Old Lyme Basketball: Boys Win, Girls Lose

LYME-OLD LYME — In Monday evening’s games, the boys beat Coginchaug 80-39 in a Shoreline Conference game at Old Lyme.  The girls meanwhile traveled to Durham where they lost to Coginchaug 58-31.
Leading Old Lyme scoring for the boys was Aedan Using with 25 points, six assists, and eight rebounds.  Ray Doll scored 10 points and Brady Sheffield added eight points and seven assists.
Justin Penney and Chris Onofrio scored eight points each for Coginchaug.
The Old Lyme boys current record is 10-1.

Meanwhile, the girls coach Don Bugbee commented after his team’s loss, “We ran into a very good Coginchaug team on a night when we didn’t perform to our ability. We were overmatched from the start, but will learn from it and get better as a result of it.” He noted that the Wildvat’s top scorer was Emily DeRoehn with 14 points.  The girls current record is 7-4.

Bugbee added that a highlight of the evening was the Old Lyme Junior Varsity (JV) girls winning their game against Coginchaug 30-28. in a thrilling finish, Alexis Fenton made two foul shots with three seconds left to give the ‘Cats the win.

Hayley Cann finished with12 points. The current JV record is 9-1.

Upcoming games for both teams are :

Thursday, Jan. 30:  OL girls at East Hampton

Friday, Jan. 31: OL Boys v. East Hampton at home

Saturday,  Feb. 1:  OL girls  at North Branford

Tuesday, Feb. 4: OL Boys v. Westbrook at home

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