By Shawn Bates
Dec. 12 the Lady Clippers made their way down Rt. 395 to face an old ECC foe, the Plainfield Lady Panthers. The Panthers jumped out in the first quarter to a 13-3 lead on the dominate play of Madison Kelley who lead all Plainfield with a game-high 20 points.
The Clippers would gain ground and cut the lead by the end of the second to 19-21 and would trade shot for shot into the third for a score of 29-35. But as she did the whole game Kelley would drop in eight points to stretch out the lead for the Panthers for the win. The high scorers for Putnam were Ashely Burke and Kayleigh Lyons, both with 12 and the freshman Alex Hutchins had seven. For the Panthers Madison Kelley 20, Katherine Lorange 11 and Sophie Mercer 7.
The Lady Clippers got their first win over Ellis Tech Dec. 15 in Danielson, outscoring the Eagles 59-22. Putnam was quick out of the gate out scoring Ellis 15-5 and didn’t look back.
Freshman Alex Hutchins led all scorers with a game-high 18 points. Ashley Burke chipped in 11 and Lauren Blackmar garnered eight points. Ellis Techs Sydney Tetrault hit for 12 points to lead the Lady Eagles.
Lady Clippers (JV)
The JV squad won their first game of the season at Plainfield, 47 -24. High scorers were Jillian Gray 10 points and Emma Braithwate with 7. Olivia Bessette had 7 for Plainfield
Putnam Middle School
Dec. 12 opened the 2017-2018 QVJC season for both the boys’ and the girls’ Wolf Pack teams.
The boys gave up one to Woodstock Dec. 12 with a 49-40 loss to Woodstock Cooper Livingston led all scorers with 19 points and Carter Morissette had six. For Woodstock, Parker Anderson had 12 and Peter Barb 16 points.
On Dec. 214 the boys traveled to Plainfield to take on the Royals and came out with a 46-34 win with Alonzo Henries leading all scorers with 18 points and Cooper Livingston followed up his last game with ending in double digits again with 13. The Wolf Pack are 1-1 on the season and played Pomfret Dec. 18.
For the girls’ squad they ended their week 2-0 with a win over Woodstock 27-16 Elisha Clinkscale and Sadie Bergeron each had eight. Then Dec. 14 they played at home and kept their home winning streak that started last season with a 26-23 Emily St. Martin  had a team-high 10 points in the win.