Archive: Sports

Regularly during the recent holiday season, young swimmers from Lansing Community Aquatic Team (LCATs) assembled at Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County to serve meals and provide companionship to local residents. Loaves and Fishes is celebrating its 25th year of serving meals and providing advocacy each day to approximately 125 working poor, unemployed, homeless, and other people in need.

The LCATs filled a gap at the North Cayuga Street location created by the departure of Cornell and Ithaca College volunteers for the holidays. According to Loaves and Fishes Volunteer Coordinator Maggie Whitehead, "When the college students leave for breaks and holidays we face a challenge finding volunteer servers. The LCATs kids appeared at our door at just right time."

The Lansing Girls Basketball team raised their record to 11-0 with a 43-15 victory over Division III leader Union Springs on Tuesday. Jocelyn Ford led the way with 15 points, 6 rebounds and 5 steals. Megan Palladino, Ellyn Grant-Keane and Stephanie Gonyea each added 5 points, while Rachael Palladino had a team high 8 steals and 4 assists.  The Ladycats played solid team defense throughout the contest, limiting the Wolves to 6 first half points.

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The Ithaca 14U and 19U Shooting Stars played games on Sunday. The 19Us defeated the Mohawk Valley Herricanes 19U team, 3-1 while the 14Us fell to the Binghamton Blizzard 16Us, 1-6.

19U Shooting Stars Goalie Sarah Eisenhut stopped 14 shots while her teammates were denied 27 times by the opposing goalie. Emma Hassen opened the scoring from an assist by Hannah Golay. Lauren Cole scored one and assisted on Katie Long's goal.

During the first weekend of 2009, the 14U and 19U Ithaca Shooting Stars girls hockey teams were active at home and on the road. The 14Us were defeated by Camillus Cougars 14U and Binghamton Blizzard 16U, and the 19Us split two road games with the Oswego 19U girls team.

When the 14U team played at Camillus, they lost 3-1. Meredith Kirk scored with an assist from Marlena Doerr. LT Furman made 19 saves in goal. The next day they hosted the Binghamton 16Us who defeated Ithaca 14U, 8-2. Ithaca goalie Alex Stagliano stopped 21 shots to Binghamton's 11. Goals for Ithaca were scored by Kirk assisted by Clara Karastury and unassisted by Bridget Derraugh.

Lansing's Indoor Track 9th and 10th graders had an age group meet on Saturday, January 3rd at Cortland State.  Eight athletes competed.

Lindsay Petry: 1st pole vault 9' 6"
Kathryn Shaw: 3rd 600m, 1:53.9
Annabelle Maginnis: 5th 600m, 1:55.9
Lydia Shea: 5th Shot Put, 22' 7.5"
6th place: 800m Relay team of Lindsay Petry, Shaye Weldon, Kathryn Shaw, Annabelle Maginnis

 

The team will be attending the Southern Tier Classic this Saturday at Cornell University.

 

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Tuesday night the Lansing Bobcats went to Newark Valley to bowl and the Lady Cats did very well. They were lead by Brooke Burke's 210-574, with great support from Kristi Sullivan's 236-554 along with Ashley Schuster & Lori McKane's fine bowling. Lansing took all four points with a total of 2505 vs Newark Valley's 2014 total. Newark valley was led along the way by Kristin Chase 178-490.

On the boys side the Bobcats didn't fair as well falling to Newark Valley 2808 to 2688 totals pins. Along the way we did see improvement with Tim Carlson leading all scores with a 212-603 series. Tim had support from Harry Harrison, Matt Tucci and Tyler Mix, but it wasn't enough to overcome the constant bowling from Newark Valley's Derek Fenn (587), Bryant craft (566) and Chris Chase & Zach Liegh. With school canceled Wednesday all matches will have to be made up.

 

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The Lansing Girls Varsity Basketball team improved their record to 9-0 with a hard fought 51-40 victory at Waverly on Tuesday.  The Ladycats received balanced scoring with MC Barrett and Beth Lader leading the way with 12 points each. Barrett was outstanding scoring her 12 points on 6 of 9 shooting from the floor, while Lader was 3 of 4 from behind the 3 point line.  Megan Palladino added 10 points and Rachael Palladino had 9 points and a team high 5 assists and 6 steals, while Jocelyn Ford chipped in with 8 points.

Over the Holiday break the Ladycats won the Owego Holiday Tournament, defeating Auburn in the first round 57-31 and defeating Ithaca in the championship game 45-28. Megan Palladino was named tournament MVP while sister Rachael Palladino was selected to the All-Tournament team.

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	Key 2008 Sports Stories Lansing's New Athletic Director Part 1 , Part 2 Football Coach Looks Forward to Successful Year Lansing Athlete Wins Medal in Cayuga Lakes Triathlon Spring Season Sports Wrapup Lansing Girls At State Swim Meet Outstanding Lansing Athletes Join Hall Of Fame

Lansing is a powerhouse where varsity sports are concerned.  And while some teams are more successful than others, the Bobcats share the strong spirit and drive that frequently lands them at state championships.  This year was no exception as boys and girls swimmers, a golfer, wrestler and runners represented Lansing at States.  At the same time club teams continued to excel, and the Shooting Stars Girls hockey teams rocked.

The big news was the resignation of long-time Athletic Director Ed Redmond.  It came as a last minute surprise in the event, though school officials knew he was looking.  This meant the district had to fill yet another top administrative position.  They hired John Taylor, but it was Redmond who got the Spring Season squared away before he left.  That included hiring Bob Brantner to replace Redmond as football coach.

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During December 13-14 weekend, the three Ithaca Shooting Stars girls hockey travel teams faced the Camillus Cougars teams at their age level.  The 19Us tied 1-1 and won 3-2, while the 14Us were edged 2-3, and the 12Us had a tougher challenge falling 1-8.
 
Both 19U games were even contests in terms of shots faced by Sarah Eisenhut and the Cougar in net; 25 per game per team.   In the 1-1 tie, Katie Long scored  unassisted.  In the victory, Long opened the scoring in the first period, but the third period featured an unassisted goal by Gabe Klick, and an Emily Eisenhut goal assisted by Lauren Cole.

The Lansing Boys Basketball Team is off to a 4-1 start.  The Boys Beat Union Spring in their opener 53-22, but dropped a tough Road game to Watkins Glen 44-37.

Then the boys have reeled off three straight wins, beating Moravia 61-45, Newark Valley 54-40 and Dryden 61-39.  The team has relied on good defense in thier wins and have played hard in every game.

Lansing's Wrestling Team opened up competition at state powerhouse Waverly on December 4th. Although we ended up losing, standout perfomances were turned in by Joe Jimenez, Kyle Dake, Jon Fenner, Ryan Todd,and Jon Glennon. Glennon  wrestled returning State Place winner Chris Nocchi, and lost 5-2,but gained valuable experience in the process.
 
The 5th and 6th, we wrestled at the 46th annual Clyde Cole  Tournament in Oxford.  Five Bobcats placed in the top 6.  Sean Eastman placed 6th at 130, Joe Jimenez, 2nd at 125.  Kyle Dake, 1st at 140.  Jon Glennon,1st at 189 and finally Ryan Todd 2nd at 215. This resulted in a solid 7th place finish.