Archive: Sports

The Lansing Athletic Hall of Fame has announced the 'Class of 2006,' six new members to be inducted at a ceremony Saturday, January 27th between the Junior Varsity and Varsity basketball games between Lansing and Groton.  Former Lansing athletes will return to Lansing from Michigan, Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for the event, including all five individual inductees and some members of the Men's Basketball Team from the Class of 1955-56.

1955-56 Men's Basketball Team: First Row: Coach Sobus, W. Krantz, D. Worsell, J. Nedrow, A. Ayers, R. Hoaglin. Second Row: D. Wickham, M. Trinkl, T. Fay, D. Sutphin, R. Phelps.  (R. Moore not pictured)

Over the January 6-7 weekend, the CATS swam in the Niagara Swimming District Bronze Meet in Watkins Glen. The meet involved several teams and close to two hundred swimmers from the Niagara District. The LCAT swimmers competing in this meet achieved almost 400 personal best times throughout their preliminary and final event swims.

The swimmers also achieved over 70 Silver times, allowing them to advance to the next level of competition in those events. With swimmers hitting those new times, the CATS now have between 50-60 youngsters eligible for the Niagara District Silver Championships held in Webster in early February.

Lansing weather has been wonderful -- or terrible, depending on who you talk to.  For those worried about home heating, the season so far has been wonderful.  Crude oil prices have been going down, and OPEC oil ministers are considering further cuts.  The Financial Forecast Center predicts the downward trend will continue at least through May, with the price per barrel going down about $2.50 in January alone.

With a record-setting warm December and January comparatively balmy so far, skiers and snow plow operators have been suffering.  The first week of Lansing Recreation Department's ski program was canceled due to warm weather that restricted the amount of snow Greek Peak could produce.  On Tuesday the ski resort's Web site said, "Pray for SNOW!!!!" and listed most slopes as closed.  The resort has 32 trails of varying terrain and skill levels, two of them new this year.

1/9  Elmira Hgts. Rossi Lanes: Lansing Boys break IAC & Lansing total pins series record. The Bobcats started the match strong with Jon LaRock leading the pack with a 259 and 5 out of 6 boys rolling over 200. They totaled 1138 the first game only to come back and best that score with a 1144 and finished the night with a total of 3275 besting the previous record held by the Bobcats.

This was a total team effort as the top five boys all had over a 600 series, they were lead by Kyle Christopher 245/675, Phil Kulis 246/673, Jon LaRock 259/665, Dan Baldini 224/647 and Kevin Quigley 238/615. John Siedman was top score for Elmira Notre Dame 206/594.

The Lansing Girl's Basketball team currently has a record of 9-2 overall, 8-1 in the IAC, and 5-0 and leaders of Division III. On Tuesday the Ladycats defeated Dryden 44-16 with Randi Lyn Randall leading the way with 19 points, 4 steals and 4 assists.

Kendal Dean and Rachael Palladino added 6 points apiece, with Dean hauling in a team high 8 rebounds and Palladino a team high 5 steals and 5 assists. Meagan Palladino chipped in with 5 points, while Katie Fenner added 4 points.

The track team competed Saturday the 6th at the Southern Tier Invite at Cornell University. There were 52 teams and nearly 1200 athletes from all over New York that competed.

Top Lansing finishes were:

Carol Melice-Pole Vault, 1st place, 10'0"
Andy Lockwood-Shot Put, 1st place, 53'2.75"
Jeremy Petak-Pole Vault, 2nd place, 12'6"
Rusty Landon-600m, 3rd place, 1:27.69
Pat Sweazey-Pole Vault, 5th place, 11'6"
Rusty Landon, 55m Hurdles, 5th Place, 8.38
Boys 1600m relay (Tillapaugh, Potter, Sweazey, Landon), 6th place, 3:45.01
Girls 1600m relay (Mapes, Fuchs, Usack, Melice), 7th place, 4:28.77

The team competes this Friday at Cornell in an Age Group meet.

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The Ithaca Shooting Stars 16U and 19U girls ice hockey teams traveled to Connecticut Dec. 27-29 to participate in the 22nd Annual CT Polar Bears Holiday Tournament.  There were 220 teams from the United States and Canada playing in five age levels and 14 divisions at 13 different ice rinks.  The 19Us went 0-4 in the 19U B division while the 16Us finished 2-2 at the 17U B level.
 
The 19U Shooting Stars opened with a 5-1 loss to the Southern Flyers of Tennesee with goalie Chelsea Meyer making 40 saves and Amanda Menichelli scoring from an assist from Samantha Craig.  They fell to the Quaker Girls of Pennsylvania 4-1 with Craig scoring and Kelsey Callahan stopping 25 shots.  She made about 30 saves in a 2-0 loss to Assabet Valley of Massachusetts.  Meyer made close to 50 saves in their final game against Berwick Academy of New Hampshire.  The team is coached by Rob Ralyea.

Waverly, NY -- The Waverly boy’s team started the match with a great 1128 game to the Bobcat 942. Being down by 186 pins after one game the Bobcats didn’t run and hide as they began to roll behind Jon LaRock, Kyle Christopher and Dan Baldini to come back and win the second game 1066 to 996.

Moving to the third game the Bobcat kept the pressure on to win 1033 to 971 earning a split against Waverly at home and showing the mark of a very good team. Lansing was led by Kyle 246/688, Dan 234/649 and Jon 248/604, while Waverly was led by Michael Beard 236/698, Shane LaFritz 279/631 and Marcus Beard 225/601.

The boys basketball team hold a 6-2 record.  The IAC schedule has been going well as the boys are 6-0 in the IAC and 4-0 in the division.  The team has been led by Ryan Shaff, John Sluty and Teagan Barresi in the scoring department- Chris Reukauf has been steady at the point and the play off the bench has been solid.

Over break, the boys played in the prestigious STOP DWI tournament where they dropped both games.  They lost to #6 team in the state, Oneonta, 41-36 in the opener and then lost to Susquehanna Valley in the 3rd place game-  Teagan Barresi was named to the all tournament team.

The Lansing Wrestling team ended the first half of the winter sports season on a high note beating league foe Marathon in front of a good sized home crowd 51-22. Key performances were turned in by Jon Glennon , Curtis Fenner, Matt Starner, Matt Martin, Joe Jimenez and Donald Krebs. Colden Knapp also won an emotional match by fall, gaining his first varsity pin in 1:19.

The team opened up the second 1/2 of the season yesterday facing the #1 ranked small school in the state, Waverly.  The outcome was not as pleasant. Waverly won the meet 62-6. Kyle Dake ran his record to 19-0 with the lone Bobcat Victory at 112, pinning his opponent in 3:55.  Donald Krebs, Jon Glennon, and Curtis Fenner all fell just short of victory in close decisions.

dAN cHEATHAMLansing HS Class of 2005 graduate Daniel Cheatham has earned the award of New York State West Young Male Referee of the Year for 2006. Daniel Cheatham, is studying at Syracuse University where he is currently a sophomore maintaining a 3.25 GPA. With his studies focusing on the Middle East, he is looking to study there before he graduates. Yet even with good grades and lots of time spent in the library and in classes, Dan still finds time for soccer and other worthwhile activities.

He volunteered his time to construct both a middle school and an elementary school playground. He has worked for the March of Dimes and other charities through the Syracuse University athletic department. He has acted as a volunteer coach in his hometown recreational program working with kindersoccer through Under 10 players. In high school, he also gave many hours to the CASS program in its first year acting as a mentor for middle school students in his school district. With his strong GPA in high school, and his other extracurricular activities, he was also named to the National Honor Society. He was also awarded a Dean's Academic  Scholarship to Syracuse University as an entering freshman.

12/5 -- Waverly: IAC Big House Event 12-16-06 Lansing's Jon LaRock leads all 130+ bowlers with a 770 series. The Lansing Boys behind LaRock's fine series won the second IAC Big House Event with 3120 total pins followed by TAE & Waverly and the rest of the IAC boy's teams. Watkins Glen's Lukas Buckman 279/693 was next followed by many other fine scores.

On the Girls side Waverly Girls rolled 2400+ pins to take their second IAC Big House followed by TAE, Groton and Lansing. Diane Leonard (TAE) 234/620 led all the girls followed by Kaerstan Cornwall (Groton) 225/533 & Lansing's Rachel Strolman 212/524 led the IAC Girls. All IAC team are scheduled to be in action this Tuesday night.