Saranac Lake boys, Saranac girls shine at cross country CVACs

WEEKEND OF NOV. 5 AND 6, 2022 Ash, Rother take top spots at CVACs

Adirondack Daily Enterprise

LAKE PLACID — After finishing the regular season undefeated, the Saranac Lake boys cross country team’s spectacular season continued Oct. 29.

The Red Storm boys captured the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference championship Saturday at Mount Van Hoevenberg. Saranac Lake won the boys’ event with a team score of 48, outscoring runner-up Peru with 68 points, Saranac Central with 88 points, Plattsburgh with 103 and Lake Placid with 137.

Meanwhile, Saranac Central won the girls’ meet with 46 points. Peru took second with 62 points, followed by Saranac Lake in third with 80 and Lake Placid in fourth with 85.

Saranac Lake senior Sam Ash won the boys’ race with a time of 17 minutes, 12.8 seconds. Ash’s individual title win marked the second year in a row winning the event and the fourth year in a row a Red Storm boys runner won the individual title.

“It’s certainly a gift to have this team to train with,” Ash said. “I’ve got a lot of support from not even just my team, but just rivals. We’re all good friends, so it’s always fun to come out here and race against them. Running is just a really fun sport for me so I just like to run from the heart.”

Ash’s fellow teammate Jake Kollmer, a sophomore, finished second place in 17:32.52. Ash said that having Kollmer compete with him for the top spot has helped make him a better runner.

“There wasn’t really anybody there last year. To come back thinking, ‘oh senior year, I’m going to be faster.’ In reality, everybody else also gets faster, sometimes you overthink that,” Ash said. “Last year running on your own kind of sucked for workouts and stuff, but to have him right there with me just makes me that much better and him too. I help him and he helps me.”

Right behind the Red Storm boys duo was a Lake Placid duo of Andrew Scanio (17:46.74) and Aidan Fay (17:52.62) in third and fourth place, respectively.

Saranac Lake had four more runners finish in the top 25, including Aiden Hesseltine (18:46.22) in ninth, Sam Bickford (19:01.42) in 17th, Morgan Martin (19:30.64) in 22nd and Max Hall (19:44.54) in 25th.

“We’re feeling really good. We’re coming into the championship phase of the season so we’re all feeling really sharp and fresh for these races,” Ash said.

The Blue Bombers’ top six runners were rounded out by Colin Francis (19:47.21) in 26th place, Kenny Lawrence (21:59.23) in 67th, Ethan Cash (22:18.00) in 71st and Colton Kondrat (22:34.10) in 73rd.

In a competitive girls’ race that came right down to the end, Lake Placid’s Lilly Rother edged out Peru’s Maddy Welc by less than six seconds to win the individual title.

“I honestly don’t know how — it was really painful,” Rother said. “I just pushed myself harder than I have.”

Rother finished the race in 20:41.37, while Welc took second in 20:47.41.

“It was a difficult race,” Rother said. “I was surprised that the Saranac girls fell back because I’ve never beaten either of them.”

Saranac Central’s Laura Denial finished third in 21:21.86, while her teammate Sienna Boulds took fourth in 21:28.84. Rother said she was not expecting to win and her goal was just to beat the two Saranac girls.

Astacio Bruno was the first runner for the Saranac Lake girls to finish, placing sixth in 22:15.45. Phoebe Peer took 10th place overall in 22:47.44 and Addi Ash was 14th in 23:36.55.

The Red Storm’s top six runners were rounded out by Brooklyn Shumway (25:09.51) in 25th place, Sabine Decknerberger (25:29.66) in 29th and Elle Dawson (29:24.92) in 48th.

The Blue Bombers had two more runners finish in the top 20, including Kai McKinnon (22:39.26) in ninth place and Harley Cohen (23:40.63) in 16th. Lake Placid was rounded out by Jenna Fay (25:31.69) in 30th, Holly Erenstone (25:47.14) in 34th and Mya Marshall (28:38.72) in 45th.

The Section VII teams will race again on Friday at the state qualifiers meet at Cobble Hill Golf Course in Elizabethtown. The boys’ race at 1:30 p.m., followed by the girls’ at 2:30 p.m.

PARKER O’BRIEN/ENTERPRISE PHOTO Runners take off at the start of the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference championship boys’ race at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Oct. 29.

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factor than people noticed. Having the lead at the half, especially a 2-0 lead, was big going into the wind.”

The clincher came with 21:52 gone in the second half when Merrill sent LaBarge in with a thru ball and LaBarge made it 3-0 with his second goal of the game.

“We knew 2-0 may not be enough, but I felt getting that third goal in the second half would be enough,” McAuliffe said.

“We made sure we played more defense after that and we were able to do our jobs defensively as the game progressed.”

Chazy finished with a 16-9 edge in shots on goal and Zamir Foster made nine saves for the shutout in net for the Eagles and Wyatt Carniglia recorded 13 saves for Schroon Lake/Newcomb.

“They were dangerous every time they got forward and had some clear chances to score,” McAuliffe said. “But I was proud of our boys to defend the way they did.

“I was very happy with that because we had to play defense as a unit, not just the four or five back. I’m not saying we didn’t give up chances, but we still were able to defend well as a unit.”

The Eagles will host the Section X champion on Saturday in Beekmantown in state regional play. The top three seeds in Section X have been knocked off and the final has (4) Chateaugay against (6) Heuvelton.

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Chazy 3, Schroon Lake/Newcomb 0

SL/N 0 0 — 0 CCRS 2 1 — 3 First half- 1, CCRS, Moser (Merrill), 3:19. 2, CCRS, LaBarge (Dudyak), 24:33. Second half- 3, CCRS, LaBarge (Merrill), 21:52.

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would both have opportunities to open scoring but the ball would be sent over the net multiple times as teams settled in the first half.

In the 25th minute, Pratt found McAuliffe on the left side of the penalty box, breaking the scoreless tie, causing supporters to erupt in cheer.

Scoring would stay the same through the break, as the ball tended to stay near midfield for much of the remainder of the first half.

The second half started the same way as the first ended, in a defensive stalemate. Chazy began putting on more pressure — as they outshot the Griffins 11-4 in the second period — and it felt as if the second goal would come.

Just few had to expect Pratt’s heroics to lead to the second goal, midway through the half.

As she raced down the left sideline, McAuliffe pursued running down the middle of the field. The pair connected for a second time as the ball moved in front of Griffin Ella Lobdell and rocketed past her.

Celebrations may have started too early as less than 30 seconds later, Claire Reynolds took a solid pass from Emma Conley to bring the score back to within one.

The next 19 minutes went by excruciatingly long for the Eagles as they shifted more towards playing defensively, sending the ball down the field to cause Boquet Valley to regroup and start again.

When the final whistle blew, a wave of relief came over Chazy as they were crowned champions.

“I’m just so grateful,” McAuliffe said. “Like my team has worked so hard for this. My coaches work so hard for this. I think one of my main goals coming into today was to win for my coach. I love my team, but my coach has been here so much for the girls and myself throughout the season. It’s just changed my thoughts on this sport.”

Those thoughts now must turn to the regionals set to be hosted at Beekmantown on Saturday. Time and opponent will be determined after Section X crowns a Class D winner today.

Before the season began, Tregan told his players the goal was to be in Beekmantown playing for a section championship.Now he hopes to build on consistency.

“It’s been years since the Section VII class the team has beaten Section X, probably seven or eight years,” he said. “Chazy hasn’t been [that far] in almost 10 years. We want to get back to Courtland this year. Let’s put ourselves back in the state championship conversation every year.”

NCCS

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from in close with 14 minutes left in regulation to keep the Bobcats in the game.

The Cougars, however, were able to end any hopes of the Bobcats coming back when Wells got behind the NACS defense and went in on a breakaway to score at 38:23.

“On our second goal, they had to push forward to try and tie it and that gave Jimmy the space to go in alone,” Trombley said. “He showed good patience on the play.”

The first half was scoreless. But it got interesting in the first minute of the contest when NACS was awarded a direct kick that resulted in a goal being scored. It was, however, disallowed because of offsides.

The Cougars finished with an 11-9 advantage in shots on goal. Both goaltenders — NCCS’ Evan Manor and NACS’ Parker Manor — played very well and finished with nine saves apiece.

“There are close games in sectionals,” Bedard said. “They came out hard and so did we. Getting the first goal gave us confidence.”

The Cougars, who competed in Division I of the Northern Soccer League this season, improved their overall record to 12-5. The Bobcats, a member of Division II, had their season end with a 10-5 mark.

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CCRS

— Chazy 2, Boquet Valley 1

1 1

BVCS 0

1 First Half- 1, CCRS, McAuliffe (Pratt), 25:55. Second Half- 2, CCRS, McAuliffe (Pratt), 19.42. 3, BV, Reynolds (Conley), 19:05. Shots- CCRS 16-9 Saves- Blair, CCS, 4. Lobdell, BV, 7

— NCCS 2, NACS 0

NCCS 0 2 — 2 NACS 0 0 — 0 Second half- 1, NCCS, Bedard (Simpson), 17:59. 2, NCCS, Wells, 38:23. Shots- NCCS, 11-9. Saves- E. Manor, NCCS, 9. P. Manor, NAC, 9