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Lyme-Old Lyme HS Sports State Tournament Round-Up: Track Meet Yields Numerous 1st Places

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GIRLS’ TENNIS

The Old Lyme Girls Tennis team takes a well-deserved break after defeating Litchfield 7-0 in the Class S semifinal round. The girls now advance to the state final, which will be played TODY, Thursday, June 1, at Wesleyan at 9am. GO WILDCATS! Photo by Andrea Fenton.

On Wednesday, May 31, Old Lyme defeated Litchfield 7-0 in one of the CIAC State Team semi-finals. Old Lyme will now play Westbrook in the state final at 9 a.m. TODAY (Thursday) at Wesleyan University. Go Wildcats!

The semifinal scores were:

Singles:
1st Singles:
Sam Tan Vs Leah Sepples 6-0, 6-0
2nd Singles:
Elaina Morosky vs Jillian Saunders 6-0, 7-6(5)
3rd Singles:
Callie Bass vs Riley Southard 6-0, 6-3
4th Singles:
Katherine Zhang vs Peyton Weik 6-1, 6-0

Doubles:
1st Doubles:
Livie Bass / Alexis Fenton 6-1, 6-0
Emily Migliorisi / Claire Olmstead
2nd Doubles:
Aggie Hunt/ Beatrice Hunt 6-0, 6-1
Hope Melk / Rachel Glander
3rd Doubles:
Izzy Reynolds/Natalie Buckley 6-1, 6-0
Baylie Pesce / Madison Lacilla

TRACK

This relay team of Maddy Morgado, Olivia Powers, Kate Walsh, and Chase Gilbert took 1st and 3rd place respectively in the 4 x 800 and 4 x 400 races.

On May 30, Old Lyme competed in the Class S State Track Meet. Here are some of the remarkable highlights of the team’s results:

Jacob Volkerts 1st place in the 100m (10.86) and 200m (22.63)
Dylan Sheehan 1st place in shot put (49-11.5) and discus (161-5)
Maddy Morgado, Olivia Powers, Kate Walsh, Chase Gilbert 1st place 4×800 (9:44.32) and 3rd place 4×400 (4:14.09)
Zoe Eastman Gorssel 3rd place 100m Hurdles (15.72) and 3rd place 300m hurdles (47.70)
Chase Gilbert 1st place 3200m (10:40.02)
Maddy Moragdo 3rd place 800m (2:22.68)
Maggie Thuma 3rd place discus (106-8)

The team will compete again in the State Open Meet next week.

BASEBALL

Lyme-Old Lyme defeated Old Saybrook 6-1 in the second round of the Class S tournament. The boys now advance to the quarter-finals where they will meet Haddam -Killingworth on Saturday, June 3, at a place and time to be determined.

Lyme-Old Lyme scored five of their six runs in the first inning. David Evers (0-3, 1 RBI, 1 R) was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to drive in a run, Rowen Meisner (2-3, 3 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB) hit a bases clearing 3 RBI double, and last, Jordan Hanes (2-4, 2 RBI) had an RBI single to score Meisner.

Santiago Rodriguez got the win for Lyme-Old Lyme. He surrendered zero runs on two hits over five innings, striking out eight. Grady Lacourciere threw two innings in relief out of the bullpen.  Lacourciere recorded the last six outs to earn the save for Lyme-Old Lyme.

Lyme-Old Lyme had nine hits. Grady Lacourciere (2-3, 1 R, 1 BB) Meisner, and Hanes all had a multi-hit game for Lyme-Old Lyme.

SOFTBALL

Wednesday evening, May 31, in what LOL High School Athletic Director Hildie Heck described as a “heartbreaking loss”, the girls were defeated 10-7 by Notre-Dame Fairfield in the second round of the Class S tournament.

BOYS’ TENNIS

Old Lyme Boys Tennis defeated Litchfield 7-0 in the first round of the Class S tournament but on May 30, were defeated 4-3 by East Catholic in the quarterfinals.

These were the results from the Litchfield game.

Singles:

  1. Cooper Munson def Ben Mqanza: 6-2, 6-3
  2. Charles Hinckley def Aaron Tiong: 6-0, 6-0
  3. Griffin McGlinchey def Jackson Bates: 6-0, 6-0
  4. Andy Sicuranza def Haydn Marriot: 6-0, 6-2

Doubles:

  1. Micah Bass / Will Danes def Matt Aldrich / Xavier McDermott: 6-3, 6-4
  2. Leland Hine / Aidan Kerrigan def Cameron Murphy / Landon Cahill: 6-1, 6-3
  3. Mason Wells / Alis Bicic def Ethan Murphy / Auden Erikson: 6-3, 6-0