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Last-second shot lifts Conard past Lewis Mills

Lewis Mills Tommy Dinunzio (14) scored a game-high 31 points in a losing effort Monday night against Conard.

WEST HARTFORD, Jan. 6, 2025 – Conard’s Max Tartaglia sank a three-point shot with seven seconds left in regulation to help the Red Wolves beat Lewis Mills, 57-55 in a Central Connecticut Conference Central Division contest on Monday.

Mills (2-5) was holding a one-point lead, 55-54, when Tartaglia, who finished with a team-high 16 points, hit his fourth three-point shot of the evening to put the Red Wolves in front. Conard improves to 4-2 with the win.

Tommy Dinunzio scored 31 points, including 14 points in the fourth quarter, for the Spartans. Gavin Daly also scored 17 for Mills.

Mills hosts No. 5 East Catholic on Wednesday night in Burlington beginning at 6:45 p.m.

Conard 57, Lewis Mills 55
At West Hartford
Lewis Mills (55)
Gavin Daly 8-0-17, Anthony D’Iorio 0-0-0, Will Green 0-0-0, Logan Carrano 2-0-5, Tommy Dinunzio 12-6-31, Chad Edmond 0-0-0, Gage Kosak 0-0-0, Ethan Braddock 0-0-0, Totals 23-6-55
Conard (57) Max Tartaglia 5-2-16, Clinton Smith 3-0-7, Jonathan Rivera 4-0-8, Michael Kirkutis 1-0-2, Aidan Fox 7-0-15, Maurice King 3-0-7, Anthony Spicer 0-0-0, Shane Morris 1-0-2, Totals 22-2-57
Lewis Mills (2-5)                 15  10  14  16 — 55
Conard (4-2)                         11  17  11  18 – 57
Three-point goals: Daly (LM), Carrano (LM), Dinunzio (LM), Tartaglia (C) 4, Smith (C), Fox (C), King (C)

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