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COOPERSTOWN — Cooperstown defeated visiting Westmoreland, 68-54, Monday, Jan. 13, in a Center State Conference Division III boys basketball game, giving the Hawkeyes nine consecutive wins.
Cooperstown/Milford’s Avery Leonard got his 100th varsity win and a Ross Cordell title over the weekend.
COOPERSTOWN — When National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum President Tim Mead goes on the MLB Network on Tuesday, Jan. 21, to announce the remainder of the 2020 induction class, one thing is for certain: former New York Yankee captain Derek Jeter is going to be a first-ballot inductee.
Avery Leonard won the 120 pound championship to help Cooperstown/Milford wrestling place fifth in its home tournament, the Cooperstown Invitational Scramble at Cooperstown Central School on Monday, Dec. 30.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Cooperstown downed Institute of Technology, 76-65, to claim the Dick White Holiday Tournament championship at Cooperstown Saturday, Dec. 28.
Ken Harrelson, who became a Chicago icon while calling White Sox games for 34 of his 43 years behind the microphone, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
BOYS BASKETBALL
Thanksgiving Day was a day for youth, Team Youth.
The first pitch for the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2020 Induction Weekend came blazing across the plate Monday, Nov. 18.
ONEONTA — Three first-half goals were too many to overcome as third-seeded Cherry Valley-Springfield fell to top seed Marathon, 4-1, in the Section IV Class D boys soccer final Saturday, Nov. 2, at Wright National Soccer Campus.
ONEONTA — No. 5 seed Marathon completed its upset run through the Section IV Class D girls tournament Saturday, Nov. 2, with a 3-0 win over second-seeded Cherry Valley-Springfield at Wright National Soccer Campus.
ONEONTA – Cherry Valley-Springfield stunned South Kortright, 2-1, in the semifinal round of the Section IV Class D boys soccer tournament on Andrew Oram’s overtime winner Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Wright National Soccer Campus.
ONEONTA — Ari Bosc’s goal with less than three minutes left in the second period of overtime pushed second-seeded Cherry Valley-Springfield past No. 6 Edmeston, 1-0, in a Section IV Class D girls soccer semifinal Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Wright National Soccer Campus.
Charles Hollister of Oneonta won the Coop Look 10K with a time of 38:16 Sunday at the Clark Sports Center.
CROSS COUNTRY
Harvest Classic Invitational
Oct. 26
Ryan Lansing earned third place and Ward Oles finished fifth overall to lead the Cooperstown boys team to a fifth-place finish at the Harvest Classic Invitational in Amsterdam.
Lansing had a time of 15:30, while teammate Oles completed the course in 15:54 for the Hawkeyes, who concluded the Invitational with 133 points.
Cooperstown also received 40th place from Mason Raffo (19:23), 45th place from Lincoln DiLorenzo (20:22), and 48th place from Simon Hurysz (20:53).
Noah Engel won the boys race with a time of 15:21 for Queensbury, which won the invitational.
Jade Brotherton and Tess DiLorenzo each got 15th and 23rd overall, respectively, as the top Cooperstown finishers on the girls side. Brotherton finished in 21:17. DiLorenzo finished in 22:04. Sarah Johnson placed 26th (22:41), and Monica Kennedy placed 34th for the Hawkeyes, who did not have enough runners for a team score.
BOYS SOCCER
Edmeston 2, Milford 0
Oct. 23
Ninth-seeded Edmeston got first-half goals from Tyrick Wheeler and Logan Williams to defeat No. 8 Milford on the road in the first round of the Section IV Class D boys soccer tournament.
Wheeler opened the scoring by taking a failed Milford clearance and converting from close range to put the Panthers up, 1-0.
Williams scored a similar goal late in the first half to build a 2-0 halftime deficit that Milford could not erase.
Edmeston finished with an 18-13 lead in shots and a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks.
Louis Banks made 12 saves for the Wildcats.
Milford finished its first year under coach Gregg Eggleston with a 9-6-2 record.
“I look back and there are some we let get away, but all in all, 9-6-2 for a team that is trying to rebuild is a decent year,” Eggleston said. “I’m happy with the kids’ effort.”
A late second-half surge was not enough as 13th-seeded Cooperstown fell to No. 4 Westmoreland/Oriskany, 3-2, in the first round of the Section III Class C boys soccer tournament Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Westmoreland Central School.
COOPERSTOWN – Apparently, 12-5 upsets aren’t just for NCAA basketball brackets.
ONEONTA – Revenge was on Cherry Valley-Springfield’s mind Saturday, Oct. 19, when it took down Schenevus, 2-1, in the Tri-Valley League girls final at Wright National Soccer Campus.
ONEONTA – Laurens and Cherry Valley Springfield battled to a 1-1 tie Saturday, Oct. 19 at Wright National Soccer Campus in the Tri-Valley League boys final.
BOYS SOCCER
GIRLS SOCCER
When the Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival closes, Saturday, Sept. 21, William “Dummy” Hoy will be as close as he has ever gotten to a Cooperstown celebration. However, the producers of the movie, “The Silent Natural,” which screens at 7 p.m. hope there will be even better news next year w…
"A League of Their Own," a baseball film partially shot in Cooperstown, will be the headline screening in the National Baseball Hall of Fame's 14th annual Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival, which will take place Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20 and 21, in the museum's Grandstand Theater and B…
Milford’s Riley Stevens scored four goals as the Wildcats downed Morris, 5-3, in a back-and forth Tri-Valley League contest that opened the season for both teams on Thursday, Aug. 29.
With two appearances in the Class C baseball final four in three years, Cooperstown is trending upward in the sport that’s synonymous with the village. And if the trend continues with a state title for the Hawkeyes in 2020 or 2021, there seems to be little doubt in the minds of Cooperstown’s…
BINGHAMTON — Making one state final is difficult. Making back-to-back appearances is a sign of a real quality.
ENDWELL — Cooperstown baseball coach Frank Miosek has coached a lot of talented teams in his 29 years at the helm, including 2017’s state semifinalists, but Friday, as the Hawkeyes defeated Pierson, 5-2, in the Class C semifinals at Maine-Endwell High School, the 2019 team became the first i…
When Cooperstown takes on Pierson in Friday’s Class C baseball semifinal, both teams will be just one game shy of playing for the ultimate prize in high school sports — a state championship.
BINGHAMTON — No team prefers to be trailing in the later moments of a game, especially one as important as Saturday’s Section III Class C regional baseball final between Cooperstown and Tioga. But some teams respond better to adversity than others. Some teams can look at a three-run deficit …
When the Cooperstown baseball team takes the field Saturday at NYSEG Stadium for the Class C state quarterfinals, the Hawkeyes will be looking for their second state semifinal trip in the last three years.
Sixth-seeded Cooperstown allowed five runs in the first two innings, just one of them earned, and never fully erased the deficit in a season-ending 9-7 loss to No. 3 Port Byron in the Section III Class C softball quarterfinals on Thursday, May 30.
UTICA — Chris Ubner carried the load for Cooperstown during most of Sunday’s Section III Class C championship game. But when the time came for others to take charge, the rest of the Hawkeyes responded.
The name of the game is boys tennis, but that didn’t stop three Cooperstown girls from winning Section III championships in the sport this spring.
UTICA — Quality pitching, clean defense and timely hitting helped Cooperstown to a Section III Class C baseball title Sunday Night with a 2-1 win over Oriskany in eight innings at Donovan Stadium.
COOPERSTOWN — Orlando Cabrera’s first grand slam since his minor-league days saved Team Rollie from a potential loss Saturday at the Hall of Fame Classic at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, but it couldn’t guarantee a win against Team Goose.
Canoes on the Susquehanna River are a familiar sight in Bainbridge on Memorial Day. For the top two boats in Monday’s marquee race, the C-2 Pro, the results were also familiar.
Hall of Fame members Bert Blyleven, Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, Trevor Hoffman, Tim Raines and Alan Trammell will be joined by recently retired players representing all 30 major league teams for a seven-inning legends game at Cooperstown’s historic Doubleday Field.
Cooperstown won three of five final matches to win the Section III C-2 championship Monday at Utica Park Tennis Center.
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WESTFORD - The life of Jeremy McCaffery will be celebrated on Saturday, Nov. 9, the first anniversary of his passing. Family members and friends are welcome for light refreshments and are encouraged to share their memories and stories of Jeremy anytime from 1 to 3 p.m. in Sunset Pavilion at …
WESTFORD - The life of Jeremy McCaffery will be celebrated on Saturday, Nov. 9, the first anniversary of his passing. Family members and friends are welcome for light refreshments and encouraged to share their memories and stories of Jeremy anytime from 1 to 3 p.m. in Sunset Pavilion at Bett…
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