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    Saturday, May 04, 2024

    Local roundup: Black Wolves fall to Bandits in NLL playoffs

    Buffalo, N.Y. — The New England Black Wolves saw their season come to an end with a 13-6 loss to the Buffalo Bandits on Saturday night in the first round of the National Lacrosse League playoffs.

    Callum Crawford had six points on four goals and two assists to lead the Black Wolves and teammates Tyler Digby and Reilly O'Connor each added a goal and an assist. Stephan Leblanc added two assists while Greg Downing, David Brock, Ryan Fournier and Jackson Nishimura each had one assist each and Doug Jamieson had 46 saves for New England in his first career playoff start in net.

    College baseball

    • Avery Point ended its regular season with a pair of losses, getting swept by Northern Essex 6-1 and 7-4. The Pointers (14-14) play in the NJCAA Division III regionals at Monroe Community College beginning Friday. Alex Petchark of Waterford had four hits on the day and Aidan Brennan of New London drove in two runs in the second game.  

    H.S. crew

    • East Lyme won a four-team girls' race in Mystic beating Stonington and Sacred Heart. The Vikings' winning boat, in a time of 5:05.7, were coxswain Billie Hazan, stroke Julia Fenn and Sammi Todaro, Jennie Sherwood, Abby Lottridge, Nikki Hahn, Amelia Anglin, Erin Munch, and Jamie Toole. In the boys' race, Stonington won, followed by East Lyme and Xavier.

    Road racing

    • Maya Suarez, a 14-year old from Uncasville, won the Montville Lions 5K road race with a time of 24:14. Paul Gray of Pawcatuck was the top male finisher, coming in second in 26:02. Also finishing in the top 10 were Rich Slack of Uncasville (26:54), Kelly Beams of Colchester (27:39), Way Hedding of Niantic (28:01), Thomas Baker of Oakdale (28:27), Alexa Beams of Colchester (29:25), Gina Richards of Oakdale (33:52), Hannah Suarez of Uncasville (35:38) and Ellen Carenza of Norwich (35:41).  

    Girls' lacrosse

    • Maeve Counter had two goals and three assists to highlight East Lyme's 19-2 victory over Norwich Free Academy in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Division I game on Saturday. Nancy Alden added three goals for the Vikings (8-3, 2-1), who led 14-0 at halftime, while Megan Bauman had two goals and two assists, Sophie Taylor, Abby Mountain and Anna Johnson each had two goals and one assist, Natale Taylor had three assists, Sammi Valakos, Julia Bates and Kristen Healy had one goal and one assist apiece, and Caroline Real, Sydney Sager and Meredith Healy had one goal each. Mackenzie Shrewsbury and Mirra Fontaine scored goals for NFA (0-10, 0-3).

    Boys' lacrosse

    • Hand outscored East Lyme 5-1 in the second half to pull away for a 9-4 non-conference win on Saturday. Robbie Swenson, James McCoy, Alec Kosinski and Blane Hart each scored a goal for the Vikings (7-4) while Alex Jakubczak had two assists and Cam Hart one.

    • Williams School lost to Eagle Hill 13-9 on Saturday. Robbie Darling led Williams (1-5-1) with four goals, two assists and six groundballs. Harry Anselmi had two goals, two assists and six groundballs, Cody Delaurentis had a goal and two assists, Max Sarwar scored twice and Colby Potts and Jack Yost had six saves each for the Blues.

    H.S. softball

    • St. Bernard and Putnam split an ECC Division IV doubleheader on Saturday, the Saints winning the opener 9-3 and the Clippers winning the second game 6-2. In the opener, Taina Quinones went 4-for-4 with a double, triple, three runs and two RBI for the Saints (2-9, 1-4), while Ariana Guinassi went 2-for-3 with a home run, three RBI and two runs, Megan Bergeron had two hits and an RBI and Taryn Bellinger was 2-for-3. Bergeron was the winning pitcher with seven strikeouts. In the game two loss, Bergeron was 2-for-3 with an RBI.

    H.S. track

    • Ledyard's Adam Crawford placed in two events at the Middletown Invitational on Saturday. He was second in the javelin with a throw of 175-feet, 6-inches and fourth in the 300 hurdles with a time of 40.78.

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