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West Genny baseball runs past Liverpool

Randall's dash secures 4-3 win over defending AA champs

Enough bad weather popped up in the spring so that the West Genesee baseball team had to play five times in the last week of the regular season, two of them made up from previous postponements. Of those games, none had more importance than Wednesday’s clash with defending Class AA champion Liverpool, which was supposed to happen April 23.

J-E girls lax wins twice, reaches .500 mark

Marcellus rolls to much-needed win over Westhill

For a quartet of local girls lacrosse teams, just reaching the Section III playoffs was enough of a chore, and not all of them would get there. Of them, it turned out that Jordan-Elbridge carried the most momentum, a late-season surge capped by beating the combined Bishop Ludden/Bishop Grimes entry 11-8 last Wednesday to improve its mark to 8-8.

West Genny lacrosse sides sweep into playoffs

Girls top F-M again; boys beat Corcoran to go to 15-1

Again, West Genesee’s lacrosse teams enter the Section III playoffs fully expecting to finish with two more championships to add to the winning tradition.

Marcellus boys lax handles Westhill again

Mustangs complete regular-season sweep of Warriors, 11-6

All the momentum the Westhill boys lacrosse team thought it had picked up by knocking off state-ranked CBA on May 11 did not last long. The Warriors met Marcellus in Wednesday’s regular-season finale, and the Mustangs, coming off its own tough defeat to Homer, would recover by beating the Warriors 11-6.

Golf teams compete in West End Classic

Westhill finishes second; girls vie for OHSL honors

All of the area’s boys golf teams gathered last Monday at Bellevue Country Club for the annual West End Classic. Westhill shot 207, finishing second, one shot behind Skaneateles. Jordan-Elbridge posted 224, while Marcellus shot 225 and Solvay had 231.

Westhill baseball rallies past Marcellus, 5-3

Godzak shakes off poor start, earns 17 strikeouts

For the briefest moment Tuesday afternoon, the Marcellus baseball team had to feel like it was 2011 all over again. Just like in last year’s Section III Class B playoffs, the Mustangs were leading rival Westhill and appeared to solve the Warriors’ left-handed ace, Alex Godzak, in the process. Not long after that, though, reality returned, in the form of Godzak dominating on the mound and the Mustangs seeing its lead slip away in a tough 5-3 defeat.

Local track teams vie for OHSL Liberty honors

Host Marcellus has best team finish; Solvay's McLeod wins twice

Each of the nine Onondaga High School League Liberty division track and field teams gathered Monday at Marcellus for the league championship meet. In both instances, the host Mustangs fared best among local sides, rising to third place in the boys meet with 72 points, trailing only CBA, who won with 132 points, and Hannibal, who was second with 108 points.

West Genny tennis edges Baldwinsville, 4-3

Marcellus sweeps Westhill, clinches winning record

Earning its most impressive win of the season, the West Genesee boys tennis team went to Baldwinsville Monday afternoon and had a nice balance between singles and doubles play to fight past the Bees 4-3.

Solvay softball beats Marcellus, goes to 11-1

Bearcats keep pace with Homer after Trojans edge Westhill

Continuing its rise up the state Class B rankings, the Solvay softball team was also interested in hanging on to the top spot in the OHSL Liberty division, especially since Homer was keeping pace and the two sides would meet to close the regular season – and possibly decide the league title.

J-E boys lax goes 2-0; Westhill stuns CBA

Entering the last full week of the regular season, the Jordan-Elbridge boys lacrosse team carried a 3-9 record, but would get wins on back-to-back days.

WG baseball beats B’ville, Syracuse West

Softball Wildcats earn no-hitter as D'Avirro returns

From the beginning of this season, West Genesee’s baseball team has counted on Sean Pisik as a stopper, earning key wins whenever it was really needed.

Marcellus baseball sweeps Solvay

Mustangs' win streak halts with weekend defeats

Denied a chance at upending Westhill by last Tuesday’s heavy rains, the Marcellus baseball team instead set its sights on another neighbor to continue its late-season surge. The Mustangs met Solvay twice in three days, and won them both to extend its win streak to six games before finally cooling off in a Saturday doubleheader.

Westhill baseball drops rematch to Homer

Warriors held to two hits; softball side also beaten by Trojans

In the short span of a week, the Westhill baseball team’s elite status – unbeaten, no. 1 in the state in Class B – has taken a couple of hits, and even the weather didn’t cooperate. This rough patch culminated Thursday afternoon, when the Warriors fell 1-0 to Homer, exactly one week after Westhill beat those same Trojans 2-0 at home in what was, at the time, a clash of two unbeaten sides.

Wildcats pound Liverpool in boys lacrosse duel

Glesener sets tone, finishes with five goals

Ted Glesener found the key to solving a zone defense - take accurate shots, frequently. Because Glesener did so, the West Genesee boys lacrosse team once again asserted itself as the Class A team to beat, dominating from start to finish in a 14-4 victory over Liverpool Thursday night at Wildcat Stadium.

Marcellus track sweeps Westhill, Solvay

Garn, Fallon leads girls Mustangs with six combined wins

All the rain stopped just as the Marcellus, Solvay and Westhill/Bishop Ludden track and field teams got together for a big local meet Tuesday afternoon on the Mustangs’ home track.

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