POMFRET — In a continuing effort to offer some campership money to as many campers as possible, the Windham County 4-H Foundation is holding its first ever “Camper Scamper” road race/walk and Kid’s Fun run April 26. The all-volunteer members of the foundation work very hard all year to keep camp fees as low as possible for all campers who attend either day or overnight programs at the Windham-Tolland 4-H camp. In acknowledgement of the fact that many families still struggle to come up with the funds to send their children to a week of camp, campership awards are given to many families every year. These campership funds are replenished through grants and fund-raising efforts. All funds raised from this “Camper Scamper” event will go to the Jim Logee Campership Fund.
Jim Logee was a dedicated member of the Windham-Tolland 4-H camp community. He started at camp in the mid 60’s as a camper, then junior staff member, and became a staff member in the 70’s. Jim got involved in the camp program again in the early 90’s when his three daughters started attending camp. Jim is a past president of the Windham County 4-H Foundation and Chairman of the Camp Committee. Jim’s passion for children and camp has been passed down to his daughters. His daughter Heather is in her 8th year as Camp Director, Jessica is the program coordinator/ day camp coordinator and Keri is the bookkeeper. Jim died in 2007 after a short battle with cancer.
Your family is invited to join Jim’s family on April 26 for this 5 K race/walk and 1 mile kids fun run. If you register before April 1, you will receive a T-shirt. Registration until April 1 is $25, after that is $30. Pledges are greatly appreciated but not required. To register go to the camp website, www.4hcampct.org to download forms or register online. The course is mainly on paved roads except for the start/finish which is on gravel. The race will be professionally timed by Last Mile Race Management and awards will be given to the Top 3 finishers in each division.
Academy
honor rolls
WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Academy honor roll for the second quarter includes:
High Honors
GRADE 12: Kathryn Archambault, Mariel Baker, Alyssa Becker, Richard Bibeault, Jillian Black, Emma Chambrello, Xixi Chen, Dylan Davis, David DeLashmutt, Kayla Dionne, Jacob Feen, Hannah Guilani, Casey Guli, Caleb Hallowell, Timothy Harrington, Megan Hebert, Hanna Holcomb, Bree Hussong, Hannah Johnson, Mina Kelley, Brian Kemp, Gloria Knust, Brittany LaFleur, Arin Lotter, Julia Luppi, Zachary Morin, Calli Oleksy, Courtney Osborn, Sarah Paulhus, Cody Resnick, Emily Rosaci, Olivia Sheldon, Sarah Swenson, Alexander Tedeschi, Tatjana Tschirpke, Meryl Wolfe and Blake Yaworski.
GRADE 11: Erin Bagdoian, Elaina Becher, Shaina Blain, Rachel Bober, Natalie Bourque, Courtney Butts, Nicole Cadro, Shane Eccleston, Corlis Fraga, Sierra Goodwin, Jenna Haines, Ryan Heilemann, Megan Houlihan, Zoe LaVergne, Alexis LiDonde, Sitong Liu, Eli Majek, Hunter Malboeuf, Wenshan Meng, Shealyn Musumeci, Kiana Percy, Veronica Phillips, Benjamin Piche, Elizabeth Redfield, Matthew Rich, Allison Rosaci, Abigail Stevens, Quinlan Taylor, Sarah Torcellini, Kendall Wilcox, Abigail Willis, Kexin Xu and Jennifer Zeiger.
GRADE 10: Megan Feragne, Noah Gould, Amanda Haines, Kara Heilemann, Robert Johnson, Katherine Loos, Lela Miller and Ethan Rogers.
GRADE 9: Carley Beshaw, Audrey Chase, Emily Faist, Rebecca Feldman, Maya Fraga, Cameron Grube, Dylan Grube, Julie He, James Hemeon, Patrick Houlihan, Emily Hughes, Grace Jocson, Devin Leroy, William Liscomb, Laura Looby, Elizabeth Lucia, Alexandra Matthews, Myles Murren, Jonathan Mustis, Jake Owens, Claudia Plummer, David Redfield, Clara Sarantopoulos, Collin Singleton, Coleen Solitro, Jordyn Staveski, Joseph Thompson Jr., Cassidy Thorpe and Jackie Wedegis.
Honors
GRADE 12: John Allegretti, Shannon Askham, Jason Barlow, Jordan Bassett, Emily Becher, John Budd, Riley Burns, Jacob Campbell, Joseph Carbone, IV, Jacob Chase, Keith Chasin, Cecily Chuoke, Sara Claudio, Victoria Cox, Justin Cutting, Elizabeth Douglas, Thomas Dykstra, Sarah Fagan, Meghan Fernstrom, August Frechette, Julia Gilloran, Veronica Greene, Chandapaul Hamilton, Ciara Hanlon, Benjamin Harkins, William Harrington, Samantha-Jo Hayward, Brandy Hebert, Allison Hill, Francesca Iacobucci, Helena Ives, Joshua Lamoureux, Rebecca Lee, Nicholas Listro, Yuhao Liu, Brett Loader, Rachel Loos, Megan Main, Stephanie Marasco, John McGinn, Brendan McMerriman, Matthew McMerriman, Hanna Mueller, Daniel Murphy, John Neill, Erin O’Leary, Abigail Orn, Michael Paquette, Trent Peters, Lily Pritchard Dennison, Stephanie Santos, Lindsay Savoie, Alexandra Savvidis, Sothea Semmelrock, Jackson Serio, Junyi Sharon Shen, Aaron Smith, Tyler Smith, Lexie Soja, Brent Sorensen, Megan St. Jean, Austin Stone, Jiaxin Sun, Allison Swan, Jessica Swan, Lindsay Tenenbaum, Sydney Trahan, Caroline Tremblay, Hannah Trudo, Mikayla Vertefeuille, Arden Warinsky, Alicia Warner, Kimberly West, Alexandra Wilcon, Ziyue Yang, Yu Zhan and Yinan Zhu.
GRADE 11: Cleo Alberts, Kaitlyn Baron, Megan Bastow, Isabella Belanger, Courtney Bergman, Dylan Berridge, David Bohanan, Katelyn Brady, Alison Brennan, Ariana Bunker, Ian Burgess, Caitlyn Chapman, Vishal Cherian, Jordan Corey, Annette Costanzo, Jacqueline Deary, Nicolette Deary, Graysen DeLuca, Ryan DeOliveira, Rosaleen Donovan, Sarah Douglas, Anna Fagan, Yirou Fan Fan, Madison Frost, Shelby Fundin, Ryan Gadoury, Tiana Gagnon, Linzee Glennon, Paisley Gothreau, Kaeleigh Gould, Michaela Green, Amythest Hamby, Conor Hanlon, Emma Howe, Tyler King, Briana Kowolenko, Jamie Kristal, Meghan Labbe, Jared Latour, Hao Li, Riana Lincoln, Hannah Mainhart, Angelise Martin, Grayson McCarthy, Rebecca Messier, William Minkema, Kayla Munger, Abigail Murren, Weston Ogle, Sarah Oleksiak, Jacquelyn Orlowski, Adam Piche, Jacqueline Pillo, Crystelle Ranhoff, Nicholas Rogerson, James Rowley, Dajana Sejdiraj, Mikayla Sheldon, Oliver Simon, Kara Singleton, Ashton Stephens, Nicholas Waterhouse, Katelyn Wedegis, Lan Wei, Jiaying Xue, Xinyin Zhang and Xianyi Zhao.
GRADE 10: Nicholas Alberini, Julia Allegretti, Sarah Andrews, Robert Baldino, Kylie Barrows, Nathalie Bessette, Cassidy Bonin, Miranda Bonnette, Michaela Bourey, Seth Budd, Rachel Byrne, Angela Caponi, Lexie Champany, Nicholas Chan, Rhiannon Choate, Danielle Duquette, Matthew Falkowski, Madeline Ferreira, Hunter Foisy, Samuel Fournier, Sarah French, Skye Gomes, Benjamin Gormley, Grace Gregory, Deanna Guilani, Emily Hedin, Emma Johnson, Mikayla Jones, Sang Joo Kim, Aaron Lambert, Autumn Lewis, Weixi Li, Yiluo Li, Korenza Manfredi, Katelyn Minski,Ian O’Sullivan, Alexa Pearson, Anna Perry, Michael Rainville, Leeann Rauls, Jillian Roy, Samantha Salisbury, Brooklynn Saracina, Caroline Schad, Samuel Skene, Justin Smith, Jonathan Thompson, Mackayla Thompson, Jonathan Trinque, Azhur Viano, Shiqin Wang, Zhoupingyi Wu, Peixin Yu and Zihan Zhang.
GRADE 9: Casey Allen, Ivan Asikainen, Caitlyn Bavosi, Jacques Bergeron, Abigale Binette, Allison Brady, Jason Brule, Jaden Cheng, Vivek Cherian, Carly DeLuca, Nathan Deluca, Liam Dyer, Hunter Garceau, Roxanne Garceau, Shai-Lin Gothreau, Jacob Hall, Daniel Harrington, Molly Harrington, Brian Hemeon, Allen Horn, Yanling Huang, Tyler Huhtanen, Shealyn Kelley, Mikko Koivisto, Kylie Kusnarowis, Bethany LaFramboise, Sylvia Lawrence, Alyssa Lee, Grace Logan, Olivia Pappas, Janhvi Patel, Conor Quinn, Shayna Robinson, Julia Roemer, Mikayla Roush, Carli Schimmelpfennig, Shaylor Scranton, Zu Le Seow, Kendyll Smith, Cuinn Stevenson, Kyle Strandson, Kelly Trivella, Sydney Trudo and Jordyn Woodland.
Recognition
GRADE 12: Emily Berard, William Bourgeois, Angelique Cavagnet, Emily Chan, Emily DeLuca, Samantha Flake, Cullen Gregory, Benjamin Guimont, Jordan Keith, Kaulman Lengyel, Bolin Li, Yijing Li, Christopher Lowry, Bruno Maluf, Hayly Marshall, Karissa Page, Sean Perry, Dylan Reel, Hannah Sheldon, Kirsten Tattersall, Mary Underwood, Noble Valentine and Mackenzie Walker.
GRADE 11: Luke Blodgett, Jane Bodinger, Peter Button, Gavin Corey, Shannon Creedon, Violet Dussault, Vincent Goernert, Galina Gruder, Anna Grudzinski, James Hamelin, Cameron Hartland, Canyon Hopkins, Mary Incera, Nicholas Kowalchuk, Angelique LaPrade, Noah Lehoux, Jessica Lehtonen, Abbey Marsalisi, Christopher Martin, Sean O’Brien, Melanie Phaneuf, Courtney Pollock, Stacy Rickey, Abigail Robichaud, Nicholas Roush, Jeremy Roy, Asa Scranton, Kelsey Seabold, Annabel Shackett, Colin Sheldon, Julia Shimer, Kayla Slayton, Seline Smith, Harley Spring, Lindsey Taylor, Avery Warford, Nicholas Wolslegel, Zackery Wood, Sawyer Woodland and Katrina Zannini .
GRADE 10: Jack Archambault, Michael Audet, Stephanie Auger, Jacob Belanger, Breiana Belletti, Connor Bright, Alyson Calabrese, Zuoyi Chen, Sydney Correia, Jon-luc Cournoyer, Bailey Cummings, Mia D’Amico, Jacob Delashmutt, Kyle Dziekan, Wanjiku Gatheru, Christian Gonzalez, Mitchell Hudon, Sienna Jessurun, Tucker Johns, Corrinne Jones, Alyssa Kelleher, Brianna Lamphere, Katrina Leighton, Jacqueline Low, Matthew Mlyniec, Kaylla Owen, Dominic Ponte, Jacob Ritchie, Adam Roberts, Gabrielle Rossi, Hallie Tedeschi, Courtney Trahan, Liam Walsh, Alexandra Whitehead, Yichuan Yin and Victoria Zagrodny.
GRADE 9: Kaylea Bessios, Christian Bombara, Jr., Zachary Boshka, Alexander Bosio, Noah Bourque, Silas Bunnell, Cassie Caron, Christopher Claprood, Andrew Clark, Colette Cloutier, Sydney Feragne, Seamus Flynn, Delane Hartland, Rebecca Hermann, Emma Kellermann, Jack Kelley, Jessica Kratochvil, Madison Legas, Emily Lengyel, Steven Lotter, Samuel Majek, Christian Mayotte, Ellie McReynolds, Matthew Papp, Franchesca Pescatello, Carol Phaneuf, Emily Rainville, Toni Ramos, Zachary Ramos, Ian Sauco, Jessica Semancik, Mia Slevinsky, Paige Stuyniski, Graham Sweetnam, Chloe Tew, Alyssa Tracy and Jameson White.
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Winners
The volleyball team from Nextgen Security took top honors at the Putnam Lions Volleyball Fund-raiser. The A Division first-place winner was YAMS and Spirol took second. In the B Division, Burns took first and ServesUP placed second. Steve Faucher, past president of the Putnam Lions and chair of this year’s PLVC, said, “The Putnam Lions would like to acknowledge all the players, teams and sponsors who participated in and supported us in the 2014 Putnam Lions Volleyball Challenge. It was a huge success and would not be possible without the commitment of this great community we live in. Our deepest thanks and appreciation goes out to all.” A record amount of money was raised. Photo by Doug King.
By Ron P. Coderre
Catching up on local sports happenings on a chilly 27 degree Sunday morning in Putnam after having spent the past week in tropical Aruba on the beach in 85 to 90 degree temperatures, it’s kind of difficult to get motivated. But we’ll give it a shot anyway.
This week’s RPC sporty shoutout is sent along to Leon Santerre, who celebrated his 87th birthday on Friday, March 14. Santerre says he can’t wait for the warm weather and the baseball season to arrive. Happy belated birthday, Leon from your longtime friend, RPC.
Although everything about Aruba reminds one of what the Garden of Eden must have been like before Eve and Adam met, there was a lack of daily sports news about the teams and players we get accustomed to reading about back in New England. Fortunately, most of the outdoor bars on the resort did feature television from the United States. That gave us the opportunity to catch snippets of the happenings going on in the early rounds of March Madness.
The most exciting news featured three of our favorite teams, the UConn Huskies, the Providence College Friars and those underdog University of Dayton Flyers. Good news finally came through about the Huskies’ overtime victory against St. Joe’s and subsequent victory against former Big East foe Villanova.
Unfortunately it was sad to watch the PC Friars of coach Ed Cooley go down in the final seconds against the University of North Carolina. Area Friar faithful had to be pleased with the job Cooley did with the Friars this season.
We were elated for University of Dayton grads, John Fulco and Chris Coderre as the Flyers messed up everyone’s March Madness pools by upsetting Ohio State and the Syracuse Orange (sorry Dave Conrad, but as the saying goes, “Wait ‘til next year.”)
A nice feature of the Dayton wins was the fact that former Putnam Science Academy standout Dayshon “Scoochie” Smith did play a role in the victories, especially in the win over the 'Cuse. In that exciting 55-53 nailbiter, Smith contributed five points on a 2-for-3 shooting effort with a big hoop down the stretch when coach Jim Boeheim’s boys were threatening.
One thing is certain about Dayton’s victories and Smith’s play, there had to be jubilation in the Tom Espinosa household, seeing Smith play so well on the big stage. Last season Smith became the first 1000-point scorer on the Maple St. campus for coach Espo.
The Aruba vacation also gave my wife Donna and I an opportunity to enjoy a relaxing evening dinner with good friends Dick and Marianne Loomis. Dinner at the open air Mulligan’s overlooking the Caribbean on the Divi Golf Resort made one forget about the chill of northeastern Connecticut.
A chance encounter at the Sandpiper Bar on the Divi Resort Beach with John and Darlene Miller was an opportunity to get caught up on the happenings in Putnam since we’d jumped on the jetBlue airliner in Boston. Loomis is a former Putnam High School football lineman and Miller an ex-Marianapolis golfer.
Belated Abbreviated Congratulations
It was great to get home and hear the news of the Woodstock Academy gymnastics team’s triumph in the New England Championships. The young ladies of coach Robin Deary Fillmore certainly have reason to walk around with their heads held high. This was the team’s second New England title in three years. These Centaurs had a season they’ll never forget, winning the Eastern Connecticut Conference crown, the Class S title, the Connecticut Open Championship and capping it all off by bringing the New England title back where it belongs, in Woodstock.
In no particular order kudos to coach Deary Fillmore, assistant coaches Kasey Fillmore and Gene Michael Deary and members of the team, Bree Hussong, Jackie Deary, Courtney Osborn, Grace Logan, Paige Stuyniski, Nicolette Deary, Mary Incera, Jourdan Fulchino and Meghan Corey.
1000 Points
Woodstock Academy point guard Chris Lowry is recognized for his ball handling and passing wizardry but despite looking for his teammates who are open, he achieved a scoring milestone in the final contest of his high school career. Lowry went into the CIAC quarterfinal contest against Windsor needing 15 points to reach the magical 1000-point plateau.
Fortunately for Lowry he was able to score 19 points in the game, with his 15th point coming with slightly more than four minutes remaining in the game. Despite his achievement it’s certain Lowry would have loved it if his beloved Centaurs could have also won the game.
Catching Up With The Collegians
The college sports seasons are finally changing but there is still some final basketball news to go along with the advent of the baseball season.
Ike Azotam, the former Marianapolis Prep hoop standout, concluded his four years at Quinnipiac University by being named to the National Basketball Association of Coaches (NABC) All-District I first team. Azotam who grew into the role of a leader for coach Tom Moore finished his season averaging 16.5 points and 10.2 rebounds per game during the regular season.
On the diamond, former Woodstock Academy standout Chris Mayhew has started his second season at UConn-Avery Point in an upbeat fashion. The Pointers of coach Roger Bidwell are off to an 11-3 start thanks in big part to Mayhew’s bat. The team recently won a doubleheader against Dean College, 1-0 and 13-0. Mayhew was responsible for three runs batted in, in the second game. Earlier in the season on the team’s southern swing to Vero Beach, Fla., Mayhew drove in the winning run with a walk-off single in a 2-1 victory over Westchester Community College.
RPC’s Closing Thought For The Day
What four players hit home runs in four decades? The first correct answer will receive a $25 gift certificate to J.D. Cooper’s Restaurant. Answer must be submitted by e-mail by noon Tuesday, April 1.
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