East Lyme — Sitting on the sideline watching the javelin competition during the Eastern Connecticut Conference championship Saturday were Norwich Free Academy girls' track assistant Sue Hopkins-Terrell (in charge of throws) and former longtime assistant Sarah Jane Shearer, who has been volunteering as an assistant to the assistant.

Hopkins-Terrell joked that NFA brought in the cavalry with Shearer, a member of the Norwich Sports Hall of Fame, then changed that to “the general.”

“Between the two of them, they've got a million points in their careers,” East Lyme coach Carl Reichard said.

“If there's 27 points per meet (in the throws), she would only ever lose one or two,” NFA coach Kara Kochanski-Vendola said of Shearer. “She's phenomenal.”

NFA won the meet with 100 points to 74 for East Lyme and Montville, which tied for second.

NFA won five field events, including the shot put (Olivia Lane), discus (Lane) and javelin (Julia Bettencourt).

Giants among men

• Among NFA's football players who joined the track team this year were quarterback Jawaun Johnson, who won the 100, 200 and was part of the winning 4x100 relay Saturday and running back Khaleed Exum-Strong, who also ran a leg of the 4x100.

Also, there were linemen J'Von Brown and Noah Brown, who joined the Wildcats' shot put ranks. J'Von is 6-foot-3, 315 pounds and Noah is 6-3, 265. Noah was fifth at the ECC meet with a throw of 44-2

“Before I went up there, I always score the meet out,” East Lyme coach Steve Hargis said of the teams' regular-season dual meet. “We thought 'the shot put's going to be ours.' So we get there and I go over to the shot put area because that's the first event and they're all there sitting on that wall.

“I think it flipped the score (in the shot put) we thought we were going to have. … This is a good NFA team. I like spending time with these guys.”

'T2'

• The members of the East Lyme boys' team, who won the ECC championship with 115 points to 98 for Windham, call junior Evan Tryon “T2.”

Tryon was a member of the winning 4x400 relay in the meet, was fifth in the 400 and a member of the 4x100 team which was third.

Hargis said Tryon is one of the great personalities on his team.

“He's a junior but he's a year younger than everybody, so he keeps telling me he should be running in the freshman-sophomore meets we have,” Hargis said with a laugh. “I tell him he's way past that. He's a big part of the team. Each week I get at least five ideas from him of what we should do. He's a great young man.”

Brains and Brawn

• Ledyard's Megan Brawner, who won the girls' 800 and 1,600, had to come from behind on the last lap of the 800 to beat New London's Shineika Fareus (2nd, 2:24.00) and Bacon Academy's Kate Hageman (3rd, 2:26.78).

Brawner finished in 2:21.75 to overcome the pair of competitors, each of whom finished six seconds ahead of her seed time.

“They went out pretty fast and I wasn't expecting it,” Brawner said. “They went out crazy, but it was probably for the better. I didn't think I was going to beat the New London girl. I've always wanted to have a finish like that.”

New heights

• Stonington's Taty LaFrance Boyce jumped 5 feet, 4 inches to finish second in the girls' high jump, a personal best.

LaFrance Boyce, the starting point guard for the Bears' girls' basketball team who is in her first year competing in track, jumped the same height as first-place finisher Kalli'Ana Botelho of Griswold, who finished second in New England during indoor track. Botelho, however, won the ECC competition with fewer misses. LaFrance Boyce missed once at 4-10 and twice before clearing 5-4.

LaFrance Boyce will now compete in the Class M state championship June 3 in New Britain and has also qualified for the New Balance Nationals Emerging Elite division June 19-21 in Greensboro, N.C.