Archive: Sports

The Ithaca 13U, 14U, 16U and 19U Shooting Stars girls travel ice hockey teams were active Feb. 15-17.
They are sponsored by Tompkins Girls Hockey Association.

The 13Us played the IYHA Squirts Red House team and won 7-3. Grace Ulinski scored four goals, Bridget Derraugh scored two, and Gwen Umbach scored one. All were unassisted. Alex Stagliano had 16 saves in goal.

On February 13, 2008, the Lansing Boys' Varsity Swim Team went to Watkins Glen for sectional pre-lims.  The highlights included two new Watkins Glen pool records posted by Lansing's senior All-American swimmer Jake Sangren.  As the first leg of the 200 freestyle relay, Jake posted a time of 22.83 which counted for a time in the 50 freestyle.  This time is now a new Watkins Glen pool record and replaces the old time of 22.86 set by Lansing's Sterling Gell in 2007. In the 100 backstroke, Jake recorded a new Watkins Glen pool record by improving his own time (53.70) with his new time of 52.93.

The Lansing Boys' Varsity Swim Team has repeated as sectional champions of  Section IV (class C).   This is Lansing's 13th consecutive sectional title in Boys' Varsity swimming.  On February 16, 2008 at Owego Free Academy (OFA), the Lansing team came in first place with 572 points; Greene was second with 488 points; Watkins Glen was third with 352.5 points; Odessa-Montour was fourth with 265.5 points.   Assistant Coach Reed Dewey stated, "This team would not have been able to do this without their Head Coach, Brian Vaughan."

The Lansing Boys defended their Sectional Class "C" crown last Friday at Mid Way Lanes in Vestal.  After the first game Lansing was in second place to Tioga but after a strong game from the whole team the Lansing Boys built a 55 pin lead over Groton as Tioga fell to third.

With Groton finishing first Lansing knew what it needed to defend, and with a strong ninth & tenth frame and the boys won by 27 pins. Dan Baldini finished with 246-684 and tenth place over at sectionals and fellow senior Phil Kulis was next with 254-683 followed by senior Ricky Newton 227-632. This team will go back next Saturday with the Lansing Girls to roll in the section IV state Qualifier.

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Lansing Girls win class "C" Sectionals by 91 pins over Marathon at Mid Way Lanes in Vestal last Friday. Lansing built a small lead in the first game as Kristi Sullivan 222-564 & Lori McKane 183-515 lead this team of determined bowlers. As Lansing rolled a 787 Hancock bowling on our right rolls 745.  Marathon on our left rolls 739.

As the teams come out rolling Lansing shoots a 784 and builds a 120 pin lead that they would not give up. The Lansing Girls came back the third game and rolled a 723 for a grand total of 2292 and won their first Class "C" Title ever.

When the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers take to the “Frozen Tundra” of Lambeau field this Sunday, there will be more than just the N-F-C Championship and a berth in the Super Bowl at stake.

A friendly wager between Q Country 103.7 afternoon host Marty Brandon and News Director Geoff Dunn will mean one of the two will be sporting a new “face” come Monday morning.

The boys basketball team complete their league play by winning the IAC overall championship.  Lansing completed the regular season with a 10-0 division record and entered the semi-final with a 17-1 record. Lansing Played TAE in the semi-final on Thursday night and beat the Spartans 55-47.

Lansing was led by Teagen Barresi who had 25 points and Charlie Hatfield who had 11 points.   The key was the rebounding and defense and Lansing held Edison's top scorer to 8 points.

On 2-9-08 all IAC teams came together at Waverly to roll in the final IAC event of the season, all toghether there were over 160 bowlers both girls & boys all wanting to finish first today. There was plenty of excitment from the opening ball being rolled as High average for girls & boys get this honor.

Saturday Megan Patterson from Waverly & T J Williams & Joe Stiener from Tioga (yes these two boys tied for high average with a 220). This just started the day as Lansings ninth grader Trevor Rounds started with the first seven strikes en route to a 235 game. Not to be outdone, Lansings Phil Kulis rolls the first eleven the next game for a 298 game and Grotons John Hilker and Waverly's Micheal Beard start the third game with 9 & 8 each.

The Lansing Boys' Varsity Swim Team are the IAC League Champions for the 5th consecutive season.  On February 9, 2008, the team took first place in the IAC Championship Swim Meet at EFA (Elmira Free Academy). Among the highlights were an IAC league record, a pool record, 4 meet records, a new Lansing school record, and a relay team state qualifying time.

The final team scores were:  1st place – Lansing (298); 2nd place – Waverly (263); 3rd place – Dryden (239).

Lansing's senior All-American swimmer, Jake Sangren, was the meet's MVP.  In the 200 individual medley, Jake eclipsed his previous Lansing school record (1:59.68) with a new time of 1:57.96.  This time is also a new IAC league record, meet record and state qualifying time.  The old time of 1:58.96 was set in 2000 by Waverly's Pat Fell.  In the 100 backstroke, Jake recorded a new EFA pool record, meet record and state qualifying time of 52.04.  He was also part of the winning 200 freestyle relay team and 2nd place 400 freestyle relay team.

During the Feb. 9-10 weekend, the Ithaca Shooting Stars 13U, 14U, 16U and 19U teams were all in action.

The 19U Shooting Stars defeated the Cornell Club team 3-1 with Sarah Eisenhut stopping 10 shots in goal.  Lauren Cole scored twice and Katie Long once. Emily Eisenhut and Colleen Dillon assisted.

Ithaca 16Us defeated the Tri-County Eagles 19Us, 5-3 with Long notching a hat trick, and single goals by Janesa Cornish and Emma Hassen. Assists were made by Erin Grainger, E. Eisenhut, Dillon and Hassen. Annabelle Jones stopped 13 shots.

The Lansing Recreation Department Youth Football program has been a bit of an orphan in the sense that the Town doesn't have dedicated football fields for them to play on.  Football players have been limited to two home games per year because of the complexities of scheduling and reconfiguring existing ballfields.  If a plan Town Board members were shown at their Wednesday meeting goes smoothly it is possible that the players will have their own field as soon as this Fall's season.  "I know they're working on the cost analysis for it right now," says Lansing Supervisor Scott Pinney.  "If they can raise the money in the next few months they could actually have this field to play on in the Fall."

This past Friday, the Lansing Track team competed at the Hurley/Quinney Invitational at Cornell's Barton Hall. Both the Boys and Girl's teams won first place in the small school division.

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