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11/17/2018 11:00 PMFootball
The Guilford football team clinched its first winning season since 2000 by notching a victory versus Lyman Hall last week. The Indians hosted Lyman Hall for an SCC Tier 3 matchup on Nov. 14 and claimed a 24-19 win to improve to 6-3 overall and 3-2 in Tier 3 this year. Guilford held a 21-6 lead at halftime and then held off a second-half rally by the Trojans to emerge victorious.
Charles Schioppo carried the ball 15 times for 108 yards and three touchdowns in the win. Charles Walcott had 13 rushes for 65 yards, while Ethan Vashel gained 41 yards on nine carries for Guilford.
Lyman Hall grabbed a 6-0 advantage on a 28-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter. The Indians responded with a 37-yard TD rush by Charles Schioppo to go ahead 7-6 with 7:09 left before halftime. Three minutes later, Schioppo came through again with a 30-yard scoring scamper to make it 14-6. Guilford then capped the opening half on a 3-yard touchdown run from Schioppo with 43 seconds remaining.
With 5:54 to go in the third, Lyman Hall (5-4, 1-4) struck on a 70-yard TD pass to cut the Guilford lead to 21-13. Following a Trojans’ turnover, Tyler Filley hit a 27-yard field goal to give the Indians some insurance with a 24-13 lead with 4:23 to play in the fourth. Lyman Hall scored on a 7-yard touchdown pass with 26.7 seconds to play in the game, but it was too little, too late, as the Indians recovered an onside kick to cement their first winning campaign in 18 years.
The Indians will finish the 2018 season with their annual Thanksgiving Eve game against rival Hand (9-0) on Wednesday, Nov. 21. The game kicks off at 7 p.m. at the Surf Club in Madison.
Girls’ Swimming and Diving
Junior Alex Mayo broke her own school records in two events when the Guilford girls’ swimming and diving team competed at the Class L State Championship last week. The Indians scored 118 points and finished 13th out of 20 teams on Nov. 13 at Southern Connecticut State University.
Mayo finished fifth in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:11.21 and also took 10th in the 500 freestyle by swimming a 5:11.91 at the Class L state meet, notching personal-best times in each event and breaking her own school records with both swims. Mayo went on to place 16th for the 200 IM (2:12.80) and 24th in the 500 freestyle (5:21.95) at the State Championship at Yale University on Nov. 17.
Additionally at the Class L Championship, Guilford’s 200 freestyle relay team of Haley Moriarty, Audrey Rowan, Brynn Leslie, and Mayo finished 10th (1:47.25); the 400 freestyle relay of Leslie, Moriarty, Elizabeth Hicks, and Mayo came in came in 15th (3:58.26); and the 200 medley relay of Leslie, Moriarty, Hicks, and Julia Earle placed 17th (2:07.69) for the Indians. At the Class L Diving State Championship, Sadie Booth finished 24th with a score of 267.30 points at Middletown High School on Nov. 8.