New Haven — New London freshman Naaji Powell-Keyton won a pair of matches on Friday night to advance to the semifinals of the State Open wrestling tournament at the Floyd Little Athletic Center.

Powell-Keyton, who placed third in the 106-pound division during last week's Class M tournament, will be joined in the semis by four local seniors — Fitch's Jarod Kosman (113) and Dakota Grover (220), Montville's Noah Caskey (132) and Ledyard's Richard Mullaney (285).

The semifinal round will take place on Saturday at approximately 12:30 p.m., with the finals set for 5:15 p.m.

Powell-Keyton began the tournament with a 9-4 victory over Hall's Drew Currier in the second round (he received a bye in the first round) and then pinned Class S champion Jacob Marselli of East Catholic in 1 minute, 4 seconds in the quarters. He will face Class LL champion Thomas Finn of Simsbury in the semis.

While Powell-Keyton's success was a surprise, Kosman, Grover, Caskey and Mullaney — all state champions in their respective class meets — expected to make deep runs in the tournament.

Kosman beat Christian Chadwick of Amity by technical fall (17-2) in the second round and earned a 10-2 major decision of Glastonbury's Parker Sutton in the quarters. Kosman will face Morgan's Louis Bradley in the semis.

Kosman's teammate Grover dominated both of his opponents, pinning Haddam-Killingworth's Trevor Hines in 32 seconds in the second round and needing just 1:35 to pin Danbury's Montez Osbey in the quarters. He will face Foran's Qasim Khan in the semis.

Caskey beat Griswold's Vashil Patel by major decision, 20-8, in the second round and defeated Xavier's James Lunt 8-4 in the quarters. He will face Hand's Mark Hartmann in the semis.

Mullaney, meanwhile, pinned Bristol Central's John Duncan in 1:16 in the second round before outlasting Newtown's Joe Zeller 5-1 in the quarters. Mullaney's next opponent in the semis is reigning Open champion Michael Burchell of Hand.

Five other Eastern Connecticut Conference wrestlers advanced to the semis, including three from ECC tournament champion Killingly — Dan Charron (106), Zack Burgess (145) and ZachCaffrey (182). Windham's Alejandro Garcia (113) and Lyman Memorial/Windham Tech's Mason LaFlam (170) also advanced.

Danbury leads the team race with 82.5 points followed by Bristol Eastern (64) and Xavier (50.5).

H.S. swimming

• Waterford lost its final regular season meet of the season to Haddam-Killingworth, 91-71, in what was also the final meet for head coach Brett Arnold, who announced that he was retiring as the boys' coach after 18 seasons to spend more time with his wife and two young children. Logan Bowdish won the 100-meter breaststroke (1:25.64) for the Lancers (2-10) while Jason Blain captured the diving competition (189.40 points) and Trey Brennan, Teddy Bourez, Dan Estrin and Connor Elci teamed up to win the 400 freestyle relay (5:15.22).

• Fitch/Stonington/Ledyard/Norwich Tech defeated NFA 104-64 in the final regular-season ECC meet for both teams. John Marcolina won the 50 and 100-yard freestyles for the Falcons (8-2, 8-2), who also picked up wins from Sam Heiling (200 free), Micah McKenzie (100 butterfly) and Arron Reck (500 free). Jay Lin won the 200 IM and 100 backstroke for NFA (6-4, 6-4) while Keith Johnson captured the 100 breaststroke while teaming with Lin, Jeff Ng and Anthony Defederico to win the 200 medley relay.

Men's swimming

• Junior Taylor Rowe won the 500 freestyle for the second straight season, sophomore Joe Rodriguez won the 50 freestyle and Coast Guard Academy set a three school records on Day 2 of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Championship meet at MIT. MIT leads with 570 points and the Bears are second with 426.5.

Rowe won the 500 freestyle in 4:32.90 and was joined on the podium by teammates Max McCall (sixth, 4:39.37) and Josh Roh (seventh, 4:41.03). Rodriguez won the 50 freestyle in 20.46 and teammate John Feller was eighth (21.14).

In addition, freshman Eric Fuhs broke the school record and took third in the 200 IM (1:51.42) as CGA Colin Fenster added an eighth (1:56.07). Coast Guard's other school records were set by the 200 freestyle relay team of Feller, Rodriguez, Dan Jenkins and John Pompay (third, 1:22.69) and the 400 medley relay team of Patrick Jackson, Chasse Sodemann, Ross Garrett and Feller (third, 3:20.94).

Women's swimming

• Coast Guard freshman Sarah Passilla took third in the 200 IM (2:07.80) and was part of the 400 medley relay which set a school record on Day 2 of the NEWMAC Championship meet at MIT. She joined Samantha Kenis, Emily Benson and Kristen Young to place fourth in the relay (3:56.24) and help the Bears sit in fourth place in the team standings (214.5). MIT leads with 427.

Also for Coast Guard, the 200 freestyle relay of Hannah Fernandes, Young, Felicia Lombardi and Jacklyn Kokomoor placed third (1:37.75) while Young was fourth in the 50 free (24.12) and Benson was fifth in the 500 free (5:02.53).

Men's basketball

• Army Prep outlasted St. Thomas More 92-79 despite 25 points by Michigan-bound Adrien Nunez. Brandon Martin added 15 points and seven rebounds for the Chancellors while KK Curry had 14 points and eight rebounds and DJ Mitchell finished with 11 points and four assists.