Old Lyme senior Leland Hine leaps above the opposition to make a shot in Saturday’s game. All photos by A. Hine.
EAST HAMPTON—Playing away, the Old Lyme Wildcats fought hard on Saturday afternoon but ultimately lost by just four points 68-62 to the East Hampton Bellringers.
Old Lyme sophomore Colman Curtiss-Reardon netted a game-high 19 points with senior Jack Porter just one point adrift of him with 18.
Old Lyme senior Dylan Paynter contributed to the Wildcats score with this deft three-pointer.
Jadin Sawyer was top scorer for East Hampton with 18 points while Brady Lynch netted 17.
The Wildcats’ Shoreline Conference record now stands at 8-4 with their overall record: at 9-5.
Colman Curtiss-Reardon jumps to score another hoop adding to what ultimately became his game-high total of 19 points.
Old Lyme’s next game is tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 6, away at Westbrook High School with a 7 p.m. tip-off.
Old Lyme senior Jack Porter shoots—and makes—his sixth three-pointer in Old Lyme’s game against Portland played Tuesday evening in the Lyme-Old Lyme High School gym. The Wildcats ultimately won 69-41. All photos by A. Hine.
OLD LYME — The Old Lyme boys secured a big 69-41 win at home over Portland Tuesday night with Wildcat senior Jack Porter making a major contribution scoring six three-pointers in his game-high 23 points.
The action was intense in Tuesday night’s game. Old Lyme senior Eli Sahadi (#23) fends off a Portland player to make a shot while senior Leland Hine (#25) moves down the court to pick up a possible rebound.
Senior Leland Hine and freshman Eddie Fiske were also key contributors to the Old Lyme team with 11 and 10 points respectively.
Sophomore Colman Curtiss-Reardon looks to score more points for Old Lyme with this shot.
The Wildcats advance to a 7-3 in Shoreline Conference play and an overall record of 8-4.
The boys’ next game is at home on Friday, Feb. 2, against Hale-Ray.
Liam Corrigan (second from right), who was a member of the Lyme-Old Lyme High School Class of 2015, stroked the Men’s Four to a silver medal in the recent 2023 World Rowing Championships in Serbia.That position qualifies the boat for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Blood Streets Sculls Masters Rower Nobuhisa Ishizuka, right in photo, is President of US Rowing and was head of the US delegation at the Championships. All photos are by www.row2K.com and published with their permission.
BELGRADE, SERBIA — Numerous Old Lyme Rowing Association / Blood Street Sculls members represented the United States in the 2023 World Rowing Championships held Sept. 3-10 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Liam Corrigan, who graduated from Lyme-Old Lyme High School (LOLHS) in 2015, stroked the Men’s Four to a silver medal, qualifying the boat for the Paris Olympics in 2024.
After graduating from LOLHS, Corrigan attended Harvard University, where he was ultimately captain of the rowing team. He subsequently moved to California, where he continues his rowing career with the California Rowing Club. Corrigan’s parents, Brian Corrigan and Joan Rivington, live in Lyme having moved there in 2020 from Old Lyme, where they had lived for many years.
The 2021 Tokyo Olympics saw Corrigan along with Old Lyme native and 2010 LOLHS graduate Austin Hack row in the US Men’s Eight boat, which ultimately just missed out on a medal coming in a photo-finish fourth in the final.
This year’s World Championships also acted as the first qualifying event for countries for the 2024 Paris Olympics. In total, the U.S. won seven medals and qualified 10 boats for Paris (eight Olympic and two Paralympic) over the eight-day regatta.
The U.S. finished fourth in total medals.
The U.S. won silver in the women’s eight, PR3 mixed double sculls, PR3 mixed four with coxswain, lightweight women’s double sculls, and men’s four, as well as bronze in the women’s double sculls and lightweight women’s single sculls. PR3 is a one of three classes of para-rowing in which the athletes have physical impairments, visual impairment and/or intellectual disabilities. The PR3 sport class is for rowers, who have the use of their legs, trunk and arms and can use the sliding seat.
The U.S. qualified the women’s single sculls, women’s double sculls, lightweight women’s double sculls, women’s pair, men’s pair, men’s four, women’s four, and women’s eight for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as well as the PR3 mixed double sculls and the PR3 mixed four with coxswain for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Former Blood Street Sculls member Ben Washburne of Madison, CT (second from right in photo) won silver in the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four , thus qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Ben Washburne of Madison, Conn., and former Blood Street Sculls member (second from right in photo) also won silver in the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four qualifying for Paris.
Another former Blood Street Sculls rower Dominique Williams, also of Madison, Conn., and his crew finished 9th in the Men’s Quadruple Sculls and will have a chance to qualify next spring at the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. Williams’s US boat is pictured at right in photo below.
Another former Blood Street Sculls member, Dominique Williams of Madison, Conn., and his crew finished 9th in the Men’s Quadruple Sculls. They will have a chance to qualify next spring in Lucerne, Switzerland, for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Blood Street Sculls was also represented in the 2023 World Rowing Championships by Nobuhisa Ishizuka, who lives in Madison, Conn., and is a Blood Streets Sculls Masters Rower.
Ishizuka joined the US Rowing Board of Directors in 2018 and serves as President of US Rowing. He was in attendance at the 2023 World Rowing Championships as the head of the US delegation.
Lyme-Old Lyme High School rising junior Zoe Eastman-Grossel, pictured above competing in the shot-put event, placed 13th in the heptathlon for the 15-16 age group in the National Junior Track & Field Olympics held late July n Eugene, Ore.
EUGENE, ORE./OLD LYME — On July 24 and 25, Lyme-Old Lyme High School (LOLHS) rising junior Zoe Eastman-Grossel placed 13th in the heptathlon for the 15-16 age group in the National Junior Track & Field Olympic Championships in Eugene, Ore.
She qualified for the event after winning the USA Track & Field (USATF) Region One Championships in Craryville, N.Y. , which included athletes from all the New England states and New York, including New York City and Long Island.
Eastman-Grossel competed found herself competing against a strong field of athletes in Eugene, Ore. She achieved a total score of 3669 points across the seven events, which represented an improvement of almost 200 points over her USATF Regional qualifying score of 3475.
This score ranks Eastman-Grossel among the top high school heptathletes in the country with her score being in the top 79 scores for that group in the United States.
Her performance included two personal records — one in the javelin with a throw of 75 ft. 10.75 ins. and the other in the 200-meter run with a time of 26.66.
With her club season at the Capital City track club in Hartford completed, Eastman-Grossel is now looking forward to returning to both the classroom and track for her Junior year at LOLHS.
