Volleyball

The Yellowjackets won their ninth-straight match to improve to 9-1 and clinch a spot in the State Tournament. East Haven won at home against North Haven 3-0 on Sept. 28, prevailed at another Oronoque Division foe in Career by the score of 3-0 on Sept. 30, and then closed with week by edging out West Haven on the road by a 3-2 final on Oct. 1.

Against North Haven, set scores read 25-15, 25-12, 25-10 in East Haven’s favor. Allison Luzzi had nine kills with five digs; Megan Doheny recorded five kills, four blocks, and two aces; Kara Hanson served up three aces to go with three digs; Kylie Schlottman and Amber Ciscone each had four digs; and Alyssa Barcomb dished out 20 assists.

Facing Career, the Yellowjackets sailed to a 25-11, 25-10, 25-8 victory to move to 4-0 in division play. The match was a serving spectacular for East Haven. Schlottman had five aces and seven kills; Diana Kalman had three aces; Luzzi and Doheny each had five kills with Doheny contributing four aces; Ciscone recorded a trio of aces; Hanson had six aces; and Barcomb landed five aces to complement her 20 assists.

East Haven then rallied for a five-set triumph against the West Haven Blue Devils. The Yellowjackets took the first set 25-17, dropped the second 18-25 and the third 22-25, but then bounced back to take the fourth set 25-20 and the deciding fifth frame by the score of 15-10. Schlottman had 16 kills and seven aces; Luzzi notched eight kills with 10 digs; Doheny had five kills and three aces; Jessica Stettinger chimed in with five kills; Hanson had 16 digs; Barcomb dished out 28 assists and also had nine digs; and Samantha Miranda added five aces.

Girls' Soccer

The Yellowjackets continued their strong start to the season by recording a 2-1 victory at Law on Sept. 30 that improved their record to 7-0 and put them into the State Tournament for the second-straight year. This marks just the second time in program history that East Haven has made states in consecutive seasons. The other time was in 2008 and 2009. East Haven's seven wins also ties the program record for most victories in a season, which the team previously achieved last fall.

Law scored with 10 minutes left in the first half, but then East Haven responded with two goals in the first six minutes of the latter stanza. First, Megan Kikosicki scored her 17th goal of the season from Chiara Fusco eight minutes in. Then Megan Lendroth headed home the go-ahead goal off a corner from Kikosicki to put East Haven in the lead for good and the Yellowjackets hung on to win the game.

"We're more than thrilled to be where we are at this point of the season, but we have some very tough games ahead of us and we know teams that we beat the first time around will be ready," Coach Ray Curren said. "We just want to keep getting better every day and game."

Girls’ Swimming and Diving

East Haven had two meets last week and took a 77-51 defeat at Hamden on Sept. 28 that was followed by a 58-52 loss in West Haven on Oct. 1.

In the Hamden meet, Shannon Wynne won the 200 freestyle in a time of 2:26.10, as well as the 500 freestyle in 6:36.9. Gina DiVerniero prevailed in the 200 individual medley by swimming 2:48.99 and also won the 100 butterfly with a personal-best time of 1:15.38. Also swimming quality times were Ashley Oakley in the 50 freestyle (45.8), plus Ellyn DiVerniero in the 100 breaststroke (1:46.13) and 100 freestyle (1:19.20) with the latter marking a personal-best time of the season. East Haven’s 200 medley relay took third place at 2:56.08 with Wynne, the DiVerniero sisters, and Oakley comprising that lineup. Those same four athletes came back to post a time of 2:07.3 in the 200 freestyle relay.

“Our athletes are continuing to work hard and make personal gains throughout the season,” said co-Head Coach Juliet Goraieb. “We look forward to finishing the season strong.”

For the Hamden meet, Gina DiVerniero went 2:49.78 in the 200 IM and 1:15.62 for the butterfly, Ellyn DiVerniero swam a time of 1:17.15 in the 100 free and 1:44.48 for the breaststroke, Wynne turned in a 2:24.73 in the 200 free and a 6:34.22 in the 500 free, and Oakley finished at 45.15 for the 50 free and 2:11.29 in the backstroke. The 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relays again featured the lineup of Oakley, Wynne, and both DiVerniero siblings. They went a 2:46.27 for the medley and 2:18.51 in the freestyle relay.

Football

East Haven took its first loss of the season by dropping a 47-0 home decision to undefeated division foe North Haven on Oct. 2. The Yellowjackets are now 3-1 overall and 0-1 in SCC Division II East. After a week off this week, East Haven is back at it with a game against Lyman Hall at Sheehan High School at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15.