Senior captain Andrew Tyrol (center) will hopefully be leaping high again to score tonight, as in this photo from Saturday’s game against Nonnewaug.
Kirk Kaczor’s fifth seeded Wildcats meet fourth seeded Terryville tonight at 7 p.m. After Saturday’s thrilling come-from-behind, second-round game, the ‘Cats are now hungry for a berth in the semi-final. A army of fans will make the trek to Terryville this evening with their hopes high of seeing another victory.
Duck River Garden Club hosts Nancy Ballek Mackinnon, horticulturist and author, on Monday, March 11, at 7 p.m. at the Lymes’ Senior Center on Town Woods Rd. Nancy, who is a partner in Ballek’s Garden Center in East Haddam,will speak on, “Perennials for 10 Months Bloom.”
Ballek’s Garden Center is located on a farm that has been in the family since 1662. Nancy’s first three college credits in horticulture were earned in 1974 on a trip to Scandinavia with her mother Anita, learning innovative methods used at nurseries and municipal gardens. She received a degree in environmental horticulture and landscape design from the University of Connecticut graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1978, and joined Ballek’s Garden Center soon after.
The family’s eclectic and wide-ranging horticulture interests are reflected in her selection of products for sale, which include everything from garden statuary to thousands of species of annuals and perennials.
Nancy is the author of, “The Gardener’s Book of Charts, Tables & Lists: A Complete Gardening Guide” created to make it easier for horticulturists to select the right plant for the right place.
All are welcome at this meeting.
Photos by J. Tyrol. Andrew Tyrol (center) leaps along with two Nonnewaug players for a ball in yesterday afternoon’s game.
Down 20 points to seven at the end of the first quarter, the Wildcats looked finished in yesterday’s second round game of the state Class S tournament. The second quarter wasn’t much better, but at least Old Lyme did not go further behind.
After the break, a very different team emerged that suddenly seemed to have the previously missing determination to win. Kaczor’s boys whittled Nonnewaug’s margin away to nothing by the end of the third quarter to leave the score at 40;40.
At the end of a thrilling fourth quarter, Nonnewaug equalized on the buzzer to leave the regulation time score also even, this time at 54:54.
Overtime saw the gritty ‘Cats start to pull away and finally secure victory at 66:59.
Old Lyme now meets Terryville away in the quarter final on Monday at 7 p.m.
