Archive: Sports

The Lansing Boy's Varsity Swim Team started the season with a win over Watkins Glen - 110-65.  Jake Sangren, the team's All-American swimmer, broke the Watkins Pool Record in the 100 Backstroke with a time of 53.70.  According to Coach Brian Vaughan, "Jake is still getting in shape."  He expects the Senior Swimmer to go much faster in this event as the season continues.  "I expect this swimmer to take down Lansing's Pool Records in the 100 Butterfly, 200 Individual Medley, and the 100 Breaststroke".

Lansing's new Varsity Coach was also pleased with the efforts of the entire team, especially the Freshmen.  Clement Towner came in first place in the 500 Freestyle and was part of the winning 200 Free Relay. He said all new members of the team "did very well – great efforts!"

After many years of swim team success under the coaching of Reed Dewey, the Lansing Boy's Varsity Swim Team is now under the direction of Brian Vaughan.   Vaughan was a swimmer himself and graduated from Lansing High School in 2004.  He is highly regarded in the Lansing Community.   It will undoubtedly be an exciting season for the swimmers, coaches, parents and fans.

The team welcomes four freshmen to the team, and Coach Vaughan claims it will be a "building year".   The team is also very strong with five Sophomores and seven Juniors.  Returning Juniors  are David Bandler, Justin Craig, Ari Darlow, Aaron Eddy, Max Mackenzie, Dan Ravas, and Pat Rodgers.  The Coach pointed out that most of these older boys 'Swim Club' (LCATS) which means that they swim year-round and they are "a solid group".

Lansing High Bowlers started the season out the best they could by defeating Marathon’s Girls & Boys team 4 to 0. The Lady Bobcats were paced by last IAC leagues High average Kristi Sullivan rolling 226-655, and Brooke Burke provided a lot of help 204-516.

Our girls rolled 2335 total pins to their 2071 on Wednesday night at Helen Newman Lanes. Now the Boys were powered by Phil Kulis 268,268,223-759 and Dan Baldini provided the back up with 200-582 as the boys rolled to 2769 too Marathons 2439. Our teams will be back in action 12/4/07 against Watkins Glen at home.

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The Lansing Girls Basketball team opened their 2007-08 season with a 48-24 defeat of Union Springs at home last Friday evening.  The Ladycats displayed an aggressive team defense that held Union Springs to single figures in all four quarters. Offensively the Ladycats had a balanced scoring attack with MC Barrett leading the way with 15 points, on 6 of 7 shooting from the floor. Jocelyn Ford added 11 points and a team high 5 assists and Megan Palladino had a double double with 10 points and a team high 10 rebounds.

The Ladycats next game is Friday December 7th at Moravia, followed by a non-league contest with Elmira Southside on Saturday the 8th.

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All four age levels of the annual Ithaca Shooting Stars Invitational girls ice hockey tournament this weekend featured close games for the semi-finals and finals. The Ithaca 19U Shooting Stars won the championship game Sunday over the Tri-County Eagles 2-1 after defeating Mohawk Valley Herricanes 4-2 in the crossover game Saturday. The Eagles won 3-1 over the Adirondack Northstars to advance.

Sarah Eisenhut stopped 28 shots on goal in the 19U Championship game. Katilyn Ryan scored the first goal assisted by Gabe Klick. Katie Long scored the game-winner assisted by Emily Eisenhut. Tri-County's Kim Hunt scored assisted by her sister Chelsea.

Josh Barber and Shanna Swanson capped off the season right by qualifying for the State Meet in Norwood, NY. Both had an amazing season, improving their times by over two minutes throughout the season.

Barber finished with a personal best time of 17:59 at the Sectional meet in Chenago Park, placing 4th individually and securing himself a slot for the state meet where he placed 73. Swanson placed fourth at Sectionals and qualified for the state meet as an individual. She was the youngest competitor in the section to advance to the state meet where she ran her best time of 21:28.

The varsity football team had a great season. They ended with an 8-2 record. The team graduates 12 seniors with 15 returners for next season. The seniors were great contributors to the success of the program. Below is a list of the seniors.

Kyle Sweazey
Vincent Redmond
Ken Tillapaugh
Will Opperman
Teagen Barresi
Brian Gifford
T.J. French
Ross Conlon
Jon Bradford
Charlie Hatfield
James Reichert
Brian Milliman

The Girls' Swimming & Diving team ended their dual meet season with an IAC league record of 10 - 0 and an overall record of 10 - 0; winning the IAC dual meet title.  The team won the IAC Swimming Championships for their fourth consecutive year.  At the Class 'C' Sectional meet the team again had an excellent team performance and won for their fourth consecutive year.

Kali Dean has qualified to compete in the New York State Girls' Swimming & Diving  Championships November 16^th & 17^th at the Nassau Aquatic Center in the 50 free and 100 free.

On Saturday November 10, five Tompkins Girls Hockey Association (TGHA) coaches became certified 'Put the Biscuit in the Net' (PBN) leaders through instruction by Yevet Anderson, PBN founder and USA Hockey Director for the Mid-American District.  PBN is a collaborative program of USA Hockey and the Girl Scouts of the USA.
 
Diane Duthie, Matt Ulinski, Ed Pasto, Becky Waddle and Barbara Horton are TGHA coaches who can offer PBN which introduces girls hockey to Girl Scouts  ages 5-19 in a series of three sessions which culiminates with a PBN badge. The format of Girl Scout programs will be familiar to PBN participants.

Cortland - The 2007 High School Girls State Championship tournament begins this Friday at the SUNY Cortland Stadium Complex, Tompkins Cortland Community College and Homer High School Stadium.

Twenty teams from across New York State will vie for state titles in five divisions. Hosted by the Cortland Regional Sports Council and Section 3 Girls Soccer, the event kicks off on Thursday November 15, with a banquet at SUNY Cortland's Corey Union. First round action gets underway on Friday, with the championship games slated for Saturday.

Josh Barber and Shanna Swanson put everything they had into their performances on Thursday, November 1 at the Sectional meet in Chenagno Park. Barber ran his personal best time of 17:59 and finished 9th overall, fourth individually which was enough to qualify for the State meet this weekend. Swanson also ran her best time, 21:30, and placed 4th individually.

 

Shanna Swanson

Josh Barber (left)

The Lansing Varsity Boys Soccer team have made a great run in the playoffs and are now headed to the state championships.  The boys beat Watkins Glen 1-0 in the section Quarterfinals.  Lansing played Watkins twice during the season and beat them 1-0 and then 4-0 this game was much tougher.  Lansing won on a goal by Walker Diebolt with 8 minutes left to win 1-0.  The boys were very happy to move on.

In the Semi-final at Lansing the boys played rival Dryden.  Again, Dryden was a familiar opponent as they had played to a 1-1 tie and Lansing won round two 1-0 this game would be no different as Ryan Mallinson scored
with 13 minutes left to give the Bobcats a 1-0 win.  The end would come with some drama as Lansing was hold in a 1-0 lead with under 2 minutes left, and Dryden put a header on goal and it looked as though the game would be tied.  But Tim McGiff came out of the back line to head the ball out of the goal.