By ERIC AHLQVIST
Cooperstown Crier
CHERRY VALLEY — There
was much to celebrate at the
22nd annual Cherry Valley-
Springfield athletic banquet held
June 19 at the school.
Six varsity sports teams won
Tri-Valley East titles this past
school year, including the boys
and girls soccer and track teams,
and the boys basketball and baseball
teams. The boys soccer, and
boys and girls track teams each
were overall Tri-Valley champions
as well, and the boys’ track
team was Section Four Class D
champs for the fifth straight
year.
One of the most memorable individual
performances occurred
during the winter, when senior
Courtney VanBrink scored her
1,000th career point in the final
game of her career. To add to the
drama, VanBrink did not hit the
milestone until late in the fourth
quarter after picking up four
fouls.
She finished her stellar career
with 1,002 points, becoming just
the second girls’ player in CV-S
history to reach 1,000 points. In
the spring, senior Brian Sutton
also made school history, reaching
the state meet for the second
straight season. Sutton qualified
for states in both the 400, his specialty,
and the 100, and owns the
school record in the 400.
The night was not without
sadness, however, as two Memorial
Awards were announced.
One was to Kyle Hysack, a 2008
CV-S graduate and track athlete
who died suddenly this spring.
The other given in honor of Rick
Yerdon, who died last year and
was a big CV-S sports booster.
Yerdon’s son, Adam, who drowned
in the Susquehanna River in August
of 1998, also has an award
named after him.
Before presenting team
awards, each coach introduced
their players and spoke about the
accomplishments of each team.
Awards for outstanding athletes
were given as follows:
Girls Varsity Soccer: Tri Valley
East Champions: Coach Amy
Garretson: Best Offensive Player:
Courtney Van Brink; Best Defensive
Player: Savannah Crowley,
Stephanie Loucks, Joslyn Mabie,
Amanda May; Will to Win: Lindsey
Cairo
Girls Junior Varsity Soccer:
Tri Valley East Champions:
Coach Tracy Archer: Most Improved
Player: Erin Lamouret;
110 percent Award: Mary Auld;
Best Defensive Player: Emily
Wilmot; Coaches Award: Brittany
Crandall and Kaylyn Mc Cord;
Will to Win: Emma Clements.
Boys Varsity Soccer: Tri Valley
East Champions: Coach Terri
Adams: Most Improved Player:
Seth Drugatz; Best Defensive
Player: Jake Hanlon; Best Offensive
Player: Chip Taylor; Coaches
Award/MVP: Scott Sheldon and
David Adams; Will to Win: Spencer
Staley.
Boys Junior Varsity Soccer:
Coach Jordan Jaquay:á Most Improved
Player: Collin Lamouret;
Most Valuable Player: Shawn
Cope; Best Defensive Player:
Chad Thompson; Coaches Award:
Isaac Hardy; Rookie of the Year:
Kyle Jaquay; Will to Win: Rich
Rockwell; Kyle Hysack Memorial
Spirit Award: Tyler Cade.
Girls Varsity Basketball:
Coach Amy Garretson: Most Improved
Player: Nadine Guernsey;
Most Valuable Player: Courtney
Van Brink; Best Offensive Player:
Morgan Van Alstine; Coaches
Award: Morgan Shuster; Foul
Shooting: Morgan Van Alstine;
Will to Win: Tiffany Thompson.
Girls Junior Varsity Basketball:
Coach Lori Shuster: Most
Improved Player: Erin Lamouret;
110 percent Hustle: Emily Wilmot;
Best Defensive Player: Amanda
Augur; Coaches Award: Abby
Brigham; Foul Shooting: Ashley
Miles; Will to Win: Emma Clem-
ents.
Boys Varsity Basketball:
Tri Valley East Champions:
Coach Jordan
Jaquay: Most Improved
Player: Brian Sutton; Most
Valuable Player: Kyle Flint;
Best Defensive Player:
Scott Sheldon; Best Offensive
Player: Mike Cagganello;
Foul Shooting: Mike
Cagganello; Will to Win:
Chip Taylor; Adam Yerdon
110 percent award: David
Adams.
Boys Junior Varsity
Basketball: Coach Terry
Brant: Most Improved
Player: Brett Adams; Most
Valuable Player: Alex Shuster;
Best Defensive Player:
Seth Drugatz; Best Offensive
Player: Jake Hoag;
Foul Shooting: Alex Shuster;
Will to Win: Sam Dubben.
Varsity Cheerleading:
Coach Melissa Jaquay: All
Around Cheerleader:
Amanda May; Most Spirited:
Brittany Crandall;
Rookie of the Year: Mariah
Clarke; Coaches Award:
Lexi Evans and Sarah Hovick;
Will to Win: Beth Fullington.
Girls Varsity Track and
Field: Section Four Runner-
up and Tri Valley
League Champions 5 Consecutive
Years: Coaches
Steve Davis and Jordan
Jaquay. Most Improved
Player: Emma Clements;
Most Valuable Player: Joslyn
Mabie; Best Field Performer:
Emily Schafsteck;
Best Track Performer: Ksenia
Hanlon; Coaches
Award: Fiona Doherty; Will
to Win: Mallory Garretson;
Kyle Hysack Spirit Award:
Lindsey Cairo.
Boys Varsity Track and
Field: Section Four Champions
and Tri Valley League
Champions 5 Consecutive
Years: Coaches Steve Davis
and Jordan Jaquay.áMost
Improved Player: Seth Drugatz;
Most Valuable Player:
Brian Sutton; Coaches
Award: Reilly See; Best
Track Performer: Scott
Sheldon; Best Field Performer:
Isaac Hardy; Will
to Win: Kevin Kropp; Kyle
Hysack Spirit Award: Ted
Van Brink.
Boys Varsity Baseball:
Tri Valley East Champions:
Coach Ed Dubben. Most
Improved Player: Sam Dubben;
Most Valuable Player:
Spencer Staley and Adam
Halay; Most Valuable Player:
David Adams; Coaches
Award: Josh Stalter; Highest
Batting Average: David
Adams; Will to Win: Spencer
Staley; 110 percent
Adam Yerdon Award: David
Adams.
Girls Varsity Softball:
Coach Michelle Schmitt.
Most Valuable Player: Savannah
Crowley; Most Improved
Player: Mariah
Clarke; Highest Batting
Average: Savannah Crowley;
Coaches Award: Anna
VanDerKrake and Morgan
VanAlstine; Will to Win:
Nicole Young.
Varsity Golf: Coach
Richard Daley. Most Improved
Player: Mike Cagganello;
Coaches Award:
Craig Miles; Will to Win:
Tyler Smith.
Rick Yerdon Memorial
Award: This is a new award
that is done on a points system
for each sport in each
year that an athlete participates
in sports.áThe winners
for 2008-2009 are: David
Adams, Fiona Doherty,
Chip Taylor, Scott Sheldon
and Mike Cagganello.
Scholar Athlete Teams
for the 2008-2009 school
year were: Boys Varsity
Soccer, Boys Varsity Basketball,
Boys Varsity Track
and Field, Girls Varsity
Soccer, Girls Varsity Basketball,
Varsity Cheerleading,
Girls Varsity Track
and Field, Girls Varsity
Softball, Boys Junior Varsity
Soccer, Boys Junior
Varsity Basketball, Girls
Junior Varsity Soccer, Girls
Junior Varsity Basketball.
Special Senior Awards
that are given yearly are as
follows:
Kenneth E. Young
Sportsmanship Award:
áAdam Halay.
Barry Prill Outstanding
Senior Athlete: Courtney
VanBrink.
Adam Yerdon Memorial
Athlete Award: Scott Sheldon.
Hank Misiewicz Memorial
Athlete of the Year: David
Adams.
Girls Sportsmanship
Award: Morgan Shuster.
Local Sports
CV-S holds athletic banquet
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Adams remains unbeatable in T-V
Brett Adams went 3-for-3 Friday at Oneonta State. And that was on the mound. Adams struck out eight, walked five and scattered five hits to leadCherry Valley-Springfield to its third straight Tri-Valley League baseball championship as the Patriots beat Edmeston, 11-3.
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Cooperstown boys track team wins CSC championships
Cooperstowns boys won the Center State Conference Division II championship at Sauquoit Valley. The team was led by senior Jeremiah Ford, who was named the meet’s outstanding track athlete. He placed first in the 110- and 400-meter hurdles. Ford won the former in a season-best time of 15.4 seconds and the latter in 1:00.6. The senior also placed second in the 400 in 52.3 and helped the Redskins’ 400 relay team to victory.
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CV-S tops Downsville in sectional play
Scott Stiles threw a two-hitter and five second-inning singles helped Cherry Valley-Springfield to five runs in its Section Four Class D victory over visiting Downsville. The eighth-seeded Patriots (13-4) were scheduled to play No. 1 Hancock (15-3) Wednesday in a Class D quarterfinal. Scores were not available by deadline.
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Cooperstown defeats undefeated Herkimer, 8-3
The lady Redskins knocked off unbeaten Herkimer in a non-league game at home last Wednesday. Herkimer, which beat Cooperstown, 7-2, in the Redskins’ second game of the season, brought an 18-0 record into the game. Nicole Cring pitched a three-hitter and Holli Erkson hit a two-run single during Cooperstown’s seven-run fifth inning.
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Milford defeated in tiebreaker
Taylor Spranger relieved Jessica Kruh in the second inning and threw 5 2/3 innings of scoreless softball, allowing Schenevus to rally for a 21-7 win over Milford in a Tri-Valley League East Division tiebreaker Friday at Oneonta State. Milford led, 7-3, when Spranger stepped in the circle.
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Smith sets MCS record, but CV-S boys win T-V track title
Milford’s Brett Smith set a program record in the 200-meter dash last Thursday during the Tri-Valley League Track and Field Championships at Edmeston. Smith won in 22.8 seconds, which is the top 200 time of the season according to performances reported to The Daily Star through Monday. Before Thursday’s meet, Smith topped the area’s 200 list at 23.0 seconds.
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Annual KeyBank Bassett Medical Center Invitational set
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Continued ... - Friday, May 18, 2012
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Tri-Valley finals up in the air
Rain has put a damper on the championship schedules for baseball and softball. The Tri-Valley League finals may be pushed back as division titles remain up for grabs.
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CCS tennis clinches division
With a sweep of host Herkimer on Monday, Cooperstown tennis has clinched its division in the Center State Conference. The Redskins won 5-0, the second sweep of Herkimer this month, after a 5-0 win on May 4 in Cooperstown.
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Sauquoit Valley pitcher one-hits Cooperstown
Aaron LaPiccolo fell a swinging bunt short of a no-hitter and hit an RBI triple as host Sauquoit Valley clinched the Center State Conference Division III title with a 2-0 victory over Cooperstown on Monday. Sauquoit Valley finished 9-1 in league play. Cooperstown (10- 6) is 8-2 in conference. With one out in the fifth, Derek Liner hit a 40-footer toward third base for Cooperstown’s lone hit.
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Photo exhibit to open at Baseball Hall
The faces belong to another era, but the timelessness of the images remains seven decades after young Forrest S. Yantis snapped photos of his favorite ballplayers in a series of intimate, bust-length portraits.
Continued ... - Friday, May 11, 2012
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Larkin’s talking baseball a lot more these days
The only thing that has changed for Barry Larkin is his contact list. “People said it would change my life,” former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Larkin said of his election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, during his Class of 2012 orientation tour Saturday.
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“I don’t think it has changed my life, but it has changed who is calling me. I’ll get home and there will be a message from Richard (Goose) Gossage. Rod Carew called and I asked him, ‘Mr. Carew, what do I call you?’ He said, ‘Call me Rod,’ and I thought, ‘No way.’ Or my son says, ‘Dad, Hank Aaron just called you.’ -
Ford siblings power Cooperstown track and field teams
In no other sport is there a place for everyone short or tall, thin or heavy, speedy or just plain determined. With track and field, there is an event for everyone. Two high-powered Fords drive the 2012 Cooperstown track and field teams. Senior Jeremiah Ford was named Outstanding Athlete of The Meet at the Don Howard Invitational in Cooperstown on Saturday. He leads the boys, while younger sister Lucy is a key component of the girls program. The Redskins, led by Jeremiah, took the boys title with 106 points four better than runner-up OHS in the 11-team meet.
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Lady Redskins lose to Hamilton
Rebecca Rogers out dueled Cooperstown’s Nicole Cring as visiting Hamilton (13-0, 7-0), the No. 1 ranked team in Class D, beat the Redskins, 6-1, in a Center State Conference softball game on Monday. Rogers struck out 19 batters and pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the third inning for the complete game win. She gave up five hits and walked two.
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Milford wins home tournament
Kaley Chase Peggy Paffenroth and Michelle Paffenroth had three hits and combined for 10 RBIs as Milford defeated Sharon Springs, 21-6, in the final of its tournament on Saturday. Addy Lawson, Jordan Griffiths and Stephanie Ashe contributed two hits apiece for the Wildcats, who scored 11 runs in the first inning. Kaitlin VanWinkler and winning pitcher Chase combined on a five-hitter.
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MCS track and field athletes are standing out
Milford track athletes have been shining. Three MCS outdoor track and field records fell last week as the Wildcats swept a fourteam Tri-Valley League meet at home. On Saturday, Brett Smith was named OutstandingMale Runner at the Don Howard Invitational in Cooperstown. At the same meet, the girls relay team of Emilie Mertz, Alyssa Quick, Hannah Saggese and Avalon Ward won in a Tri-Valley League record time of 4:13.80.
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Cooperstsown duo among all-state picks
Cooperstown Central School’s Jay Davine and Michael Moaklerall are among the all-senior list of area all-state boys basketball selections, which were recently released by the New York State Sports Writers Association.
Continued ... - Thursday, May 3, 2012
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Double play keeps CCS on top
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C’town youth baseball league starts season
Hundreds of young baseball and softball players and their families paraded through the streets of Cooperstown on Saturday for Cooperstown Youth Baseball’s Opening Day, but to CYB president David Borgstrom, something was still amiss.
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CV-S coach: Team ‘back in the groove’
Three no-no’s – no hit, no run - victories over Tri-Valley League foes were just what the doctor ordered for the defending Tri-Valley League champions after getting off to a very rocky early-season start. After last Thursday’s win over Franklin, Cherry Valley-Springfield baseball coach Ed Dubben said: “We’re back in the groove.”
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Adams remains unbeatable in T-V
