Senior Night is Victory Night! Old Lyme Soundly Defeats Putnam

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Lyme
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February 20, 2024
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.

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Olwen Logan

Olwen Logan grew up in a family of London educators but was inspired by her great grandfather, influential Daily Chronicle newspaper editor Alfred Ewen Fletcher, to pursue journalism. She built a successful career in efficiency analysis and senior audit management before launching her own PR-focused consultancy. After moving to the U.S. in 1990 and settling in Old Lyme in 1994, she became a staff writer for the now-closed Main Street News and later joined Jack Turner’s fledgling LymeLine.com, discovering the career she had always wanted—albeit in an unexpected digital form. Even after relocating to Maryland, she continued covering Lyme and Old Lyme with the same dedication, earning national recognition as a LION Publishers award finalist in 2020. After more than two decades of service, Olwen stepped away in November 2025, donating LymeLine.com to the newly formed nonprofit LymeLine Inc. and expressing her excitement for its continued growth and mission.

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