Vickie Fulkerson

Old Lyme's Chase Gilbert was named The Day's 2026 All-Area Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, taking The Day's Player of the Year honors for the unprecedented 10th time during her distinguished high school career.

A Class L all-state selection, MacPherson, the 5-foot-9 whiz kid, starting at short for the Falcons since her freshman season, was named The Day's 2026 All-Area Softball Player of the Year.

Josh Ford became a member of the Mitchell College Athletic Hall of Fame partially due to circumstance, when men's basketball coach Todd Peretz initially saw him play in a pickup game and recruited him to be a part of the team.

Cleanup hitter James Smith was about to bat in the top of the third inning Friday night and assistant coach Mike Penta gave him a pep talk.

A 2-0 record on the opening day of the East Regional was cause for the Old Lyme Senior League softball team, the defending champion in the tournament with a trip to last year's World Series, to exhale.

CJ Parker once saw Nyarah Dudley check out of an AAU basketball game, throw up, then immediately go and check back in.

The only thing better than the Old Lyme Senior League softball team reaching one World Series, as it did in the summer of 2025, would be qualifying for a second World Series.

He recently started running again. And Saturday, Chris Croff came home to run the John & Jessie Kelley Half-Marathon at Ocean Beach, the 64th running of the popular road race.

The scene for last year's Secretaries' Cup game at Fenway Park in Boston included goal posts in left field, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in center and the Green Monster in left overlooking both team benches.

Montville High School baseball coach Scott Chiasson, the beneficiary of Andrew McElwee's pitching for four years, jokes that he would sometimes go to the mound to talk to McElwee and get a blank stare in return.