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February 10, 2012

Cooperstown boys show up to play

Defeat Division I champs 79-58

BY GREG KLEIN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Cooperstown’s boys scored 33 points in the second quarter and cruised to a 79-58 non-league victory over visiting Sherburne- Earlville in a matchup of Center State Conference division winners Saturday.

After just one quarter host Cooperstown showed they were there to play ball. Both teams came into the game undefeated in their division. It looked like game-on. The Division III champion Cooperstown boys led the Division I champs S-E 14-8 after one quarter. Then the Redskins went on a 21-2 run. Game over.

“They’re a good team,” Cooperstown coach Dave Bertram said. “We played very well against them. We played well from the start of the game, and I thought that was a key.”

On the night Cooperstown honored eight seniors to start the show, and cut down their nets to celebrate the CSC D III title to end the night, they also blew out the Mauraders, 79-58.

Jeremiah Ford had 18 points to lead the Redskins. Ford scored eight of the team’s first 10 points as Cooperstown started the game on a 10-2 run.

In the second quarter, Ford and Michael Moakler combined for the team’s first 11 points, Ford had six and Moakler five.

The Mauraders got a basket from Carter Cole in the first minute of the quarter to make the score 16-10, but then went scoreless for five minutes, and without a field goal for six minutes. By the time Randy Briggs made a three-point basket with 1:21 left in the half, S-E trailed 40-14. At halftime, it was 47-18.

Michael Rowley and Jeff Flynn also had big second quarters to lead the Redskins. Flynn came off the bench for nine points and Rowley had eight.

In the third quarter, Cooperstown led by as many as 34 points several times before sitting all of its starters in the fourth quarter. In addition to Ford’s gamehigh 18 points, Cooperstown (15- 1, 8-0) got 14 points from Rowley and Flynn, and 11 from Moakler. Sherburne-Earlville (13-4, 8-0), which hosts the Redskins on Friday, was led by Paul Romanenko’s 13 points and Sam Caton’s 11 points. Cooperstown is at Sauquoit Valley Tuesday.

The eight seniors honored

by Cooperstown were Ford,

Moakler, Flynn, Jay Davine, Sam

Bowen, Wesley Lippitt, Harrison

Clinton and Ben Pierson.

COOPERSTOWN 79, S-E 58

SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE (13-4): Randy Briggs

2 0-0 5, Carter Cole 1 0-0 2,

Jesse Yerton 1 0-2 2, Sam Caton 3 5-9 11, Paul

Romanenko 3 1-2 8, John

McDaniel 0 0-0 0, Cole Hodges 1 4-4 7, Mick

Khoury 2 2-5 6, Austin

Jasper 4 5-7 13, Thomas Knickerbocker 0 0-0

0, Matt Rajczi 1 0-0 2,

Chris Marquard 1 0-2 2. TOTALS: 19 17-31

58.

COOPERSTOWN (15-1): Jay Davine 2 0-1 4,

Jeremiah Ford 9 0-3 18,

Harrison Clinton 2 0-0 5, Sam Bowen 1 1-2 3,

Michael Moakler 5 1-1 11,

Jeff Flynn 4 4-5 14, Ben Pierson 1 0-0 2,

Michael Rowley 7 0-0 14,

Sawyer Haney 0 2-2 2, Ethan Bliss 0 0-0 0,

Nicolas Knull 2 0-0 4,

Derek Liner 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 35 8-14 79.

Sherburne-Earlville 8 10 16 24 _ 58

Cooperstown 14 33 19 13 _ 79

Three-point field goals: S 3 (Briggs,

Romanenko, Hodges); C 3 (Flynn

2, Clinton). JV score: S-E won.

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