Edison baseball team beats Dryden for fifth straight IAC title

Star Gazette

ELMIRA — The move up to the Interscholastic Athletic Conference Large School Division this year ended up simply changing one word on the trophy for the Thomas A. Edison baseball team.
After winning four consecutive IAC Small School titles, the Spartans captured the Large School championship Wednesday night with a 9-5 victory over Dryden at Dunn Field.
Edison (16-2) scored four runs in the fifth inning to grab a 6-2 lead, then added a run in the sixth and two in the seventh after the Purple Lions cut the lead to 7-4.
Dryden (11-6) scored a run in the seventh inning, with Edison turning a double play to help slow the Purple Lions’ comeback bid.
The game ended when a Dryden player was called out for tossing his helmet as he ran toward second after he thought his fly ball to center field had been caught for the game’s final out.
Brandon Michaud tossed a complete game for Edison, which won the title under first-year coach Zach Brown after he took over for the highly successful Mike Bennett.
“I’m happy for my guys. They worked really hard,” Brown said.
Michaud allowed eight hits, walked two and did not strike out a batter.
Tyler Troccia was 2-for-4 and started two double plays at shortstop, including the one in the seventh inning. Andy Wilkins also had two hits and drove in three runs, including a bases-loaded single in the fifth that brought in all three runners following an error.
Troccia’s two-out single in the third inning gave Edison a 1-0 lead. An RBI single from Wilkins made it a 2-0 game.
“We struggled with their pitcher (John Whitmore), but I thought we kind of figured him out,” Brown said. “About the third inning we really started hitting the ball well. He got to about to 90 pitches and his ball started to elevate and I think we took advantage of him at that point. He was really struggling with his control and we hit some shots.”
Joel Potter was 2-for-3 with three RBIs for Dryden. The teams combined for 12 errors, including seven by Dryden.
The Spartans earned the IAC South title Tuesday with a 16-6 victory against Elmira Notre Dame after winning their final four regular-season games to force a playoff.
“We fell behind Notre Dame early and they beat us a second time. I love the way we just kind of grinded this thing out,” Brown said. “We had a 2-1 win over Waverly in the process, knocked off Tioga going forward. That’s a tough team. Then the big rematch with Notre Dame and then took on a real good Dryden team today. That’s a lot of baseball in a short amount of time and you have to win them.”
Up next for the Spartans will be the Section 4 Class C tournament, where they will be among the top seeds. Sectional play begins next week.

Dryden Golfers win in Senior Night

Dryden 262, Groton 320

At Dryden Lake G.C.
Dryden: Ben Lewis 41; Sean McDaniel 50; Justin Tracy 53; Tim Lewis 55; Josh Hutchinson 63. Groton: Will Stoughton 55; Jacob Howell 59; Aaron Hill 60; Sam Yager 69; Hope Twitchell 77.

Recent Results from the DCS Athletic Website

Recent results:
              Friday  5/2/14  
Varsity Golf:  Trumansburg 216, Dryden 240
Varsity Track: Gerry O'Donnell Invite
            Boys placed 3rd, Girls placed 4th
Vasity Baseball: Trumansburg 6, Dryden 4
              Saturday  5/3/14
Varsity Softball: Dryden 19, Moravia 4
JV Baseball  Game 1: Spencer Van Etten 6, Dryden 4
                      Game 2: Dryden 9, Spencer Van Etten 2
               Monday  5/5/14
JV Baseball: Dryden 19, Lansing 4
Varsity Baseball: Dryden 10, Lansing 6
Varsity Softball: Lansing 3, Dryden 2 (9 innings)
              Tuesday, 5/6/14
Varsity Golf:  Dryden 262, Groton 320
        VG Senior Day: A special thanks to Jonathan Becker,
        Ben Lewis, and Aleks Schuler for being amazing 
        leaders and role models! 
Varsity Boys Lacrosse - 13-5 Winners over Elmira  (5-10)
Varsity Softball: Union Springs 9, Dryden 2
            Wednesday, 5/7/14
JV Baseball: Dryden 11, George Jr. 0
             Thursday 5/8/14
JV Baseball: Dryden 15, Moravia 4

Lion Laxers fall to 4-10 with loss at Owego

Owego 14, Dryden 10

Dryden	6	1	1	2	—	10
Owego	6	2	4	2	—	14

Dryden goals-assists: Ross Cole 4-3; Erik Dardia 2-0; Howie Lauretti 1-0; Padraic Iannello 1-0; Gavin Marsh 1-0; Dan Atwood 0-1; Joe Delucia 1-2. Owego goals-assists: Zach Riegel 2-0; Brandon Pauly 3-0; Tyler Ford 3-3; Sean Smith 1-0; Pat Bilbrey 3-2; Chris Wieckhorst 1-1; Ryan Wilson 1-0; Simon Davis 0-1. Shots: D 29; O 47. Ground balls: D 36; O 37. Faceoffs: O 16-27. Man-up: D 2-5; O 3-3. Goalie saves: Tripp Calele (D) 12; Nick Figuerado (O) 11. Records: Owego 4-10.

Lansing vs Dryden Golf

Lansing 230, Dryden 251

At Cornell’s Robert Trent Jones, front nine par-36
Dryden: Jonathon Becker 44, Ben Lewis 48, Aleks Schuler 49, Eric Sinnott 54, Trevor Gardner 56. Lansing: John Losurdo 41, Nic Whitaker 42, Clint Herzog 45, Andrew Kuramoto 50, Henry Myers 52. Records: Lansing 8-2.

Dryden pounds out 16 hits, scores 10-6 baseball victory at Lansing

From the Ithaca Journal

LANSING — Has the balance of power in Interscholastic Athletic Conference baseball shifted a few miles east, from Lansing to Dryden?
At least for this year, the answer appears to be yes. The Purple Lions erupted for six runs on five hits in the fifth inning and went on to defeat the host Bobcats, 10-6, on Monday at Lansing High.
The bottom three batters in the lineup combined for seven hits and six runs scored for Dryden (11-3 overall, 9-1 IAC North Large), which took a two-game lead in the division over Lansing (8-5, 6-2). Bruno Bugliosi got the win in relief of Purple Lions starter John Whitmore, who gave up five runs in 3²⁄₃ innings.
Dryden — which also beat Lansing, 9-2, on April 14 in Dryden — scored three times in the second inning and once more in the third to take a 4-1 lead before the Bobcats battled back to take a 5-4 lead after four.
“It’s exactly what you want, you want to get up early like we did,” Dryden coach Kim Brown said. “But credit Lansing, they came back and battled hard and put us in a tough position. In high school athletics, things don’t always come easy, but we did a nice job coming back. We could have hung our heads, but we continued to put the ball in play and with authority. When you do that, you’re really going to give yourself a chance.”
Whitmore, Dryden’s No. 9 hitter, went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles and two RBIs, while No. 8 hitter Joel Potter added three hits and two RBIs. Justen Geddes, batting seventh, sparked the Lions’ three-run second with a two-out double and was the first of six straight batters to reach base in the inning. Dryden pounded out 16 hits overall.
Lansing, two years removed from a state Class C title, managed eight hits off Whitmore and Bugliosi, three of them from senior Alex Schutz and two from Pat Judd. Schutz got picked off first after singling home leadoff hitter Ben Kutler in the fourth inning to make it 5-4 Lansing, derailing a potentially big inning, and the Bobcats would collect three hits the rest of the way.“We didn’t pitch very well, we didn’t run the bases very well and I think that really contributed to our problems,” Lansing coach Stu Dean said. “And they (Dryden) hit the ball pretty good, so you’ve got to give them credit.”
Dryden took charge of the game in the fifth inning, sending nine men to the plate and scoring six of them. Whitmore and catcher Brian Colbert both had two-run doubles in the inning, and a Lansing error — the only one of the game — helped extend the rally.
Geddes, Potter and Whitmore all had base hits in the inning.
“Credit the bottom of the order,” Brown said. “Those guys really put the bat on the ball hard and allowed our guys who typically drive in runs to have runners on base.”
Bugliosi came on with two outs in the fourth inning and got the Bobcats’ Jared Strait to fly out to centerfield. Whitmore had trouble throwing strikes, particularly over his final two innings, and Brown was pleased with his third baseman’s relief job.
“That’s a tough spot,” Brown said. “We knew he had something to give us today because he hasn’t thrown a lot lately. And when John’s pitch count got up there and he was struggling to throw strikes, we knew we were going to have to go to someone. (Bruno) was basically the only guy that was really available, to be honest.
“He did a really good job,” he added. “I thought he could have done a better job in his first two innings throwing strike 1, thank goodness he finally found it in the seventh inning and threw a lot of strikes.”
Bugliosi, who made a couple of terrific plays himself at third base, benefited from a sensational running backhand catch in centerfield from senior Alan Davis, robbing Pat Judd of an extra base hit. Bugliosi got Lansing freshman Jesse Richardson out on a called third strike to end the game.
Bugliosi said he thinks his team has the talent to make a deep run this postseason.
“There are no holes in our lineup,” he said. “We’re great defensively, outfield and infield, and we have a great pitching staff. I think we can do really well.”
Dean, on the other hand, said his team might be a pitcher or two away, although he credited Richardson with doing the job over the final two innings in relief.
“For the past three games, I thought we played really well,” he said. “But today, for whatever reason, we didn’t get the pitching I thought we were going to get. The silver lining may have been Jesse, I thought he came in and pitched well. He was pretty composed and he kept it at 10, which is all we could ask of him.”

1st Baseman Joel Potter wins ESPN Ithaca & Ehrhart Energy Fueling Excellence MVP against Lansing

May 5, 2014: Purple Lions First Baseman Joel Potter was recognized as an ESPN Ithaca & Ehrhart Energy Fueling Excellence MVP for his performance against divisional rival Lansing. Potter went 3-4 from the dish, with 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored.