Onondaga Central
Volleyball:
We started off our season really strong, going 3-0 before losing in five sets to Cortland, who’s Class A. From there we had a great season with the exception of three other losses, finishing 18-4. We also won our League Championship, finishing 10-0 in our league. We have multiple girls on the Top 20 Section Three leaderboard. Sierra Trotman was eighth on the kill list with 183 kills, I was 2nd in assists with 512 and ninth on the ace list with 60, and Jordyn Polge was 3rd for digs with 348. Other crucial players included Calie Haines-McLaughlin, Alannah Lewandowski, Gracie Francis, and Allie and Lauren Volles. Our top two strengths are our defense and the offensive throws. Many teams complimented us on our defense and how balls just don’t touch the floor. Our throws, on the other hand, are something that not many other teams do. It catches the other team off guard, especially when done off a quick. Wrestling: Onondaga was combined with Marcellus for wrestling this year for the first time and was very successful. Onondaga had three wrestlers compete with Marcellus: Dylan Price at 138 lbs, Zach Groiling at 182 lbs and Paul Okhman at 182 lbs. Marcellus-Onondaga won every single dual meet they wrestled this season. This includes defeating Class AA West Genesee. Marcellus-Onondaga became the Patriot/Liberty League Champions by winning all their dual meets and the League tournament. This was Marcellus’s second straight year winning Leagues. At the League tournament, the wrestling team scored over 300 points with their team score, the first Marcellus team to break this threshold. At the League tournament, Dylan Price earned his 150th career win. Marcellus had 11 wrestlers qualify for Sectionals including Dylan Price and Zach Groiling from Onondaga. At Sectionals Marcellus-Onondaga placed 5th out of over 30 teams. At Sectionals the wrestling team had two Champions- Carl Santariello at 106 lbs from Marcellus and Dylan Price, from Onondaga, at 138 lbs winning his second straight Sectional Championship. This advanced Price and Santariello to States. Both wrestlers exceeded their seeds with Dylan placing 4th and Carl placing 6th. At states, Dylan broke the Onondaga wrestling win record by winning his 164th career match. With only two Seniors graduating, the wrestling team is looking forward to an even more successful year next season. For more information about wrestling or to stay updated during the season go to cnywrestling.com. For more about Dylan’s season, there is an article on Syracuse.com https://www.syracuse.com/highschoolsports/2020/02/onondaga-wrestler-hopes-third-time-at-states-is-a-charm.html Girls Basketball: The girls’ basketball season was a very successful one. With a team with less than 10 girls, the team had to work incredibly hard this season, which paid off. With an incredible record 17-3, they were League Champions and held the #2 seed for Section III. The captains this season were Madie Hourgain, Macey DeOrdio, and Avi Baker. The girls had great chemistry on and off the court from great plays in games and laughter throughout the practice. All of the girls really supported one another when times were tough in games, and even when they were up by trying to get everyone one on the scoreboards that night demonstrating how they were being selfless for one another. The teams’ top scorers this season were Macey DeOrdio with 368 points, Avi Baker with 298, and Riley Cox with 258. The girls are sad to be saying goodbye to their two seniors Madie Hourgain and Maddie Murphy, but are excited about next season! Boys Basketball: The Onondaga boys basketball team made it to the Semi-Finals of Sectionals before being defeated by #1 seed Weedsport. Their record was 17-5. The top scorers of the season were Logan Nordman and Nathaniel Recore. According to Junior Aiden Pinkett some hints they did well this season was they played as a team well a team, worked hard in practice and stayed focused. For next season the basketball team wants to improve on taking care of the ball and preventing turnovers. The highlight of the season was defeating Jordan-Eldridge because it was their best played game of the season. The starters were Logan Nordman, Nathaniel Recore, Carter Gentile, Nate Holl and Ray Anderson/Messiah Bey. The Seniors on the team were Logan Nordman, Ray Anderson, Ventre Woolley, Tye Zych, Nate Holl, Drevon Roberts and Jayden Freeman. Of those the captains were Ray, Logan and Nate. Indoor Track: The Onondaga-Lafayette Indoor Track team crossed the finish line with impressive results this season, not only in individual races but in relay races as well. Almost all of the Indoor Track meets were held at SRC Arena on Saturdays. The team was in OHS League 2. The boys 4x2 relay team won Leagues. The team consisted of Carmello Ganella, Manny Southard along with Jake Sanders and Hayden Hemlock from Lafayette. At Leagues, Sophie Myer placed 5th in the 600m run, Lauren Myer placed 7th in the 55m dash Natalie Price placed 4th in the 1500m. In the Shot Put, Sean Dwyer placed 5th and Derek Lyons placed 8th. Sean won the Boys OHSL 2 Weight throw and Derek placed 3rd. Due to the combination of Lafayette and Onondaga, the Indoor Track team is in Class B. At the Class B Championships, Sean Dwyer took 1st place in the weight throw, which allowed him to continue onto State Qualifiers. Derek Lyons placed 3rd in the Weight Throw. The girl’s 4x4 team ran a 4.40, a personal best for the girls and new school record, beating the old record by 4 seconds. Lauren Myer, Natalie Price, Sophie and Kenji Frazier from Lafayette ran on the team. Both the girls and boys 4x2 teams placed 4th overall at the Class Championships. This season was concluded with personal bests, goals reached, and improved times for all the runners. For qualifying times and individual results and times go to leonetiming.com. Hockey: The 2019-2020 season has been my favorite by far, from winning league to the shutout win in the section finals. Although our season started out slow, it turned into one of the best. We were at one point 3-4-1, and ended up as Section 3 champions with a record of 17-4-2. The rough beginning to our season was our wake up call that we needed to try a lot harder if we were going to complete one of our team goals and win our third sectional title. Our coach, Neal Purcell, told us to get better everyday, whether it be 1% or 10%, and that’s what we did. As the season progressed, we started to reach our potential, and the lines began to grow their chemistry. When we won the league, that was a major step in getting the first seed so we could play our Sectional games at home until we went to the War Memorial. We had a first round bye, then played and beat them CNS 5-1, then Baldwinsville 3-2, and finally made it back to the War Memorial to compete once again against West Genesee. The week leading up to that game, we knew we had another level to reach, and by Monday we were all ready. Before the game, some of us had a little bit of nerves, but once warmups were over, we were all zoned in. When Benedict scored as well as Matro, we pushed on the gas even more. When West Genesee pulled their goalie, they could barely make it into our zone, and that was when Benedict secured our win with an empty net goal. Once the time on the game clock ran out, it started to become surreal to us. We had shut out the team standing between us and the Regional game 3-0. It didn’t hit most of us until we walked into the locker room that we were Section 3 Champions, completing our “threepeat”. Our season isn’t over yet! (Thank you to Sam Geis for the volleyball section and Evan Carter for the hockey section)
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