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DAVE ECKHARDT

Pierce guides young Eden squad to Burgio named MVP program’s 12th state championship

By Marquel Slaughter SPORTS REPORTER

DAVE ECKHARDT

The Eden girls volleyball team has made 15 state tournament appearances in a row and has collected 11 NYSPHSAA championships during that span.

By Marquel Slaughter SPORTS REPORTER

GLENS FALLS – Some may fold and others will succeed when it comes to carrying on tradition. There were plenty of factors that could have been logical explanations for Eden to either continue its impressive state championship run or fall just short.

For the roster Stephen Pierce coached this fall on the volleyball court, the latter was simply not an option.

Eden brought home a sixth straight state championship after dropping Broadalbin Perth – a Section II program in its first state tournament appearance – in straight sets

to capture the NYSPHSAA Class C championship.

And if you watched them play during the entirety of the state tournament Nov. 15-16 at the Glens Falls Civic Center, you would recognize how the Lady Raiders carried themselves as if every single one of them were a part of the five consecutive championships that came before them.

“I was really impressed with this team all year, especially towards the end,” said Pierce.

“People don’t realize, never mind this is a pressure-filled situation, a team like this that has many teams before it succeeding, especially five in a row, it really weighs heavily on their shoulders. And for them to come in with real confidence I was really impressed.”

ThehalfadozenNYSPHSAA tournament titles in a row makes up half of the state championship plaques that Eden’s girls volleyball program has earned, which is a New York State all-time best.

Last weekend was the 15th consecutive year that Pierce has led the Raiders to a state tournament appearance. They have collected 11 titles in that span. The first NYS championship came in 1996.

Game 1 to Southwestern in the Section VI Class C1 final was the only set Eden surrendered in its playoff run, including sweeps of Alden, City Honors, CattaraugusLittle Valley/Ellicottville in the Class C crossover game, Section III Cazenovia in the Far West Regional and

even Spackenkill (Section IX), Mattituck (Section XI) and Broadalbin Perth in the NYSPHSAA pool play semifinals, recording a 6-0 mark in the Class C tournament despite the mixture of veterans, youth and emerging stars on this season’s roster.

“I said it wrong last time,” said Pierce in reference to a ‘D-I’ quote after the Far West Regionals. “What I wanted to say was this isn’t a team of obvious stars. I mean, Sam [Burgio] was big for us offensively, but let me tell you, people like Kailey Ballou and Molly Breier really handled the pressure and delivered the ball.”

See “Champs” on page B3

GLENS FALLS – It has been a pretty busy five months for Sam Burgio.

Already with three state titles under her belt, she helped her Niagara Frontier Volleyball 15-1 travel club team win a national championship this summer and become the first team in New York State history to capture a national title.

S h e followed that up with a sophomore season at Eden in which she garnered MostValuable Player honors at the NYSPHSAA Class C tournament held Nov. 15-16 at the Glens Falls Civic Center, where she led the Lady Raiders to a 12th state championship.

“No, I did not expect to be MVP. I did not expect it at all,” Burgio said, still surprised that she won the award after helping Eden conquer Section II Broadalbin Perth in straight sets to capture the program’s sixth straight state title. “I was really happy when that happened. It’s nice.”

“It’s just a great accomplishment to be a part of two great teams in one year. It’s just a great feeling and I love my team,” she said, mustering enough strength to hold back tears.

Burgio, who has recently been garnering attention from Division I programs like the University of Maryland, tallied 22 kills in the final to take home the top individual honor at states.

While the pool play semifinals saw junior

Meghan Ballou and senior co-captains Bri Tutuska and Kailey Ballou getting a lot of work, Burgio was clearly the go-to player in the final, as senior Claire Czajka and sophomores Molly Breier and Alyssa Durski set up passes for Burgio early and often, right from the start of the Class C championship game.

“It kind of just evolved that way,” said Eden head coach Stephen Pierce, who also coaches Burgio on the NFVB 15-1s. “Yesterday I thought our middles were scoring really well. We struggled a little bit with that connection early on so, OK, Sam seemed to have the hot hand and they were just delivering balls to her.

See “MVP” on page B3

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The Sun / Thursday, November 20, 2014

Frontier friends validate athletic success on same day, sign letters of intent to play Divison I in college

By Tom Gallagher SPORTS EDITOR

McKyla Brooks and Courtney Courtade have a lot in common. So much, in fact, that it’s easy to see why they’ve been good friends since the sixth grade.

The Frontier seniors share a friend circle. They’ve both been standout varsity athletes and heavily-courted Division I prospects for a number of years. The two have even had the same coach at Frontier despite excelling in different sports.

They added another layer of common ground on Monday (Nov. 21) at Frontier High School.

Brooks and Courtade both signed a National Letter of Intent to continue their playing careers in college. Brooks officially committed to Stony Brook, where she’ll join both the volleyball and track teams, while Courtade signed to play softball at the University of Albany.

And the similarities don’t end there. Brooks’ volleyball coach and Courtade’s softball coach, Debby Schruefer, suggested that the seniors’ common character traits have had much to do with their success in athletics.

“With these two, their work ethics are very much the same,” said Schruefer, who has coached volleyball at Frontier for 30 years and softball for 27. “They’re very committed to their teammates and to the program. They’re great leaders with great attitudes and are very coachable.

“You look forward to stepping on the court or the field with these young women.”

It’s not just their leadership that make that so, though.

Both possess the skill one would expect from a Division I-bound athlete.

Brooks helped the Frontier volleyball team to a sectional championship in 2013 and led the Falcons to a finals appearance this past season. A powerful hitter with a strong net presence, she expects to fit in nicely on the Seawolves volleyball team and believes she has a chance to start as early as next year in head coach Coley Pawlikowski’s three-middle rotation.

Meanwhile, she’ll also be taking her track and field talents to Stony Brook. Brooks placed second in both the long and triple jumps at the state championship meet in outdoor last season. Her state-qualifying triple jump of 39 feet, 3 inches set a new Section VI record. As a sophomore, she took first in the event at states.

Brooks, unlike many student-athletes, never had a dream school. She just knew she wanted to compete at the Division I level. When Stony

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Courtney Courtade and McKyla Brooks signed their letters of intent to continue their athletic careers in college. From left to right: Frontier volleyball and softball coach Debby Schruefer, Courtade, Brooks, and track coach Edwin Streety.

Brook began to court her in both of her sports, she knew it was going to be an easy decision to sign there.

She verbally committed a few months ago.

“The campus was really nice. The atmosphere was great. Everyone was so nice,” said Brooks, who also visited UB and Clemson. “The coaches and the team — I got to meet the team and they were so nice. Everybody.

It wasn’t tough [to choose Stony Brook]. That was my top school.”

Courtade, on the other hand, verbally committed to Albany back in February.

She’d been communicating with the school since as early as her sophomore year, her first season on varsity.

A versatile player that can

play pretty much any position on the field, Courtade expects to figure into the Great Danes’ outfield. For the Falcons, she’s played second base and been extremely valuable at the plate, where she hit “around .325,” according to Schruefer, and led the team in stolen bases in 2014.

Courtade said officially signing her letter of intent was “a dream come true.”

“I’ve been wanting to play Division I ever since I started playing travel softball,” Courtade said. “I worked as hard as I possibly could to get here. And I’m just glad to know it’s paying off.”

Courtade’s hard work didn’t just come on the diamond.

She’s involved in a number of extracurricular activities, including the Student Athletic

Frontier to host Lions Basketball Tip-off Tournament starting Dec. 2

Committee and Varsity Club, and has maintained a high GPA academically.

“I can not even believe how she balances working out, playing travel, playing for school, doing all of that and still giving 110 percent to school,” said Courtney’s mom, Judy Courtade.

Another trait the seniors share is humility. Both Brooks and Courtade are cognizant of the fact that their athletic successes have largely been the product of the support and knowledge they’ve gained from coaches, parents, family and friends.

Brooks was very quick to credit her mother, Joy Lehman, who was on hand, for encouraging her to join the volleyball and track teams in the first place.

“I don’t know where I would be if she didn’t tell me to sign up for those sports,” said Brooks, who went on to list her uncle, her grandmother, Schruefer and Frontier track coach Edwin Streety as positive influences during her career.

Lehman said that she was proud “to the moon and back” of her daughter’s accomplishments.

“She’s worked so hard to get to this point,” Lehman said.

“This just means a lot today.”

Courtade’s parents, Judy and Joe, were also at Frontier to see their daughter validate her status as a top-echelon student-athlete.

Courtade’s journey on the diamond actually began

under her mother’s tutelage.

She began playing when she was 8 years old and the first team she ever played on was a Hamburg Breakers team coached by Judy.

“My parents have been a huge part of this,” said Courtade, who also called Schruefer and travel coach Chris Swiatek influential in shaping her into the player she’s become. “All the time and effort they’ve put into this — I can’t thank them enough.”

While Brooks and Courtade will head to different schools in 2015, neither expect their friendship to end. In fact, Stony Brook and Albany are rival schools in the America East Conference — meaning the two may cross paths quite often anyways.

That detail made their shared signing day even more special.

“We’ll be playing each other, obviously different sports,” Courtade said. “It’s just kind of nice to know that somebody else in my school, especially one of my best friends, she knows what it feels like to work as hard as I did.”

“It’s so special,” Brooks added. “She’s my best friend, we’ve been together since sixth grade, we hang out all the time. It’s cool to know that best friends are both signing to Divison I colleges and in the same conference.” We get to visit each other; I’ll go to her games and she’ll come to mine.”

May to compete at NYSPHSAA championships

By Marquel Slaughter SPORTS REPORTER

A swimmer that used to dabble in martial arts, Hannah May took a liking to diving on Eden’s varsity swimming and diving team in middle school.

May enjoyed the sport, but never took it as serious as she does now until she noticed her skill level impel beyond those of the ones that taught herself how to dive.

“She was a year older than me but she dove for three years before I did,” said May. “I started beating her scores so I’m like ‘I can take this pretty seriously.’”

May has seen much success on the diving board since then but has finally reached her goal at qualifying for states as a senior.

She will compete at the NYSPHSAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Ithaca College this weekend, from Nov. 21-22.

“I wanted to qualify for states. I was pushing for states last year and I was about 20 points off,” she said.

This weekend May will become the first diver at Eden to compete at states since Alaina Tabaczynski did it in 1996 and 1998.

Just as the diving board moves upon the completion of a dive, May has had an up and down journey throughout her diving career.

She was a quick learner and a prodigy when she won her class’s ECIC diving title as a sophomore. She did

not repeat until her senior season, not doing quite as well as she hoped at ECICs and sectionals during her junior year.

“Really her sophomore year she picked it up,” said Eden coach Colleen Kot, who coaches May with Ivan Bitnun. “Last year we thought she would get the record and this year she really matured into harder dives.

Placing fifth overall as a senior, May placed 13th at the Section VI Diving Championships as a sophomore and a junior.

She credits her evolution to switching clubs. Now she trains with Wings Diving at UB after spending time at Fredonia.

“Going there three nights a week, coming here and then going right to that practice, she has put in a lot of time,” said Kot. “We were happy when she broke the record and even more ecstatic when she qualified for states.”

May qualified for the state meet at Grand Island at the end of the regular season.

“I knew the state qualifying number, but unfortunately my coaches like to hide things from me and they never tell me where I’m at,” May said. And all of a sudden I get out of the water, the scores are being read, I hear Bitnun scream ‘Yes!’ My friend, Julie Coomer, runs over squealing and she just gave me a big hug. That’s when I knew I made it.”

“The first day in seventh grade Kot literally announced ‘Who wants to be a diver?’ and I’m like ‘Sure, I’ll try it.’ And that’s how I got started.”

May plans on diving in college, but first she will participate in her final high school meet this weekend at states.

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The Sun / Thursday, November 20, 2014

Bulldogs better under Schiappa

By Marquel Slaughter SPORTS REPORTER

When Tony Schiappa first arrived at Hamburg, the boys soccer program had mustered just one winning season in over a decade.

The commitment he and his coaching staff have given to the program has given much promise to the future of the Bulldogs on the pitch.

Hamburg won nine games in Schiappa’s first year at the helm with the season ending in the Class A1 quarterfinals.

He followed that up by helping the team make a number of substantial marks, including most wins in a season (16), the first division title in 20 years and a sectional championship game appearance.

All in two years of work.

“When I was a sophomore the program wasn’t where it was supposed to be. We had quality players and a good coach at the time, there just wasn’t enough chemistry on the team,” said Hamburg midfielder Shane Greene. This year coach [Schiappa] told us we really had to bond to make it where we want to make it… he really emphasized chemistry and the technique we all have.

DAVE ECKHARDT

Tony Schiappa has led Hamburg to two winning seasons since taking over the program.

Summer practice kids staying after and being a team is what we strive for and what he strives for.”

Schiappa has had experience coaching many standout athletes on the varsity and club level, including Greene, who recently committed to play soccer at Canisius College next fall, and Niagara University freshman Brandon Galante, whom Schiappa coached with the Empire Buffalo 17 premier team.

While club and high school are a night and day comparison in every facet of the game, Schiappa took that experience from the premier level and flipped it onto the high school to propel Hamburg to monumental success.

“The first year Tony came we had our first successful season in I don’t know how long,” said Aric Huber. “He showed us not so much how to win but the right way of thinking and how to be successful in soccer,

play as a team and play for each other.”

“We have higher expectations than last year, and last year was a 9-6 year,” Schiappa said at the beginning of the season, eventually leading Hamburg to top 10 spots in the state rankings. “We ended up going to the quarterfinals last year, and with the players we have coming back and the amount of work they put in in the weight room and our spring and summer program there’s no doubt in my mind we can even be better than 9-6.”

Hamburg did just that, dusting off defending sectional champion – and Schiappa’s alma mater – Williamsville East and avenging playoff losses to Sweet Home along the way.

Although the Bulldogs fell just short of a sectional championship in a crushing loss to Williamsville South, there is little doubt that Hamburg will return to compete at the same level next year and beyond, thanks to the emergence of Schiappa and the commitment his players has given to the program.

“To get to this point it’s a 12-month process…the work we’ve put in the last 10 months got us here, and we’re going to have to put that same work in the next 10 months,” Schiappa said after the sectional championship game loss. “I told the guys to take a couple of weeks off, but we’ll be right at it because this feeling stinks and it stings and we’re going to do everything we can to be on the other side of it next time.”

Burgio burst onto Eden volleyball scene as seventh grader, gave up basketball “MVP” from page B1 “That’s kind of what you do in this game. It’s the same thing you do in basketball, feeding the hot shooter. We were just trying to get balls to her.”

Burgio used to play basketball until she stopped to see how far she could go with volleyball if her and her family completely focused on the fall sport.

She was a part of Eden’s 2011 state championship team as a seventh grader but did not receive a starting role until her eighth grade year. Burgio has propelled into a huge contributor on Eden’s attack since then, even combining for 15 kills alongside Kailey Ballou in last year’s state final.

“To be a younger player and have such a big role on the team, I have nothing to lose,” Burgio noted. “I just have to come out strong and show everybody I deserve to be on the court.”

Kailey joined Meghan Ballou and Burgio on this year’s NYSPHSAA all-tournament team with a 13-kill performance.

Meghan had eight kills and

two blocks.

“When we really needed Kailey to get a key side out kill for us and transition, and she was hitting the ball really hard,” said Pierce.

With standout names like Lainy Pierce and Heather Holscher – two of a highly exclusive group of athletes to have captured five state championships in their high school careers – graduating last June, it could have been easy to question how well Eden could do this fall and beyond. But with talent coming from players like Meghan Ballou, Alyssa Durski, Molly Breier and Paiton Basinski, all of whom were starters this fall, coming back with Burgio, the emergence of young talent and chemistry should keep Eden on top for years to come.

“As a team we’re a lot closer this year and we know everybody’s strengths and weaknesses,” said Burgio. “We just take advantage of our strengths.”

“Being a part of such a good team is a great feeling.”

Balone nabs 11-pointer

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Gary Balone shot this 11-pointer on Saturday, Nov. 15 — opening day for deer huting season.

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Burgio serves during the state championship.

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Ballou sisters, Burgio bring in state accolades “Champs” from page B1

DAVE ECKHARDT

Eden’s seniors pose with the NYSPHSAA championship plaque on Nov. 16.

Eden’s talent on the roster was not dependent on age and the proof is in the alltournament team selections.

Senior co-captain Kailey Ballou joined her younger sister, junior Meghan Ballou, on the NYSPHSAA AllTournament team. Meghan was selected as a sophomore during the 2013 title run.

Even younger than them was Sam Burgio, a sophomore who racked up 22 kills in the final to earn MVP honors of the state tournament.

Kailey Ballou had 13 kills while Meghan recorded eight kills and two blocks. Senior co-captain Bri Tutuska, who recently committed to Bucknell as a Division I track and field athlete, put down four kills and three blocks.

“I knew this was the last year I could help show what Eden volleyball is all about, and being a captain I really wanted to lead the team to another state championship and my last,” said Kailey.

Breier, whome Pierce calls “a real vocal leader,” and Claire Czajka helped pick up the digs and set up the offense while Alyssa Durski while everywhere, blocking at the net, setting up the hitters with passes and even tallying aces at the service line.

Eighth grader Paiton Basinski and senior Carley Nasca were also essential up front at the net for Eden.

“And that’s really what I thought. It was a whole team effort,” said Pierce. “We ended up playing, regularly, nine kids. That’s a lot. Even the kids that weren’t playing much were very enthused and really positively supporting the others. That’s the really nice thing about this team.”

After defeating Broadalbin Perth 25-6, 25-16 in pool play, Eden beat the Patriots 25-16, 25-18, 25-14 in the final, finding itself in a 4-10 hole during the second set before the senior leadership and clutch play of Nasca, Czajka, Tutuska and Kaley got the team back into the game.

“We put ourselves in a hole there in the second game with a whole bunch of missed

serves, unforced errors, ball dropping, but they kept their cool,” Pierce noted. “And again, our seniors, Kailey played solid, had a lot of key plays. They inched us back to even and then we took off.”

“It was great to come out with a third state championship,” said Tutuska. “I was really excited the whole time.

We played with a lot of energy.

Usually we’re really quite, but we were really loud this last game, which is much different than normal.”

No one seemed a match for the Raiders in pool play, either. The likes of Meghan Cassidy, Sam Logan, Sarah Hooper, Angie Cala, Hannah Cialone and Carly DiNardo even contributed to putting games away to help the seniors graduate with another title.

“Because it was my last year ever playing volleyball again, I just knew I had to do my best because I didn’t want to regret not going for a ball or something like that,” said Nasca, an All-WNY first team pitcher who helped Eden’s softball program win a state championship in June alongside Breier. “I just tried to leave everything on the court and do my best.”

“This was my last volleyball game ever and I’m happy my last game was winning states,” added Czajka.

Williamsville South (Class B) and Portville (Class D) also won state championships last weekend, helping Section VI in a sweep at the NYSPHSAA championships with a 3-0 mark.

There have been hundreds of girls that have contributed to the state tournament run believed to be unmatched by any other sport in NYS, but Pierce will never forget how the skills, ages and chemistry gelled together perfectly for his 2014 NYSPHSAA championship team.

“What I was most impressed with from this team was how tight they were,” said Pierce.

“Very close friends, very supportive of each other. I think that helped them more than anything.”

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The Sun / Thursday, November 20, 2014

PRO FOOTBALL CORNER

FROM the SIDELINES

Jackson family shows support for D3 athlete with cancer

By Tom Gallagher SPORTS EDITOR

Bills running back Fred Jackson stood at his locker Nov. 17 at One Bills Drive wearing a gray t-shirt that read “D3 Nation” across the chest.

D3 Nation, of course, is the organization Jackson created to help “strengthen bonds and foster pride among Division III athletes,” according to D3-Nation. com.

Having played football for a D-III program at Coe College, from where he graduated in 2003, Jackson has long been connected to to Division III athletics.

That connection factored into his decision to visit Mount St. Joseph University during the Bills’ bye week a few weeks ago.

Jackson, along with his wife, Danielle, and their four children, visited the Division III

school to see women’s basketball player Lauren Hill play her very first game at the collegiate level.

Hill, a freshman for the Lions, has inoperable brain cancer.

And on Nov. 2 — almost an entire year after she was diagnosed and told she’d have two years to live — Jackson was in Cincinnati to see her score four points in a Mount St. Joseph victory.

The ninth-year NFL veteran said that he admired the passion that Hill exhibited for the game in carrying out her dream despite her condition.

“For her, all she wanted to do was be a competitor and play basketball,” Jackson said. “I know how that feels, to just want a chance to do it. That’s all she wanted and it was something that I respected.

“We heard her story and the bye week was perfect that we were

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Bills running back Fred Jackson visited Mount St. Joseph women’s basketball player Lauren Hill, who has cancer, during a game on Nov. 2. able to go. So we decided to go down and show our support.”

While in Ohio, the Jackson family got a chance to meet Hill, who wears the same number as Fred — 22.

And it turned out that she shared more than just a number with him. Both know what it means to overcome adversity and long odds to live out their dreams.

Jackson said it was inspiring to meet her.

“She’s a fighter. A competitor,” Jackson said. “She’s someone who just wants to be out there. I was extremely excited to meet her and her family.

“She can inspire not only people in Buffalo, but a lot of people.

She’s just that kind of person. She wants to live her dream, and who doesn’t?”

Jackson, who heard of Hill’s story through Twitter, Facebook and just “being a Division III athlete” himself, couldn’t take all of the credit for the Jackson family’s trip to see Hill.

He said that his wife deserved much of the credit for organizing the trip and setting up the meeting.

The Jackson family has never shied away from giving back to the Buffalo community, and Fred said that extending their reach beyond the borders of Western New York is something they’ve wanted to do.

“We have an

opportunity as professional athletes, we can reach a lot of people and that’s something I always want to do,” he said. “[Hill’s] story was one that I wanted to put out there, not for myself, but for everybody to hear about different people that are going through different struggles.”

The Associated Press reported on Nov. 18 that Hill was unlikely to play in another basketball game. So far, a Layup4Lauren challenge has raised more than $324,000 for research of the cancer that will shorten Hill’s life. Jackson said he and his family plan to add to that total.

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Having dropped each of their past two games since the bye week, the Bills’ playoff hopes have taken a bit of a hit recently. They’re looking to end their two-game skid and improve to 6-5 when they take on the New York Jets Monday (Nov. 24).

The game was originally slated to be played Sunday at Ralph Wilson Stadium, but the inclement weather Western New Yorkers have faced of late forced officials’ hands in postponing the game to Monday at Ford Field in Detroit, where the Bills won a 17-14 decision against the Lions back on Oct. 5.

The Bills beat the Jets (2-8) in a 43-23 shellacking in which they had six takeaways back on Oct. 26 — their last win. But they’ve since fallen to third place in the AFC East after losses to Kansas City and Miami.

Jackson said he and his teammates aren’t going to mail it in despite their fall in the standings.

“The season’s not over, but we have to play better to get to where we want to be,” he said. “Plain and simple. If we don’t do that, we’re going to be looking at another season wondering what happened.”

Improving in the standings means getting by not just the Jets, but fellow AFC opponents Cleveland (6-4) on Nov. 30 and Denver (7-3) on Dec. 7 over the next few weeks. The Bills also have games remaining against Green Bay, New England and Oakland.

“We still have six games left. We’re not going to come in here and [mail] it in. We can’t do that. The guys in the locker room will not allow ourselves to do that.”

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The Sun / Thursday, November 20, 2014

Rod, Gun & Game: Chilly opening day in WNY

Hilbert’s Reinholz named AMCC’s Runner of the Year

By Aaron Garland SPORTS REPORTER

By Forrest Fisher OUTDOOR COLUMNIST

Last Saturday, opening day of big game firearm season in NYS, temperatures in the southern tier hills of Western New York fell far below the freezing mark as they hit 18 and 19 degrees. In valley areas, the northwest wind of 10 to 20 miles per hour brought out the hand warmers, long johns and pull-over hats in high visibility orange color as standard gear for several hundred thousand hunters that take to the NYS woods every year on opening day.

For some that came less than well-prepared with “keep-warm” gear, the walk into the woods and back to the car or deer camp cabin did not take very long.

I hunted in Wildlife Management Unit 9W near Friendship, New York, with my 13 year-old grandson alongside sharing in the heritage of the opening day hunting experience. We whispered back and forth to each other, trying to not think about just exactly how cold the chill factor actually was, but I was shivering after 3 hours.

We were in an elevated tree stand (weather-unprotected), safely tethered to a sturdy hickory tree, so we were experiencing the full brunt of the frigid breeze.

With four inches of crunchy snow on the ground helping the visibility for all opening day hunters, we counted about a half-dozen gunshot sounds before the official sunrise moment to underscore the easy viewing. Then from sunrise through 8:00 a.m., we noted about 40 or 50 more shots in the distances from our location. At least some folks were seeing deer!

When your tree stand happens to be in a non-deer location, the cold seems colder, the wind seems windier and the time seems to pass very slowly, but there are other things about nature to take stock in. Hunting is not really all about killing deer, it’s also about sharing time with friends and family, watching nature at work, understanding heritage and history, home cooked meals, camp coffee and honest time away from the e-link we all have these days.

We watched three flocks of snow geese soar high above as they flew past our tree stand heading southward, a while later we watched several black squirrels scamper about in their treasure hunt for a

Opening weekend for deer season in WNY was successful for happy hunter, Dieter Voss, an East Aurora resident, who braved the chilly weather to find this handsome 8-point buck in the hills near Colden. breakfast of beech nuts and white oak acorns, and there were blue jays, partridge, and an assortment of other small birds that are wintering over with us, working their way through the day to stay warm and comfortable. There was a wonderful ambience of harmony among wildlife in the woods.

At our camp, nine hunters from as far away as Florida (Jeff Liebler), joined bantering friendship forces on this opening weekend.

None of us was lucky enough to see or score on a deer. Other nearby deer camp groups did harvest deer, as their location was perfect for the moving deer when opening day sunrise occurred.

Yes, there is some degree of location luck to be sure! Hot locations are largely based on available food sources for the doe deer (females), and when the rut is peaking - like it did this past weekend, the bucks will be near the does that are near the prime available food sources.

Food plot hunters scored big.

Dieter Voss, an EastAurora resident, hunted from his 16-foot fixed tree stand in the Colden hills near a familiar deer trail with access to a large, cold-weather food plot, and was among the successful scores of NYS deer hunters. Voss used a 12-guage Remington 870 shotgun and old-style, non-sabotted, foster slugs, to down a handsome 8-point buck at only about 20 yards.

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and admitted, “My heart was pounding so fast, I was not sure I could get the fingers in my two-layer gloves ready to take an effective shot in time when the deer stopped in my narrow shooting lane. I was able to regain my calm to make a good shot, but right after that, I think my heart rate must have been wild! The deer fell only a few yards away.

I waited 30 minutes before going down and suddenly, I was not cold anymore!”

The big buck was only the second deer that Voss has taken with a firearm in his eight years of firearm hunting, he scored on a doe last year in the same approximate location, but he says, “I really enjoy the warmer weather of archery season.” Voss has scored on three deer with his bow, adding, “Hunting for deer, especially with a bow, is so relaxing. Just getting out there to see the wildlife we always can watch even when the deer don’t show up is great.” Voss teaches high school in Tonawanda.

A short trip to the NYSDEC Deer Check Station in Holland provided much information about the deer, including that it was 3-1/2 years old and weighed approximately 190 pounds field dressed. DEC wildlife biologist, Emilio Rende, said the deer had also sustained several old wounds on his neck from fighting other bucks earlier in the season. In his always friendly and jovial voice tone, Rende added, “We collected data on about 75 deer for opening day Saturday and about that same number for Sunday, making it a typical and successful opening day weekend for WNY.” One thing for everyone in the community to remember, deer hunters make our roadways safer for travel for all of us every hunting season. Not everyone can do it.

Thank a deer hunter today!

For most of her life, Kylie Reinholz was obsessed with basketball. She was all about the sport.

It led her to attending Nichols, where she played on the girls varsity team all four of her years there, becoming the school’s fifth all-time leading scorer (1,193). It led her to Buffalo State, where she played a season before transferring to Hilbert.

And of course, Reinholz, an Orchard Park resident, played basketball for the Hawks as a sophomore last winter.

But that’s where it ends.

Reinholz said she likely isn’t going to continue on the court this season.

Something else came up.

And that something is running.

Earlier this month, Reinholz, now a junior at Hilbert, was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year. The announcement came after Reinholz won an AMCC individual title Nov. 1, and a season after she was the conference’s Newcomer of the Year.

The grandeur of the accolades is enhanced when it’s found that those are the only two years Reinholz has ever run cross country.

And she’s become addicted enough to it to forego playing basketball.

The junior ran at NCAA Division III Mideast Regionals Saturday (Nov. 15) in Newville, Pennsylvania, placing 78th out of 370 (24:02.40). That ended Reinholz’ cross country season, but her success extended it well into the beginning of basketball.

She’s ready to fully commit to her newfound niche, even if it means leaving an old one behind.

“It’s just a transition,” Reinholz said. “There was a part of my life that I loved basketball, but now that love has transitioned to running. It’s kind of filled the void. I don’t even really miss it so much just because I’m so preoccupied with running.”

Reinholz won two other races this season in addition to her conference championship, which she earned by posting a time of 24:21 at Franciscan University in Steubenville,

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The originality of cross country and the late exposure to it has Reinholz wanting more. The race-torace time-cutting element that drives high school runners to get better, Reinholz is only starting to experience now.

In 2013, her first year in the sport, it took her some time to learn the lingo she’d hear in practice. She’d be told to run “a 400,” but didn’t know far that was, or in what unit it was. When it was time to do a “tempo run” workout, she wasn’t sure what needed to be done.

But as she’s learned the particulars of cross country, she’s found it increasingly thrilling. And she’s soaring, which only feeds a growing interest.

“Because I didn’t do it in high school it almost made me more into it, just being a newcomer to the sport,” Reinholz said. “I was so excited to be running. In the beginning you always shave off a lot of time quickly, so to be able to do so well so fast is addicting.

You just want to keep getting better and train harder — to progress.”

The ascendance to the top of the conference

didn’t entirely come out of nowhere. Sure, the cross country thing is new, although the results suggest otherwise, but running is not.

A few summers ago, Reinholz began running with her father, John Reinholz, who is a 20-plus-year triathlon veteran. That summer, Reinholz ran three or four times a week on top of biking and swimming sessions as she would complete five triathlons.

John Reinholz’ background in running had never really rubbed off on Kylie Reinholz until then. John Reinholz actually coached his daughter on some basketball teams through the years.

But the allure of distance running illuminated the more Kylie Reinholz did it.

When she made the transfer to Hilbert and found out it had a cross country program, Reinholz was ready to run competitively. She had the required durability and mental fortitude.

“I was in pretty good condition for running,” Reinholz said. “I’m more of a distance, endurance kind of person.

“I didn’t know what to expect at all, but it was definitely a surprise to me, and I think my whole family. They were so used to me always focusing on basketball growing up.

They were as surprised as I was that I found success.”

Reinholz may have discovered cross country late, but it’s not going anywhere.

“I am so lucky because running is a sport for life,” Reinholz said. “Even when you’re out of college and not on a team it is something you can always do on your own. It’s a lifelong sport that I’ll be able to do.”

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The Sun / Thursday, November 20, 2014

North Collins honors veterans at ceremony

American Legion Post 1640 in North Collins held its annual Veterans’ Day commemoration in Dr. Joy Park in the village.

Past Commandeer Ted Jumper served as master of ceremonies, while former town supervisor Tom O’Boyle delivered an address and served as bugler.

O’Boyle recalled his own return home to the United States. “When we came back from Vietnam we couldn’t even wear our uniforms, because of the trouble here. When I got back to North Collins, everything was OK.” Members of the post’s ladies auxiliary laid a wreath at the base of the town’s veterans’ memorial, also in the park.

A three-round volley by

Hamburg to share Orchard Park assessor

Officers of the Post 1640 Ladies Auxiliary lay a commemorative wreath at the base of the North Collins Town Veterans’ Memorial in Dr. Joy Park in the town. the legion rifle squad completed the program.

Community members present were invited for re-

freshments at the post, following the ceremony.

Playing At A Theater Near You W W W. T H E S U N N E W S . N E T

The Dipson Theater is featuring “The Drop,” “Hercules,” “Maleficent,” “Lucy,” “The Expendables 3,” “Tammy,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D,” “Into the Storm,” “As Above, So Below” and “If I Stay.”

The Dipson Theatre at McKinley Mall is located at 3701 McKinley Parkway in Buffalo. For more information, to purchase tickets or, for specific

show times, visit www. mckinley.dipsontheatres. com.

The Hamburg Palace Theatre, located at 31 Buffalo St. in Hamburg, will show “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” (PG13); Nov. 21 and 22 at 6:30 and 9:00 p.m.; Nov. 23 at 4:00 and 6:30 p.m.; Nov. 24-27 at 6:30 and 9:00 p.m.

TJ’s Dinner Theatre will show “Annabelle,” rated R. Oct. 31 at 7:30 and 9:15 p.m.; Nov. 1 and 2 at 7 and 9 p.m.; Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m.;

Nov. 4-6 at 7 p.m. The theater is located at Center and North Main streets in the village of Angola. For more information, call 712-7244 or visit www.angolamoviezone.com.

The New Angola Theater will show “When the Game Stands Still,” rated PG, from Sept. 26 to Sept. 30. The theater is located at 72 N. Main St. in Angola and may be reached by calling 5494866.

Milton Bradshaw, Steven Walters, Patrick Keem and Robert Hutchison The town of Orchard Park and the town of Hamburg announced Nov. 13 that the towns have agreed on a shared municipal services agreement for assessing services.

Currently, Robert Hutchison is the assessor of Hamburg and Milton Bradshaw is the assessor for Orchard Park. Hutchison announced earlier this year he was retiring in January.

Following the retirement announcement, Hamburg and Orchard Park began discussions about the shared services agreement.

Similar agreements are in place among various towns throughout Erie County.

Under the agreement, Bradshaw will serve as assessor for both Orchard Park and Hamburg, splitting his time equally between the two communities. Bradshaw will continue to be an Orchard Park employee and Hamburg will pay Orchard Park $75,000 per year. The agreement will save the two communities approximately $100,000 combined annually.

Hamburg Supervisor Steven Walters stated, “Although everyone recognizes it is going to be difficult to replace Bob, we saw this as an opportunity to maintain the level of excellence in our assessing office, while continuing to provide relief for our taxpayers.” Orchard Park Supervisor Patrick Keem also expressed his optimism. “When I became supervisor this year, I knew we had to change how we did business and ‘think outside the box’ in order to help our taxpayers. Collaborative efforts such as this are a great way to accomplish that.”

These types of cooperative agreements are not new to either community.

Hamburg in recent years has worked with the state to keep Woodlawn Beach open, consolidated water and sewer operations with Erie County and has worked with the Frontier School District to open a new Senior Community Center.

Likewise, Orchard Park shares the Erie County Going Places Van with the vil-

lage of Orchard Park and the town of Boston and collaborated with Erie County on the installation of solar panels at the Orchard Park Library. The town and village also worked together on the replacement of the Forest Avenue Bridge in the village and are teaming up to work on a regional detention basin to relieve flooding. Bradshaw assured a smooth transition, noting, “We wouldn’t be doing this if the level of service would be negatively affected in either office. From the public perspective, they will continue to receive the same level of service they have come to expect.”

Added Hutchison, “I take a great deal of pride in how my office has been run and it is my primary goal to ensure it continues to function at the highest level after I leave. Having worked with Milt over the years gives me complete confidence that it will” The agreement needs approval from the respective town boards and will take effect on Jan. 1, 2015.

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