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The Champs!
The Woodstock Middle School Wildcats won the Quinebaug Valley Junior Conference girls’ basketball Large Division championship recently with a win over Brooklyn. The team was coached by Brad Favreau and Kalianna Dingui. Photo contributed by Brad Favreau.
Wildcats
finish perfect,
girls take
QVJC crown
Late in the Quinebaug Valley Junior Conference Large Division girls’ basketball championship game with Brooklyn, Woodstock Middle School girls’ basketball coach Brad Favreau turned around. Several players on his bench were crying.
He looked at the scoreboard just to reassure himself that the team was winning.
“I was like, we’re winning, and they told me that they just didn’t want it to be over,” Favreau said. “This is, arguably, one of my favorite groups that I ever coached. They worked hard every day, but yet, we laughed. There were some tears at times and everything else in between.”
Woodstock Middle School won its QVJC Large Division tournament championship game with Brooklyn to finish off a perfect season.
The Wildcats went 10-0 in the regular season and won both tournament games.
The Wildcats have been to the QVJC finals in each of the last three years that have been played and have finished undefeated in the last two regular seasons.
“That’s a pretty good run,” Favreau said. “There are some good programs out there. Griswold is always a tough opponent, Plainfield and Killingly are tough and Brooklyn does a great job. Thompson, when we played them the second time, was way better than the first time.”
For a lot of his current team, it’s on to bigger and, hopefully, better things. Nine members of his team - Gabby Brown, Avery Danis, Campbell Favreau, Emma Forcier, Payton Leite, Gianna Musumeci, Kerrigan Reynolds, Kaylee Saucier and Wynter Worth – are headed to the high school ranks.
“Hopefully, they all play in high school. They have a lot of potential, but things change when they get to high school and, sometimes, they do other things. I’m hoping they all continue to play,” Favreau said.
There were two 7th-graders on the team, Charlotte Caisse and Rita Rawcliffe.
Saucier led the Wildcats in the championship game win with 20 points while Brown added 17 and Leite 14.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy