Dryden Lions Girls Soccer now 13-0

The Dryden Girls Soccer Team (#2 in NYS Class B Rankings) improved to 13-0 with a 2-1 win over Large School South Waverly last night.  A win on Monday afternoon against Lansing (# 17in NYS Class C Rankings) and they will be the IAC Large School North Champions and will earn their second trip to the IAC Championship in 3 years.

Dryden 2, Waverly 1

Waverly	0	1	—	1
Dryden	0	2	—	2

Waverly goals-assists: Elle Nittenger 1-0. Dryden goals-assists: Keri Daley 1-0; Taylor Bennett 1-0; Abigail Barr 0-1. Saves: Zoe Mennig (W) 6; Sarah Westcott (D) 7. Shots-corners: W 8-0; D 9-2.

Dryden and Point Battle to Tie for second time this season.

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Dryden 1, Whitney Point 1: On Wednesday at Dryden, Brady Harrington scored off a Zach Marsh cross with 20 minutes to play, lifting the Eagles into a draw with the host Purple Lions (5-6-2).
Jacob Lewis scored five minutes into the game for Dryden, off an assist from 6-foot-6 Ali Abel-Ferretti. Sean McDaniel made nine saves for Dryden, while Sean Kelly made seven for WP. Dryden was outshot, 17-14, but took nine of the game's 10 corners.
Dryden travels to Waverly on Friday before closing the regular season on Tuesday at home against Newark Valley.

Dryden Girls Soccer get 1-0 win on Senior Night

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Girls' soccer
Dryden 1, Whitney Point 0: On Tuesday night at Dryden, Keri Daley scored off a cross from Abigail Barr just 15 seconds into the game and the state's second-ranked Class B team (12-0) held off the Eagles.
The Purple Lions held the edge in both shots (16-5) and corners (8-4). Sarah Westcott made three saves to earn the shutout, while Brittany Randall stopped 10 shots for W).
Dryden hosts Waverly at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

Football vs Oneonta

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Oneonta 26, Dryden 19: On Friday in a non-divisional game at Oneonta, Noah Welgoss threw three touchdown passes, all to Matt McHerron, but the Purple Lions fell into a 20-7 hole and couldn't recover in suffering their third straight loss. Both teams are 2-3; Dryden has a bye before taking on Edison on Oct. 17.

Girls Soccer - Trumansburg vs. Dryden

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Dryden 4, Trumansburg 0: On Friday at Dryden, junior Taylor Bennett scored two goals and Abigail Barr added a goal and an assist as the state's third-ranked Class B team improved to 11-0 by blanking the Blue Raiders.
Keri Daley also scored a goal and Amy DeGaetano added an assist for the winners, who outshot T-burg 14-0 and took all six of the game's corners.
Bennett, playing center back after earning first-team all-state honors last year at attack, now has 22 goals this season.

Bennett's end-to-end goal lifts Dryden girls to victory

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All-state junior midfielder Taylor Bennett scored on an end-to-end rush with 12 minutes to play to give the state-ranked Dryden girls' soccer team a 1-0 victory over rival Lansing in Interscholastic Athletic Conference play on Monday night at Lansing.
Bennett took the ball approximately 80 yards from the Dryden defensive end, raced past several Bobcats defenders and put the ball past Lansing keeper Sarah Gisler. The Purple Lions (11-0) are ranked fourth in this week's state sportswriters Class B poll.
Dryden outshot Lansing, 11-6. Gisler made 11 saves for the home team, while Sarah Westcott stopped six for Dryden.
Lansing, the defending IAC Large School and Section 4 Class C champion, fell to 7-3 on the year. The Bobcats host Union Springs at 7 p.m. Wednesday; Dryden is off till Friday, when it hosts Trumansburg at 4:30 p.m.

IAC Swimming

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Watkins Glen 106, Dryden 71: On Tuesday at Watkins Glen, Liza Carnes won the 200 and 500 freestyles for the Senecas.
Katherine Meehan (100 breaststroke), Victoria Wixson (200 individual medley) and Emma Allington (100 freestyle) each took an individual event and competed on Watkins Glen's winning 200 medley and 200 freestyle relay teams.
Dryden's Erin Daley won the 50 free and 100 backstroke and swam a leg on the winning 400 free relay.