Centaurs U19 capture 
NEFC Showcase championship
One of the first tests of the spring for the Woodstock Academy prep soccer team resulted in a better than passing grade.
The Centaurs Prep 1 U19 team captured all three of its matches, all by the same 5-0 score, in the New England Football Club Showcase event over the weekend.
The Centaurs won the tournament March 15 with a solid victory over the host NEFC South club.
Arthur Masson picked up a pair of goals in the victory while Mack Gallagher, Leo Chu and Reed Pickett also scored for the Centaurs.
Nico Ochoa contributed two assists in the win with Alex Tevez, Richard Sarpong, and Ozzie Pearman getting one apiece.
The Centaurs opened the tournament against another Eastern Connecticut-based program, St. Thomas More Friday, and rolled to a similar shutout victory in that match.
Pickett had a pair of goals for the Centaurs. Ochoa and Jaehee Kim each had a pair of assists and Masson had a goal and an assist in the win. Jeongbin Lee also scored for the Centaurs.
In between those two matches, Woodstock produced a 5-0 victory over the Upstate Elite Soccer Academy March 14.
Five players scored for the Centaurs with Obama Ngarambe, Lee, Sarpong, Tevez and Alexavier Gooden putting the ball into the net. Ngarambe, Ochoa and Jack Buyers added assists.

Prep 2 soccer
The Prep 2 U17 soccer team also produced three wins, two of those coming on the same day, but finished second in the tournament standings due to goal differential.
Like the U19 team. The Centaurs also pitched three shutouts in the NEFC Spring Showcase event.
The Centaurs opened on Saturday morning with Luca Passinha scoring twice and Alfredo Tiffon adding another in a 3-0 victory over IFA MLS Next. Tom Arnado, Deari Trott and Desmond Naawu had the assists in the contest.
Then the Centaurs were back on the field. Tiffon and Haesung Kim scored in the nightcap as the Centaurs blanked NEFC 2-0. Mateo Alonso had an assist in that contest.
To make matters a little more interesting, the U17 team had to take to the field again at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning and still produced another win.
Jorge Castellanos and Passinha scored in a 2-0 win over the Western New York Flash and the Centaurs went home undefeated.

Indoor Track
The indoor track season officially came to an end over the weekend with individuals competing in both New York City and Boston.
Two school records fell in the process.
Senior Emma Weitknecht bettered a Woodstock record by .41 seconds March 14y in the 60m hurdles final at the New Balance Nationals in Boston. Her 9.25 second finish was good for 97th overall in the competition.
March 13 freshman Emme Langevin placed 53rd overall in the freshman mile race at the New Balance Nationals in 5 minutes, 20.3 seconds which bettered a school record already held by Langevin by four seconds.
Avery Plouffe competed in both Boston and New York for the Centaurs.
The senior threw 38-feet, 7-inches at the Nike Nationals in New York March 13, good for 28th place. She followed that up with a 36-5 ¾ throw March 15 in Boston which netted her a 33rd place finish.
Max Ellenberg finished 11th in the Emerging Elite Division in the weight throw at the Nike Nationals March 15. 
Eli Manning placed 16th in the Emerging Elite Division March 14 in New York with a 48-11 ¾ throw in the shotput competition.
Abraham McGregor competed on Friday in New York and placed 29th in the long jump, clearing 20-feet, 2 ½ inches.

Girls’ Basketball
Season Comes to an End
The goal was, obviously, a return to the Mohegan Sun to play in a CIAC Div. II state championship girls’ basketball team.
Unfortunately, only two teams get that honor.
Seventh-seeded Woodstock was denied the return trip by the No. 10 Bristol Central Rams March 10 as the visitors posted a 59-41 victory over the Centaurs in a second-round state tournament game.
Woodstock saw its season come to a close with a 19-6 overall record.
“We reached a couple of our goals, got to Mohegan Sun (for the ECC Div. 1 tournament championship game), didn’t end how  we wanted but we still got there and that was important,” said Centaur senior Vivian Bibeau. “We wished we could have gone further (in the state tournament) but we accomplished a lot.”
The Centaurs knew the Rams (19-5) were going to be difficult but, having not seen nor played them in the recent past, it’s never easy to prepare for everything.
The Rams imposed their will on the Centaurs with a stifling 2-3 zone defense that dared the Centaurs to either shoot over the top of or try and penetrate.
Neither went well for the home team.
“They’re a good team,” said senior Isabel D’Alleva-Bochain. “That was a good zone. We haven’t played a zone in a while. They deserved the win (Tuesday), they were the better team (Tuesday).”
The Rams didn’t come out in a zone but quickly reverted to it when the Centaurs got six points from D’Alleva-Bochain and bolted to an 11-4 lead by the end of the first eight minutes.
But that is where the fun came to an end.
Bristol Central pulled back into the zone defensively in the second quarter and went from a 1-for-7 performance from the field in the first quarter to an 8-for-13 in the second, reeling off 16 straight points, to take a 22-14 lead at the half.
The Centaurs were only 1-for-8 from the field in the second quarter and made only one of 15 in the third.
“We couldn’t hit one and we weren’t taking a lot. It happens. Sometimes, shots don’t fall,” D’Alleva-Bochain said.
The Rams had little trouble finding the basket in the third quarter as they made nine two-point baskets, several coming on fast-break layups off outlet passes where Bristol Central was able to throw over the top of the Woodstock press.
The result was a 40-22 lead at the end of the third quarter.
“They were long and lanky and we were not able to get much. It was good when we got it inside; we just didn’t do it enough I don’t think,” said Bibeau. “We had some good looks, did our best and, at the end, we were in a rush to put up shots and were hoping they went in.”
The Centaurs did hit three 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter and gradually whittled the Bristol Central advantage down to 12 with 1 minute, 55 seconds left to play but the Rams scored eight of the last 10 points.
D’Alleva-Bochain led the Centaurs with 18 points while Kaylee Saucier added 12 and Bibeau tossed in seven.
Kamaria Bowens and Nicole Riemer each finished with 20 for Bristol Central.
The Centaurs will be a different group next season with seven seniors moving on.
“This was one of the best teams that I have ever been a part of, the relationships, the chemistry. You can see that from the season. We had such a great year. I never got sick of them. I never wanted it to end. I’m going to miss it a lot,” Bibeau said.
D’Alleva-Bochain agreed with those sentiments.
“It’s going to be a rough one,” D’Alleva-Bochain said of the season coming to a close. “I don’t know how to feel right now. It’s been a long ride but I was lucky enough to play with my best friends. We will all still see each other and it’s not like we’re going anywhere. I’m just grateful for our community and these four years would have never been the same at any other school so I’m just proud of my teammates, my community and my friends,” the senior said.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy

Allison Camara shoots a free throw against New London in the ECC Div. 1 girls‘  basketball championship game at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Photo by Joshua Hernandez / actionframe_media.

Vivian Bibeau, left, and Campbell Favreau leap in the air during opening introductions for the ECC Div. I girls’ basketball championship. Photo by Joshua Hernandez / actionframe_media.

Kaylee Saucier passes the ball down the floor in the ECC Div. I  girls’ basketball championship game against New London at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Photo by Joshua Hernandez / actionframe_media.
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