Dryden Burns Up the Track

The Varsity Boys won the Division 2 Class Championship while the girls took 2nd place in Division 2.  Congratulations to both on the hard work...good luck to State qualifiers Abby Yatsko and Tor Wildenstein.

Dryden Soccer PLayer Scores First International Goal

Taylor Bennett, Dryden Junior soccer player, scored her first international goal this week.  She is playing for the U18 Region 1 ODP Team at an event in Croatia.

Cheerleaders Take First in first Competition

Congratulations to the Dryden Varsity Cheerleaders for taking first place in the Large School Division of the Cheer Competition at Horseheads today!

Class B Boys Basketball Sectionals

Whitney Point's boys came back from a 13-point halftime deficit for a 56-52 victory Wednesday night over visiting Dryden to advance to the semifinal round of Section 4's Class B basketball tournament.
Senior guard Zach Marsh's 15-point final quarter included two of his three 3-point goals and led the Golden Eagles (18-1) to 20-8 command of the closing eight minutes. The Point went ahead for good on a 3-point goal by Josh Dean that made it 49-46.
With the Eagles' big men in foul trouble, Dryden's Ali Abel-Ferretti scored 17 second-quarter points as the Lions took to intermission leading by 31-18. The hosts shot 8-for-27 in the first half — 14-for-27 thereafter.
Next for the Point is a semifinal at home against Oneonta, 7 p.m. Saturday.

Photos from the Game

Boys Hoops Sectionals and Girls All-Stars

From Ithaca Journal

ITHACA – After having prevailed in their conference championship-game meeting last Friday, the Moravia girls' basketball team will be able to give Newfield a rematch — as long as the Blue Devils win on Tuesday night.
The Section 4 girls' basketball tournament opens on Tuesday with 16 games in classes A through D, including a first-round matchup between 12th-seeded Harpursville (9-10) and No. 5 seed Moravia (15-4). Coach John Crossgrove's Blue Devils outlasted Newfield, 54-53, in a highly entertaining Interscholastic Athletic Conference Small School final last week at Tompkins Cortland Community College, and can earn a quarterfinal date at fourth-seeded Newfield (14-5) with a win over the Hornets.
Newfield is one of four teams in Class C to have earned a first-round bye; the others are top seed Bainbridge-Guilford (15-2), second seed Watkins Glen (14-4) and No. 3 Lansing (13-5). All four quarterfinal games are slated for 7 p.m. Friday.
Among Tuesday's first-round games in Class C is an all-IAC affair between 11th seed Union Springs (10-9) and sixth seed Candor (13-6), set for 7 p.m. at Candor.
A pair of IAC schools will open sectional play in Class D on Tuesday — third seed Southern Cayuga (11-6) hosts 14th seed Gilboa (10-8) and seventh-seed Odessa-Montour (8-9) hosts No. 10 Schenevus. Should O-M and SC both win two games, they would meet in the Class D semifinals on March 3 in Oneonta.
The Class D girls' tournament, which features 17 teams this year, officially got under way on Saturday with a "play-in" game in which 16th seed Stamford defeated No. 17 Hunter-Tannersville, 47-31. Stamford earned the right to take on top seed Delhi (16-2) at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Delhi.
• The Section 4 boys' tournament tips off on Wednesday with 17 games in classes A through D, including an all-IAC Class B quarterfinal featuring seventh seed Dryden (11-7) at second seed Whitney Point (17-1), which is coming off a 59-50 loss to Watkins Glen in the IAC Large School title game last Thursday at TC3. The Dryden-WP winner will face either sixth seed Seton Catholic Central (10-7) or third seed Oneonta (14-4) in Saturday's Class B semifinals.
Wednesday's Class C first-round games include ninth seed Lansing (6-10) at eighth seed Greene (9-8) and an all-IAC contest that has 11th seed Marathon (8-10) at sixth seed Trumansburg (11-6). The Greene-Lansing winner will travel to top seed Watkins Glen (15-1) on Saturday, while the Marathon-Trumansburg winner will travel to third seed Notre Dame (14-4).
In Class D, Odessa-Montour (7-10) travels to IAC rival Southern Cayuga (7-10) in an 8-9 matchup in Poplar Ridge. The winner is likely to face top seed Delhi (16-2) in the quarterfinals, barring an upset at the hands of 16th seed Jefferson (8-8).
IAC Girls All-Stars: Sophomore guard Mariyah Byrd, who helped lead Newfield to the South Small title and a berth in the Small School title game, is this year's division most valuable player. The league announced its first- and second-team all-stars over the weekend.
Byrd and fellow first-team all-star Sierra Henry, a junior guard, both averaged 16 point this season for the Trojans. They were joined on the all-star first team by Candor's Rachel Barnhart and Mikayla Short, Odessa-Montour's Gillian Clark and Spencer-Van Etten's Dallia Ronnick.
In the South Large, co-MVP's were Waverly's Kiana Manuel and Kylie Newman. The rest of the first team included Elmira Notre Dame's Kaylyn Curran and Mia Herlan, Watkins Glen's Madison Gates and Amanda Pike, and Newark Valley's Hannah Luszczek.
In the North Large, Brittney Randall of Whitney Point was named MVP. She was joined on the first team by teammates Graci Standish-Warpus and Jessica Cafferty, who had 27 points in the Wolverines' 59-56 defeat of Waverly in the IAC Large School final last Thursday at TC3.
Other first-teamers included Lansing twins Shea and Maura McCartney, Trumansburg's Anna Shelley and Dryden's Erin Daley.
In the North Small, Marissa Hingston of overall Small champ Moravia was named MVP, and was joined on the first team by teammates Zoe Barrington and Hannah Bennink, along with Southern Cayuga's Emily Kopp and Adrianne Torea, and Union Springs' Samantha Walawender.

Dryden Basketball All-Stars

IAC North Large School Boys Basketball All-Stars
1st Team - Ali Abel-Ferretti
2nd Team - Trevor Gardner
2nd Team -Stuart Stahlman
IAC North Large School Girls Basketball All-Stars
1st Team - Erin Daley (All-Academic Team Also & will play in Exceptional Senior Game)
2nd Team - Victoria Leyburn
Honorable Mention - Lindsey Goodenough

Boys Basketball - recap from the Coach at Chenago Valley

Varsity Boys Basketball @ Chenango Valley

2/11/15

Last night Dryden fell to 10-6 overall with a 65-57 loss at host Chenango Valley.  Dryden was led by Ali Abel-Ferretti, who finished with a game-high 27 points and 11 rebounds.  Anthony Nichols added 8 points, while Trevor Gardner added 7.  Chenango Valley was led by Mark Mullins who had 24 points, while Kolby Ross added 19 points.  CV led 14-13 after the first quarter.  Abel-Ferretti scored 8 points in the first quarter.  "We did a very good job of getting Ali paint touches in the first quarter."  CV would take a 26-25 lead into the locker room at half as Mullins scored at the buzzer on a put-back off a Kolby Ross miss.  "We were spectators during the final possession of the half.  Instead of getting underneath someone and blocking out, we watched the flight of the ball and got beat to the spot."  Abel-Ferretti scored 10 of Dryden's 12 points in the second quarter.  CV would outscore Dryden 21-13 in the third quarter to take a 47-38 lead into the fourth quarter.  Mullins scored 7 in the quarter for CV.  Ross added 6 in the quarter for CV.  Abel-Ferretti had 5 points in the quarter for Dryden.  Down 10 points in the fourth quarter, Dryden would draw even with just under 3 minutes to play.  Kolby Ross would make a 3-point shot late in the shot clock to give CV a three point lead.  On Dryden's next possession, a missed three-point attempt would cost Dryden as a long rebound led to a CV fast-break lay-up to put CV up 5.  "The two three-point field goal makes by the Ross kid hurt us in the fourth quarter.  Our scouting report said that was not a part of his offensive game, however late in the shot-clock, it's the only look they had, and he made two of them."  "Ali was phenomenal tonight.  He was our only consistent scoring threat, while being doubled-teamed on almost every catch.  He battles through every hit and bump that occurred throughout the game."  "We played with very little energy, enthusiasm and passion tonight.  Ultimately, that cost us an opportunity to win."  Dryden JV's lost to CV at Dryden.  Dryden hosts Newark Valley Friday, 2/13,6 pm JV tip.

Box Score

Dryden            13    12    13    19                  57

CV                   14    12    21    18                  65

Dryden

Welgoss     1, 0-0, 3

McHerron     3, 0-2, 6

Burvee     1, 0-0, 2

Nichols    3, 1-3, 8

Stahlman     2, 0-2, 4

Abel-Ferretti     11, 5-9, 27

Gardner     3, 0-0, 7

Ellis     0, 0-0, 0

Team: 24, 6-16, 57

CV

C. Hertzog    3, 2-3, 9

Cox    5, 0-0, 11

Klepfer   0, 0-0, 0

J. Hertzog    2, 0-0, 5

Mullins     8, 6-9, 24

Ross    7, 3-4, 19

Murreld     0, 0-0, 0

Team: 28, 11-16, 65