Roundup: Babcock wins national triathlon title

Oro Valley, Ariz. — John Babcock of Niantic won the men's 20-24 age group national championship Saturday USA Triathlon's 2011 Duathlon National Championship.

Babcock posted a time of 1 hour, 29 minutes, 18 seconds on the 5-kilometer run, 35-kilometer bike and 5-kilometer run course. In addition to the victory, Babcock also earned a spot on Team USA for the 2011 ITU Short Course Duathlon WorldChampionships in Gijon, Spain, Sept. 24-25.

Team USA is comprised of amateur athletes who represent the United States at each ITU World Championships event.

Boys' lacrosse

• Jimmy Newman scored five goals as unbeaten St. Thomas More rolled to a 14-6 win over Marianapois Prep in the SENE. Tyler Kiener added three goals and Oleg Deyle and Karl Manhardt scored two goals apiece for the Chancellors (7-0, 6-0). Marianapolis is 1-9, 0-5.

Girls' lacrosse

• Annie Nelson had eight goals and two assists and Meggie Carter seven goals as The Williams School routed Providence Country Day 22-5. Williams (7-4) led 18-3 at the half. Kat Evans added three goals and three assists for the Blues, Zoe Moffett a goal and three assists and Lili Goldberg a goal and two assists.

H.S. golf

• Dave Gunas was the medalist, shooting a 45 to lift Bacon Academy to a 5-2 victory over New London in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Medium Division match at New London Country Club.

Ryan Fogarty and Andrew DiCostanzo also won matches for Bacon (2-6, 2-4), which took the medal points 200-216. Brandon Bruun shot a team-best 50 for New London (2-11, 2-6).

• Joey Barile shot a 4-over-par 40 to earn medalist honors as Griswold topped Plainfield 5.5-1.5 at Foster Country Club. Sean Shepard, Cole Roberts and Andrew Berardi joined Barile in winning matches for Griswold (8-1).

H.S. crew

• Old Lyme had a productive day during a three-team race at Rogers Lake, sweeping all 10 races from E.O. Smith of Storrs and Valley Regional. The boys' varsity 1 team won in 5:20 and the girls' varsity 1 finished first in 5:53. Other winners for Old Lyme were the boys' varsity 2 (5:21), girls' varsity 2 (5:58), boys' varsity 3 (5:32), girls' varsity 3 (6:12), girls' 8 (5:15), boys' novice (5:46), girls' novice (6:20) and girls' novice B (6:34).

H.S. girls' tennis

• Stonington knocked off the last undefeated team in the ECC, beating Woodstock Academy 5-2 Tuesday. Emilie Burgess, Annika Burgess and Chloe Slater won their singles matches and the doubles teams of Lauren Valenti-Abby Volk and Elizabeth Johnstone-Lindsey Michaels also won for the Bears (7-2).

H.S. girls' track

• New London's Jessica Fort won three events, but the Whalers lost to Killingly 82-66 in an ECC Medium Division meet. Fort won the 100 and 200 meters and the long jump. Jade Bland-Allen won the discus and shot put for New london (1-4, 0-4).

College baseball

• UConn-Avery Point will play a best two-out-of-three series against the Community College of Rhode Island beginning Friday for the NJCAA Region 21 Division II championship.

CCRI earned the right to host the tournament by finishing first in Region 21 with a 6-3 record. Avery Point was 5-3 in the region. Games will be played at 4 p.m. Friday, noon Saturday and at noon Sunday if necessary.

Avery Point pitcher Sean Donatello of East Lyme was named Player of the Year in the region and middle infielder Nick Palmisano the Defensive Player of the Year. Also making the region's all-star team were outfielder Stanley Paul, catcher Dave Dubay and pitcher Eric Morse of East Lyme.

Maxwell, Farrar seventh

• Erin Maxwell of Stonington and Isabelle Farrar of New York finished fourth in Friday's medal race and seventh overall in the women's 470 division at French Olympic Week in Hyeres, France, competing against 55 other teams. Maxwell and Farrar made up the top U.S. team in the race, with 132 points.

The race was held as part of the ISAF Sailing World Cup Series and is a part of an Olympic campaign being waged by Maxwell and Farrar.

The next step in their campaign is an important one, as the U.S. 2012 Olympic Selection starts at the Sail for Gold Regatta in Weymouth, England, in June.

The Olympic Selection is the combined scores from two regattas, the Sail for Gold and the 2012 World Championships in Perth, Australia, in August.

Mortensen going to nationals

• Bill Mortenson of Stonington will lead a team of Mudhead sailors in the Hospice Regatta's National Championship, June 3-5, in the waters of Lake Ontario and hosted by Rochester Yacht Club.

Mortenson is a past commodore of the Mudheads and has won the J-24 class the last two years in the Mudhead Benefit Cup for Hospice Southeastern Connecticut.