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Old Lyme Girls’ Track Team End Exceptional Season as State ‘Class S’ Runners-Up; Chase Gilbert Qualifies for State Open in Two Events

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The Old Lyme girls’ 4×400 and 4×800 relay team of Maddy Morgado, Aggie Hunt, Lyla Powers, and Chase Gilbert (right) won the 4×800, came second in the 4×400, and broke school records in both events at the Class S Championships held Thursday in New Haven. Gilbert also won the 3200m race, also breaking that school record.

NEW HAVEN — On Thursday, the Old Lyme Girls Indoor Track & Field team came second in the State Class S championship behind Bloomfield, and ahead of Old Saybrook, while the Old Lyme boys notched 11th place overall.

Chase Gilbert took first place in the girls 3200m setting a new school record time of 10:54.12.

She was also a member of the 4 x 800 and 4 x 400 relay teams, which finished first and second respectively, and both of which set new school records.

The girls’ relay team of Maddy Morgado, Aggie Hunt, Lyla Powers, and Gilbert recorded times of 4.32.83 and 9:49.96 in the 4 x 400 and 4 x 800 respectively.

The girls’ split times in the winning 4 x 800 race were 2:30, 2:31, 2:31, 2:16 respectively and in the 4 x 400, in which they finished second, their split times were 65.8, 65.7, 64.1, 64.1 respectively.

With these times, the 4 x 800 girls’ team and Gilbert in the 3200m have now qualified for the State Opens at Hillhouse in New Haven on Feb. 18.

Other key results for both Old Lyme teams were:

The Old Lyme Boys’ 4×800 team of Eric Dagher, Gabe Tooker, Dylan Hovey, and Marco Supersano finished third with a time of 8:41.79 .

3rd place Boys 4×800: Eric Dagher, Gabe Tooker, Dylan Hovey, Marco Supersano 8:41.79 (splits: 2:11, 2:09, 2:10, 2:09 respectively) 

1st place boys shot put: Dylan Sheehan 51’2″

3rd place girls 600m: Lyla Powers 1:43.45

4th place girls 1000m: Maddy Morgado 3:11.95

2nd place girls 55 Hurdles: Zoe Eastman-Grossel 9.09 (9.05 during the prelims)

Additional Old Lyme athletes may qualify for the State Open dependent on the remainder of the Class S results achieved in subsequent day events.

Congratulations from all of us at LymeLine to both teams on such a remarkable season!

Lyme-Old Lyme Girls Indoor Track & Field are 2023 Shoreline Conference Champions!

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The Lyme-Old Lyme Girls Indoor Track & Field team proudly hold the Shoreline Championship Cup after gaining first place in the Shoreline Conference Championship held in New Haven on Friday.

NEW HAVEN — On Friday, the Lyme-Old Lyme Girls Indoor Track & Field team pulled off a spectacular result finishing in the top spot in the Shoreline Conference Championship held at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven.

The official results have not yet been posted but a selection of the unofficial girls’ and boys’ results includes the following:

The Lyme-Old Lyme Girls 4×800 team (pictured above) of Maddy Morgado, Aggie Hunt, Gesa Vazquez, and Chase Gilbert (second from left) took first place in the Shoreline Championship race. Photo by H.Heck.

Boys 4×800 2nd place: Harry Whitten, Eric Dagher, Gabriel Tooker, Dylan Hoovey

Zoe Eastman-Grossel took 1st place in the Girls’ 55 meter hurdles.

Girls 600m 1st place: Lyla Powers

Girls 1600m Sprint Medley 1st place: Alexis Fenton, Serena Mazzi, Lyla Powers, Maddy Morgado

Girls 1600m & 3200m 1st place: Chase Gilbert

Girls 4×400 1st place: Aggie Hunt, Beatrice Hunt, Bronwyn Kyle, Lyla Powers

Girls shotput 2nd place: Emma Bayor

Boys shotput 2nd place: Dylan Sheehan

Girls long jump 2nd place: Zoe Eastman-Grossel

Hearty congratulations from LymeLine to all the Lyme-Old Lyme indoor track and field participants!

‘Essex Ed’ Honors Lyme-Old Lyme/Valley Regional Football Team

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Members of the Valley Regional/Lyme-Old Lyme football team accompanied Essex Ed on his trip up Main Street in Essex last Sunday.

ESSEX, CT — The Essex Ed Parade was held last Sunday. Pots and pans, spoons, whistles and trumpets ‘played’ by parade-goers, many in festive groundhog gear, celebrated the larger-than-life-groundhog making his annual pilgrimage from Essex Boatworks on Ferry Street and up Main Street.

As always, Ed’s costume was a secret until his parade appearance. Each year a community organization dresses him in a costume that acknowledges a person, group or special occasion. That costume and organization will be revealed on the parade route to Ed’s final place of honor, at the roundabout on the top of Main Street. 

It turned out that this year Ed was honoring the Valley Regional/Lyme-Old Lyme Football Team, which reached the 2022 CIAC Class S State Final.

In 1978, Essex Ed was created out of boredom by local resident Mary Ellen Brophy and friends who wanted to interject some fun into what was an extremely cold and unpleasant winter. Without securing town approval, Brophy referred to Essex Ed’s surprise appearance at the Essex Square roundabout on Groundhog Day as “creative vandalism – a way to get everybody outside for some silly, winter fun.”   

Over the years, Ed has sported a wide range of disguises, ranging from an Olympic skier, complete with a gold medal touting “Gopher the Gold”, to Superhog, with a cape and Superwoman-style uniform. He/she’s been the Captain of the Titanic, Princess Leia, a football player, firefighter, fisherman, soldier, Beethoven, preppie, librarian, and even Elvis!

The local celebrity groundhog is featured in a new children’s book, Essex Ed’s Groundhog Day Parade (ISBN: 9798840622902), written by Essex resident Susan Cornell. This independently-published book is illustrated by award-winning artist Mina Hamanoto Mohtasham, an instructor at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme and Essex resident. 

Old Lyme Boys Pull Off First Basketball Win of Season Against Hale-Ray

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OLD LYME — Playing at home on Monday night, the Old Lyme boys ended up defeating Hale Ray 68 – 60, but it was a close call.

Old Lyme struck early and hard with some good post offense from the Monte twins — Calvin and Caden — to open up a first quarter 24-15 lead. Calvin ended the game with 19 points,15 rebounds, three assists along with a steal and block apiece, Meanwhile, Caden notched 17 points, eight rebounds, two blocks and an assist.

Hale Ray, however, refused to go quietly spurred on by some outstanding shot-making by their leader Mamush Ciccerello, who scored a game-high 27 points.

Old Lyme was simply not able to pull away from Hale-Ray and in the fourth quarter, Hale Ray moved to within three. points of the Wildcats.

Ultimately though, thanks to a few timely press-breaks, Old Lyme was able to survive and come away with their first victory of the season.

After the game, Old Lyme coach Ken Beeman commented, ‘’I mentioned to the guys that in my book this is no such thing as a bad win. A win is a win. They are not always pretty but they all count. And thankfully it did not turn into a bad loss.’

Old Lyme’s next game is Thursday against Westbrook.

The ‘Cats record stands at 1-1, after their season-opening 7-45 loss to Portland. After that game, Beeman predicted, “Portland is an experienced, aggressive, confident group that is going to win a lot of shoreline games this season.”

Chase Gilbert of Old Lyme Named All-Area Girls’ Cross Country Runner of the Year by ‘The Day’

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Chase Gilbert of Old Lyme proudly displays her medal from the New England Cross-Country Championships. She has just been named The Day’s 2022 All-Area Girls’ Cross Country Runner of the Year. Photo by Aron D’Aquila.

OLD LYME — Chase Gilbert, a freshman at Lyme-Old Lyme High School, has been named The Day’s 2022 All-Area Girls’ Cross Country Runner of the Year. Visit the link to read the full article by Vicki Fulkerson published Dec. 18, 2022.

Hearty congratulations to Chase from all of us here at LymeLine!

Editor’s Note: Visit this link to read our earlier article about Gilbert published Nov. 3: Old Lyme Freshman Chase Gilbert Places 13th in New England X-Country, Awarded 2nd Team All-New England Honors