Archive: Sports

Lansing Girls won another swim meet Monday when they beat Waverly 101 to 67.  The meet started out with a Lansing 200 Yard Medley Relay win as Kelsy Quigley, Anna Conte, Alex Conte and Ashley McDonald finished in 2:08.32.  Kali Dean sped to first place in the 200 Yard Freestyle at 2:05.55.  The 200 Yard IM was another win for Lansing when Courtney Pollack finished first.  Alex Conte took first place in the 50 Yard Freestyle. 

Waverly had a win when Billie Risboskin 100 Yard Butterfly, with Chelsea Tucker coming in just over a second later.  Anna Conte finished in the lead in the 100 Yard Freestyle.  Kelsy Quigley came in first in the eigth event, the 500 Yard Freestyle.

Lansing High School Freshman Doug Howarth, 14, recently won the Grand National Cross Country Series (GNCC) 90 Modified (12-15) Class competition.  He placed first in the the ATV Youth championship, the first time he competed in a GNCC competition.

Last year Howarth came in 4th place in Unadilla in the New York series.  That prompted him to try the national GNCC series.  Competitors race in a total of 12 races in the Eastern United States. 

The Lansing Girls Varsity soccer team wrapped up its fourth straight I.A.C Division 1 title and third straight undefeated regular season recently with wins over Trumansburg (7-0), Whitney Point (8-0), Marathon (7-0) and Dryden (4-1). The team scored a whopping 123 goals while conceding just two in a season in which a lofty goal has been set. 

The encounter with T'burg was vastly different than the first in which the teams went into halftime with the score tied 1-1. It was only the 4th time in the last three years that they had been played to a standstill. Tiffanie McIntosh got the scoring rolling for the Lady Cats in the 16th minute with a great individual effort. She was able to beat two defenders off the dribble and unleashed an unstoppable shot to the far corner from 16 yards out.

LHS was faced with some stiff competition at Tuesday’s Whitney Point Invitational. The Varsity Boys team managed to beat out 7 other schools only to lose to Vestal and Union Endicott, both schools whose population is three times greater than Lansing. Jon Cleveland (17:56) and Josh Barber (18:05) placed 5th and 6th followed by Luke Davis in 22nd (19:44), George Wigsten in 23rd (19:45), Dan Comisi in 38th (20:57) and Alex Rogers in 50th (22:09). These times were nearly all improvements from last year’s competition.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 -- The SufferJets closed out the ’09 season with a 140 to 101 win against Greater Toronto’s Derby Debutantes, Saturday at Cass Park. Ithaca’s second International bout was characterized by hard hitting, a fast pack, and explosive skating by Jammers on both teams. The SufferJets’ opening lineup included Chairman Meow at Pivot; Summer Bludgeoned, at Jammer; Snarl Marx, Inside Blocker; Golden Diapers, Outside Blocker; and Amber Chaos, Back Blocker.  

Toronto established a slim lead early in the bout, but fell behind 27 to 21 after a successful jam by number 7-11, CamArrow. Despite frequent penalties, some of which left Ithaca with only two or three skaters on the track, Toronto never caught up. Lead Jammer, Sarabellum, closed out the first period with the SufferJets ahead 66 to 49.   

The second race of this season's Youth Cross Country Race Series took place at the Town of Lansing's ballfield complex. This was the second year of the race at this location and over 35 runners participated this year. The event included 7 & 8 year olds in the 2K event and runners ages 9-13 in the 3K event.

Some of the top runners were: (7&8)- Alexander Simpson, Luke Taylor, Holden Lazarus, Elliot Walsh, Benjamin Silbert, Ben Supron, George Murphy-Wilkins, Christy Sinclair, Jack Yahn, Aiden Begeal, Jamie Barnett-Hill, Saige Jackson (9&10)- Luke Field, Ethan Buchanan, John Rogers, Neil Kolhatkar, Nick Supron, William Jung, Sri Osika, Ellen Miller, Mikaela Garcia, Leigh Miller, Inbal Grossman, Johnathon DeForrest. (11-13)- John Weswig, Niall Hodges, Jason Yahn, Zach Field, Emily Rasmussen, Mercedes Astarita, Shane Hradisky, Ryan Buchanan, Noah Chase, Jake Barnett-Hill.

 

The XC team has come a long way in the past year. Not only have they been acknowledged repeatedly for excellent sportsmanship, they were also recognized for their amazing team talent that earned both the boys and girls the title of IAC Division II Champions Tuesday night at Groton's Stonehedges Golf Course.

Both teams took first over Moravia, Trumansburg, Groton and Southern Springs; the girls scoring 25 followed by the boys at 26 points. The girls took turns taking the lead the entire race, but it was senior Chloe Ryan who dominated the course in the final 300 meters finishing 2nd for the Bobcats (20:37) followed by Shanna Swanson (21:07), Kathryn Shaw (21:25), Casey Phlegar ( PR of 23:20) and 8th grader Emily Rasmussen (25:07). Ryan, Swanson and Shaw were also given awards for Division II First Team All Stars.

Lansing's home match against Trumansburg on 10/9 started and ended with Taylor Bandler's aces. Bandler's 10 aces and 19 assists were critical to Lansing's 3-2 win, as were Fenner's all-round contributions: 13 digs, 12 assists, six kills, and two aces. The first set was highlighted by an amazing dig and save by Nicolo Gentile, two blocks by Tory Cutting, and well-placed kills by Fenner, Cutting, Tara Miller, and Kristen Beyea. After the 25-18 win, Lansing stopped communicating, and it showed. A close loss in the second set (25-27) was followed by a ten-point deficit in the third set (15-25). One player later described the court as unnaturally quiet.' No one was talking.'

Red Jacket Pony Club had 7 members compete at The United States Pony Club Eastern Championships at the Horse Park of Virginia in Lexington this past August. Our club members competed in two of the six horse sports that USPC offers. (Show Jumping¸ Eventing¸ Polocrosse¸ Dressage¸ Tetrathlon¸ Mounted Games) and Quiz.

Three members competed in Tetrathlon. Tetrathlon is a USPC sport that is very similar to the Olympic sport Pentathlon¸ but there is no fencing. Instead Tetrathlon includes show jumping - but on course will be a gate for the mounted rider to open and a split rail to lead their mount across. There are also running¸ shooting¸ and swimming requirements within the discipline.

Lansing Girls Swimmers defeated Southern Cayuga last week 111 to 55.  Alex Conte, Courtney Pollack, Kali Dean and Ashley McDonald started the meet wth a first place win in the 200 Yard Medley Relay.  Andrea Payton took first in the 200 Yard Freestyle, then Anna Conte sped to first in the 200 Yard IM.

Southern Cayuga's Stephanie Morse won first place in the 50 Yard Freestyle followed by Lansing's Kelsy Quigley, Marissa Lehr, and Libby Drake.   Lansing's Lindsay Petry was the only diver in the meet.

Lansing tallied up three more wins under the guidance of Coach Amy O’Brien, who says,   “This group is a riot to coach.  They are skilled, focused and determined to succeed, not to mention fun.  It will be great to see where their determination takes them.”  

Dryden came to town on Thursday 10/1 ready to pay back Lansing’s earlier 3-0 win.  The Lions had a sharper warm-up than Lansing and a slight edge at the outset, though the teams traded points.  An inspiring kill by Tory Cutting brought the score to 12-14.  Then came a Lansing substitution error, a lengthy delay, and a penalty against Lansing, from which the team never recovered.  Dryden strung together aces, blocks, and kills to rack up 11 points to Lansing’s four, delivering a stunning 15-25 loss to the previously undefeated Lansing squad.