Key Highlights
- The slender senior center's last-minute layup helped lift the Lakeview girls basketball team to a 36-33 victory over Thomaston in front of a spirited crowd Saturday night at Lakeview High School. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementOlmstead's basket with 45 seconds left gave the Bobcats their first lead and, ultimately, a share of their first Berkshire League championship as Lakeview pulled off a remarkable comeback to avenge an earlier loss to the Golden Bears."I caught the ball on the low block.
- I'd been open there tonight and I was just waiting for that moment because I'd missed one earlier in the game," said Olmstead.
- "I knew I had to make that one.""We held our breath - is it going to go in?" said Lakeview coach Kerri LaPorte.
- "She did a great job."Both teams finished 13-1 in the league to share the title, but Lakeview at 18-2 probably earned the first seed in the CIAC Division V tournament over the Golden Bears (16-4). AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe last time a school in Litchfield won the BL girls basketball title was in 2009, when LaPorte, then a freshman named Kerri Stolle, played for Wamogo's champions.
- Two years ago, Wamogo merged with Litchfield to form Lakeview. When Thomaston beat Lakeview a month ago 42-35, the Bears jumped out to a big first-half lead.