The following charges were listed in the Putnam Police Department logs.  The people charged are innocent until proven guilty in court. The Town Crier will publish dispositions of cases at the request of the accused. The dispositions must be accompanied by the proper documentation. The Putnam Police Department confidential Tip Line is 860-963-0000.
March 11
Sonya D. Sims, 40, Church Street, Putnam; second-degree failure to appear, possession of a controlled substance.
March 12
Tyrone Harper, 36, Hartford Pike, Dayville; lighted lamps required, operating with suspended license, operating with suspended registration.

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Sweeping In
Woodstock’s Don Sousa sweeps in and scores a goal against Trumbull in a CIAC Division II 1st-round state tournament game won by the Centaurs, 5-2. Photo by Sean Saucier/The Woodstock Academy.




It was a heartbreaker. The Woodstock boys’ hockey team held the lead three times in its CIAC Division II state tournament quarterfinal game with Lyman Hall March 11.
On all three occasions, the second-seeded Trojans were able to fight back to tie the game and eventually downed the 10th-seeded Centaurs in overtime, 4-3.
“That’s what you get when you play a great team,” said coach Kevin Bisson. “I think our seeding of No. 10 was a bit false considering we only played 18 games and how the way the points are added up. I don’t feel like it was a 10 vs. 2, but they were definitely a two, a top team in the division, and there was no question they were going to keep coming at us and keep battling.”
The Centaurs took a 1-0 first period lead when freshman Maxx Corradi scored his 15th goal of the season 11 minutes, 21 seconds into the game off assists from linemates Don Sousa and Noah Sampson.
Lyman Hall was able to tie 6:41 into the second period on a goal by Ryan Arduini.
The Centaurs went up by a goal again with 3:24 left in the second on the 19th goal of the season for Sampson.
But it would be 2-2 going into the third when Jack Roberts, who scored over 80 points this season alone, tallied for a first time on a power play with 1:50 left in the second period.
The see-saw continued with senior Kyle Brennan getting an unassisted tally 6:10 into the third for the Centaurs to go up 3-2.
Bisson thought Woodstock held the advantage, at the time, and not just because of the numbers on the scoreboard. “We put them in such a position that I was able to play all three lines and they were only playing two because of the desperation they were (feeling). I had thought we had done a really good job of eliminating their top line for the most part,” he said.
But then … On a Woodstock Academy power play, a face off took place in the Centaurs end.
Senior captain Kenny Mackenzie got that shot through and the game-tying goal with 6:18 left to play.
The Centaurs had a couple of good chances in the remaining regulation time. Don Sousa tried to field a pop up and had an essentially empty net to shoot at. Unfortunately, he had to wait for the puck to come down so he wouldn’t be called for a high stick. In the process, a Lyman Hall defender hit him as he was hitting the shot and the collision caused Sousa to pull the shot wide.
Sampson also had an opportunity late but Trojan’s freshman goalie Dylan Florio made the stop. Woodstock’s freshman goalie Dante Sousa was also up to the task.
Unfortunately, 7:40 into overtime, Lyman Hall’s Roberts, in a face off in the Centaurs defensive end, poked the puck between Zach Girard’s skates, stepped around the Centaur senior captain and rifled a shot. The loss ended the Centaurs season at 15-7.
But there was a lot to be happy about. The Centaurs started off with a 4-5 record, went on a 10-game win streak, advanced to the Nutmeg Conference championship and fell just two wins shy of making it to a state championship game.
A three-goal second period separated the Centaurs from the Trumbull in a Div. II state tournament 1st-round game played earlier in the week and that allowed Woodstock to advance to the quarterfinal game against Lyman Hall.
The Centaurs rebounded from a 1-0 deficit to tie the game at the end of the first period and then scored three times in the second en route to a 5-2 win over the No. 7 Eagles.
Fortunately, Trumbull only got one goal in the early portions of the game. The Centaurs tied the game with 40 seconds left in the opening period on a goal by sophomore Don Sousa off a Chris Thibault assist.
Corradi put the Centaurs up 2-1 off an assist from Don Sousa 7 minutes, 47 seconds into the period.  Troy Daviau tallied off a Jared Nielsen pass and a minute and a half after that, Sousa scored off a Corradi assist to put the game firmly into the Centaurs’ hands.
The Eagles scored their second goal in the second period. Corradi  hit is second goal into an empty net with an assist awarded to Sampson.
Next season looks positive. The production of the first line was impressive with Sampson (19 goals, 23 assists), Sousa (21 goals, 11 assists) and Corradi (15 goals, 13 assists), two sophomores and a freshman, combining to produce 102 points this season. They also had Sousa, a freshman, in net.
But, as always, there will be losses that will be felt especially behind the blue line.
“We’re losing some fantastic kids, fantastic hockey talent, especially on the defensive side when it comes to the minutes. Chris Thibault, especially after Brendan Hill (broken hand) got hurt, managed to log some of the most minutes that a kid could possibly play and he really stepped up. Chris was playing the best hockey he had played in his four years. The Lyman Hall coach (Dave Sagnella) commented on Chris’ play and how significant he was on the ice, stopping their best player,” Bisson said. “There is always that pause of what you will lose because that’s just how high school works with these kids graduating and moving on to the next chapter.”
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy

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For the first time in a long time, Molly Moffitt knows what’s coming next.
As she neared graduation from her Seattle high school last June, the only thing she knew was that she was getting on a plane for Ireland a few days later to try out of the national U19 team. Even that was only decided a few days before. But college? Prep school? Play a sport? And which one? Basketball? Lacrosse? Moffitt was one who really felt the fallout of the havoc COVID wrecked on high school student-athletes.
But now Moffitt, who just finished a postgrad year at Putnam Science Academy, knows where and what she is going to do.
The 6-foot, 1-inch wing announced last week that she was accepting a scholarship offer to play basketball next year at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
“It’s sometimes hard for me to settle down and take a break. I’ve always been on go-mode, especially these past few years, so it’s kind of an interesting feeling to relax a little bit,” she said last week. “I haven’t known what I was going to do so it’s really cool to know that I found a great place and I’m going to grow and get a great experience. It’s a relief for sure but I’m ready to get going.”
Moffitt was one of the top players for the Mustangs’ Prep Black team, which advanced to the Final Four of the Independent Schools National Tournament, averaging around 12 points and eight rebounds a game as a skilled wing who could operate with equal effectiveness inside or out. But she didn’t even know what prep schools were until the end of her senior year and didn’t commit to her PG year at PSA until she was in Ireland. She said if she hadn’t gone to PSA, she was thinking about walking on to lacrosse or basketball teams at whatever school she went to, most likely at the junior college or NAIA level.
And now she’s a Division I scholarship athlete. And once UAB offered her in late January, she had a feeling that was where she’d end up. It has a top-15 nursing program, which is what she wants to get into, and its athletic programs are on the come up, she said.
 “When I got my offer from UAB, I was over-the-moon happy,” said Moffitt, who admitted she was thinking about UAB a lot while on an official visit to another school. “I loved talking to their coaches and building a relationship with them.
“UAB is in a city but has a college-town feel, which I really liked. Stepping on campus and watching them play Southern Miss, I started tearing up a little bit. I don’t know why, but I guess it’s because I just kind of knew. I was watching them play and seeing everything in action. I was seeing coach (Randy) Norton coach and seeing (associate head coach) Taryn Martin coach, and I just knew, ‘Yeah, this is where I want to be.’”
She actually took that visit by herself, which was atypical.
“It was empowering making that decision for myself,” she said. “Not that they had a huge influence over it, but I was there with the coaching staff in the morning, just talking to them. I was just by myself, which was fine but usually having my parents there, they can act as a buffer and ask some of the questions that I wasn’t really thinking of. But I feel like I did a really good job communicating with them and with the girls. I made the decision by myself.”
She said Norton’s program is family-oriented; the fact that all of his assistant coaches once played for him speaks to that. She said he also reminded her of her dad, and since she is so close with her family, there was a real level of comfort there.
And one of the first people she called after making her decision was her grandma.
“I call her every Sunday and we just talk,” Moffitt said. “She’s the coolest person ever. She was reminding me, ‘You’ve been raving about UAB ever since you got the offer.’ She knows me. She just put everything in perspective for me. She was like, ‘Just give it a shot. You can always come home. You have family that’s going to support you whatever you do. Just give it a shot.’”
And that’s how Molly Moffitt knew what was coming next for her.
Stephen Nalbandian
Sports Information Director
Putnam Science Academy

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