Archive: Sports

The Lansing Football team continued their success on the road as they defeated Tioga 42-6, to improve to 2-0 on the young season. The Bobcats took the opening kick and drove 69 yards culminating in a 1 yard touchdown run by Trevor Countryman, Ryan Shaff converted his first of 6 PAT's to make the score 7-0.  

After last year's winning season, the Lansing Girls Swim team continued the streak with a strong win against Southern Cayuga on Tuesday.  When the 12 event meet was done Lansing finished with more than double their opponents' score with 116 - 54.

In the Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay Lansing's Lansing's C team (Nikki Dean, Leigh Conley, Kali Dean and Claire Eckstrom) took first place.  Hannah Wingate placed first in the Girls 200 Yard Freestyle, finishing in 2:06:86, followed by Kendal Dean in second place and Kayla Arrison in third.  Kali Dean sped to first place in the Girls 200 Yard IM, with Lansing taking all three top spots.  Erin Obrien won second place and Maeve Campbell third.

"It was hard at the end," said girls individual gold medal winner Shanna Swanson.  "The running was the hardest.  I was tired after doing the swimming and the biking.  I was thinking, 'I've got to finish.'"  This was the second year in a row that she won the gold in the Lansing Family Triathlon.  By the end of the day the winners, tired, but happy, posed for pictures.  But each one of the participants were winners just for finishing the challenging course.  "We had a great turnout, and a beautiful day," said event coordinator Lisa LiVigne.

The Lansing varsity football team opened the 2006 season with a 49-0 victory over Groton.  Lansing opened the scoring in the first quarter with a Vincent Redmond 1 yard QB sneak to cap an 11 play 8 minute opening drive.  Midway through the 2nd quarter Ryan Shaff picked up a Groton fumble, forced by Adam Nedrow, and scampered 23 yards for the second score of the evening.

School started yesterday, and Lansing's varsity teams have already been busy training and practicing, and some teams have already started their season.  The girls swim team had a scrimmage in Dryden, the football team started very strong with a 49-0 win over Groton, the volleyball team won their first game over Dryden Tuesday, and the girls soccer team is 3 and 0, winning their first three games against Dryden, Trumansburg and Waverley.

Athletic Director Ed Redmond is enthusiastic about the coming season.  Redmond says that several of the teams are poised to build on their successes from previous years.  "All of the varsity coaches are the same," he says.  "That's one of the strengths of our program, that we've been able to keep continuity in each program."  Here's his rundown of the Fall season:

Of the 6 CATS who competed in Eastern Zones in mid-August, all did well, with Hans Roser and Ryan Nicholson having standout swims. Hans qualified for Junior Nationals in the 100 Breaststroke, adding that event to the 200 Breaststroke, which he hit a qual time in last spring. Ryan achieved his first T16 Reportable time in the 50 Butterfly. That's an amazing accomplishment, putting him in a class with the 9-10-year-oldfinest swimmers in the nation.

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Lansing Varsity Girls Soccer kicked off the season with a home game against Dryden Wednesday.  At halftime the game was tied 1 - 1, but Lansing pulled ahead in the second half, finishing with a 4-1victory.  Lansing made 26 shots in the game, to Dryden's 5.  MC Barrett made a save for Lansing with Nikki Button making 11 for Dryden.  The Lansing team made six corner kicks to Dryden's one.

"It was a great start," says Lansing coach Maureen Dracup.  Lansing goals were scored by Rachael Palladino 2-0, Ellyn Grant-Keane 2-0, Colleen Trowbridge 0-1, and Megan Palladino 0-1.  But Dracup says the team won't rest on their laurels.  "Girls are ecstatic but we're focused on the season so we're taking it one game at a time and need to stay focused," she says.  The next game is tonight, an away game at Trumansburg.

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Dryden Hotel played Perfect Painters Saturday, then played the Rick's Rental team.

The Lansing Community Aquatics Team (LCAT) competed in two championship meets over as many weekends in late July. On July 22nd, the team traveled to Watkins Glen to swim against 17 other local teams in the Southern Tier Swim League Championship Meet.

The CATS had an incredible team performance throughout, with the younger swimmers putting the team ahead in the A.M. session and the older swimmers increasing that lead as the P.M. session advanced. By the end of the meet, the CATS had outpaced the second place Chenango Aquatics by nearly 1000 points. This is the second consecutive year that the LCATs have been the STSL Champions for the Fall/Winter and the Spring/Summer seasons. It is also the club’s 6th STSL Championship title in the past four years.

Lansing skaters were among over 150 skaters that competed at Mercyhurst College Ice Center in Erie, Pennsylvania this year.  They represented 20 figure skating clubs from New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio.  78 skating events were scheduled over the three day competition.

This week more than 60 campers turned out for Lansing Recreation Department's Boys Basketball Camp.  Directed by Adam Heck, the camp is for 4th through 9th grade boys.  The camp met every day this week from 9:00am-4:00pm.  "60 is the perfect amount," says Heck.  "For the facilities it gives all the kids a lot of opportunities to learn the game and a lot of time to have with the ball."