An accident at baseball practice has left UConn athlete Connor Lane with a permanent blind spot in his right eye — but it didn’t stop him from finding a way to get back on the field. It went right into my eye,” Lane said. I pitched in high school a little, but I never worked at it or competed at this level with pitching," said Lane. This summer he played for the Mystic Schooners, a collegiate baseball summer league that competes in the Southern Division of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). UConn baseball season will start in mid-February of 2027.