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Homer Varsity Girls Basketball: Elia Spanbauer scored 23 points in Homer’s win vs. Cazenovia on Tuesday. (Photo from The Cortland Voice’s 2023/24 Winter Media Day).
Here are some local high school varsity sports recaps from Tuesday’s events:
Varsity Girls Basketball: Homer vs. Cazenovia
| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
| Homer | 10 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 36 |
| Cazenovia | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 34 |
The Homer Lady Trojans improved to a 3-5 record after defeating Cazenovia with a score of 36-34 at Homer high school.
Homer sophomore Elia Spanbauer came in clutch in the last few seconds of the game, as she hit a game-winning buzzer-beating to give Homer the win. Spanbauer ended the game with 23 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist & 5 steals.
(Video from Homer central school’s Youtube page).
Following Spanbauer were Lauren Franco (8 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists & 2 steals), Anya Gofkowski (3 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 steals & 1 block), and Madison Morgan (2 points & 1 rebound).
Cazenovia was led by Ella Baker (12 points, 9 rebounds & 2 steals), Hayden Bubble (9 points & 1 steal), and Bess Johnson (8 points & 1 rebound), Jocelyn Szalach (4 points, 7 rebounds & 1 steal), and Sophie Rheaume (1 point & 1 rebound).
Homer’s next game will be played against Owego Apalachin at Homer high school this Friday (January 5th) at 6:45pm.
Varsity Boys Basketball: Cincinnatus vs. Hamilton
| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
| Cincinnatus | 14 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 43 |
| Hamilton | 15 | 12 | 15 | 20 | 62 |
The Cincinnatus Lions lost 43-62 against Hamilton on the road Friday evening. With this loss, Cincinnatus has fallen to an overall record of 3-4.
Cincinnatus was led by John Schuyler (18 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists & 3 steals), Jack Stafford (12 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists & 2 blocks), Canden Stafford (6 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists & 3 steals), Trevor Shevalier (5 points, 10 rebounds & 4 blocks), and Mason Walker (2 points).
Hamilton was led by Drew Baker (30 points, 3 steals & 4 blocks), Andreas Cardelus-Watkins (11 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist & 6 steals), Teddy Freeth (9 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists & 4 steals), Luke Langel (8 points, 2 assists & 3 steals), Gavin Snyder (2 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist & 1 steal), and Luke Jackson (2 points, 2 rebounds, 7 assists & 2 steals).
Up next, Cincinnatus will look forward to playing at home against Fabius-Pompey this upcoming Friday (January 5th) at 7pm.
(Note: Cortland County Coaches send scores & stats for us to use for our recaps. 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).
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