Senior Night is Victory Night! Old Lyme Soundly Defeats Putnam

Old Lyme senior Eli Sahadi scores two points with a fast-break lay-up. All photos by A. Hine.

OLD LYME— Monday was Senior Night for the Old Lyme Wildcats and the team rose to the occasion by crushing the Putnam Clippers 66-38. This special night is traditionally the final home game of the regular season and the student section was packed with enthusiastic supporters of the five seniors on the team complete with placards bearing outsize photos of each senior.

Senior Night brought out a strong showing from the student section.

Senior Charlie Sahadi scored a team-high 18 points including four three-pointers.

Wildcat senior Charlie Sahadi adds two more points to the Wildcat lead.

Fellow senior Jack Porter added 12 points.

All five seniors provided a formidable defense for the Putnam team.

Noah Rudman notched 19 points for the Clippers while Nick Devlin added 10 .

Old Lyme’s Shoreline Conference record is now11-4 with their overall record standing at 14-5.

The Wildcats have qualified for both the Shoreline and CIAC State Championships. The first game in the Shoreline Tournament is this Saturday . Their opponent will be determined after Wednesday’s game against North Branford.