(March 8, 2019) — The Haddam Killingworth High School basketball teams finished out their season recently. The Junior Varsity team “had a great year and finished with a record of 16-3,” said Jim Abbott, Coach. “The Varsity team showed much improvement this year going from 2 wins last year to 8 wins this year. The highlight was making the state tournament and playing arch rival Morgan in the first round,” said Mr. Abbott. “The game was a classic, although HK came up two points short and lost 56-54.
The following are the results of the season:
12/13/18 v. Portland L 48-65
12/27/18 v. Civic Leadership W 75-55
12/29/18 v. Ellis Tech W 70-32
1/2/19 v. Old Lyme L 47-67
1/4/19 v. Hale Ray W 60-47
1/7/19 v. Coginchaug W 59-57
1/10/19 v. Valley Regional L 31-54
1/14/19 v. Old Saybrook L 59-69
1/22/19 v. Cromwell L 55-76
1/23/19 v. Wheeler W 53-38
1/25/19 v. Morgan L 52-54
1/29/19 v. Morgan L 45-64
2/1/19 v. Valley Regional L 45-74
2/4/19 v. Ellis Tech W 66-32
2/5/19 v. Coginchaug L 45-48
2/8/19 v. North Branford W 72-59
2/13/19 v. Cromwell L 48-77
2/15/19 v. North Branford W 66-57
2/18/19 v. Westbrook L 48-50
2/21/19 v. East Hampton L 53-62
“We will miss our five seniors,” said Mr. Abbott. “Captain and career 1000 point scorer, Matt Wills, and Andrew Kuehn, Zach Kaufman, Tobey Callender, and Darren Hiller.” Matt Wills was selected second-team all-conference.
Varsity and JV teams included the following players: Colin O’Brien, Evan Fleig, Samuel Erskine, Trey Callender, Alec Erskine, Jimmy McGoey, Tony Giambanis, John Bruder, Ryan Luther, Sam Luther, Chase O’Linn, Adam Alonzo, Declan Christopher, Issac Barrera, Matteo Piacerti, Andrew Conti, Andrew Fleig, Kevin Cavrell, Gabe Barile, Julian Houde, Corey Phipps, Alex Sheehan, Jayden Zaitoun, Stephen Schultz.
