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Here are some local high school varsity sports recaps from Saturday’s events:
Varsity Football: Homer vs. Westhill
Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
Homer | 20 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 61 |
Westhill | 0 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 27 |
The Homer Trojans defeated Westhill with a score of 61-27 in order to improve to an overall record of 5-1.
Homer’s points were scored by Sam Sorenson (2 rushing touchdowns), Logan Stauber (2 rushing touchdowns), Dominic Burlingame (1 rushing touchdown), Reid Partis (2 receiving touchdowns), Jeffrey Stauber (1 fumble return touchdown), Hunter Riehlman (1 rushing touchdown), Wyatt Wilbur (2 passing touchdowns), and Laramy Velazquez-Ramires (7 out of 9 extra point kicks made).
Westhill’s points were scored by Taden Chester (2 receiving touchdowns, 1 extra point kick & 1 two-point conversion), Keller O'Hern (1 receiving touchdown), Collin White (1 receiving touchdown), and Elijah Welch (4 touchdown passes).
Up next, Homer will take on Cortland for their annual Home-Cort Jug matchup this upcoming Friday (October 21st). This year’s rivalry game will be played at Cortland High School. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30pm.
Varsity Girls Soccer: Cincinnatus vs. Thousand Island
Team | 1st | 2nd | Final |
Cincinnatus | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Thousand Island | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Cincinnatus Lady Lions ended the regular season with an unbeaten record of 16-0 after beating Thousand Island with a final score of 4-0 on Saturday.
Cincinnatus was led by Cassia Schuyler (3 goals), Peyton Stith (1 goal), Kyla Sustad (2 assists), Jarisa Temple (1 assist), Madelyn Pittsley (1 assist).
Cincinnatus will be the #1 seed in the Section III Class D Playoff Tournament.
Up next, the Cincinnatus will host the winner between Remsen (9th seed) and DeRuyter (8th-seed) on Thursday (October 20th) at 3pm.
Varsity Girls Soccer: Cortland vs. Chittenango
Team | 1st | 2nd | Final |
Cortland | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Chittenango | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The Cortland Lady Tigers defeated Chittenango with a score of 2-1 in order to end the regular season with an overall record of 6-8-1.
With this result, Cortland qualified to play in the Section III Class B Playoff Tournament.
Throughout the game, Cortland was led by Lily Call (1 goal & 1 assist), Mallory Turner (1 goal), Mackenna Bulger (1 assist), and Lauren Mott (9 saves).
Chittenango was led by Abby Scheidelman (1 goal) and Rebecca Baldwin (7 saves).
Cortland (#7 seed) will host Hannibal (#10 seed) in the first round of the Section III Class B Playoff tournament.
(Note: If a team’s game recap was not shown in this article, it’s because scores and stats of their game were not made available to us by the time this article was published).