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Wilson wins Section VI Class B2 championship Carlin’s golden goal lifts Lakemen over Falconer/Cass. Valley
By Nick Sabato SPORTS REPORTER
At the beginning of the year, Jeffrey Hart was elevated from JV to the varsity head coach at Wilson, and his first goal was to restore the program back to its glory days. Wilson has had a strong soccer tradition for a long time, with players like Andy Wright in the 1990s helping the team win 63 percent of games in school history, which ranks 10th all-time in Section VI history. That tradition has tailed off in recent years, but now it is back after the Lakemen edged Falconer/Cassadaga Valley, 1-0 behind Cesar Carlin’s goal in overtime to win the Section VI Class B2 championship on Wednesday evening (Oct. 29). “I had very high expectations for the team this year,” said Hart. “I can honestly say that they exceeded them. I knew we had talent, I knew we had some good returning players but I also knew that we were very young. We played really tough nonleague games and I really felt that we kept improving all season. “I had the kids lay out their goals ahead of the season and a lot of them said ‘sectional champions.’ I said that if we want that to reach that goal, we have to keep working towards it and I felt that we kept improving all season to get to this point.” Wilson had started the season 3-4-1 but has rattled off wins in nine of the last 10 games, including six in a row and an upset of topseeded Lackawanna to get to the finals.
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JEFFREY T. BARNES
Cesar Carlin, center, celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in overtime of the team’s Section VI Class B2 finals matchup against Falconer/Cassadaga Valley on Oct. 29. The Lakemen will take on East Aurora in the Class B crossover game Saturday.
NCCC girls volleyball team boasts high number of locals
Local businesses donate dugouts
By Nick Sabato SPORTS REPORTER
There is a bit of local flavor on the 2014 Niagara County Community College women’s volleyball team. Nine of the 13 players on the roster come from high schools within Niagara County, which is convenient for so many reasons, but mainly recruiting. For any collegiate team to be successful, it needs to recruit well within its own area (especially when there are multiple competing schools in that area) and that’s just what head coach Joe Daigler has done as his team sits at 16-9 heading into the NJCAA RegionalTournamentthis weekend.
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By Nick Sabato SPORTS REPORTER
COURTESY OF NCCC ATHLETICS
Senior Cody Sikora, right, experienced a breakout season for the Lumberjacks.
Generosity can be hard to come by nowadays, especially with scholastic athletics. You often see teams in desperate need of new uniforms, equipment or facilities. That was the case at Roy-Hart, as the field hockey and softball teams dearly needed new dugouts for their fields. Luckily, a few local businesses came to the aid
of the teams and the sports boosters to not only donate the materials necessary to build the dugouts, but they built them as well. When proposition to build the dugouts came about in October, Lisa Draper, a parent of a field hockey and soccer player, contacted Dave Hill of A Superior Concrete in Gasport. That was all that was needed. “Lisa Draper contacted me about donating the concrete for the bases,” said Hill. “Then I spoke to Dom [Ciliberto] about the fact that they were going to put shelters up and he jumped right on board to donate the metal for the shelters.”
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