It may not have begun the way they had wanted nor did it end in the manner they would have wished but you had to admire the spirit of the East Lyme High School girls volleyball team in the Class L State Championship game o on Saturday in Fairfield.
The Vikes got a rude awakening when Bristol Eastern scored the first eight points of the first game and, in truth, they never seemed to recover.
East Lyme did put a little rally together in the second game thanks to the serve of Paige Babcock but a well-placed time out and a hard kill by Sara Plourde essentially ended any hopes that the Vikings had of a comeback.
There were some tears afterwards but players like Babcock and Brittni Taylor both expressed how good they felt about how far they and the program had come.
The two seniors will not be around next year to continue the Vikings forward progress but everyone around the program felt that this group of girls had started something. Most, especially head coach Jack Biggs, can only hope the kind of enthusiasm shown by the players in the program and those who supported the program in it's bid for a title continues.