Old Lyme are Shoreline Champions! Wildcats Defeat Morgan Huskies 72-50

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Shoreline Player of the Year Aedan Using scored a game-high 26 points in Thursday night’s Shoreline Conference final against Morgan. All photos by Emily Gerber Bjornberg.

MADISON — Old Lyme waited until part way through the second quarter to pull ahead of Morgan for the first time in last night’s Shoreline Championship game played at Polson Middle School in Madison in front of a capacity crowd.

But having gained the lead at 18-17, the Wildcats never looked back, although after jumping out to a 28-20 lead, Morgan drew level at 29 apiece at the half.

Coach Kirk Kaczor (at left, kneeling) strategizes with his team during a time-out.

From the start of the third quarter, Old Lyme kept piling on the points, few of which were answered by Morgan, taking the score to 56-41 at the end of that quarter.

The final quarter saw Morgan score only nine points while Old Lyme advanced comfortably to 72, giving a final score of 72-50.

Senior Ray Doll contributed 17 valuable points to Old Lyme’s total in the Shoreline Championship game.

Aedan Using was top scorer in the game with 26 points. He also had nine rebounds, seven assists and four blocks. Ray Doll scored 17 points to go along with three assists and three steals. Jared Ritchie added seven points and 14 rebounds while Brady Sheffield had four assists.
Alex Fratamico led Morgan with 18 points.

Photos to follow. Read Mike DiMauro’s report of the game for The Day published Thursday evening at this link.

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