Basketball Recap: Portland Drops Highest Score of Season Against Old Lyme

Highlanders

Team Score

01/27/25 @ Old Lyme	65
12/20/24 vs Hale Ray	59
12/30/24 vs Coginchaug Regional	58
01/21/25 vs Cromwell	53
12/28/24 @ St. Joseph	52

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Portland). They snuck past the Old Lyme Wildcats with a 65-61 win on Monday. That's the second time they've managed to beat them this season, as they also won 43-38 back in December of 2024.

Portland's victory ended a four-game drought on the road and puts them at 5-7. As for Old Lyme, their defeat ended a 13-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 10-3.

Portland will welcome Amistad at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Amistad is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 52.8 points per game this season. Old Lyme has already played their next match (against Westbrook), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.