Cazenovia baseball no-hit by Westhill’s Campbell

By PHil BlACkwEll

All that the Cazenovia baseball team wanted was exactly what it had when it welcomed undefeated, defending Section III Class B champion Westhill last Thursday to Robert S. Dubik Field.

Riding its own six-game win streak, and a perfect 5-0 against local competition, the Lakers were set to try and get the best of the same Westhill side that denied them a sectional title

By PHil BlACkwEll

At least in the early stages of the 2023 season, the Cazenovia girls golf team was finding success against Onondaga High School one year ago.

What happened, instead, was that Cazenovia got a full dose of tremendous pitching as Westhill ace Ryan Campbell put together a no-hitter and, helped by a late-game getaway, the Lakers took an 8-0 defeat. All game long, Campbell maintained his control and frustrated Cazenovia’s batters, only allowing two walks, one each to Jack Byrnes and Taven Reilley, while amassing 14 strikeouts.

League foes. Going to Camillus Golf Club last Monday afternoon, the Lakers endured wet, chilly conditions and, by a 229-265 margin, topped Westhill to move to 2-0 overall.

Opposing Campbell, Jack Donlin pitched well, too, only surrendering first and third-inning runs, one of them earned, before an increased pitch count forced him out in the sixth and Westhill responded with six runs in the top of the seventh off Cy Abbott and Jacob Szalach.

Two days earlier, hosting Phoenix, Cazenovia found itself behind early and still in a tight contest late before a late breakout led to an 11-3 win

Grace Probe’s nine-hole 50 led a top-four Cazenovia sweep, with Claire Marris close behind as she shot 53. Kayla Mahoney-Hahn and Lucile Hagan both had 63 to beat Westhill’s low round of 64 from Sa- over the Firebirds.

Phoenix got to Byrnes for three runs in the top of the first, two driven home by Anthony Guglielmo’s single, but from there Byrnes blanked the Firebirds and accumulated 12 strikeouts.

The Lakers scored twice in the first and second innings, but it remained 4-3 until the bottom of the sixth, when Cazenovia batted around and plated seven runs.

Jacob Grevelding went four- mantha Burkett.

Chittenango took a 226-265 defeat to Marcellus last Monday at Tuscarora Golf Club. Abbey VanDee and Alea Morris shot 65s ahead of Ava Hohl (67) and Kaelyn Rudd for-four, earning an RBI. Nico Segall’s pair of hits led to three RBIs as Donlin drove in two runs. Izaak Gilbert and Sully Clarke joined Byrnes driving in single runs. ing clothes, shoes, hygiene items, school supplies, and food, are free.

The loss to Westhill still left Cazenovia at 8-2 overall going into Saturday’s game against visiting Bishop Ludden, which got rained out, the Lakers hoping to resume this week with three games at Dubik Field against Bishop Grimes, Homer and Clinton.

(68), though they trailed a quartet of Mustangs led by the low round of 50 from Allison Coombs. More matches are in store this week as both teams hope the weather warms up – and dries up, too.

Student shoppers do, however, get the experience of being checked out by the store’s workers, who track the inventory and package items in specially branded Laker Locker bags.

In addition to perusing the store’s offerings, students are encouraged to go through their own closets and homes and bring in items that are in good condition and that other people might be able to use.

The idea was based on a model adopted by several other local high schools, including Chittenango and Fabius Pompey.

“We toured Chittenango’s store, the Bear Den, last spring and were inspired by their model,” said Marla Reger, Cazenovia Central School District’s mental health coordinator and one of the Laker Locker facilitators. “Our framework is based on the idea of ‘upcycling’ our resources and taking an environmentally friendly approach when it comes to reusing/ recycling goods. Students love thrifting and we want to encourage access for all students — no stigma, just sharing what we no longer use instead of creating waste. . . We opened the store on April 20, the same week as Earth Day, to align with our mission of sharing our resources with each other and supporting all members of our Cazenovia School Community.”

According to Reger, the high school’s room 260 borders the middle school, enabling the younger students to access the store as well. The plan is to eventually expand access to Burton Street Elementary School students.

On opening day, numerous students stopped by to check out the space, and 450 items were given away, Reger said.

The store has been staffed primarily by students, including Miriam Moskovich, Makennah Garrow, Molly Wilcox, Casey Felton, and Garrett Lounsbury, who have all been particularly active in the initiative.

“My mom works at Chittenango, so I have heard about this idea of a free thrift store for a while,” said Wilcox. “When I heard we were starting the same in Caz, I was very interested in helping out. I have helped [with] decorating and organizing the store. I am also running an Instagram, @cazlakerlocker, for the store in order to share and promote this store to all students.”

According to Reger, the initiative has been a collaboration between Cazenovia staff, students, and community members, who have all dedicated their time and efforts to creating the student shopping space.

Reger specifically recognized the students in CHS’s work-based learning, accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, and teachers for tomorrow classes; Future Farmers of America students for helping to set up racks; staff members Christina New, Christie Brenneck, Kathy Hudson, Bobbey McCarthy, Sara McDowell, Maggie Dougherty, and Mandi Millen; Gigi Redmond, Casey

Will Tiger win another pga tour event?

I hope I am wrong, but I don’t believe Tiger Woods will ever win another “Major” or another tournament on the PGA Tour and it will not be because of his age(47)….

On April 19, 2023, Tiger underwent a “subtalar fusion procedure” to address his traumatic arthritis from his previous “talus fracture”. Dr. Martin O’Malley who performed the surgery determined the surgery was successful. Does this mean that we will see Tiger perform in more PGA Tournaments? I say…absolutely yes, but probably “not” in the PGA Championship next month at Oak Hill in Rochester, but don’t be surprised to see him in the US Open and the British Open (The Open). He “will” play in more PGA tournaments because he will do whatever is necessary to successfully rehabilitate any injury he incurs, Once he starts swinging a club the golf world will “again” anticipate his return to competitive golf just as the people of the Philippines anticipated the return of General Douglas McArthur to liberate them during World War II. You may remember McArthur saying, “I shall return” during a speech on TV to the people of the Philippines. I do…I heard his entire speech and it was inspiring. Tiger has had the same effect on golfers around the world since 1996 when he first joined the PGA Tour. Will Tiger play at a “high level” again? Yes, I believe he will play at a “high level” again because he is Tiger Woods and we expect him to play and be competitive. And when he isn’t competitive, we will thoroughly enjoy watching him hit another one of his spectacular golf shots, just to get our attention.

The reason he will not win is because of the following issues with his “body”…not his “mind” or his “age.”

IN 1994… He had two benign tumors and scar tissue removed from his left knee while he was attending Stanford University.

IN 2002… Fluid is removed from inside and outside the ACL of his left knee as well as benign cysts.

IN 2008… After the Masters in April, he had surgery on his left knee to repair his left knee to repair cartilage damage. In May he is told by his doctors he had two stress fractures in his left tibia. In June, he won the US Open playing on his injured leg before undergoing surgery to repair his left ACL using a tendon from his right thigh. racks, and and local families and parent–teacher associations for their donations.

IN 2014… He withdrew from two tournaments in the Florida swing and has surgery on a pinched nerve in his back.

IN 2015… He has two microdiscectomy surgeries in September on his back to remove bone fragments that were pinching a nerve. In October, he has another back surgery.

IN 2017… He had his 4th back surgery for a spinal fusion in April.

IN 2019… He had arthroscopic surgery in August to his left knee that was described as minor cartilage damage. It was his 5th procedure on his knee.

IN 2021… He again had back surgery in January, which was another microdiscectomy to remove a bone fragment that was pinching a nerve. A month later he was involved in a car accident that broke his right leg and ankle that required surgery to insert a rod into his tibia and screws and pins into his foot and ankle.

IN 2023… After making the cut at the Masters and tying the Cut Streak Record of 23 with Fred Couples and Gary Player, he had to withdraw because he re-aggravated his plantar fasciitis. (see 2nd paragraph).

Tiger Woods is a remarkable athlete and I consider myself lucky to have followed his career beginning with his first television appearance at the age of two, with his father Earl, when they appeared on the Mike Douglas Show.

Tiger will not win another tournament on the PGA Tour, but I hope and prey he will decide to play on the PGA CHAMPIONS TOUR when he turns 50 and win at least 3-4 tournaments every year for at least 10 years before retiring. YOUR THOUGHTS?