Archive: Sports

October 7th marked Coach Diane Hicks-Hughes 300th league win over 30 years of coaching the  Lansing Girls Swimming and Diving Team (300 -34 IAC League record), when Lansing defeated Odessa 57-37.

200 Medley Relay   2:05.25   Lansing   Courtney Pollack, Alex Conte, Anna Conte and Allia Ruparelia

On 9/30, Lansing faced the Trumansburg Blue Raiders for the second time this season. Despite a home-court advantage, the match's start was inauspicious. Bobcat attack errors and several Tburg aces created a 7-point deficit, 0-7. Two kills by Tara Miller and an ace by Kelsey Thomas started to close the gap, 5-8, but Lansing couldn't handle Tburg's heat. The gap stretched to 10 points, 11-21, despite 2 kills by Thomas and several digs by Nicole Washburn. Lansing trailed by 8 at the finish, 17-25.

Hannah Armstrong scored 2 early kills in the second set, and Caroline Prybyl added another, giving Lansing a 5-1 lead. Although Thomas and Washburn digs created attack opportunities, Lansing couldn't deliver. Tburg found holes in Lansing's defense and tied the score, 6-6. Amber Howser then delivered an ace, Thomas and Armstrong 1 kill each, and Armstrong teamed up with Miller for a block, 12-13. In the hotly contested set, the score was tied 8 more times before a Prybyl ace and a smart push by Armstrong clinched Lansing's first win against Tburg, 25-23.

The white flag is sometimes raised as a symbol of surrender. But for the Senior Small Fry football team, it wasn't the white flag, but the dropping of the yellow flag which was a frequent symbol of last Saturday night's game hosted by Seneca Falls. Typically, game officials drop a yellow flag to show that there is a penalty, and the game had many of them for both sides. These delays were frustrating, but also part of the game, and the Lansing players displayed patience and respect despite wanting to just get on with the game. And their second night game under the lights had some amazing action.

Lansing Varsity Girls Swimming and Diving team defeated Watkins Glen on 9/30 99-87.

200 Yard Medley Relay   2:00.86  Lansing   Erin Trowbridge, Alex Conte, Courtney Pollack and Anna Conte

200 Yard Freestyle   2:08.21   Watkins Glen  Haleigh Wixson

200 Yard IM  2:29.57  Lansing   Alex Conte

While the leaves are beginning to turn the brilliant colors of fall, the Lansing Senior Small Fry team proudly hosted their first home game of the season against South Seneca on Saturday, September 25th. Both teams won by having fun as they played with a ton of heart, physical and mental strength, and enthusiasm.

Patrick Judd, a Lansing Modified football player and alumni of the Lansing Small Fry program, honored the team by singing the national anthem prior to the game. The Lansing cheerleaders showed their hard work, enthusiasm and team spirit by welcoming our players onto the field and cheering during the game. The coaching staff worked together as one unit tweaking and adjusting positions, planning out what plays to call, rotating players in and out, and taking care of players with bumps and bruises.

On Tuesday 9/28, Lansing rebounded from a disappointing weekend tournament in Watkins Glen and continued a stretch of IAC victories, sweeping a winless Union Springs team 3-0. Kelsey Thomas was Lansing's first server and landed two aces before a teammate collision cost Lansing its first point, 4-1. Nicole Washburn then translated the next 2 Union Springs serves and 1 attack into smooth passes, and Lansing regained service through a block by Sally Stoyell and Tara Miller, 5-2. Caroline Prybyl followed by blocking a service return and, a few minutes later, entertained the stands with 3 consecutive block-attacks that culminated in a kill. Though Lansing's hitters were error prone in the first set, strong serves by Hannah Armstrong and Stoyell helped maintain a lead, Amber Howser and Armstrong dispensed cross-court kills, and Amber Ryan closed out the set with an ace, 25-13.

Event 1 Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay
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School Prelims Finals Points
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A - Final
5 Lansing 'A' 2:04.01 2:06.34
1) Trowbridge, Erin 11 2) Conte, Alex 12
3) Pollack, Courtney 12 4) Ruparelia, Allia 09

The Lansing Senior Small Fry team played their first night game under the lights on Saturday, September 18th  hosted by Trumansburg.  The moon was almost full and very bright.  The air was cool being only days away from the official start of fall.  The lights cast shadows of the trees surrounding the field.  The spectators filled the stands in anticipation.  Each team stood in a line with their players and coaches shoulder to shoulder facing the flag in respect and silence during the playing of the national anthem.  Then the game began and overall it was a very physical, well played, well coached game for both sides.

The Lansing Cross Country team recently competed at Newark Valley. Other teams competing at the meet were Waverly, Spencer-Van Epps, and the host Newark Valley. The race was held Tuesday, September 21st on a beautiful fall day.

The modified runners started out the meet, with Lansing having Brad Lapar finishing in 4th place with a time of 11:06 and Shane Hradisky finishing 16th overall with a time of 12:05. The lone girl finisher was Audrey Montague who finished with a time of 15:20 coming in 11th for the girls.

On its home court on 9/16, Lansing's varsity team appeared surprised when their first attack attempt was decisively blocked by Whitney Point - a markedly tougher opponent than in 2009. Although Caroline Prybyl had an early kill, a slim Lansing lead was generated in large part by Groton's attack errors and defended by Kelsey Thomas's and Tara Miller's digs. Eventually, Hannah Armstrong scored on tips, Thomas and Breanna Brann each added two aces, and the unimpressive first set ended with an Armstrong ace, 25-15.

Lansing got off to a stronger start in the second set when Sally Stoyell delivered the first of 3 aces, followed by an Armstrong kill and 2 by Prybyl. Blair Wigsten and Nicole Washburn hustled in the back row, aided by Megan Drake. However, offensive and defensive errors held the Bobcats' lead to low single digits, and the score was 10-10 when veteran spikers Miller and Amber Howser each placed kills in defensive gaps. Six service points by Prybyl and 5 by Stoyell helped Lansing gain 15 points to Whitney Point's 3, closing the set 25-13.

9/16: Lansing vs. Dryden at Dryden pool.  Lansing 105, Dryden 81

200 Yard Medley Relay   2:02.81  Lansing  Erin Trowbridge, Anna Conte, Alex Conte and Courtney Pollack

200 Yard Freestyle   2:23.30   Lansing  Allia Ruparellia

200 Yard IM  2:31.42   Lansing  Courtney Pollack

Last Spring varsity cheerleading was dropped from the roster, a victim of over $1 million of budget cuts necessitated by reduced state aid and local income to the Lansing Central School System.  Other items, such as the cost of electricity to power the lights at night games, were also dropped, although teams were given the option to independently raise money to pay for lights, transportation, or other items they might want.  For the cheerleaders the cuts meant the complete elimination of their team until two mothers rallied to come to the rescue.  Cathy Wagner and Jen Carlton-Cooper met with High School Principal Eric Hartz and Superintendent Stephen Grimm to propose that they become the cheerleaders' parent advisors. 

"They approved it all," she says.  "They said go for it.  They told us approximately how much we would need to pay for a coach and money for bussing if that's what we were choosing to do.  So we went forward."