Archive: Sports

The game is tied.  The home team coach sends his star player out of the dugout.  Except there is no dugout.  That is about to change, because plans are afoot to build six dugouts on Lansing baseball fields.  At the same time about ten acres of land across the street from the existing ball fields is being leveled and seeded

"We don't know how many fields will fit yet until we clear the area," says Lansing Recreation Supervisor Patrick Tyrrell.  "We're hoping for a least three soccer fields.  That will give us room to put in a tournament baseball field on this (the existing ball fields) side.  The Parks & Rec Dept continues to grow and is in need of more open space as we continue to take our facilities to the next level.   The dugouts is step one in this process."

The Lansing 10U baseball team won a couple of nail-biter, 1-run games to take first place in a Schuyler County tournament on Saturday July 29 at Watkins Glen.

In the first game, Lansing faced a Cortland Crown City team with Jordan Sidle starting on the mound for the Bobcats. Sidle masterfully worked 4 innings in the start and pitched all the way up to his maximum-allowable pitch count, yielding only 2 runs while tallying 8 strikeouts. But the Bobcat bats were slow to wake up until the bottom of the 4th inning, when Avery Wells and Jordan Sidle singled to put baserunners on, and then William Stallone and Henrik Axelson singled to drive in runs and tie the game at 2-2 heading into the 5th inning.

It seems as if summer has only just begun.  But the Lansing Recreation Department wants parents to start thinking ahead to the fall.  Late summer and fall programs include Small Fry Football, Small Fry Cheerleading, Flag Football, Soccer, Pee Wee Cheer Camp, and Summer Sparten Gym Camp.

"Like everyone, their thoughts are on the current time, which is summer time," says Town Recreation Director Steve Colt. "But we need to get the word out that it is time to sign up for Small Fry Football, and the youth cheerleading program, and our youth soccer program that we run in the fall... and flag football.  And this year we're offering a cheerleading camp."

Zackary Sperger won the State Championship on Sunday, June 18 at Citi Field in Flushing Queens NYC. He actually won the Tri-State Championship as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were all included.

His score will now be compared with the rest of the United States with the top three scorers heading to the All-Star game in Miami FL in July.

Zackary Sperger, a 12 year old sixth grader at Lansing Middle School, has earned the privilege of competing in the Championship Round of the National Pitch, Hit and Run competition to be held at Citi Field in New York City on June 18.

Zackary had to qualify for this distinction by first winning at the local level in Dryden on May 12 and then winning again at the sectionals in Binghamton on May 20.

The NYSPHSAA State Track and Field Championships were held at Union Endicott High School on June 9-10.  Lansing sent eight athletes to compete against the best in the state.

Senior Emily Gallagher and junior Miya Kuramoto entered the competition ranked among the top seeds in the state, with Gallagher returning to the outdoor state meet as defending division 2 champion.  Both athletes competed in pole vault and placed in the indoor state meet in March and had their eyes on top podium finishes at Union Endicott.  In the end, the teammates were the only two left standing in the public school competition as they each cleared 12'3", Kuramoto doing so after a pole breaking during an earlier attempt.  Gallagher then went on secure the overall pole vault championship title and set a new section IV and school record with a vault of 12'10".  Gallagher won both the NYSPHSAA and Federation title with the vault.  Kuramoto was second in NYSPHSAA Division 2 and third in Federation placing.

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association, Inc. (NYSPHSAA) held the 2017 Boys Golf State Championships at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course at Cornell University June 3rd through 5th.

Lansing High School junior Nic Whittaker, and Nick Miller, a senior at Ithaca High School were among the nine Section 4golfers. The weather during the Saturday practice round was perfect. It was rainy and cold for the first round on Sunday, and warmer and humid for the final round on Monday. There were no weather delays and all competitors completed their rounds each day.

Eight athletes will be representing Lansing at the NYSPHSAA Track & Field Championships. Seniors Emma Dhimitri, Emily Gallagher and Sam Mauser, juniors Mikaela Garcia and Miya Kuramoto, sophomore Destiny Little and freshmen Catie Eisenhut and Catalina Zaloj will travel to Union Endicott High School for the two day competition on June 9-10.

Dhimitri was the first to punch her ticket to the state championships with her 400M hurdles win in a new personal record during day one of State Qualifiers held last Wednesday at Union Endicott. In the two heats prior to Dhimitris, teammates Little and Zaloj also ran to speedy times with Zaloj earning a sixth place ribbon at the podium.

The girls of Lansing Track and Field captured the Section IV Class C Championship Thursday night, adding to their IAC Large School title and second consecutive undefeated dual meet season record. Last year, the team finished fourth among Section IV schools; this year, the Ladycats were dominant, finishing 71 points ahead of runner-up Newark Valley.

As has been the case all season, the Lansing girls demonstrated their strength in both on the track and in the field. A sweep of first, second, and third place in the 400H (senior Emma Dhimitri, freshman Catalina Zaloj, and sophomore Destiny Little) as well as in the pole vault (senior Emily Gallagher, juniors Miya Kuramoto and Meghan Matheny) in addition to the one-two finish in the 800M by freshman Catie Eisenhut and junior Mikaela Garcia contributed 62 points to the Lansing score. Dhimitri also placed second in the 100H and triple jump, missing the school record by just a half inch in a new personal best. Zaloj secured entry into state qualifiers in all of her individual events, ending as the runner-up in high jump and racing to fifth place and new personal best in the 100H.

The 2017 IAC Track & Field Championships were scheduled to take place last Thursday and Friday afternoon at Trumansburg. Strong storms forced meet officials to cancel competition on day one, resulting in all events being run on Friday evening.

The Lansing girls' team was undeterred by the schedule change and captured the large school championship title with 166 points. Newark Valley was a close runner-up with 157 points, while Waverly took third with 66 points. Lansing was led by strong performances on the track and on the field as evidenced by the numerous IAC All Stars honors awarded to the Bobcats across events (see below). Senior Emily Gallagher was named IAC Girls Field MVP after winning both the long jump and pole vault. Freshman Catie Eisenhut was another double event winner, taking first place in both the 800M and 1500M run as well as being a member of the winning 4x400M relay team. Newark Valley's Courtney McNeil repeated as the IAC Girls Track MVP for her wins in both the 100M and 200M sprints in addition to anchoring the winning 4x100M relay. Odessa-Montour won the girls' small school trophy.

The 2017 Lansing Baseball started preparing for next week’s Section IV playoff with a 6-0 scrimmage win over Class B Waverly on Wednesday and a home scrimmage against Dryden on Friday May 19th.

Representatives of the Lansing varsity track and field teams were running, jumping, and throwing throughout the weekend as they prepare to head into the championship portion of their season.

Senior Emma Dhimitri and freshman Catie Eisenhut took home three wins at the Fast Times Invitational held at Corning-Painted Post High School on Friday night. Dhimitri won both the 100M hurdles and 400M hurdles races, and Eisenhut lowered her personal best time with her win in the 1500m run.