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The Lansing Girls Basketball team concluded their regular season finishing with a record of 18-0 and Division I champions. The Ladycats defeated Trumansburg on Tuesday 62-36, with Jocelyn Ford scoring 16 of her team high 22 points in the decisive first quarter, that saw the team take a commanding 24-2 lead. MC Barrett added 11 points and a team high 8 rebounds, while Ellyn Grant-Keane chipped in with 9 points and a team high 7 steals. Rachael Palladino had 6 points and a team high 5 assists, Beth Lader had 5 points, Nina Lindberg had 4 points, Colby McCartney had 3 points and Stephanie Gonyea had 2 points to round out the scoring.

The Ladycats next game will be the IAC semi-finals to be played at Watkins Glen on Tuesday February 17th, with the opponent and time to be determined following the Division II tiebreaker game between Odessa Montour and Tioga. If Tioga wins Lansing would play Odessa and if Odessa wins they would play Southern Cayuga.

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Tuesday night the Bobcats went to Rossi Lanes the home of END to bowl our last away match of this season. The Bobcats came out on top of both the boys and the girls matches taking all four points each. On the boys side Patrick  Nedrow lead all bowlers with a fine 210-603  and was followed up by Trever Rounds, Harry Harrison & Tim Carlson, as Lansing totaled 2562 to END’s 2190.
           
END was led by Zack Lockhart’s 221-557 and Joel Siedman’s 223-525. On the girls side Kristi Sullivan led the Lansing girls with a 206-577 and had plenty of help from Brook Burke, and Lauri Bush as Lansing totaled 2367 to END’s 2150. END was led by Sydney Dimon’s 203-518 and Sarah Melnyk’s 491 series. The Bobcats have their final regular season match this Thursday and then it’s the IAC Championship Tournament on Saturday in Waverly.

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Fans following Lansing's varsity girls basketball team this season know that the team has had an outstanding season, 15-0 as of this writing.  At Saturday's Lansing Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony a special landmark was acknowledged.  Stuart Dean received a plaque marking his 400th career win in his 24 years as Lansing Varsity Girls Basketball Coach.

"This can mean two things -- either you've had great teams, or you've been around an awful long time!" said Hall of Fame Committee Chairman Marty Christopher.  "In Stu's case it's both.  I noticed that this 400th career win moves him to the top dozen coaches in New York State."

I definately agree with Dan's assessment that the inconvenience of Lansing's closed post office impacting more than 3 individuals must be true.

On numerous occassions I have stood in line and left after a 15 or 20 minute wait while some person has gotten to the counter totally unprepared to transact the business they are there for.

 

In the evenings there seem to be lines that resemble the ones at Christmas, when I could not get my mail at all. Only difference is one person behind the counter and no one at the service desk.

Saturday marked the eleventh year the Lansing Athletic Hall Of Fame inducted members since the first ten athletes were inducted in 1998.  This year three individuals -- Beverly {Longhouse} Hartz (athlete), Jason Eade (coach), and Ron "Rock Salt" Eastman (contributor) -- were awarded the honor along with three football teams.  The football teams from 1956, 1957, and 1958 represented what Geoff Wright called an an 'era of football in Lansing athletic history'.  The induction was held at Lansing High School gym between girls junior varsity and varsity basketball games.

"I encourage you to check out the plaques," Hall Of Fame Selection Committee Chairman Marty Christopher told the standing-room-only crowd.  "Regardless of how long you have lived in Lansing, either forever or just the past two years,  I'm certain the names and faces will stir memories."

The Ithaca 19U and 12U Shooting Stars teams were victorious in all of their games last weekend.  The 12Us defeated the Clifton Park Eagles 12Us, 6-1, and the Adirondack Northstars 12Us, 4-3; while the 19Us won over the Adirondack Northstars 19U, 4-0, and the Mohawk Valley Herricanes 19Us, 5-2.

The 12U Shooting Stars outshot Clifton Park 26-7 and received a pair of goals each from Anastasia Lyon and Zoe Seznec Sweetland, and single tallies from Anna Kirkwood and Paige Johnson, the last assisted by Sophie Partington.

The Lansing Girls Basketball team raised their record to 15-0 with a 53-31 victory over Dryden Saturday night, following the Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony.  Jocelyn Ford led the way with 21 points, while Ellyn Grant Keane added 9 points. In addition both Ford and Grant-Keane shared team high honors with 4 assists each.  Beth Lader and MC Barrett chipped in with 8 points each.

Rachael Palladino had a team high 8 steals to go with her 4 points, while Nina Lindberg hit a three point basket to round out the scoring for the Ladycats. Offensively the team did a great job of passing the ball, continually making the extra pass leading to 18 assists on their 23 baskets. Defensively the Ladycats harassed Dryden players all evening forcing 39 Purple Lion turnovers.

	400 Wins Not only have the LadyCats achieved a season with no losses so far, but last week marked Coach Dean's 400th win.  That remarkable record will be acknowledged at the Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Saturday, around 6:30 between the Junior Varsity and Varsity games in the High School gym.

The Girls Varsity Basketball team improved their record to 14-0 following their 60-23 home victory over Newark Valley last Friday. Jocelyn Ford's 17 points led a balanced scoring attack that saw three other Ladycats reach double figures.

Rachael Palladino had 11 points while MC Barrett and Ellyn Grant-Keane added 10 points each.  Ford and Barrett shared top rebounding honors with 7, while Ford and Megan Palladino each had team high 4 assists, Grant-Keane finished with a team high 8 steals on the night.

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The Lansing Bobcats went to Waverly January 22^nd to bowl and even though the boys bowled the best they have all year it wasn’t enough. The Lansing boys were  led by Harrison Herzog’s 235 – 639 (his first 600 series) and Trever Rounds 230 – 627 and Tim Carlson’s 210 – 601 with help from Pat Nedrow’s 244 – 558 for a total pin fall of 2948 is wasn’t enough to overcome Waverly’s total pin fall of 3416.

Waverly had great support from Jared Joseph 278 – 740, A J Satterly 289 – 722 along with Marcus Beard’s 674, Matt Chilson’s 666 and Shane LaFritz’s 614 series to take all four points.

During the Jan. 24-25 weekend, the three Ithaca Shooting Stars girls hockey teams were in action.  The 19Us defeated the Mohawk Valley Herricanes 5-1 and 2-0.  The 14Us lost two to the Syracuse Stars 12U Tier 1 team, 0-9 and 0-7, and the 12Us split their games shutting out the Canandaigua girls 3-0 and losing to the Binghamton Blizzard 12Us, 2-3.
 
The 19Us goalie Sarah Eisenhut had a shut out on Sunday; she turned away 28 shots during the two contests.  In first game, Erin Grainger scored a hat trick with the other two goals coming from Samantha Craig and Katie Long.  Assists were awarded to Krystalyn Yonkin, Emma Hassen, Emily Eisenhut and Long. In the second game, Grainger and Yonkin each scored one with Carrie Wilder assisting.

The Lansing Wrestling team had it's last home tri meet  of the season last evening. Traditionally that means senior night. Not breaking with traditon we honored our 3 seniors and their parents for in some cases 6 years of  varsity  wrestling.

Jon Fenner and his parents, Anita and Mark. Jon wrestled for 3 years and wants to attend college in Azizona next year.

Tioga Central came to Helen Newman January 15th to bowl the Lansing Bobcats and the Lansing kept with their good rolling a 2235 total pins to roll past the Tioga girls. Lansing was led by Brooke Burke’s 206 – 508 with help from fellow senior Kristi Sullivan, as Michelle Striley was Tioga’s high scorer. Over on the boys side our rebuilding year was evident was we fell to Tioga 2643 to our 2420. Both T J Williams & Allen Willis were high rollers for Tioga with 591 series and were helped by Chris Potucek’s 562. Lansing’s Trevor Rounds rolled a 550 and had help from Harry Harrison & Tyler Mix.