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December 21, 2000
CCS puts scare into top-ranked Hamilton boys
The Hamilton boys basketball team, the top-ranked team in the state, ran their winning streak to 25 straight games with a win over Cooperstown Monday, but not before the Redskins gave them a scare.
Hamilton, the defending Section Three Class D state champions, lost just two starters off of last year's squad, including Cooperstown native Luke Graham.
Richfield's Romero is profiled in `USA Today'
RICHFIELD-Jarred Romero, the 16-year-old Richfield Springs football player who died Aug. 31 of a heart attack after a football practice, was one of 13 teenagers featured in a "USA Today" article about high school players from around the country who died playing football this past season.
December 14, 2000
Redskins lose pair of league contests
The Cooperstown boys basketball team lost Center State Conference games at Mt. Markham and at Waterville last week to fall to 2-3 on the season heading to tonight's home contest with Westmoreland.
Richfield, CCS wrestlers place 3rd
MT. MARKHAM-Both host Richfield Springs and Cooperstown had one wrestler place third at the 12th annual Jeffrey Calkins Memorial Tournament Saturday.
The 16-team tournament was held in Mt. Markham as work on the Richfield gymnasium, part of a school building project, has yet to be completed.
December 7, 2000
CV-S boys lose in O.T. in title game
The Cherry Valley-Springfield boys basketball team narrowly missed winning the championship of the Mt. Markham Tournament last weekend, falling in overtime to the host team, 62-61.
The Patriots missed a short jumper at the end of regulation, and the back end of a one-and-one foul shot opportunity in overtime that would have sent the game to double overtime.
Milford boys first loss `nightmarish'
The Milford boys basketball team's bus got lost on the way to Schenectady Monday night, and the team arrived at the game an hour late.
Things only got worse from that point.
The previously undefeated Wildcats absorbed their first loss of the season to Schenectady-Christian Monday, a 73-72 overtime loss. Milford held a 10-point lead with about four minutes remaining but starters Patrick Kelly and Ben Cotter fouled out on two consecutive possessions, and Schenectady sent the game to overtime with a sort jumper with less than two seconds remaining.
Calkins tournament is Saturday
MT. MARKHAM-Richfield Springs' 12th annual Len Calkins Memorial wrestling tournament will be held this Saturday, featuring 16 teams, including host Richfield and Cooperstown. Wrestling begins at 10 a.m., and finals are scheduled to begin around 7 p.m.
November 30, 2000
Milford boys shock Ft. Plain
MILFORD—There's not much of a better way to start the season than this: Defeating a team which went to the Final Four a year ago, by a single point on a last second basket, to win the championship of your own tournament in your longtime coach's final season.
November 22, 2000
CCS boys face Ft. Plain Friday in season-opener
The Cooperstown boys basketball team does not begin the 2000-01 season until Friday, but they have already suffered a key loss. Six-foot, six inch sophomore center Billy Hribar injured his knee during the summer, and will miss at least the first half of the season. But third year head coach Mike Cring has a host of options for replacing Hribar when the season begins Friday at 6 p.m. in the first round of Milford's Anton Remy Tournament.
`Popeye' coming to Hall
New York Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer, who has spent the last 52 years in professional baseball as a player, manager and coach, will be the featured guest in the next installment of the Hall of Fame's popular Legends series, set for Saturday, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. A colorful storyteller, Zimmer is making the pilgrimage to Cooperstown in celebration of the Hall of Fame's exciting new exhibit, "Underground Movement: A History of the Subway Series."
November 16, 2000
`Sharky' celebrates 30 years at the gym
For Steve "Sharky" Nagelschmidt, the Clark Sports Center is like being home.
After all, the 52-year-old grew up in Cooperstown going to the old ACC gym, and after four years in the service after high school, became a member of the gym's staff on Nov. 9, 1972. His official title is currently program specialist and coach, but in reality he does a little bit of everything.
White's legacy one of sportsmanship, fairness
At a luncheon at the Otesaga last Thursday, Dick White received the Clark Sports Center's seventh annual Patrick C. Fetterman Award with many of the teachers, parents and friends who made his longtime coaching and teaching career a success in attendance.
November 9, 2000
Dick White to be presented Fetterman Award today
Former Cooperstown basketball coach Dick White walked into Clark Sports Center Director Brad Feik's office Friday evening with two scorebooks from the 1976-77 and 1977-78 Cooperstown basketball seasons under his arm. Those were the years Feik played for White, and were the midst of the "Golden Years" for Cooperstown basketball.
Hall of Fame Weekend set for Aug. 4-6
This year's Hall of Fame Weekend may end up being a Twin-bill, as in former Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield and Kirby Puckett. After the Major League baseball meetings in New York last week, it was announced that the 2001 Hall of Fame Weekend will be held Aug. 4-6.
Carlson in states for second time
UTICA-Cooperstown senior Steve Carlson ran the race of his life last Saturday, and when it was over he had joined the rarefied air of qualifying for the state championship for the second straight year. Carlson will return to the Utica Tech campus this Saturday for the state meet, which will be run at 12:30 p.m.
November 2, 2000
CCS girls soccer lose to Hannibal
WHITESBORO- Cooperstown girls soccer coach Lisa Cherubin could not have asked for two better games last week to introduce her young team to what sectional play is all about.
The first was a thrill-a-minute, sudden death victory over Herkimer last Friday in Cooperstown. In Monday's Section Three Class C-1 semifinal contest, the Redskins lost an equally well-played game while learning a valuable lesson at the same time.
October 26, 2000
Hall acquires Series artifacts for new Subway Series exhibit
With plans for a Subway Series exhibit to open Nov. 16, The National Baseball Hall of Fame's Jeff Idelson returned to Cooperstown from the first two games of the Subway Series Monday with the line-up card from Game 1 and has already secured Game One hero Jose Vizcaino's bat.
But Idelson decided to pass on trying to obtain the infamous piece of bat Roger Clemens hurled in the direction of Mike Piazza during Game Two, although that may well be what fans 50 years from now remember the most from the 2000 World Series.
CCS girls soccer receives top seed
The bad news is the Cooperstown girls soccer team came up just short in a bid for the Center State league title in its regular season finale last Friday. The good news is they received the top seed in the upcoming Section Three Class C-1 Tournament, including a first round bye and a home quarterfinal contest on Friday.
October 19, 2000
C-town football loses Homecoming game, 38-12
After a disappointing Homecoming loss to undefeated Weedsport Saturday, the Cooperstown football team will try and use this Saturday's crossover season finale game at West Canada as a springboard to success for the 2001 season.
CCS girls one out with one to play
Playing their fourth game in six days, the Cooperstown girls soccer team lost a pivotal Center State match to Mt. Markham Monday, 2-1. In order to win the league title, the Redskins now need to win their regular season finale at Westmoreland Thursday, and hope Hamilton loses their finale at Mt. Markham Saturday.
Three qualify for Boston
SCHENECTADY—Five area runners completed the 18th annual Mohawk Hudson River Marathon Oct. 15, including three Cooperstown women whose was good enough to qualify for the Boston Marathon next spring.
Area pair prepare for Athens Marathon
Cooperstown's Scott Curtis and Richfield Springs' John Sovocool will leave Oct. 28 for the Athens Marathon in Greece, which will be run Nov. 5
Curtis raised all of the $3,900 needed for the trip through donations from area business's and individuals, while Sovocool also raised a large percentage of the money needed.
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