.m. Bacon 21, Berlin 10 midway through the second quarter. Bacon is methodical and does not make many mistakes. 

Halftime, Bacon 32, Berlin 15. Bacon is not afraid to shoot from the outside  because if they miss they are beating Berlin badly on the backboards. 

8:26 p.m. Bacon 36, Berlin 26. Redcoats come out of the gates in the third quarter with a solid 11-4 run to get right back in the game. 

8:39 p.m. Berlin trails Bacon 40-31 going into the fourth quarter. It looked like it would be 40-34 as junior Chelsea Vujs hit a three-pointer at the buzzer but the refs called it no good, coming after the buzzer sounded.

8:46 p.m. Bacon 46, Berlin 34 with four minutes left.  

9:03 p.m. Top-ranked and now 25-0 Bacon Academy ends the Berlin girls outstanding season, 52-41. 

Chelsea Vujs, Ashley Malloy and Alyssa Barrett led Berlin with nine points followed by DD Barrett with eight points. 

After losing two Division I college players, a Division III college player and another Division III athlete, not many expected the Redcoats to be much more than a .500 team.

On the back of their team t-shirts, the seniors vowed to expect a surprise season. They got one. The seniors led a young team to an excellent regular season, a berth in the CCC Tournament and two CIAC tournament victories.