Hawks win Easterns, clinch NCAA berth
HARTWICK WOMEN’S WATER POLO ... Megan Dahl-Smith, Keri James and Kaitlin Leonard scored two goals apiece Sunday as the Hartwick College women’s water polo team successfully defended its CWPA Eastern Championships crown with an 8-6 win over tournament host Princeton.
OHS’ Harlem throws second no-hitter
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Freshman Lesley Harlem pitched her second no-hitter of the season and struck out a season-high 17 in leading Oneonta High to an 11-7 non-league softball victory over visiting Cooperstown on Saturday.
B-G/A’s boys 1,600 relay team sets school record at Penn Relays
HIGH SCHOOL TRACK ... Seniors Matt Davy, Chad Cornish and Kenny Pixley, and sophomore Dustin Ross won their heat and set a Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton school record in the 1,600-meter relay Saturday at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
O-State baseball makes SUNYACs
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Oneonta State qualified for the SUNY Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament with a doubleheader sweep of visiting New Paltz on Sunday.
Delhi men win crown
SUNY DELHI TRACK AND FIELD ... Sixteen SUNY Delhi runners had NJCAA Division III qualifying marks as the Broncos men won their 10th consecutive league title Saturday in the Mountain Valley Conference Track and Field Championships at Mohawk Valley.
Hartwick’s Hudson, Huckins tops in water polo
HARTWICK COLLEGE WATER POLO ... The Collegiate Water Polo Association selected Hartwick College freshman Kirsten Hudson as its top rookie Friday during the CWPA Eastern Championship banquet at Princeton, N.J.
Laymon’s one-hitter lifts Edmeston, 9-1
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... Junior left-hander Matt Laymon struck out 10 and took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, leading host Edmeston to a 9-1 victory over Morris in Tri-Valley League baseball Friday.
Enough of this garbage already! Litterbugs stink
OUTDOORS COLUMN BY RICK BROCKWAY ... We are bombarded with the possibilities of global warming. Excessive carbon dioxide emissions, greenhouse gasses and carbon-based fuels have negative effects on the world of today, according to many experts.
No, no, no!
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ... Danielle Gravel earned her first varsity no-hitter the hard way Thursday.
Bright shines as Stamford wins
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... Winning pitcher Jesse Bright drove in four runs with triples in the sixth and seventh innings Thursday as visiting Stamford beat Jefferson, 7-2, in a Delaware League baseball game.
B-G/A girls set school record in win at Penn Relays
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton’s girls set a school record and earned a victory in one of 30 1,600-meter relay heats at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia on Thursday.
Red Dragons tennis wins 8th in a row
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Despite playing without Shaun Goodman at No. 2 singles Thursday, Oneonta State downed non-conference host Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 9-0, for its eighth straight men’s tennis victory.
Milford track sweeps G-MU
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Dan Baxter won the 110- and 400-meter hurdle races Wednesday in leading Milford to a 60-40 Tri-Valley League boys track and field victory over visiting Gilbertsville-Mount Upton.
O-State
lacrosse
nips foe
at buzzer
COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Senior Neal Campbell scooped a loose ball at the side of the net and scored just before the final buzzer to give Oneonta State a 12-11 SUNY Athletic Conference lacrosse victory over visiting Plattsburgh on Wednesday.
SK’s Austin hits for cycle in 10-3 win
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ... Patti Austin hit for the cycle and Cassie Salcido struck out 12 in a four-hitter as host South Kortright defeated Margaretville, 10-3, Tuesday in a Delaware League softball game.
Worcester
falls short
vs. Panthers
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... Nick Davoulas went 3-for-4, including an RBI double in the seventh inning, to lead Edmeston to a 9-7 Tri-Valley League baseball victory at Worcester on Tuesday.
High School Roundup
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Dustin Ross won the 200 and 400 meters, and ran legs on two winning relays Tuesday to lead host Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton over Unatego and Sidney in a Midstate Athletic Conference track and field meet.
Freshmen rally O-State baseball to win
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Freshmen Dan Randall and Steve Gauk homered Tuesday to lift Oneonta State to a 14-5 non-league baseball rout of host Hamilton.
Edmeston gets revenge on Deposit
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... Last season, Edmeston’s Matt Laymon struck out 13 Deposit batters, but took the loss in the Section Four Class D title game. This time around, Laymon had 12 strikeouts in a two-hitter, leading the Panthers to a 12-3 non-league baseball victory over visiting Deposit on Monday.
Worcester duo no-hits Laurens
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ... Nicole Baker and Hilari Head combined for a no-hitter Monday as Worcester defeated visiting Laurens, 3-1, in Tri-Valley League softball.
Hawks cruise to water polo championship
HARTWICK COLLEGE WATER POLO ... Kirsten Hudson, Ellen Sevigny and Kaitlin Leonard scored four goals apiece Sunday as 12th-ranked Hartwick College won the Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern Division championship with an 18-6 rout of No. 18 Brown at Connecticut College.
O-State baseball drops four
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Oneonta State went 0-for-4 over the weekend, dropping a pair of SUNY Athletic Conference baseball doubleheaders to fall under .500 in league play.
OHS baseball loses fifth straight
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... The Oneonta High baseball team lost its fifth straight Saturday, losing two games at home to Seton Catholic Central and Niskayuna.
Fame Game sold out
NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME GAME ... The early birds got the worms.
Jefferson’s Bulka shuts out Andes
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ... Anna Bulka struck out six and walked one in a three-hitter Friday as host Jefferson defeated Andes, 3-0, in a Delaware League softball game.
Sidney defeats OHS, 6-3
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Cody Rose scattered eight hits and Brett Pendorf had three hits for Sidney in its 6-3 non-league baseball victory at Oneonta High on Thursday.
New VHS deadly for some fish
OUTDOORS COLUMN BY RICK BROCKWAY ... It used to be that a VHS was a video home system that could tape or copy movies and other stuff from the television. Well, that certainly has changed. VHS recorders have gone the way of LP records. That’s "Long Playing" for those who are many years younger than me.
Connolly brothers roughed up in minors
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ... Oneonta High graduates Mike and Jon Connolly had bumpy starts to their 2007 minor league baseball seasons, as did former Oneonta State pitcher Chris Salamida.
SUNY Delhi golfers cruise to Region X championship
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP _ SUNY Delhi’s Matt Schulte shot a two-day 111 to earn the NAIA Region X championship at Dennis Highlands Golf Course in Dennis, Mass., on Wednesday.
NFL teams chew on Bean’s numbers
NFL DRAFT ... He’s starting to feel a draft.
It’s the kind of chill that comes from hearing an announcement like this: "With the 37th pick of the seventh round, the New England Patriots select safety Geoff Bean, Colgate University."
’Wick men, women lose lacrosse games
COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Hamilton College scored three successive goals to take a two-goal lead in the fourth quarter en route to a 7-6 victory over host Hartwick College in a non-conference men’s lacrosse game Tuesday.
Will the real OHS please stand up?
SPRING FEVER _ ONEONTA HIGH SOFTBALL PREVIEW ... ONEONTA _ It didn’t take long for Oneonta High’s Jeckyl & Hyde act to start this softball season.
Cooperstown rich in talent this year
SPRING FEVER _ COOPERSTOWN BASEBALL PREVIEW ... With a shortstop who is headed to play Division I baseball next fall, a catcher who is a Division I prospect and five other returning players from last year’s 16-6 team, expectations have never been higher for the Cooperstown baseball team.
Spartans are still on top of their game
SPRING FEVER _ MIDSTATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE BASEBALL PREVIEW ... When looking at the Midstate Athletic Conference baseball standings year in and year out, one thing remains constant _ Unatego is always at the top.
No shocker: Afton team to beat in MAC
SPRING FEVER _ MIDSTATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SOFTBALL PREVIEW ... The bigger the target gets, the better Afton seems to get.
Pitching depth crucial for success in DL
SPRING FEVER _ DELAWARE LEAGUE BASEBALL PREVIEW ... Some years, pitching depth can be classified as a luxury in the Delaware League.
Keep an eye on Davenport, Jefferson this year
SPRING FEVER _ DELAWARE LEAGUE SOFTBALL PREVIEW ... It’s virtually a lock: Davenport will be in the hunt for another Delaware League softball championship.
OHS could be a triple threat
SPRING FEVER _ ONEONTA HIGH BASEBALL PREVIEW ... ONEONTA _ The trifecta is within Oneonta High’s reach.
April 16, 2007
Hartwick water polo falls to USC
COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Southern California jumped to an eight-goal lead after two periods en route to 19-5 Division I water polo victory over 12th-ranked Hartwick on Sunday in the Hawks’ first game of the day at Los Angeles. The Hawks recovered to beat Pacific, 21-10.
Forks hands OHS its first loss
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Left-hander Paul Dybas threw a six-hitter, and Jeff Creagh and Dylan Warner each had doubles to lead Chenango Forks to a 3-2 Southern Tier Athletic Conference baseball victory over visiting Oneonta on Saturday.
April 14, 2007
OHS lacrosse
continues to
struggle, 15-1
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Dakota Lane had five goals and Joe Aston scored three Friday as Chenango Forks beat host Oneonta High, 15-1, in a Section Four Lacrosse Conference game at Oneonta State’s All-College Field.
Area College Roundup
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... The Hartwick men’s tennis team earned its third sweep of the season with a 9-0 victory over Utica College on Friday at the Oneonta Tennis Center.
Baseball
Hall to
honor 1967
Red Sox on
Saturday
NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME ... The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown will host a day-long salute to the 1967 Boston Red Sox on Saturday, featuring the appearances by former Red Sox players Jim Lonborg and Rico Petrocelli. The two will participate in a book-signing and a special members-only Voices of the Game Series event.
Sidney tennis shuts out B-G
HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS ... Sidney’s boys won all but four games en route to a 5-0 Midstate Athletic Conference tennis victory over visiting Bainbridge-Guilford on Thursday.
Children
the future
of hunting
OUTDOORS COLUMN BY RICK BROCKWAY ... There’s a chill in the morning air. It will be nearly an hour before the sun starts to light the eastern sky.
OHS lacrosse game moved to today
HIGH SCHOOL POSTPONEMENTS ... Oneonta High’s Section Four Lacrosse Conference game against visiting Chenango Forks moved from Thursday to today because of poor field conditions at the high school, OHS athletic director Joe Hughes said.
Oneonta
rallies for two victories
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... Lance Ratchford, Devlin Vanderhoof and Andy Dickson each had RBI singles in the bottom of the sixth inning Wednesday as host Oneonta rallied for a 4-2 Southern Tier Athletic Conference baseball victory over Windsor.
O-State baseball sweeps
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Edmeston graduate Sam Ackerman allowed one run on three hits over seven innings Wednesday, earning the pitching victory in the first game of Oneonta State’s doubleheader sweep of host SUNY Old Westbury.
Afton’s
Muller
one-hits
Storm
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Morgan Muller struck out 12 in a five-inning one-hitter Tuesday, and Jessie Winans, Brittany Hulbert and Ashley Winans had two hits apiece as Afton cruised to a 17-0 victory over visiting Unadilla Valley.
OHS lacrosse falls, 17-6
HIGH SCHOOL LACROSSE ... Elliott Schroeder and Spencer Crandell had two goals apiece for the visiting Yellowjackets, who lost Tuesday in the Section Four Lacrosse Conference.
O-State rides big hits to earn baseball split
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Two-out RBI hits by Brian Holmes and Nick Martino in the eighth inning Tuesday helped Oneonta State to a 6-3 non-conference baseball victory at Ithaca College in the second game of a doubleheader.
Sevigny leads Hartwick water polo to sweep
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Ellen Sevigny scored four times in the first game of a women’s water polo doubleheader Saturday, as 13th-ranked Hartwick College downed No. 19 Brown, 16-5, at Moyer Pool.
Darkhorses could be keys to success for Yanks, Mets
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL COLUMN BY MATT TYSON ... With the wonders of spring training and opening day out of the way, it’s time to settle in for the long and bumpy road that is the Major League Baseball season.
Cooperstown mourns ’great kid’
Friends of Chris Gentile remembered the three-sport standout Friday as a fun, energetic person with an infectious smile and a loud, booming voice that often echoed through the halls of Cooperstown High.
Trout
take the
bite out
of winter
OUTDOORS COLUMN BY RICK BROCKWAY ... It’s 65 degrees on Tuesday, then 20 with snow on Wednesday. What’s wrong with this picture?
McCormack leads Hartwick to lacrosse win
COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Pat McCormack’s fourth three-goal game of the season helped Hartwick College to a 13-5 Empire 8 Conference lacrosse victory at Elmira College on Wednesday.
OHS’ no-hit wonder
High school softball ... It won’t get much better than this for the Oneonta High softball team.
Oneonta takes advantage of Delhi’s wildness
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... ONEONTA _ Aside from 19 batters reaching base without putting the ball in play Tuesday, it didn’t look like an early-season game for Oneonta or Delhi.
Pohl leads Cooperstown
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... Philip Pohl had two hits, including a double, triple and four RBIs to lead Cooperstown to a 14-11 Center State Conference baseball victory over visiting Little Falls on Tuesday.
Austin’s homer lifts SK over Worcester
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ... Patti Austin hit a two-run homer in the top of the eighth inning to lead host South Kortright to a 7-5 non-league softball victory over Worcester on Tuesday.
Edmeston edges Hamilton, 2-1
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ... Nick Davoulas’ two-run single with two out in the top of the first inning gave Edmeston all the runs it would need in a 2-1 season-opening baseball victory over host Hamilton on Monday.
Jefferson downs defending DL champion Davenport, 10-5
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ... Winning pitcher Anna Bulka went 3-for-4, including a home run, to lead host Jefferson to a 10-5 season-opening softball victory over defending Delaware League champion Davenport on Monday.
Soccer Hall
to announce
Vets’ election
results today
NATIONAL SOCCER HALL OF FAME ... The National Soccer Hall of Fame will complete its elections for the Class of 2007 when the Oneonta-based shrine announces the results from its Veterans Ballot at 1 p.m. today.
Hartwick water polo wins 12th straight
AREA COLLEGE ROUNDUP ... Aliria Munoz finished with a game-high four goals Saturday as the Hartwick College women’s water polo team defeated host Queens, 12-3, in the second game of a Division I doubleheader.
Bobcats baseball downs Harpursville in opener
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP ... Winning pitcher Ray Newbauer hit a two-run double during a five-run third inning Saturday, helping Bainbridge-Guilford to a 10-6 non-league baseball victory in its season opener against Harpursville.
