Soccer boys beat Markham for 10th win

Girls fall to Clinton, 3-1, cross country wins four meets at Westmoreland

(Cooper Bradley dribbles past a Mount Markham defender on Thursday. Photo by Greg Klein.)

BOYS SOCCER
Cooperstown 1, Mount Markham 0

WEST WINFIELD — Senior P.J. Kiuber’s second-half goal stood up as Cooperstown won a Center State Conference Division II match, 1-0, over rival Mount Markham on Thursday, Oct. 6.

After a restart just outside the Mustang 18, senior Colby Diamond passed the ball to Kiuber who boomed it from the left side of the box to the right corner of the goal.

The first half of the game was back and forth, with Cooperstown taking more offense in the second half.

Both teams had nine shots on goal. Cooperstown had a 5-4 advantage in corner kicks. Cooperstown’s Charlie Lambert and Mount Markham’s Nate Pcola each had five saves.

“That’s how even this game was,” Cooperstown Coach Frank Miosek said. “Our stats are nearly identical.”

Cooperstown (10-1-2, 8-0-2) hosts Utica Academy of Science for a CSC non-division match at 4:30 p.m, Tuesday, Oct. 11.

For more on the Cooperstown boys soccer team, check out my story on Nate Lull’s website, www.natelull.com/articles.

GIRLS SOCCER
Clinton 3, Cooperstown 1

Junior Sophia Hotaling scored but host Cooperstown lost a Center State Conference non-division match to Clinton on Thursday.

Paige Luke had two goals for Clinton, which also got a score from Lydia Detraglia and an assist from Abby Hemstrought.

“It was a tough week for us but we will be ready Tuesday for our 7 p.m. game against Waterville,” Coach Jennifer Pindar said.

Sophomore Brenna Seamon had 11 saves for the Hawkeyes. Deanna Heintz had seven saves for Clinton.

Cooperstown (9-4-1, 3-3-1) will host Waterville for homecoming at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11.

CROSS COUNTRY
Coop boys win four Wednesday

Coach Jessie Ravage turned in this write-up from the Westmoreland meet.

WESTMORELAND — Cooperstown’s cross country team traveled to Westmoreland for the fourth week of the Center State Conference regular season Wednesday, Oct. 4. The team also met New York Mills, Poland and West Canada Valley on the flat-as-a-table grass, crushed rock and cinder course. The 1.5-mile modified course loops around school playing fields. The varsity course, which measured more than 5K on GPS watches, adds a long and lonely loop in the woods that returns on a disused railroad berm and pops back onto campus under an old power line. Those who ran at Westmoreland last year in the last week of the season all exceeded those race times.  Many of our first-year runners appear to have found a flat day a good time to step out and record fast times, even over a longer route.

Cooperstown’s varsity boys won all four meets in dual scoring, bringing them to 13-2 overall in the conference. Westmoreland was a divisional win, bringing that tally to 2-2. Team scores were 15-inc v Poland, 18-inc v WCV, 25-33 v NYM, and 19-41 v Westmoreland. Cooperstown’s Carter Stevens posted a first-place finish in 17:50.  Jacob Johnson finished fourth in 20:12. Jonah Hitchcock followed in sixth (20:27).  Lincoln DiLorenzo and Albert Caulier were the team’s fourth and fifth runners in 21:07 (11th) and 21:47 (12th). Fred Hodgson was 14th (22:40) followed by Elias MacLeish in 16th (23:47). Brendan Heavner and Theo Feury were two seconds apart in 20th and 21st (24:16 and 24:18). Jack Yorke (24:56, 23rd) and Ryles Sheldon (25:26, 25th) rounded out the squad. Tanner Griffin and Caleb Hitchcock were absent.

Cooperstown fielded four runners in the varsity girls race. Poland didn’t field girls, and the other teams were complete so the girls lost three more dual meets despite having strong runners. In individual races, Cooperstown’s Margaret Raffo finished fourth (22:47) followed by Annie Walker in fifth (24:34). Polly Kennedy was 9th in 26:08. Spencer Crowson completed the course in 46:55.

Cooperstown’s Owen Capozza Flannigan finished first in 9:22. Seton Davis Fralick was 14th (12:19). Ryan Norwood was 17th (13:56). George Riesenfeld was unable to race. Nora Craig and Annika Murray stayed home after a thorough soaking on the school camping trip the night before. Carleigh Williams did not finish the race because of a sore hip.