Waterford — Marlee Anselmi and Claire Butler had goals for the fourth-seeded Williams School girls’ soccer team Wednesday in a 4-2 loss to No. 5 Hoosac in the quarterfinals of the NEPSAC Class D tournament.

Hoosac opened the scoring with three goals in quick succession about 20 minutes into the first half. Williams got Anselmi’s goal in the first half to pull within 3-1. Trailing 4-1, the Blues scored the final goal of the game on a rebound after a shot by sophomore Sarah Harvey hit the crossbar.

Williams finished the season 14-2-2 overall while retaining its Housatonic Valley Athletic League regular-season and playoff titles.

H.S. swimming

• Anna Orphanides of the Fitch cooperative team was third in the 50 freestyle (24.42) and fourth in the 100 butterfly (59.34) in the Class LL state championship meet Tuesday at Cornerstone Aquatic Center in East Hartford.

Orphanides also led two relay teams to runner-up finishes. The 200 freestyle relay team of Orphanides, Audrey Schrage, Jai-Lynn Wheeler and Addison Fulling finished in 1:38.97 and Orphanides also joined Fulling, Schrage and Wheeler in the 400 freestyle relay (3:38.35).

The Fitch co-op was fifth in the team standings with a total of 392 points. Norwich Free Academy was 13th with 119.

Also for Fitch, Fulling was sixth in the 100 backstroke (1:00.79), Wheeler was sixth in the 100 freestyle (54.84) and eighth in the 200 freestyle (2:01.05) and Schrage eighth in the 50 freestyle (25.71).

NFA’s Natalie Bezanson was fifth in the 200 individual medley (2:14.84) and sixth in the 100 breaststroke (1:11.15). Bacon Academy’s Riley Anderson, who swims for Manchester, won the 50 freestyle (22.82) and the 100 freestyle (50.16).

• Ella Pape finished fifth in the 50-yard freestyle (24.76) and the 100 freestyle (54.92) as East Lyme placed fifth Tuesday in the Class M state championship meet at Cornerstone Aquatic Center in East Hartford.

Pomperaug won the meet with 748 points. East Lyme had 373. Ledyard/St. Bernard finished 15th with 123.

Pape also teamed with Julia Morcos, Jennifer Park and Ruby Thoms to place sixth in the 200 freestyle relay (1:45.42) and the team of Elsie Jacobitz, Lizzy Goeshel, Isabel Baggio and Thoms was eighth in the 400 freestyle relay (3:59.63). Thoms was ninth in the 200 freestyle (2:04.66) and 11th in the 500 freestyle (5:37.33). Morcos was 11th in the 200 individual medley (2:25.22). In the previously contested diving event, Sylvi Otter was fourth and Katie Haynes ninth.

Ledyard/St. Bernard’s 200 freestyle relay team of Thelma Grogan, Anna Kate O’Donnell, Sarah O’Donnell and Seidi Schiro was 12th in 1:51.32.

Avery Point basketball sweeps

• The UConn Avery Point men’s and women’s basketball teams swept a doubleheader against Bunker Hill Community College on Tuesday, earning both head coaches their first career victories.

The women’s team won 97-25 under head coach Nick Davis, who was an assistant coach for 10 years prior to taking over the team this season. Trevor Buchanan scored 24 points and Aldson Dawson 18 for the men’s team in a 77-53 victory under head coach Duane Witter.

College honors

• Connecticut College forward Matt Scoffone was named to the All-New England Small College Athletic Conference first team and goalie Peter Silvester and midfielder Max Haberman to the second team. The Camels (10-2-6) are set to meet Suffolk in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament at 11 a.m. Saturday at Freeman Field in New London.

• Mitchell College senior women’s soccer goalie Gemma Landry was named to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference all-league second team and Mitchell received the Institutional Sportsmanship Award.

Landry was first in the GNAC with 173 saves before being sidelined by an injury for the final two games. She turned away double-digit shots in eight out of 12 appearances, highlighted by a 27-save performance against Johnson & Wales, good for the most saves in a single game in Mariners’ history. Her 14.42 saves per game ranks second in Division III.

Landry finished her Mitchell career as the program's all-time leader in saves (640) and saves per game (11.03), while she is second all-time in shutouts (11) and third in save percentage (.823).

• Conn forward Bridget McGann was named to the All-NESCAC field hockey first team Tuesday, becoming the first member of the Camels to earn that honor since 2010. McGann was a second team selection in each of her first two seasons.

“We are very proud to see Bridget recognized as All-NESCAC for the third time, this year on the first team,” head coach Chrissy Chappell said in a release. “Her open-field speed and dynamic style of play were catalysts for our attack and a key component of our team’s goal-scoring successes this season.”

McGann led the Camels (6-10) in scoring with 11 goals and two assists, ranking fifth in the NESCAC in goals. For her career, she has 28 goals and seven assists (63 points), ranking her sixth in Conn history in career goals and points.

The Camels qualified for the NESCAC Championship for the first time since 2012.

• UConn women’s basketball All-American Paige Bueckers was named to the Wade Watch list Tuesday as one of 15 candidates for the 2025 Wade Trophy, to be presented to the national player of the year.

Bueckers was selected as the preseason Big East Player of the Year, a preseason AP-All-American and to the Nancy Lieberman Award, Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy watch lists. She returns to UConn for a final season after leading the Huskies back to the NCAA Final Four in 2023-24. Bueckers was named to the 2024 WBCA, AP, USBWA and Wooden Award First Team All-America teams.

Through two games this season, Bueckers is averaging 17.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.5 steals, has recorded just one turnover and is shooting 73.7% in just 26 minutes per game.

The second-ranked Huskies travel to Greensboro, N.C., to face No. 14 North Carolina (2-0) at 6 p.m. Friday (ESPN2).