Archive: Sports

This past weekend members of the boys track team competed in the NY State meet in Kingston, New York.

Senior Andy Lockwood took second place in the Shot Put and Discus for the Small school states, and he took 3rd in both events for the Federation Medals.

The Lansing Community Aquatic Team recently completed its 2006-2007 short course (25-yard pool) season. Through a tremendous team effort, the CATS were, once again, the Southern Tier Swim League Champions. In addition to the full team effort at STSL champs, several members of the team qualified for, and competed in the Niagara Swimming District Gold Championship Meet. Of approximately fifty teams from Central and Western NY, the LCATs finished in third place at Gold Districts, behind two powerhouse teams from the Buffalo area. This was quite an accomplishment for the CATS, considering it wasn’t long ago the team had a tough time cracking into the top forty at Golds.

As the short course season winds down for many swimmers, it revs up for others who qualify for a variety of upper level championship competitions. Over the last month of the short course season, LCATs sent representatives to Speedo Sectional Championships in Boston, Junior Nationals in Orlando and the Eastern States Zones Championships in Buffalo. There were several swimmer highlights at these meets.

Albany– New York State Senator Mike Nozzolio recently honored Kyle Dake of Lansing High School at the State Capitol for winning the 2007 New York State High School Wrestling Championship in his weight class. Kyle finished the year with a record of 43-0 and is the first Lansing High School wrestler to ever become a New York State Champion.

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The Lansing Boy's Track and Field team had four boys qualify for the State Meet in Kingston in 5 events. Senior Andy Lockwood set a new IAC record in the Shot put with a toss of 55' 8" (over a foot better than his previous IAC record throw). He also qualified in the Discus with a throw of 162' 9". He was the winner in both events and looks strong going into the State meet. Rick Jones has done a tremendous job in coaching Andy, and I am personally greatful for all that he's done to get Andy to this level.

Senior Rusty Landon qualified in the 110m Hurdles with a time of 15.7. He finished third overall, but was the top Small school finisher in the event. He also took 3rd overall in the 400m dash with a time of 49.78, but will not advance because the top two finishers were both from the small school division.

The Lansing JV Baseball team defeated Elmira Heights 6-2 last Friday in Elmira to claim the IAC Championship, finishing the year with a record of 18-1. Josh Rodgers pitched four strong innings to pick up the win, while Cody Rohwedder pitched three solid innings in relief. Team members include.

8th grader Harrison Herzog, freshman Mike Bradford, TJ Cretney, Anthony Fiorelli, Nick French, Chris Hudson, Nate Martin, Tyler Mattoon, Tom Mazza, Nolan Milliman, Matt Tucci, Jacob Whiting and sophomores Jesse Bush, Shawn Hathaway, Mike Longo, Tyler Mix, Josh Rodgers, Cody Rohwedder and Dan Sill.

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Cortland – For the 13th year, SUNY Cortland’s Stadium Complex will be the site of the 2007 High School Girls State Lacrosse Championship tournament. Twelve teams from across New York State will vie for state titles in three classes. Beginning with semifinal matches on Friday, June 8th, the tournament will conclude on Saturday, June 9th with the championship matches.

“Girl’s Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in the country. We are pleased to be able to have another championship caliber event held in Cortland” remarked Joe Reagan, chair of the Cortland Regional Sports Council.

The tennis team finished a very successful year with 9-1 record. We were 2nd at IAC's and runner-up at Sectionals. Devin Grant- Keane was singles champion for Class CD sectionals and voted the team MVP. Tom Zarate was awarded the Most Improved Player this year. The success of the team was credited mostly to seven seniors who played for the past 3 or 4 years. They are Devin Grant-Keane, Adam Hardie, Sadie Purnell, Rachel Strohman, Katie Bruno, Tom Zarate and Sander Moolin.

Congratulations on a terrific tennis career and good luck in the future. As always thank you to our parents and friends who support the program.

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Lansing Girls took 3rd at sectionals with big performances from freshman Chloe Ryan, junior Ryann Cretney, and senior Colleen Trowbridge.  Ryan advanced to the finals in both the 100 and 200, taking third and second respectively.  Cretney won the 1500m, took third in the 800m, and helped the 4x800mR team of Natalie Usack, Tiffany Lind, and Katy Bland to take third place.  Trowbridge had a fanominal day in triple jump as she set a new personal record of 32’7".  That jump advanced her to finals where she took 4th place.

Lansing had eight girls qualify to compete at the state qualifiers meet last Thursday/Friday.  Seniors Tiffany Lind, Natalie Usack, Kendal Dean, Colleen Trowbridge, Preeti Panda, and Veronica Palladino lead the way for freshman Katy Bland and Chloe Ryan.  Cretney, setting a new school record, took home first place and will go to the state meet this weekend as section IV’s top seed in the 2000m Steeplechase.  Cretney will also be anchoring the 4x800mR team at the state meet that consists of Usack, Lind, and Bland.  Congratulations a phenomenal season to those who are done and good luck to those still competing!

More than 20 families banded together Saturday to raise money for the Lansing Community Aquatics Team (LCAT) with a huge yard sale at the Lansing Elementary School parking lot.  Furniture, clothes, sundries, and even kittens were for sale to raise money for the team.  "Everybody donated something, whether it was baked goods or a box of books," says Amy O'Brien, whose three daughters swim on the team. " A couple of people brought in some miscellaneous items."

The varsity baseball team captured their third staright IAC championship Monday at Cornell University defeating Candor 11-0.
Trevor Wolf and Justin Payne combined on the two hit shutout. Shawn Mix and Brian Milliman led the Bobcats at the plate with Mix driving in four runs and Milliman collecting three hits.

Next action is Saturday home at 1:00 in the sectional tournament.

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The Varsity tennis team did very well at Sectionals with our #1 Singles player, Devin Grant-Keane taking first. The points he earned put the team into second behind END for Class C sectionals. Devin now plays against Class A and B at State Qualifier with the top 3 singles players getting to go to Flushing Meadows for States.

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With the Class C Sectional Meet taking place yesterday, Lansing athletes competed in some of the events Monday at Union Endicott. Rusty Landon won the Pentathalon for the second week in a row. He won it at the IAC meet with a score of 3084 points and set a new school record in the 1500m with a time of 4:25. His score at the sectional meet was 3000pts.

Senior boy pole vaulters Pat Sweazey and Jeremy Petak also competed in the pole vault and took 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Senior Frank Massi and Freshman Josh Barber competed in the steeplechase. Massi earned a 4th place finish.

The pole vault and steeplechase were scoring events for the rest of the sectional meet in Dryden.

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