The Cooperstown baseball team
won its fourth in a row while sending
Cherry Valley-Springfield to
their third straight loss with a 6-0
non-league win at Doubleday Field
Tuesday afternoon.
Four college baseball
players from Texas will be
visiting the National Baseball
Hall of Fame on Mother’s
Day as part of a 5,000-
mile road trip that will also
include stops at 11 Major
League ballparks.
For the 19th consecutive year,
the Cooperstown track and field
teams will host their annual invitational
on Saturday, but this year
longtime boys head coach Don
Howard will be just a spectator.
Rachel Robinson, the widow of
Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson,
will be featured in a special installment
of the National Baseball Hall
of Fame and Museum’s “Voices of
the Game Series,” on Saturday,
May 3 at 3 p.m. in Cooperstown.
CHERRY VALLEY — Senior
Anthony Brant homered for the
second straight day to help Cherry
Valley-Springfield defeat previously
undefeated Milford, 10-4, on
Tuesday.
Former Cooperstown resident
Sarah Groff placed third overall
and second among American women
at the 2008 U.S Olympic Team
Trials Triathlon last Saturday in
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The Cherry Valley-Springfield
baseball team continued its early
season dominance with a 16-0 win
at Morris Thursday in the Tri-Valley
opener for both teams.
ONEONTA — A pair of former
high school rivals are now the best
of friends, and both are off to strong
starts for the Oneonta men’s baseball
team this spring.
Former Cooperstown resident
Sarah Groff is one of 22 U.S. athletes,
and 12 American women,
who have qualified to compete in
the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials
Triathlon, scheduled for this Saturday,
April 19 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
For Jim Fort, practice made perfect.
Fort, a senior, threw a no-hitter
Tuesday aginst Ilion, striking out
13 and walking two while winning
for the second time this season.
``I knew I had a no-hitter going,
but I didn’t want to dwell on it or
talk about it,’’ Fort said. ``I just
knocked on wood a couple of
times.’’
Major League baseball commissioner
Bud Selig has responded to
lawmakers who support recent efforts
to save the Hall of Fame
Game, which will be played for the
final time in June.
For the first time ever,
the Hall of Fame plaques of
Larry Doby and Jackie Robinson
left their home in Cooperstown,
as the National
Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum traveled the plaques
to Memphis, Tenn., last
weekend for a part of the
Civil Rights Game Weekend
festivities, according to acting-
President Jeff Idelson.
CHERRY VALLEY — The
Cherry Valley-Springfield
boys track team will be making
a run at a fourth straight
Tri-Valley League and Section
Four title this season,
and have a veteran group returning
to do so.
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