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Coach Courtney Gomez, right, and her NFA girls’ basketball team have been voted No. 1 in the weekly GameTimeCT state poll.

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Norwich Free Academy moved to the top of the weekly GameTimeCT top 10 state girls' basketball poll on Tuesday.

The Wildcats (5-0) supplanted Notre Dame of Fairfield, which suffered a 36-33 loss against Masuk last week when head coach Maria Conlon, a former UConn player, suspended the entire varsity team for an undisclose­d violation of school protocols.

NFA, which plays its first game as the state's No. 1 team on Wednesday at Waterford, received nine first-place votes and had 488 points while ND-Fairfield was second with six first-place votes and 466 points.

The last team to defeat Notre Dame in the regular season was New London on Dec. 29, 2018.

Bacon Academy (2-0), which finishes a 14-day quarantime on Wednesday after a member of the program tested positive for COVID-19, dropped from fifth to seventh. The Bobcats will practice for the first time in two weeks on Thursday, then visit the No. 1 Wildcats on Saturday at 6 p.m. in a game that will be streamed live on theday.com. In other girls' basketball news:

• Natalya Williams scored 23 points and had 10 rebounds as Ledyard beat East Lyme 47-39 in an ECC South Division game. Samantha Money had 12 points and seven rebounds for Ledyard (2-4).

• Claudia Koiva scored 15 points to lead Windham Tech to a 45-16 win over Grasso Tech in a Connecticu­t Technical Conference East Division game. Sophie Byrne led Grasso (1-5) with 10 points.

• Adalyse Gonzalez scored 13 points to lead Windham to a 46-22 win over Griswold in an ECC North Division game. Abbie Wing scored eight points for Griswold (0-5) and Hailey Cruz had eight points, nine rebounds and six assists for Windham.

Boys' basketball

• Yaniel Hernandez scored 21 points to lead Fitch to a 71-50 win over Bacon Academy in an ECC South Division game. Khyol Kershaw had 14 rebounds, Chris Kershaw had seven rebounds and Hernandez had 12 rebounds and seven steals for Fitch (5-1).

James Anderson and Ryan Claffey scored 10 points each for the Bobcats (2-4).

• Joe Klick scored 19 points to help lead NFA to a 57-50 win over NFA in an ECC South Division game. Jared Martin had 15 points and Ryan Outlow scored 12 for NFA (4-2). Nolan Gollsneide­r had 15 points, Trevor D'Amico scored 14 and Sean O'Connell had 11 rebounds for Waterford (4-2).

• Wheeler lost to Tourtellot­te, 7643, in an ECC North Division game. Kayleb Stratz had 17 points, Kyle Kessler scored 12 and Nick Larkin had 11 rebounds for Wheeler (0-2), which hadn't played since Feb. 16.

• Elijah Brady scored 24 points to lead Plainfield to a 56-43 win over Lyman Memorial in an ECC North Division game. Jaiden Lopez had 16 points and Dylan Lucey scored 12 for Lyman (1-4).

Men's lacrosse

• Former Waterford standout Kyle Cardoza had two goals and two assists as Eastern Connecticu­t State beat Mitchell College 19-4 in the season opener for both teams. Joe Schley scored twice and Jade Shields had a goal and an assist for Mitchell.

Riflery

• Grasso Tech improved to 2-2 by sweeping a tri-meet with Montville and Wilcox Tech. Grasso, led by Juliana Walker's 165, scored 771 to Montville's 734 and Wilcox's 701.

Also scoring for Grasso were Abigail Nadeau (163), Gavin Jameson (153), Zach Smith (150) and Josephine Wydler (143). Montville was led by Grace Walenczyk's 182 and Chris Muenzer (176), Erika Waters (149), Mitchell Rathbone (115) and Stephen Buchko (112) also scored.

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