Killingly trio reaches Open wrestling semis
New Haven — Dan Charron (106 pounds), Mike Charron (113), and Derek Turner (170) of Killingly are among five Eastern Connecticut Conference wrestlers who reached the CIAC State Open semifinal round on Friday at the Floyd Little Athletic Center.
The Open continues today at 9 a.m. at the same site.
Dan Charron, the top seed at 106 and Class M champion, will face Class L runner-up Evan Lindner of New Milford in his semifinal match.
Class M champion Mike Charron will wrestle Class LL champion Travis Longo in his semifinal.
Turner, also a Class M champion, meets Class L champion Dylan Sousa in his semifinal.
Class S champion Johnny Falco of Griswold takes on Class M champion Nolan Bannon of Foran in a 195-pound semifinal.
Ron Powers (152) from Lyman Memorial/Windham Tech had one of the day's top upsets. Powers, who placed third at Class M, edged top-seeded and Class L champion Justin Marshall of Bristol Eastern, 6-5, in the quarterfinals. Powers meets Shayne McCourt of Law in the semis, the latter which beat him, 9-8, in last weekend's M semifinals.
Two-time defending Open champion Danbury leads with 80 points and has the most wrestlers still in the championship bracket (five). It has won a state-record 14 Open titles, all since 2001. Greenwich, Ledyard and Staples are tied for the second-most Open titles (three).
Xavier is second (59) and Southington third (50). Killingly is tied for ninth with Fairfield Warde (35), Ledyard is 12th (29), Waterford 27th (17.5), Montville is tied for 44th (12), New London is tied for 48th (10), and Norwich Free Academy is tied for 63rd (5).
Boys' basketball
• Jacob Geary had 19 points and 12 rebounds to pace No. 2 Stonington past No. 10 Wheeler, 78-36, in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Division II quarterfinal.
R.J. Parrilla had 12 points and eight assists, Zach Scott scored 14 and Cooper Wall scored 12 for Stonington (16-5), which will play No. 3 Griswold in today's semifinal round at Waterford (2 p.m.).
Bowen Baker and Scott Pion both scored 10 for the Lions (616).
Boys' swimming
• East Lyme swept an ECC tri-meet, beating NFA 122.554.5 and New London 142-36. NFA beat New London 104-60 as all three teams completed their dual-meet season. Bobby Hahn, Ryan McLaughlin, Hawken Hammen, Dean Palermo and Noah Krishnaswami won events for East Lyme (9-3, 8-2).
East Lyme swept the relays with Ryan Huang, Jack Zhang, Jack Lombardo, Luke Proud, Powall Wang, Erik Stelter, Andrius Kirvelevicius and Aden Wu contributing. Jeffrey Ng and Alex Ji won two events each for NFA (5-5, 5-5). Ng won the 200-yard individual medley (2:13.09) and the 100 butterfly (1:00.52) and Ji won the 50 freestyle (24/54) and 100 breaststroke (1:05.87). New London finishes 0-10, 0-10.
College baseball
• Anthony Prado and Chris Winkel had three hits each as UConn beat College of Charleston 7-4. John Toppa and Winkel drove in two runs each and Christian Fedko homered for UConn (3-1). Starter Jeff Kersten got the win, allowing six hits and three runs over 5.2 innings.
Women's swimming
• Coast Guard Academy's 800 freestyle relay team broke a school and meet record for the second straight season to finish first on the opening night of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Championship at WPI on Thursday.
Sarah Passilla, Kristen Durham-Young, Emily Benson and Josie McGuire finished in 7:31.09, breaking the meet record of 7:32.30 set by MIT in 2015 shattering the school record of 7:34.41 set last season by Passilla, Durham-Young, Benson and Christine McCulla. The Bears lead the team race with 66 points.
Men's swimming
• Coast Guard's 800 freestyle relay team broke a school record while placing second on opening night of the NEWMAC Championship at WPI on Thursday. Devin McClure, Josh Roh, Max McCall and Taylor Rowe finished in 6:46.14, breaking the school record of 6:50.00 set in 2017. In addition, Marshall Seguin placed seventh in the 3-meter diving event with a score of 408.25 to put the Bears in third place in the team standings with 76 points.
• Connecticut College's 800 freestyle relay team place sixth on opening night of the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championship at Middlebury on Thursday. Charlie Adl, Andrew Eigner, Jaleel Watler and Casey Keenan finished in 6:50.58.