Sports Snippets: October 24, 2024
Cooperstown Soccer Finishes Strong
COOPERSTOWN—The Cooperstown boys soccer team beat Sauquoit Valley 2-1 in a Division II match on Tuesday, October 15. Junior Jameson Gable opened the scoring early in the first half and junior Jackson Crisman scored the winning goal with seven minutes remaining in the game. Junior Cooper Coleman made four saves.
The Hawkeyes dropped their final regular season game 1-0 to Westmoreland/Oriskany on Saturday, October 19. Cooperstown outshot their opponents 9-7 but were unable to cash in. Coleman made four more saves. They finished the season with an 11-5 record and received the number 7 seed for the playoffs. They will host Frankfort-Schuyler at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23.
The Cooperstown girls rolled to a 6-0 victory over Waterville on Wednesday, October 16.
Ruby Stevenson put away a goal and three assists, and junior Mia Pelcer had a goal and an assist. Freshmen Claire Baldo and Eleanor Walker, sophomore Sophia Johnson and senior Mia Kaltenbach also scored. Senior Brenna Seamon made three saves in the first half, followed by four from Pelcer and one from junior Kayleigh Butler in the second.
Stevenson scored twice more as the Hawkeyes shut out Dolgeville 3-0 in their final regular-season match on Friday, October 18. Pelcer scored in the first half, and Seamon made seven more saves. With a complete season record of 8-8, the girls received the number 9 seed in the Section III Class C playoffs, and will face Frankfort-Schuyler after press time on Tuesday, October 22.
CCS Cross Country Season Ends
COOPERSTOWN—Cooperstown’s cross country teams ran in their fifth and final regular-season meet on a muddy course in Canastota on Wednesday, October 16. The boys finished the season with a 5-0 record in their division and 15-2 overall. Owen Capozza Flannigan led the pack, finishing fifth in 20:30. He was followed closely by Hu Agostino (sixth, 20:46), Brendan Heavner (seventh, 20:57), Elias MacLeish (11th, 22:26) and Theo Feury (13th, 23:20). Cooperstown’s Nora Craig finished first in the girls race with a time of 23:16, and Olivia Temp came in sixth in 25:59.
