Sports
The Essex Reporter • April 14, 2016
Slow start for girls lacrosse
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SPORTS SHORTS Joe Gonillo
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ome on April, we need some warmth. Christmas saw people swimming in the lake; last week a snow squall hits. Despite the non-cooperation, we had games last week. More on the schedule this week, weather permitting.
The boys’ lacrosse team travels to Liverpool, N.Y. this weekend. They beat Woodstock 14-3 last week. Sean Paul Vanzo had three goals, while Henry Adams and David Forbes added two goals one assist in the romp. The JVs fell 6-5. They played Middlebury Tuesday. The Rice game is rescheduled to May 9. The girls’ lacrosse team started the spring 0-2. They lost their opener to Rutland 126. On Saturday, U-32 outscored Essex 1510. Madison Corkum scored five, Hannah Danis two. Lydia Palker, Justine Martin and Cicely Haggerty added one each. The JV games were cancelled. Home games with Rice and Colchester are this week.
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he Essex girls lacrosse team dropped its second straight game to open the season Saturday, falling to U-32 by a score of 15-10. Mady Corkum led the
Hornets with five goals, followed by two from Hannah Danis. Cicely Haggerty, Justine Martin and Lydia Palker each added one. The Hornets faced off against Colchester on Wednesday and will then travel to Spaulding on April 23.
Essex’s Sydney Laplant eyes a ground ball while under pressure from U-32 players Saturday afternoon at Essex High School. The Hornets fell 15-10. Photo | Kyle St. peter
Queen City FC to embark on multi-state tour Queen City Football Club’s girls soccer teams will hit the road on a multi-state tour April 13 through April 22, competing against multiple clubs from across the country while also training and touring at high-level collegiate facilities. Thirty-six players, 10 parents and four coaches will travel via bus, providing a low-cost alternative and allowing the club’s under-14/15 and under-16 girls to receive training from top college coaches, face off against diverse competition and experience different parts
of the country. Essex resident Hannah Barrett plays for the club, which hosts boys and girls ages 8-19. “The players and coaching staff are excited to see this idea come to fruition after almost a year of planning,” said Shane Bufano, the club’s president and director of coaching, in a press release. “We came up with this idea as an alternative to an overseas trip and thought this would be a great way to get some of our players a similar soccer playing and team building experience that other clubs
provide at a fraction of the cost.” The team will begin the trip in Ohio, where it will tour facilities at the University of Cincinnati before squaring off against Thunder Metro United based out of Lebanon, Ohio. From there, QCFC will head to Nashville, Tenn. to take part in the Music City Invitational from April 15 to 17. Players will compete against teams from nine different states while also touring and training at Vanderbilt University and receiving an exclusive training session with coaches from the
Commodores’ women’s soccer staff. After a stop in Lexington, Ky. to scrimmage Bluegrass SC, the club will head to Pittsburgh and then to New York City where it will train with the coaches of Division II St. Thomas Aquinas in Sparkill, N.Y. After a day of sightseeing and a scrimmage against the Ramapo Valley Tornadoes, the team will head back to Burlington on April 22. For more information and a schedule of games on the tour, contact Shane Bufano or visit www.queencityfootballclub.org.
St. Mike’s athletes host organ donor sign-up
St. Mike’s 5K to benefit Make-A-Wish foundation
For the second-straight year, the St. Michael’s College field hockey team is helping community members sign up to become organ donors. The team will be on hand from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Friday at Alliot Student Center to distribute information and assist those interested in becoming donors. The events, which were held on Monday and Wednesday, are put on in connection with Donate Life New England. The field hockey program has an additional connection with the donor organization, as Maureen Eddy, a local teenager who is paired with the squad through Team IMPACT, is afflicted with cystic fibrosis. According to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, more than 2,800 people with the disease have received lung transplants since 1990. The Purple Knights became affiliated with Donate Life New England through the work of junior Monica Miles, who involved the team after her cousin’s organs were donated upon his death. According to Donate Life America, one donor has the potential to affect 50 lives, and there are currently nearly 124,000 people awaiting organ transplants in the United States. There were 29,532 organ transplants performed from 14,414 donors in 2014, as well as more than 47,000 corneal transplants in 2013. More than 1 million tissue transplants are performed each year, with the need steadily on the rise. For more facts and figures, including daily updates, visit the United Network For Organ Sharing’s website at www.unos.org. Those interested can register in Alliot next week, at their local motor vehicle registry and online at http:// www.donatelifenewengland.org for New England residents and www.donatelife.net for others.
The St. Michael’s College Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is hosting its second annual 5K fun run and walk on April 17 to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The event kicks off at 10 a.m. and will take participants through a tour of campus. The first 150 people to register will receive a free T-shirt, and the top three male and female finishers will earn a prize. Members of the local and St. Michael’s communities alike are invited to sign up for the event, with entry fees $10 per person prior to April 8 and $15 after that date. For those with a valid St. Michael’s ID, it costs $8 to enter before April 8 and $10 afterward. Participants can sign up in Alliot dining hall prior to the event or at the start line the day of the race beginning at 9:15 a.m. Only cash or checks will be accepted. The start and finish line will be on the 300s Field, located between the Doc Jacobs Field Complex and the Tarrant Recreation Center/Ross Sports Center. Locals can submit a completed registration form, found on SMCAthletics.com, to SAAC adviser Shannon Kynoch at skynoch@ smcvt.edu. Since 2003, NCAA Division II has been a national sponsor of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, raising nearly $3.4 million for the global charity, which grants wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. For more information or to make a donation directly to Make-AWish, visitwish.org/NCAADII. Last year’s inaugural 5K fun run and walk raised nearly $1,000 for the cause. Just this school year alone, the committee has held numerous other fundraisers for Make-A-Wish, supported active military, started pen pal programs with local youths, spent Friday afternoons teaching sports skills to youths at Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center and taken part in Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Earlier this month, committee members also hosted a Spread the Word to End the Word function, read to elementary school students in Winooski as part of the National Education Association’s Read Across America, and volunteered at the Special Olympics Vermont Winter Games. Find out more about the St. Michael’s SAAC at smcathletics. com/information/saac/index.
Sports schedules Boys baseball
Softball
4/19 EHS vs. Middlebury – 4:30 p.m.
4/19 EHS vs Middlebury – 4:30 p.m.
Boys lacrosse 4/16 EHS @ Liverpool, N.Y. – 10 a.m.
Girls lacrosse 4/16 EHS @ BFA-St. Albans – 11 a.m.
Girls tennis 4/14 EHS vs. Stowe – 3:30 p.m. 4/16 EHS vs. Colchester – 10 a.m.
Boys tennis 4/14 EHS @ Stowe – 3:30 p.m. 4/16 EHS @ Colchester – 10 a.m.
Track and field 4/20 EHS @ Essex Vocational – 10 a.m.
The baseball team opens up Tuesday hosting Middlebury, the JVs are away, and the freshman play Wednesday and Friday. The softball team’s jamboree Saturday was cancelled. They open versus the Tigers on Tuesday. Tennis played no matches last week. They are rescheduled. The girls actually began play versus Champlain Valley Union, but the match was suspended. St. Johnsbury and Stowe are the scheduled opposition this week. Ultimate Frisbee opened versus South Burlington on Tuesday. They host Spaulding next week. Track and field were slated to open the 2016 season Wednesday. After three and a half weeks of practice, the first meet is simply a test of ability and fitness levels. They host their annual vocational meet Wednesday during break. Rugby hosted Adirondack, N.Y. on Sunday. Both teams won their matches and played South Burlington on Wednesday. The girls play a team from Montreal on Friday. Congratulations to former Hornet and Rice Little Indian Scott Moore on his VPA Hall of Fame Honor. Moore, formerly known as Lauren Krywanczyk, was a three-sport standout athlete at Essex in soccer, basketball and track then transferred to Rice. The national merit semifinalist also won top scholar-athlete awards from the VSAD, Ethan Allen Club and Rice before going to Yale. Other honors include four-time Burlington Free Press all-state basketball, four-time state javelin champion, two-time all-state player in soccer, a McDonald’s All-American nominee in basketball and a 1,038-point career scorer. The induction is May 13 at the Capitol Plaza in Montpelier. Eleven athletes from the Green Mountain Aquatics team competed in a championship meet at Boston University last month, swimming well to score 342 points, and placing 17th out of 53 teams. Also competing were Essex Middle School eighth-graders Oliver Austin and Jake Crock; EHS’ Ashley Warren, Casey Keenan, Ross Macy and Jake McIntyre; Rice’s Elliot Limanek; CVU’s Emily Winget; MMU’s Cameron Marcus; SB’s Nathan Kunsman and WCS’ Fiona Reiner. Results: 13-14 boys 200 medley relay: fourth - Austin, Crock, Limanek and McIntyre. 1518 boys 200 medley - 19th Keenan, Kunsman, Macy and Marcus. Austin placed top 10 in the 13-14 100/200 breaststroke, 400 IM, top 20 in the 1,000 free, 200 IM and 500 free. Keenan finished top 10 in the 15-18 200 free, 50 free, 200 back, 100 free, top-20 100 back. Macy was top-20 in the 1518 100 fly. Marcus placed top 10 in the 13-18 1,000 free, 15-18 200 fly, top 20 in 13-18 1650 free. McIntyre took first in the 13-18 1,000 free, top 10 in 13-14 200 free, 500 free, 1650 free, 200 IM, top-20 13-14 400 IM, 200 IM, 200 fly and 200 breast. Warren took top 10 in the15-18 100 breast, 200 breast, top 20 in 15-18 50 free and Winget finished top 10 in the 15-18 200 back. Congratulations. The Warriors placed second in their state tournament Saturday at Vergennes. They earned four individual championships: Lucas Shannon, Talan Kirby, Gil Stawinski and Tanner Weston, in addition to three runnerups Jack Arpey, Jaymeson Arpey and William Einhorn. Nice job! Fifth-grade Essex Sting AAU update: The team competed in the Vermont Cats Spring Classic and went 4-0, moving to 10-0 this season. They beat the Malletts Bay Hoopsters, NSL Swanton, Northwest ICE Enosburg and Hoop Divas from Morrisville/Elmore. The Kingdom Invitational is this weekend in St. Johnsbury/Lyndonville. I was sad to hear of the passing of Anita Benjamin. Condolences to daughter, good/ longtime friend and neighbor Robin Noble.