Archive: Sports

The Varsity Softball Team is 8-3. The team captured the Mudville Tournament over the weekend with big wins over Class A Indian River 11-0 and Canajoharia 14-11.  RandiLyn Randall pitched both games, pitching a two hit shut-out in the first.  In game one the bats were led by Freshmen Brittany French with three hits and Breanne Nichols with 3 hits as well.  In game two it was a slugfest as both teams combine for 27 hits and 25 runs.  The Bobcats out-hit their opponents for the win.

With Randall pitching her 6th game of the week the bats had to come out.  Maegan Mikula and Randall both went 4-5 with Randall hitting a two run home run in the bottom of the first.  The clutch hits came from Katie Hranek who went 3 for 3 with 4 RBI.  The Bobcats were especially proud of their accomplishments when they received the sportsmanship award for the tournament.

Lansing trounced Union Springs in a track meet Tuesday night, with Lansing girls scoring 123 to Union Springs' 15, and Lansing boys winning 89-52.  The meet pitted Dryden against Watkins Glen as well.  "All teams had some very good performances tonight," said Lansing coach Carolyn Ferguson.  "Dryden and Watkins are not in our division so that competition does not count towards our league record.  Lansing will face both Dryden and Watkins in the overall IAC Championships later this month," she explains.

Ferguson reports Lansing's Rusty Landon was a 4 event winner (110H, 400m, 800m, 1600m Relay), Carol Melice was also a 4 event winner (100m, 200m, Pole Vault, 400m Relay).  Melice and Kiki Gifft both broke the facility record in the pole vault. 

Gifft previously held the record (10' 1") set at the Lansing Invitational earlier this season.  Both Melice and Gifft vaulted to 10' 6" in the meet.  Melice won the event based on the least amount of missed attempts.

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As of Tuesday Lansing's Varsity Tennis team has played a 6-2 season.  "Our toughest competition was at our last home match Thurs 5/4 with Elmira Notre Dame," says Coach Cindy Wright.

The team will compete at the IAC championship matches at SUNY Cortland on next Wednesday May 10.  "We're hoping for a top 3 finish," Wright says.

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We competed at the Red, White, Blue, and Gold Invitational at Maine-Endwell, hosted by M-E and Newark Valley on Saturday the 22nd.  Because it was the end of the vacation we were missing a lot of kids.  The weather was terrible and many of the field events were canceled.  We still had some very good performances and a few meet records set by our boys. 

Phil Abbott set a meet record in the 1600m with a time of 4:46.9.  Rusty Landon set a meet record in the 400m with a time of 52.0.  Rusty also finished 4th in the 200m, 5th in the 100m, and 5th in the 110m Hurdles.   On the girls side, Preeti Panda took 5th in the 100m Hurdles, and 5th in the 200m.  Kylee Jordan took 3rd in the 1500m, and 5th in the 800m.

Lansing's Varsity Baseball team beat Union Springs last Monday 9-5.  In Wednesday's game Lansing won again with 11 to Moravia's 5. In that game David Valesente had 3 hits, Andrew Matier 3, Vincent Redmond 2and Teagen Barresi 2 hits.  Coach Ed Redmond reports Barresi was the winning pitcher.

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Lansing's Varsity Girls Softball team defeated Elmira Free Academy 5-3, Trumansburg 14-2, Dryden 17-8, and Waverly 5-0 for an undefeated 4-0 start to a promising season.  "The girls have been led by the pitching of RandyLyn Randall who is 4-0 and pitched a two hitter against Waverly," says coach Adam Heck.  Randall and Katie Fenner have led a balanced offensive attack (both batting over .400)."

This Tear's Team: Freshmen-  Brittany French Juniors- Breanne Nichols, Leigh Conley, Kristen Carlson, RandiLyn Randall, Katie Fenner, Maureen Brink, Kaycee Nedrow, Seniors- Katie Hranek, Liz Lindberg, Maegan Mikula- Coaches- Head Coach Adam Heck, Assistant Coach Katie Mayo,  Volunteer Coach- Erika LaRock

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Saturday, April 8th marked the beginning of the Track and Field season as Lansing hosted the Kick Start Classic Track and Field Invitational at Lansing High School.  Boys and girls teams braved the nearly freezing weather in an all day event.  Teams from 14 schools came to check out the competition in the pre-season meet. 

Last Tuesday and Wednesday (4/18 and 4/20) the Lansing Recreation Department ran softball and baseball clinics in cooperation with the respective High School varsity teams.  Around 70 first through sixth graders got to work with the Varsity players decked out in full uniform, and experience what the High School players go through every day.  "It's a day in the life of a Varsity team, scaled back to the size of our young participants," says Lancing Recreation Director Steve Colt.

On Tuesday Katie Mayo brought the Girls Varsity Softball team to coach almost 30 kids, then Wednesday Ed Redmond and the Varsity Boys Baseball team came out to work with about 40 more.  It was a great experience for the younger kids.  "I think they like being around us, because we're on the varsity team," says Varsity Baseball Player David Valesente.  I think they look up to us."  Colt agrees.  "They love it," he says.  "Because to them these are the upper classmen in the varsity uniforms, they're like major leaguers to those kids."

The Lansing Community Aquatics Team (LCAT) competed at this past weekend's Eastern Zone Championship Meet held on Long Island.  LCAT swimmers Erin McElfresh, Ryan Nicholson, Hans Roser, Nikki Dean, Megan Lloyd, Jake Sangren, Nicole Heise and Sterling Gell were all chosen to represent the Niagara Swimming District at the Eastern Zone Championships on Long Island this past weekend. The Niagara District encompasses over fifty teams in Central and Western NY, from the Syracuse-Binghamton-Buffalo area. The ZONES meet is offered to some of the fastest age-group swimmers from the northeastern quadrant of the U.S.

On their way to breaking seventeen LCAT club records, the swimmers placed very well among the competition.

Despite the April snow showers we had the other day, Spring is here and that means Varsity Track & Field, Golf, Tennis, Baseball and Softball.  The season is starting this week for all these sports, with a Track & Field Kick-Start Classic at Lansing on Saturday and games for the other teams.  Athletic Director Ed Redmond says the prospects are good for all the teams.

Track & Field
Carolyn Ferguson and Todd Howell are coaching the boys and girls Track & Field teams.  Events include sprint and distance events that range from 100 meters to 1600 meters, hurdles events, field events like shot put, discus, high jump, long jump, pole vault and triple jump.  Redmond says they'll be doing a steeple chase competition this weekend, where runners jump over barriers.  "We're one of the few schools that offer a steeple chase at our Invite," he says.

The Lansing Community Aquatics Team (LCAT) team competed at this past weekend’s Niagara District GOLD Championship Meet at The University of Buffalo’s Alumni Arena Natatorium.

The LCATs placed 6th out of approximately 50 teams in attendance from the Niagara Swimming District. Niagara includes all USA Swimming Club teams from The Ithaca area west to Buffalo, north to Liverpool/Syracuse and south to the Binghamton area.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to play football in winter.  7:30am, to be exact.  If you make it to the indoor Field on East Shore Drive at that time you'll find the Lansing Small Fry Indoor Football Winter Training Camp in full swing.  "This is really a recruiting membership drive," says Lansing Recreation Director Steve Colt.  "Hopefully we can expose some kids that always wondered about it, but never tried it.  We want to expose first-timers to the game, show them how much fun it is and show them how safe it is.  It's a great experience."