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Xavi Lee. Photo by Stephen Nalbandian.
This was the game you circle on the calendar. This was the one you want.
When the Putnam Science Academy boys’ soccer prep team convened for the first time in early August, the goal was to finish the season with a No. 1 ranking. The Mustangs knew their game on Nov. 3 – at South Kent, another top team with No. 1 aspirations – would likely determine that fate. PSA built up an 8-1 record and headed into the game ranked No. 4; the Cardinals held the top spot.
But PSA’s hopes were dashed in excruciating fashion, as South Kent scored the game’s only goal with about five minutes to play. A PSA player was whistled for a foul and issued a red card, which led to a set piece that decided the game.
“Everyone’s head dropped as soon as the ball went in,” PSA’s Geni Kanyane said. “It was more disappointment that we had fought for 85 minutes, and just then, off one mistake, the ball went in. We were in that game. Second half, we were in that game as much as they were. We were attacking more, we had possession. We were just unlucky.”
Making it even harder was the time the team spent training to stop set pieces.
“This was the biggest game of the year,” Hadly Bell said. “To lose in that way, it was a bitter disappointment. We had been training for that. And to concede a set piece, in the last few minutes of the game, to lose the game…”
The bus ride home was quiet, to say the least.
“That’s not a bad thing because it shows that it meant a lot to everyone,” Kanyane said. “If everyone was buzzing and happy after that game, you’d think maybe it didn’t mean that much.
“But we all felt it. We felt it. Everyone knew this match was coming and was looking forward to it. We were all so disappointed.”
Earlier in the week, Kaone Kolangano and Gabriele Formiconi scored one goal each and the Mustangs won a tune-up game 2-0 at Hoosac.
Stephen Nalbandian
Sports Information Director
Putnam Science Academy
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Legal Notice
Town of Pomfret
Planning and
Zoning Commission
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
The Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission will hold the following Public Hearings at its meeting on November 20, 2019, starting at 7:00 PM at the Old Town House:
1. Christopher M. Skarani, 532 Taft Pond Road, special permit application for the addition of 30’ x 96’ to the barn
2. LIUNA, 10 Murdock Road, special permit application for proposed additional paved driveway and additional parking to proposed crane building
A copy of the applications is on file in the office of the Planning and Zoning Commission, 5 Haven Road, Pomfret Center, Connecticut. The files are available for review during normal business hours.
Town of Pomfret
Planning & Zoning Commission
Dated this 23rd day
of October 2019
Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk
Nov. 6, 2019
Nov. 13, 2019
Legal Notice
Town of Pomfret
Planning and Zoning Commission
At the October 16, 2019, meeting of the Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission, the following legal action was taken:
1. Alan Bundy, 203 Orchard Hill Road, special permit application for a 12’ x 26’ lean-to added onto a barn. APPROVED
Dated at Pomfret,
Connecticut
November 4, 2019
Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk
Planning & Zoning Commission
Nov. 6, 2019
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David Menzies and Artur Silva scored second-half goals to help Putnam Science Academy’s varsity soccer team beat Winchendon 4-1 Oct. 30. Javy Moscardo and Luca Almeida got the Mustangs going in the first half with a pair of early back-to-back goals, but PSA couldn’t build from there, and the lead at halftime was just 2-1.
“The first 20 minutes or so of the first half were very good, they were sharp,” said coach Ivan Damulira. “But it’s something that happens and we have to keep working on, when we get up by two goals, the play sinks and a goal happens. Then we have to regroup and pick our play back up.”
Damulira was pleased with the overall play of left back Alvaro Redondo.
“Man of the Match,” Damulira said. “Very solid in his position, he connected his passes as the team built up from the back. It’s something we have been working hard for him to improve on. This was his best game this season.”
The Mustangs had an easier time of things a day earlier when they toppled Rectory 9-2 behind two goals apiece from Jaidyn Robinson and Sergio Tejera.
Javy Moscardo played extremely well with a goal and four assists, while Jaime Mendo, Aaron Estravit, David Menzies, and Xavi Lee all scored once for the Mustangs (7-3-1).
The girls’ soccer team (7-0) had its lone game of the week cancelled because of poor playing conditions at Williams. The team is next scheduled to play Nov. 22.
Stephen Nalbandian
Sports Information Director
Putnam Science Academy
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The season opener for the Woodstock Academy Gold prep basketball featured some numbers that may cause concern for some coaches.
The Centaurs shot 38 percent from the floor, just 17 percent from 3-point land and 57 percent from the free throw line.
Coach Jacque Rivera was not worried. After all, his team posted a 68-53 win over Thetford Prep in the Woodstock Academy Invitational opener Nov. 2 despite those stats.
“In the land of prep school basketball, when you don’t play your best and still come out on top, you just want to keep it moving in the right direction. If you can have those horrific numbers and still have success, that ball will go in. It’s the law of averages. We’re not going to shoot that bad every night,” Rivera said.
New York International Academy was on the receiving end of a much more typical offensive performance by the Gold squad which rolled to a 127-61 victory at the Alumni Fieldhouse.
The Centaurs didn’t miss much against the Eagles and they started with not one, but two 3-pointers.
Off the tip, Woodstock Academy found Michael Jefferson open in the left corner. He buried the 3-pointer.
The Eagles turned the ball over and the Centaurs again found Jefferson in the corner. Same result.
“That was key,” said Centaurs’ teammate Dyondre Dominguez. “We had to start off good (Sunday) after the bad start (on Saturday).”
Josh Davis and Cairo McCroy chimed in with 3-pointers of their own a few minutes later and five consecutive points by Jamon Kemp put the Centaurs up by 16.
The Centaurs just had too many answers offensively for New York International and too much length defensively.
The Eagles had troubles just getting the ball over halfcourt due to their lack of size.
The barrage continued. The Centaurs went up by 27 when McCroy and Kemp hit back-to-back slams. Kemp, who scored 19 of his 21 points in the first half, added two more buckets and Dominguez, who led the Centaurs with 23 points, added a basket off a nifty behind the back pass from McCroy and then drained a 3-pointer.
McCroy also set up Dominguez in the second half with a little kiss off the glass that resulted in a two-handed slam for the 6-8 post from Providence.
By the time that dunk went down, the Centaurs were having a little fun, putting on a show for the fans. The game was essentially over by halftime when Woodstock Academy owned a 65-25 lead.
The win over Thetford Prep took a bit more work. It was only a seven-point lead for the Centaurs with 4:54 to play.
But a 10-0 run spurred by eight points from Quran McPherson, who led the team with 14 points, put the game away. McCroy and Kemp each added 13 points in the win.
Blue Team Splits
With just under 10 seconds left in the game between the Woodstock Academy Blue prep basketball team and Thetford Prep Nov. 3 at the Alumni Fieldhouse, Centaurs’ guard Nahshon Battle got the ball on the left side, just beyond the 3-point arc.
Battle, who finished with a game-high 20 points, let it fly.
“One hundred percent,” Blue coach Denzel Washington said when asked if he thought it was going down. It went down and, unfortunately, came back out.
The Centaurs fell two points short, 45-43, and had to settle for a split in the season-opening Woodstock Academy Invitational tournament over the weekend.
The Centaurs opened with an 87-68 win over New York International Academy Nov. 2. The Blue team started off well against Thetford Prep. Vondre Chase scored the first two points of the game and Trevor Green, after a Thetford turnover, hit a 3-pointer.
Add five more unanswered points by Battle and Woodstock Academy opened a 10-0 lead with 13:23 left in the first half.
That was the end of the good news. The Centaurs scored five more points in the remainder of the first half and never were able to find their stride offensively. Thetford Prep was able to establish the tempo it wanted against the Centaurs.
The Centaurs only other first half points came on a 3-pointer by Chase and a Darryl Mackey bucket.
Thetford Prep led at the break, 20-15.
The Centaurs made only 5-of-32 from the floor and had to endure a pair of five-minute scoring droughts. Still, Woodstock Academy did take the lead back early in the second half on a 3-pointer by Battle.
Thetford retook the lead for good when it went on a 10-2 run midway through the second half. Green finished with eight points in the loss.
The Centaurs received 21 points from Chase and 20 from MacKey off the bench in the win over New York International.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy
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