Archive: Sports

The Lansing Central School inducted two former athletes and two teams into their Athletic Hall of Fame Saturday at the LakeWatch Inn. The induction ceremony, moderated by Geoff Wright, followed cocktails and dinner.

The 2016 Hall of Fame Class will include Dara Porterfield (1995), Charlie Moon (2002), the 1967-68 Wresting Team and the 1982-83 Men's Basketball Team.

The Second Annual Alumni Soccer Game on Sobus Field was played at noon, the Friday after Thanksgiving. The First Annual Alumni Soccer game played last year, was organized by the late Lansing Athletic Director Adam Heck.

Heck wanted the game to be an annual event, so keeping with his wishes, first year boys head coach Benji Parkes, coming off a state final four appearance, took the reins and organized the game.

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Owego NY- Class C Finals for Section IV were held at the Owego Free Academy on Saturday November 5ht,  and the LadyCats Swim & Dive team successfully defended their title for a 4 consecutive year.

This year’s championship was especially challenging for all teams as Oneonta (formerly in Class B) and Elmira Notre Dame (formerly in Class A) were new editions to the Class C competition level this year; bringing with them some formidable swimmers.

On Saturday, at Middletown High school, in the Class C state semi-final game, the Lansing Bobcats boys’ soccer season came to an end.  With 42 seconds left in a 1-1 game, the World of Inquiry Griffins headed a throw-in from the left sideline into the upper right corner of the goal for the 2-1 win. A heartbreaking loss for the Bobcats and fans, whose hopes had been to compete the next day for the state title, something they haven’t done since 2013.

"They had a really tough loss," Superintendent of Schools Chriss Pettograsso said Monday.  "It was tough to see, but they played a great game.  There was a nice presentation afterwards.  I would really like to thank our coaches Benji Parkes, Pat Pidgeon, Dave Schlesinger, and Jamie Saroka.  They did an amazing job.  They are a reall class act.  They pulled everybody together."

Last week, winter varsity sports seasons officially began -- but Mikaela Garcia was still hard at work preparing for one final cross country meet with several of her teammates by her side. For the second consecutive year, Garcia made the trip to the NYSPHSAA Championships, representing Lansing and Section IV after her third place finish at the Section IV Championships the week prior. In her first appearance at the state meet in 2015, Garcia finished 69th overall. This year, she finished in 32nd place with a new personal record of 20:21.4. With the entire girls team cheering her on at the Chenango Valley State Park course, the 2016 Lansing cross country season came to a close and the teams have their sights set on 2017 already.

The athletes started their season by hosting the Lansing Lighthouse 5K, an event that attracted over 200 runners with an anticipated future race date of August 19, 2017. The teams also hosted a youth cross country race on their new home course which debuted this year thanks to partnerships with the Lansing Recreation Department and the Lansing Pathways Committee. The team extended special thanks to Ian Golden for his help in designing the course as well as to Finger Lakes Running and Triathlon Company for the Pair Up shoe partnership.

In what can only be described as their best team performance of the season, the Lansing girls cross country team made a run for the Section IV Class C Championship title.  They were the underdogs, up against Newark Valley, a program that has won ten of the last twelve titles.  In the end, Newark Valley was victorious with 41 points to Lansing's 55.

For context, Newark Valley won last year's title with 24 points, Waverly took second with 91 points, and Lansing was third with 103 points.  The top five finishers in the race last year were from two schools: Windsor's Kaylee Stone won and was followed by four Newark Valley runners.  The top five finishers in this year's race were from four schools.

On an overcast Saturday at the Wright National Soccer Fields in Oneonta, NY the Lansing Boys Soccer team warmed up for their regional championship contest against Section 3 Bishop Ludden.  But 10 minutes before the start of the contest their opponent had yet to arrive.  Finally, the bus with the Bishop Ludden team arrived and an extra 30 minutes was put on the warm-up clock to allow this opponent time to warm up.

This didn't faze the Lansing boys because once the game started, 20 minutes late, the Lansing team dominated the first half of play.

The Enclose Cass Extravagnza on Saturday, November 5 was excellent for everyone who participated whether they skated, played broomball, bid on auction items, or dined on fish fry and homemade treats. Preliminary tally shows over $7,000 was raised for the Cass Park Arena Enclosure Campaign that supports upgrades that will retain the arena's traditional charm while making it more sustainable and successful.

After almost 100 minutes of play on an overcast day at the Wright National Soccer fields in Oneonta, NY the Lansing Bobcats (15-2) were finally able to put the ball in the back of the net for a 1-0 win over their cross-lake rivals, the Trumansburg Blue Raiders (15-2).

The Bobcats dominated play throughout the contest with nine shots on goal, nine corner kicks and four free kicks vs two shots on goal and two corner kicks for the Blue Raiders.  The Bobcats were unable to score through 80 minutes of regulation play and one 15-minute overtime period.  The Trumansburg defense and goalie, Jack English kept the Bobcats off the board.

The runners of the IAC gathered on Saturday, October 29 at William Appleby Elementary School in Marathon for the conference championships.  The course remained muddy after a week of rain, but no precipitation fell on the day of competition, making for a great day of racing.

The boys of Watkins Glen continued their extremely strong season with wins in the combined JV and Varsity boys 5K race.  Scoring a perfect score of 15 in the JV race and very low score of 20 in varsity, the Watkins Glen Senecas' performance was reflective of their number 2 ranking in the state. Patrick Hazlitt was the overall boys winner with a time of 17:05.2 and also the recipient of the IAC Sportsmanship Award.

Watkins Glen, NY - 8 Schools and over 100 athletes met for the IAC Swimming Championships this past Saturday, and the LadyaCats of Lansing again were the overall winners.

Lansing won with a team score of 432 points, followed by Waverly in 2nd with a score of 311 and Watkins Glen in 3rd with a score of 310. They LadyCats had 2 winning Relays and 3 Individual Event winners.  7 Lansing swimmers earned IAC All Star awards in 9 Individual events by placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd; as well as part of 2 winning Relays.