Lansing trio, Dryden's Bennett are first-team all-state

Ithaca Journal

State runner-up Lansing placed three players — Shea McCartney, Sarah Gisler and Madeline Boerman — on the all-state girls' soccer first team in Class C, while Dryden junior scoring leader Taylor Bennett made the first team in Class B.
The all-state squads were announced this week by the New York State Sportswriters Association.
The Bobcat trio is led by senior midfielder/attack McCartney, a repeat member of the all-state first team. She had a team-leading 17 goals and six assists this season in leading Lansing to a 17-5-0 record and a berth in the state championship game. The Bobcats, who defeated Schoharie, 2-0, in the state semis on Nov. 15, lost to Haldane, 1-0, the next day in the final at SUNY Cortland.
McCartney, a fifth-team selection in 2012, finished her five-year varsity career with 99 goals. Her twin sister, Maura, was a second-team selection last year but missed the entire season with a knee injury.
Gisler, a three-year starter for the Bobcats, yielded 20 goals with a save percentage of better than .800 in 22 games this season. Ten of the goals came against Class AA opponents Baldwinsville and Cicero-North Syracuse during an early-season tournament.
Boerman, a sophomore midfielder, had a goal and four assists despite missing a third of the season with an injury. She helped Lansing win its sixth Section 4 Class C title in the last eight seasons.
Bennett, a 5-foot-9 junior defender, finished the season with 24 goals as the Purple Lions went 16-1, their lone loss coming in the Section 4 Class B semifinals to top-seeded Seton Catholic. This year marks the second straight year Bennett has been named first-team all-state; last year, she scored a school-record 43 goals to eclipse the previous mark of 34, set three years earlier by her sister, Leighann.
A fourth-team pick in 2012, Taylor is a member of the Syracuse-based Empire Revolution of the Olympic Development Program, and has verbally committed to attending Syracuse University after graduation in 2016.
Two other Section 4 athletes — Oneonta seniors Madison Miller and Taryn More — were also named to the all-state Class B first team. Oneonta lost to Seton Catholic in the sectional final.