Old Lyme Fall at Final Hurdle Losing Shoreline Championship 3-2, but Exit with Their Heads Held High

Junior Abby Manthous (left) scored both goals for Old Lyme in Monday’s Shoreline Championship loss to Haddam-Killingworth. All photos by E. Mauro.

OLD LYME — It just wasn’t meant to be …

Top-seeded Old Lyme could not pull off a victory in their final game of the season to win the Shoreline Championship for the first time since 2016.

Sophomore Alexis Fenton played a determined role in the game.

Although they were the underdogs as third seeds and playing away from home, Haddam-Killingworth had a certain determination about them. They scored first after 27 minutes taking the score to 1-0 at half-time.

Despite H-K coming out and scoring again after six minutes in the second half, the Wildcats were anything but beaten at that point.

MacKenzie Machnik takes the ball up the field while junior Ali Kyle (#21) keeps pace with her.

Junior Abby Manthous put the ball in the net off a corner kick a short time later bringing the score back to 2-1 and giving Old Lyme renewed hope.

Junior Emily DeRoehn set up the first Old Lyme goal for Manthous.

That hope was dissipated somewhat when the Cougars scored again with 13 minutes remaining, but still the Wildcats didn’t give up.

With the score at 3-1 and 2:23 left on the clock, Manthous found the back of the net again, this time directly from a corner kick.

Senior goalie Sam Gray defended the goal valiantly throughout the game.

It was not enough to win the game, but the girls ended the season with an extraordinary record of 10-1-1 and prior to this game, an unbeaten season behind them on which they can look back with tremendous pride.

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