Winning ways
Woodstock Academy senior Megan Gohn was pretty happy following the first cross-country quad-meet of the season.
She finished second overall in the Centaurs’ 15-50 wins over Killingly and Wheeler and 16-47 win over Waterford Sept. 10.
Neither Wheeler nor Killingly had the required five runners necessary to post a team score.
“That was super-exciting,” Gohn said with a big smile. “That was the best place finish I’ve had in my high school career.” Gohn finished in 22 minutes, 43 seconds.
It wasn’t the best finish for the Centaurs in the meet. That belonged to sophomore Linsey Arends who finished two minutes ahead of Gohn.
Woodstock Academy coach Joe Banas was, possibly, a bit happier than even Gohn about his senior captain’s finish.
“She is going to be missed (after this season),” Banas said. “She is the glue of this team. She missed a practice one day for an appointment and this whole team’s dynamic changed. Take anyone else out of this lineup and it, basically, stays the same. Her shoes will be hard to fill. It’s not just her running, but her presence.”
Banas was also happy about something else. Avery Mowrey finished third and Tessa Brown was the seventh across the line for the Centaurs. Both are just freshmen. It meant both earned their varsity letter.
Iris Bazinet came in fourth for the Centaurs, Alexia Bourbeau was fifth and Julia Theriaque sixth.
2 out of 3 for Boys
The sweep was not to be there for the Woodstock Academy boys’ cross-country team.
The Centaurs, like the girls, defeated Wheeler and Killingly by the same score, 15-50, as neither the Redmen nor the Lions had the required five runners in the boys race either.
Waterford, however, posted a 23-48 win over Woodstock Academy. “I expected (Waterford) to be pretty good. It was good that it was there because it gave us a true test,” said Centaurs boys’ coach Peter Lusa.
The presence of the Lancers also gave junior Ethan Aspiras someone to chase. He just couldn’t catch Aiden Pepin.
Lusa said it led to a pretty good conversation piece between he and his runner.
The Waterford runner was 20 seconds ahead of Aspiras at the mile and two-mile splits and Aspiras finished 31 seconds behind Pepin at the line.
The slower start worked for Aspiras at the season-opening Haddad Windham Invitational just three days before. It backfired this time. Of course, catching Pepin would have been difficult any way. His final time of 16 minutes, 46 seconds was a record for the Owen Bell course.
Woodstock Academy girls’ coach Joe Banas coached at Killingly before coming to the Centaurs and was impressed by Pepin.
“That was a spectacular run and he buried the course record. He will be someone in the ECC race that will have to be reckoned with,” Banas said.
Lusa was happy with the runner who came in behind Aspiras. Woodstock Academy sophomore Hamilton Barnes placed third in 19:10.
Lusa was also happy with the performance of senior captain Evan Gianfriddo who came in third for the Centaurs and 11th overall in 19:50. Fellow senior captain Tristan Monahan was 30 seconds behind Gianfriddo and fourth-best for the Centaurs.
Sophomore Hans Rhynhart and junior Aaron Allard were fourth and fifth for the Centaurs.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy
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Pomfret field hockey wins
POMFRET — The Pomfret School field hockey team won against Cheshire Academy 3-1 Sept. 14.
Pomfret goals came from: Hannah Twombly @ 27:48; Grace Long @ 19:53; and Cate Gallagher @ 11:05. Assists came from: Gallagher and Genevieve Becker. The Pomfret goalies were: Kayla Shah and Kayla Doan. Pomfret School’s record is now 1-0; Cheshire is 0-1.
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Ready to Pass
Senior Hallie Saracina, who stepped in as emergency goalie for a day, gets ready to pass the ball to a teammate after making a save against Valley Regional. Photo by Marc Allard.
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The Woodstock Academy girls’ soccer team had a little quandary to deal with Sept. 14.
Starting goalie Rachel Holden was not available for its home opener against Valley Regional.
“We needed to fill the spot; we couldn’t play with an empty goal. I didn’t want to ask a freshman to play their first game on a varsity field against a team with the size that (Valley Regional) had. It looked it would be scary for a young kid,” said Centaurs coach Dennis Snelling.
Enter: Hallie Saracina.
“I probably haven’t played goalie since pee-wee soccer,” Saracina said. “I’m a senior. I felt like it was an opportunity for me to just push my team. All I wanted to do was win.” Saracina turned aside eight shots from the Warriors and pitched the shutout, leading Woodstock Academy to a 2-0 win.
It evened the Centaurs record at 1-1 after a 5-3 loss to Plainfield.
To prepare for her debut, Snelling worked with Saracina on goal techniques for about an hour in practice Sept. 13.
He also worked with her on getting to high balls. That proved invaluable as Saracina had to knock down not one, but two, Valley Regional shots that were destined for the upper corner to her left in the first half.
The efforts of Saracina were rewarded by her teammates when they finally broke a scoreless tie with a goal by junior Lucy McDermott 62 minutes, 10 seconds into the game.
“I saw (Emma Redfield) coming up the right side with the ball and I knew she was going to have a strong, hard cross. I was in the right place at the right time and just hammered it with my (right) leg into the goal,” McDermott said.
Snelling is expecting a lot from McDermott this season. He said she came into tryouts looking “superior” to her old self. “I think Lucy is going to be one of the top offensive players in the (ECC) this year,” Snelling said. “She scored her first varsity goal as a freshman two years ago just 12 seconds into her first varsity action. “We’re still seeing that out of her,” Snelling said.
Woodstock Academy added a little insurance with less than 10 minutes to play when Hallie’s sister, Peyton, scored her second goal on assist from Adeline Smith.
The victory took away some of the sting from the loss to Plainfield in the season opener. Redfield, freshman Grace Gelhaus (her 1st career varsity goal), and Peyton Saracina scored in the loss for the Centaurs. Kayla Gaudreau, Peyton Saracina and Gelhaus added assists.
McDermott said the season-opening loss to Plainfield may have been a good thing because it did show the Centaurs what they had to work on.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy
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