Archive: Sports

The Lansing Wrestling team opened up its's season on a high note this past weekend, finishing 3rd at the Larry Goodrich Invitational Tournament at Newark Valley.

Outstanding performances, included Greg Lee 106, William Koll 120, Corey Dake 126, Connor Lapresi 132,and Ryan Todd 195. These five indivduals won individual titles in there respective weight classes. Other impressive performers were William Lewis 3rd at 106, Dakota White 3rd at 195, and Peter McTiernan 6th at 120.

The Lansing Ladycats opened the 2011 season with 3-0 record, with wins at Groton to start the year and consecutive home wins over Union Springs and Whitney Point. In the opener the the Ladycats used a 21-0 first quarter run to secure a 63-13 victory.

Leading the way was Colby McCartney with 12 points and a team high 9 rebounds while sister Maura McCartney also had 12 points. Carlene Fields added 9 points and a team high 4 assists, Taylor Policay had 8 points and 7 rebounds, and Shea McCartney had 6 points and a team high 5 steals. Ten of the eleven players figured in the scoring and they all contributed defensively in a solid team effort that limiting Groton to 8% shooting from the field.

The bowling season is under way and by the looks of the first match more practice is needed. The Lansing Boys team was paced by Joel Teitelbaum fine 210-585 series, followed by senior Troy Hradisky's 204-565 seriesand help from fellow classmate Brandon Emerick" 200-562 series as they took all four points from Watkins Glen.

Watkins Glen was paced by Corey Teribury 530 series with help from Chris Flood's 514 series. On the other side of the match it was the Watkins Glen girls taking all four points with Erin Bond's 451 leading the way.

Lansing High School 2010 graduate MC Barrett was named 1st team All-Ivy League in women’s soccer last week.  A sophomore goalkeeper at Brown University, earlier in the week Barrett was also named to the Capital One Academic All-District 2nd team for District I (the northeast and mid-Atlantic region) in a vote by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Barrett played all 17 games this season, starting four games. After playing the second half of every game in 2010 and the first 13 games of 2011, Barrett played the last four games in entirety due to an injury to classmate Amber Bledsoe, with whom she had split time in every game of 2010 and 2011 until that point.

The Lansing High School Varsity Volleyball Team completed their 2011 season with a 12-4 record, 11-3 in conference play. The Bobcats finished second in the IAC North Conference with rival Trumansburg finishing in 1st place. Some believed that the Bobcats could finish higher after an impressive start to the season. But it was Trumansburg that went to the final four in the State Championship Tournament with a very good team that swept their way through the IAC North only to lose in the IAC Championship to perennial powerhouse Tioga. Still, the Lansing Bobcats had their way with the balance of conference foes.

Said Coach Brenda Powers: "I am proud of the girls’ accomplishments this season. It is a group that I will never forget. They are a very close knit group."

The 2011 Lansing Bobcats soccer team overcame strong winds, some early nervous play, and some curious officiating in the first half to defeat the Tully Black Knights on Sunday afternoon at Morrisville State College. In doing so, the Bobcats moved to 20-0 on the season, captured their first Regional Championship since 2004, and advanced to the New York state, Class C semi-finals next weekend in Middletown.

Having only been behind once all season, the Bobcats nearly found their selves on the short end of a 1-0 score for the second time this year, and in fact they were, for about 5 seconds. After a dangerous cross into the Bobcats 18-yard box off a Black Knight corner, keeper Benji Parkes couldn’t control the ball cleanly and it came down right into the hands of a defenseless Sean Streb, resulting in a penalty being awarded to Tully.

Five youth members of the Ithaca Genbu Kai Karate Dojo traveled to New Jersey to compete in the 2011 New Jersey Genbu Kai Annual Karate-Do Championships on Saturday, October 22.  Each of the students brought home medals in all four of the competition’s events. The students, who are members of the Lansing, Dryden, and Ithaca communities, collected 15 total medals during the tournament.

Ronnie Webber from Dryden placed second in kata, and third in weapons kata and weapons sparring. Gordan Webber, also from Dryden, earned second place in both kata and weapons sparring.  Jacob Ouellette of Lansing earned first place in kata and weapons sparring, as well as third place in sparring. Adelaide Tracey, from Ithaca, placed first in kata, weapons kata, and weapons sparring and placed third in sparring.  Malcolm Longaker, also  of Ithaca earned first place in sparring, second place in weapons sparring and third place in kata.

Playing and beating a rival team more than one time, in the same season is not an envious task for even the most seasoned and talented of teams. But that’s what the 2011 Lansing Boys’ Soccer team had to do last Saturday if they wanted to claim their first Sectional Championship since 2007, and keep their undefeated season alive.  Mindful of their gritty and hotly contested 1-0 victory from earlier in the season, the Bobcats knew they would have to be sharp if they were going to deny a return trip to the state tournament for the Olympians of Marathon.

The Lansing Girls volleyball team ended its season this past Tuesday night at home, dropping all 3 games to Watkins Glen 25-17, 25-21 and 25-20 in a IAC sectional match  to end the year a highly impressive 12 and 4.

In game 1 the visitors raced to a 5-1 lead, Lansing fought back to tie the score 3 times, the last at 14 all. Watkins closed the game with a 5-0 run for the 8 point margin.

It seems that not even sub 40-degree temperatures and snow flurries can slow down the 2011 Lansing Bobcats boys’ soccer team. Last Saturday night at SUNY Cortland’s Chugger Davis Stadium, the #1 ranked Bobcats continued their dominant play by steamrolling a stunned Unatego team in the Section IV Quarterfinals. With their 6-1 victory in front of a small but loyal and bundled crowd, the boys moved their season’s record to 17-0, and reinforced their Class C, #1 state ranking in the process.

Led by their dynamic scoring duo of junior Ethan Kutler and sophomore Benji Geisler, the Bobcats pelted the Unatego goal with 26 shots, 16 of them on frame, and earned 11 corner kicks. Kutler and Geisler each notched 2 goals on the night, bringing their season long point total (total goals and assists registered) beyond the 130 mark.

The Lansing boys’ soccer team was expecting a tightly played match last night for the Section IV Semi-Final game versus a game Spencer Van Etten team, so they knew they had to come out aggressive and set the tone early. What they may not have expected though, was to garner 2 quality goals in the first 6 minutes of the match.  Just 5 minutes into the first half, red-hot senior midfielder Sean Streb continued his fine play with a world-class strike from 25 yards, past a helpless Panther keeper.

The blast rattled the Lansing fans in attendance at Ithaca High School, and raised the energy levels for both teams. Just 30 seconds later, junior striker Ethan Kutler corralled the ball in the midfield, and played a magnificent through ball between 2 Panther backs to a streaking Ellington Hopkins, who calmly beat the keeper to his left with a crisp finish, putting Lansing up 2-0 and sending the partisan crowd into a frenzy.

Washington, D.C. – The United States House of Representatives this afternoon authorized the United States Mint to produce a coin honoring the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Importantly, there is no cost to taxpayers associated with this bill. The coin will honor the 75th anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.

The bill passed by a vote of 416–3.