East Lyme — It was careless of East Lyme to foul Glastonbury senior Aaron Latham as he missed a 3-pointer with seconds left in the third quarter Wednesday night.

The Vikings made that same careless mistake less than a minute later. Against Latham again.

Dev Ostrowski scored 42 points for the Vikings, but it didn’t matter with all the errors they made in a 73-67 non-conference home loss to Glastonbury.

It was East Lyme's second-straight loss since beating rival Waterford in overtime last Friday (75-71) and moving up to sixth in the GameTimeCT/New Haven Register state poll.

“We were making uncharacteristic mistakes,” East Lyme head coach Jeff Bernardi said. “(We’re) up nine and we’re fouling 3-point shooters.

“You just can’t be an elite-level team and make those kinds of mistakes.”

The Vikings are 10-3. Their other two losses were also out-of-conference against No. 4 Notre Dame of West Haven (64-61, Dec. 15) and Enfield (82-73, Monday).

The Tomahawks are 9-2. They won despite being without their second-leading scorer, Cameron Stiepock, who twisted an ankle during Tuesday’s win over Berlin (61-44).

Luke Leonard had 13 points, six rebounds and five assists for East Lyme and Ostrowski added six rebounds.

It was Latham who had the biggest impact on the game late, though.

Glastonbury trailed 42-33 with 3 minutes, 32 seconds left in the third quarter.

Latham scored 14 of his 26 points the rest of the way. He made two free throws to cut the deficit to a point with 42.4 left in the third. He was fouled while missing a 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds remaining in the period and made all three to give Glastonbury a 50-49 lead.

The Vikings’ Nate Diaz (10 points) opened the fourth quarter with a 3-pointer.

Latham was fouled moments later while missing a 3-pointer, just 58 seconds after it happened the first time. He made all three free throws to put Glastonbury back ahead, 53-52.

“He can draw some (fouls) because (defenders) run out at him,” Tomahawks head coach Jim Vaughan said. “I’m spoiled. I thought he was great tonight. He almost, not quite, but almost (went) shot-for-shot with probably the best player in the state (Ostrowski) for a while.”

Ostrowski put East Lyme back ahead 54-53 with a pull-up jumper.

Tom Shea converted a three-point play on the other end for Glastonbury. Diaz tied the game at 56 with a steal and layup.

Freddie Thomas (11 points) was fouled moments later, putting the Tomahawks in the double bonus with 4:51 remaining. Thomas made his first free throw and missed the second, but East Lyme was called for a lane violation. Thomas made the free throw.

Ostrowski tied the game again with a driving layup.

Latham got open for a split-second in the right corner and made a go-ahead 3-pointer to give Glastonbury a 61-58 lead with 3:39 left in the game.

The Tomahawks also hurt East Lyme by consistently getting to the line. They made 32 of 46 free throws. The Vikings made 11 of 13.

Jack Shea added 12 points and 15 rebounds for Glastonbury.

“We lost our principles on defense,” Bernardi said. “We pride ourselves on playing very good shell half-court defense, and (Glastonbury’s) execution tonight tore it apart. They got layups, open threes, drove (on) our bad closeouts. They were very sound and disciplined on their offense, and our defense suffered because of that.”

n.griffen@theday.com