The Herkimer County Community College Generals never trailed over the weekend and emerged from the Coliseum Kickoff at Wehrum Stadium with a 1-0-1 record after beating Holyoke Community College and playing Brookdale Community College to a draw.
Saturday’s 4-0 season-opening win was followed by a 2-all draw Sunday afternoon on the home turf.
Reco McLaren scored in overtime Sunday to give the Herkimer County Community College Generals a 4-3 win over the County College of Morris and their first victory of the season.
The generals had been beaten in overtime Saturday by Suffolk County Community College on the first day of the TC3 Northeast Cup.
The Herkimer County Community College Generals got their season started on the right foot Saturday with a 4-0 shutout of Holyoke Community College on their home turf in the Coliseum Kickoff.
Members of the Mohawk varsity football team will run onto their own field next Friday and play their first home game under the lights.
“The students are excited,” said Lisa Upson, athletic coordinator for the Mohawk Central School District. “It’s a definite improvement.”
The improvements at lower Tolpa Field were part of an EXCEL capital project that was set into motion over three years ago. Voters in the school district approved of the $11.8 million project in May 2007, which has come approximately $1 million under budget.
With the late losses of two schools from the Class D football landscape Section III has made changes to balance out its schedule for 2010.
West Canada Valley and Mohawk had been scheduled to play crossovers against Bishop Grimes of Syracuse which, like Hamilton last week, withdrew from competition because of a player shortage.
Schedule and results for area sporting events. (updated September 1)
Three Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs received honors this week when the New York Collegiate Baseball League released its 2010 postseason awards.
Outfielder Jason Simone, the NYCBL batting champion, earned a slot as a first-team all-star while fellow outfielder Kyle Richardson and first baseman Payden Yarmer were picked for the second team.
Herkimer County Community College has announced the appointment of David Kramer as interim men’s lacrosse coach for 2010-2011.
Kramer replaces Richard Dommer who resigned in July after four years as head coach for the Generals.
A pair of race newcomers made their way to the front of the 10-kilometer field Saturday at the 30th annual Little Falls Family YMCA/Little Falls Lumber Co. Freedom Run.
An annual Canal Celebration event, the 2010 Freedom Run drew 147 participants, including two-mile walkers and Sheriff Chris Farber’s Youth Fun Run entries.
Kane Seamon and Jackie Kosakowski were scholastic stars of cross country and track and field in the Center State Conference before running in college. Saturday, back running closer to home, they were crowned champions of Herkimer’s 15th annual D.A.R.E. five-kilometer run.
Carson Murphy got hot in the second half and Mohawk closed with a 9-1 run to beat previously undefeated Frankfort-Schuyler 41-35 Thursday in the championship game for Herkimer County Community College’s nine-team scholastic summer league. (August 12)
The weather that plagued the early portion of the Mohawk Valley Fastpitch Softball League season struck again Monday on the final day of play.
Heavy evening rain cut Monday’s playoffs short and brought the season to an abrupt halt at David P. Whalen Community Park. Herkimer, the top playoff seed and a 12-3 semifinal winner against Mohawk was crowned champion with no room to reschedule the rest of the playoffs. (August 9)
Little Falls gave up just two runs Wednesday and swept its way through the playoffs to win the Mudville 14-and-under championship. (August 4)
Just as they did one year earlier, coaches in the Center Sate Conference settled on Little Falls Mountie Olivia Tooley as their Division I most valuable player for the 2010 season.
The Herkimer County Community College-bound senior was also the league’s most valuable player for basketball in the winter and plans to play both sports for the Generals.
The Amsterdam Mohawks repeated as New York Collegiate Baseball League champions with a pair of shutouts of Western Division champion Elmira over the weekend.
The Mohawks, champions of the Eastern Division, completed a perfect run through the postseason with a 17-0 win at home Friday at Shuttleworth Park then closed out the best-of-three series by beating the Pioneers 4-0 in Elmira Saturday.
Just about every era and corner of the NFL rang the bell that closed Wall Street on Friday afternoon. Then they rang in the night in Canton.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame welcomed its newest members — Dick LeBeau, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Floyd Little, John Randle, Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith — by presenting them with their NFL Alumni gold jackets Friday night at the Enshrinees Dinner in Memorial Civic Center.
When NASCAR helped resurrect Watkins Glen International in 1986, one-time Indy car driver Tim Richmond was unwittingly breaking the mold of the method team owners used to hire talent, and he used his rare skills to dominate the Budweiser at The Glen. Twenty-four years later, it was a former star of Champ Car and Formula One who put an emphatic stamp on The Glen when Juan Pablo Montoya beat a field of driving stars from nearly every driving discipline to run away with Sunday’s Heluva Good Sour Cream Dips at The Glen.
JULY 31 BABE RUTH BASEBALL — Fort Plain 9, Little Falls 5; Fort Plain 4, Herkimer 0; and Little Falls 3, Canajoharie 1.
JULY 29 NEW YORK COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE — Mohawk Valley 5, Glens Falls 2.
