Year-End Honors! Congratulations on some outstanding achievements this season! They made us all look good. (posted 12/9/12)
Maple Grove girls – New York State Class D, Section 6 Class D, CCAA League Champions Hope Pietrocarlo – All-Western New York Cross Country Team, first team; Section 6 Class D Individual Champion; CCAA small schools Runner of the Year Megan Marsh – All-WNY, second team Caroline Benson – All-WNY, honorable mention Taylor Norris, Abby Sirwatka, Ally Saar, Stephanie Krempa Dr. Robert Rappole, Maple Grove – Western New York Girls Coach of the Year ----- Fredonia girls – Section 6 Class C Team Champions Lauren Reyda – New York State Class C Sportsmanship Award, CCAA large schools Runner of the Year Michaela Tramuta, Clare Foley, Meredith Zebraski, Jill Kowalski, Cori Gullo, Gwen Stokes ----- Sherman/Clymer girls – CCAA Team Sportsmanship Award Holly Eliason – All-WNY, honorable mention; State Meet individual qualifier, Class D Rebecca King – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D Katie Pacy – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D ----- Olivia Zabrodsky, Jamestown – All-WNY, honorable mention; State Meet individual qualifier, Class A Kirsten Holmberg, Falconer – State Meet individual qualifier, Class C Hannah Seiders, Silver Creek – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D Emma Seiders, Silver Creek – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D ------ Maple Grove boys – CCAA Team Champions Corey Wefing – All-WNY, first team; Section 6 Class D Individual Champion; CCAA small schools Runner of the Year Josh Ahlstrom – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D Frank Zuroski – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D Colin Green – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D ----- Gowanda boys – CCAA Team Sportsmanship Award ----- John Panus, Olean – All-WNY, first team; State Meet individual qualifier, Class B; CCAA Runner of the Year, large schools Ryan Hetrick, Southwestern – State Meet individual qualifier, Class C Jordan Powers, Southwestern – State Meet individual qualifier, Class C Ryan Carpenter, Sherman/Clymer – State Meet individual qualifier, Class D -----Michael Janisch, Silver Creek – Executive of the Year (State Meet organization, Section VI Boys chairmanship, CCAA leadership, Silver Creek coaching)
CCAA XC 2012 League Meet Season is History -- What have we learned? (posted 10/22/12) With five rounds of four weekly triangular or quadrangular cross-country meets behind us a few things are clear: 1. 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. The Chinese all knew it, and now so do we. Year of the Red Dragon, that is! With all but the County Championship Meet in the record books, Lauren Reyda of Fredonia is about all that stands in the way of a total Maple Grove sweep of boys and girls team and individual titles. The MG girls and boysboth went undefeated, 13-0, in league meets—to no one’s surprise—and Corey Wefing won all five of his races--only three League runners within a minute of him and no one closer than :48 back, giving him a fat 1:01 lead in the League rankings. And Red Dragon freshwomen Hope Pietrocarlo, #2, and Megan Marsh, #3, are right on the heels of Reyda—19:13 and 19:25 standard times to her 19:08 League leader—so, who knows? County race might be interesting.
2. Our top girls can hang with anybody on the Sectional and State levels. Two-time defending State Class D champs Maple Grove are sitting at #1 in the State D rankings again, and they’re #2 among Section 6 “small schools” (behind only State Class B #2 East Aurora). But League runners-up Fredonia brought four new faces into the CCAA top 20 and have climbed to #3 small school in Section 6 as well as #3 in the Class C State rankings. The Sherman girls, unfortunate to be stuck behind the Red Dragons in Section 6 Class D, are ranked #8 among NYS schools in that smallest classification, and could well qualify three of their individuals for the State Meet. Looking at it another way, 16 CCAA girls currently appear in the State individual rankings, as opposed to just 8 CCAA boys.
3. Young girls get out. Not one of our top three teams, just mentioned, has a single senior in its top six! Unfortunately, they do have a number of juniors, and if this year is any indication, it’s not good to be a senior girl runner. Only two--Olivia Zabrodsky of Jamestown, ranked #4 and having a standout season, and current #13, Alyssa Stroud of Allegany-Limestone—are now ranked in the League top 20, after three seniors and a junior dropped off that list to make way for two ninth graders and two eighth graders.
4. The boys were more predictable than the girls. Only four of the pre-season top 20 boys were bumped out, by newcomers Josh Goodhue (Fredonia sophomore, #16), Javier Soto (Dunkirk sophomore, #10), Josh Ahlstrom (Maple Grove senior, #6), and “rookie of the year” Owen Barber (Allegany-Limestone freshman, #3). Within the expected top 20, Ryan Hetrick and Jordan Powers (Southwestern freshman, #5, and junior, #14) and Jesse Middleton (Falconer junior, #11) all raised some eyebrows with their break-out seasons. Maple Grove, Olean, Jamestown, Gowanda, and Southwestern were the top five boys teams, as predicted, with only Olean exceeding expectations.
5. The girls were less predictable than the boys. Jamestown and Gowanda filled in the fourth and fifth team spots, behind MG, Fredonia, and Sherman, but seven of the individuals in the top 20 were new, including those four new faces from Fredonia—freshwomen Gwen Stokes (#12) and Clare Foley (#14), junior Emily Wan (#15), and sophomore Jillian Kowalski (#19)—two surprises at Maple Grove—junior Abby Sirwatka (breaking in at #10), and 8th grader Ally Saar (#20)—and Sherman 8th grader Katie Pacy (#18). Among those top 20 girls expected to have a great season, Taylor Norris(MG sophomore, #6) and Rebecca King (Sherman 9th grader, #7) were exceptional.
County Meet (posted 10/22/12) The CCAA Championship Meet (“Counties”), on Friday, October 26th, makes up half the season record for our League’s fourteen teams. Each boys and girls team comes in with a total of 13 wins and losses after running each of the other 13 teams over the past five Tuesdays. Our league is unique among the local high school sports in that competition is without regard to school classification. Teams from schools as large as Jamestown, with an enrollment of 1049 compete with schools as small as Franklinville, with 178.
Now all fourteen teams meet at Long Point State Park to distribute thirteen more wins and losses to their dual meet records. Maple Grove boys and girls, both 13-0 will be looking to go 26-0 by winning outright, as they both did back on September 15 when all the League teams but Sherman (plus some non-league opponents) met on the same course at the Red Dragon Invitational to kick off the 2012 season.
Outside of the Fredonia and Sherman girls, or the Olean and Jamestown boys, who might give Maple Grove a push, most teams are looking to win local rivalries, get revenge for close, mid-pack losses during the season, or just “tuning up” for the Sectional Championships to follow on November 2 at Elma Meadows Golf Course.
Individual runners also have something to look forward to at Counties. First of all, this race is fun. It’s fairly flat and fast and it’s scenic, following trails through the big woods along the Lake, out of sight of spectators for long stretches. Throw in some nerves, some friendly rivalries, lots of color, and sudden bursts of bigger, louder crowds than runners normally see, and this race is one of the highlights of everybody’s season.
This is also an important opportunity to measure personal improvement. Most runners have run this course earlier in year, as the Red Dragon Invitational, and some seniors have run it seven or more times over their careers. This is their chance to cash in a year or a season or a career of hard work for an objective personal-best time.
In addition, having earned individual rankings based on their performances in the five league dual meets, runners will now either back those rankings up, lose some ground or, as everybody hopes, show the world that they are really much better than the soulless computer has been claiming all season! Once finalized, these rankings will determine both the CCAA Runners of the Year and the County All-Star teams--the top seven finishers, boys and girls, in both the large and small schools divisions.
Finally, although the top seven runners from each school will be moving on to race at Sectionals next week, for dozens of runners on the larger teams, Counties is the last and biggest race of the season or, in the case of some seniors, their last race ever.
The individual boys might just be running for second place behind Corey Wefing, currently ranked #2 among all Class D runners in the State and #25 overall. Sherman junior Ryan Carpenter, finished :59 behind Wefing in week 5, and Southwestern freshman Ryan Hetrick was :54 behind him in week 1, both on their own home courses. Olean senior John Panus might have the best shot at staying with the Maple Grove junior, having lost to him by just :33 in the Red Dragon Invitational, and again at the Southern Tier Invitational, and by :48 in their week 4 League meet on Panus’ home course. At the McQuaid Invitational, September 29th, in separate races Panus ran 15:14 to win the unseeded A-2 race on the same course that Wefing toured in 15:02 to finish third in the seeded A race.
For the individual girls, the result is less predictable. Fredonia sophomore Lauren Reyda is currently #1 in the CCAA as well as the top-ranked CCAA girl in the State (#38 overall and #6 in New York State Class C). But the Maple Grove duo of 9th graders Hope Pietrocarlo and Megan Marsh are ranked 2-3 just behind her in the league rankings. Jamestown’s Olivia Zabrodsky, ranked 4th and lone senior in the top 12, has three league meet wins, and Holly Eliason of Sherman, now #5, has been moving up in the rankings all season. With the Maple Grove-Fredonia-Sherman team battle stirring adrenaline and influencing tactics, it should be a scramble among Zabrodsky, Eliason, Taylor Norris, Caroline Benson, and Abby Sirwatka of Maple Grove, Sherman’s Rebecca King and Michaela Tramuta of Fredonia to fill out the rest of this year’s top 10.
. . . and beyond: Sectionals and States (posted 10/22/12) With both Sectionals (11/2) and this year’s State Meet (11/10) at our own Elma Meadows Golf Course, plus the success of Maple Grove and Fredonia, Wefing and Reyda on the State level, anticipation for this post-season is higher than ever.
Olivia Zabrodsky, Jamestown, ought to qualify for the State Meet as an individual in Class A, and Olean’s John Panus looks good in boys Class B.
Led by Lauren Reyda, #1 girl runner in Section 6 Class C and #2 in State C, the Fredonia girls are the favorites to qualify for the State Meet as a team, along with individuals Kirsten Holmberg, Falconer, and possibly Alyssa Stroud of Allegany-Limestone. On the boys’ side, freshmen Owen Barber of Allegany-Limestone and Ryan Hetrick of Southwestern should be among the top five individuals, with Jacob Brown of Fredonia also having an outside chance.
But it’s in Class D that things get really interesting for us locals. First, there are the Maple Grove girls, who should put five finishers in the top seven at Sectionals to set up their quest for a third straight State Class D championship a week later. Throw in Holly Eliason and RebeccaKing from Sherman, and very possibly their #3 runner, 8th grader Katy Pacy, plus Hannah Seiders of Silver Creek and the Section 6 State representatives will be nearly 100% from our League, not to mention very fast, possibly fast enough to upset powerful Section 3 in the Section team race at States.
And on the boys D side there’s more fun, with the Maple Grove boys taking aim at de-throning Barker, defending State Champions and winners of Sectionals the past five seasons. Barker has reloaded more quickly than anyone expected, but led by junior Wefing and new senior recruit Josh Ahlstrom, and aided by freshman Frank Zuroski, seniors Matt Nelson, Colin Green, Nick Zuroski, and Peter Cala are poised to make the best of their final season. Cala, #2 for MG last season, suffered a broken leg in spring track and the progress of his long, slow rehab just might be key to Maple Grove’s success. But if they don’t bring home a team championship from Sectionals, Maple Grove might still claim four of the individual slots for the State Meet, along with Ryan Carpenter of Sherman. Almost as much as in the girls’ competition, Class D Sectionals—and States—will be a CCAA affair.
Cross Country 2012 Preview (posted 9/1/12)
Highlights ¨
new coaches at Sherman, Falconer, Franklinville, and Randolph;
Maple Grove girls, defending Section VI and State Class D champions, #2 among Section VI small schools (behind East Aurora), and tops in class D, working to get past an improved Greenwich (Section II) for a State “three-peat”;
Maple Grove boys, looking for a Section championship at last, also #2 among Section VI small schools (also behind East Aurora), and also tops among Section D schools, projected first or second in the State;
Fredonia and possibly Sherman girls looking to give Maple Grove a race; Olean, Jamestown, and Gowanda girls well back, within a few points of each other;
Jamestown, Southwestern, Gowanda, and Olean boys all looking strong2;
ten of last year’s top 11 girls back for 2012
Junior Corey Wefing looking tough to beat for the County title, but newcomers Matt Kruszka (8th grade, Gowanda) and Owen Barber (9th, Allegany/Limestone) may join seniors Panus, Lienhart, Brown, Cala and Green, and underclassmen Carpenter, Edborg, and Hetrick, in a very interesting battle to decide the next ten spots.
pre-season rankings Girls Teams Boys Teams 1. Maple Grove, class D 1. Maple Grove, class D 2. Fredonia, C1 2. Jamestown, A 3. Sherman, D 3. Southwestern, C2 4. Olean, B2 4. Gowanda, C2 5. Jamestown, A 5. Olean, B2
top returners from 2011 girls boys 1. Lauren Reyda, 10, Fredonia 1. Corey Wefing, 11, Maple Grove 2. Hope Pietrocarlo, 9, Maple Grove 2. John Panus, 12, Olean 3. Megan Marsh, 9, Maple Grove 3. Hunter Lienhart, 12, Randolph 4. Holly Eliason, 11, Sherman/Clymer 4. Jacob Brown, 12, Fredonia 5. Caroline Benson, 11, Maple Grove 5. Ryan Carpenter, 11, Sherman/Clymer 6. Olivia Zabrodsky, 12, Jamestown 6. Peter Cala, 12, Maple Grove 7. Kirsten Holmberg, 11, Falconer 7. Christian Edborg, 10, Jamestown 8. Michaela Tramuta, 11, Fredonia 8. Colin Green, 12, Maple Grove 9. Alyssa Stroud, 12, Allegany/Limestone 9. Ryan Hetrick, 9, Southwestern 10. Hannah Seiders, 9, Silver Creek 10. Matt Nelson, 12, Maple Grove 11. Emily Kent, 12, Southwestern 11. Jordan Johnson, 12, Jamestown 12. Taylor Norris, 10, Maple Grove 12. Michael Capestrani, 12, Jamestown 13. Meredith Zebraski, 10, Fredonia 13. Patrick Walsh, 10, Jamestown 14. Rebecca King, 9, Sherman/Clymer 14. Jordan Boland, 11, Sherman/Clymer 15. Kelsey Branch, 12, Olean 15. Jesse Middleton, 11, Falconer 16. Stephanie Krempa, 12, Maple Grove 16. Frank Zuroski, 9, Maple Grove 17. Colleen Steward, 10, Gowanda 17. Jacob Frangione, 11, Frewsburg 18. Maitland Langworthy, 9, Fredonia 18. Jordan Powers, 11, Southwestern 19. Kelly Vincent, 11, Randolph 19. Zachery Barnes, 11, Jamestown 20. Kylie Pleakis, 10, Allegany/Limestone 20. Nick Zuroski, 12, Maple Grove
CCAA XC 2012 League Meet Season is History -- What have we learned? (posted 10/22/12) With five rounds of four weekly triangular or quadrangular cross-country meets behind us a few things are clear: 1. 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. The Chinese all knew it, and now so do we. Year of the Red Dragon, that is! With all but the County Championship Meet in the record books, Lauren Reyda of Fredonia is about all that stands in the way of a total Maple Grove sweep of boys and girls team and individual titles. The MG girls and boysboth went undefeated, 13-0, in league meets—to no one’s surprise—and Corey Wefing won all five of his races--only three League runners within a minute of him and no one closer than :48 back, giving him a fat 1:01 lead in the League rankings. And Red Dragon freshwomen Hope Pietrocarlo, #2, and Megan Marsh, #3, are right on the heels of Reyda—19:13 and 19:25 standard times to her 19:08 League leader—so, who knows? County race might be interesting.
2. Our top girls can hang with anybody on the Sectional and State levels. Two-time defending State Class D champs Maple Grove are sitting at #1 in the State D rankings again, and they’re #2 among Section 6 “small schools” (behind only State Class B #2 East Aurora). But League runners-up Fredonia brought four new faces into the CCAA top 20 and have climbed to #3 small school in Section 6 as well as #3 in the Class C State rankings. The Sherman girls, unfortunate to be stuck behind the Red Dragons in Section 6 Class D, are ranked #8 among NYS schools in that smallest classification, and could well qualify three of their individuals for the State Meet. Looking at it another way, 16 CCAA girls currently appear in the State individual rankings, as opposed to just 8 CCAA boys.
3. Young girls get out. Not one of our top three teams, just mentioned, has a single senior in its top six! Unfortunately, they do have a number of juniors, and if this year is any indication, it’s not good to be a senior girl runner. Only two--Olivia Zabrodsky of Jamestown, ranked #4 and having a standout season, and current #13, Alyssa Stroud of Allegany-Limestone—are now ranked in the League top 20, after three seniors and a junior dropped off that list to make way for two ninth graders and two eighth graders.
4. The boys were more predictable than the girls. Only four of the pre-season top 20 boys were bumped out, by newcomers Josh Goodhue (Fredonia sophomore, #16), Javier Soto (Dunkirk sophomore, #10), Josh Ahlstrom (Maple Grove senior, #6), and “rookie of the year” Owen Barber (Allegany-Limestone freshman, #3). Within the expected top 20, Ryan Hetrick and Jordan Powers (Southwestern freshman, #5, and junior, #14) and Jesse Middleton (Falconer junior, #11) all raised some eyebrows with their break-out seasons. Maple Grove, Olean, Jamestown, Gowanda, and Southwestern were the top five boys teams, as predicted, with only Olean exceeding expectations.
5. The girls were less predictable than the boys. Jamestown and Gowanda filled in the fourth and fifth team spots, behind MG, Fredonia, and Sherman, but seven of the individuals in the top 20 were new, including those four new faces from Fredonia—freshwomen Gwen Stokes (#12) and Clare Foley (#14), junior Emily Wan (#15), and sophomore Jillian Kowalski (#19)—two surprises at Maple Grove—junior Abby Sirwatka (breaking in at #10), and 8th grader Ally Saar (#20)—and Sherman 8th grader Katie Pacy (#18). Among those top 20 girls expected to have a great season, Taylor Norris(MG sophomore, #6) and Rebecca King (Sherman 9th grader, #7) were exceptional.
County Meet (posted 10/22/12) The CCAA Championship Meet (“Counties”), on Friday, October 26th, makes up half the season record for our League’s fourteen teams. Each boys and girls team comes in with a total of 13 wins and losses after running each of the other 13 teams over the past five Tuesdays. Our league is unique among the local high school sports in that competition is without regard to school classification. Teams from schools as large as Jamestown, with an enrollment of 1049 compete with schools as small as Franklinville, with 178.
Now all fourteen teams meet at Long Point State Park to distribute thirteen more wins and losses to their dual meet records. Maple Grove boys and girls, both 13-0 will be looking to go 26-0 by winning outright, as they both did back on September 15 when all the League teams but Sherman (plus some non-league opponents) met on the same course at the Red Dragon Invitational to kick off the 2012 season.
Outside of the Fredonia and Sherman girls, or the Olean and Jamestown boys, who might give Maple Grove a push, most teams are looking to win local rivalries, get revenge for close, mid-pack losses during the season, or just “tuning up” for the Sectional Championships to follow on November 2 at Elma Meadows Golf Course.
Individual runners also have something to look forward to at Counties. First of all, this race is fun. It’s fairly flat and fast and it’s scenic, following trails through the big woods along the Lake, out of sight of spectators for long stretches. Throw in some nerves, some friendly rivalries, lots of color, and sudden bursts of bigger, louder crowds than runners normally see, and this race is one of the highlights of everybody’s season.
This is also an important opportunity to measure personal improvement. Most runners have run this course earlier in year, as the Red Dragon Invitational, and some seniors have run it seven or more times over their careers. This is their chance to cash in a year or a season or a career of hard work for an objective personal-best time.
In addition, having earned individual rankings based on their performances in the five league dual meets, runners will now either back those rankings up, lose some ground or, as everybody hopes, show the world that they are really much better than the soulless computer has been claiming all season! Once finalized, these rankings will determine both the CCAA Runners of the Year and the County All-Star teams--the top seven finishers, boys and girls, in both the large and small schools divisions.
Finally, although the top seven runners from each school will be moving on to race at Sectionals next week, for dozens of runners on the larger teams, Counties is the last and biggest race of the season or, in the case of some seniors, their last race ever.
The individual boys might just be running for second place behind Corey Wefing, currently ranked #2 among all Class D runners in the State and #25 overall. Sherman junior Ryan Carpenter, finished :59 behind Wefing in week 5, and Southwestern freshman Ryan Hetrick was :54 behind him in week 1, both on their own home courses. Olean senior John Panus might have the best shot at staying with the Maple Grove junior, having lost to him by just :33 in the Red Dragon Invitational, and again at the Southern Tier Invitational, and by :48 in their week 4 League meet on Panus’ home course. At the McQuaid Invitational, September 29th, in separate races Panus ran 15:14 to win the unseeded A-2 race on the same course that Wefing toured in 15:02 to finish third in the seeded A race.
For the individual girls, the result is less predictable. Fredonia sophomore Lauren Reyda is currently #1 in the CCAA as well as the top-ranked CCAA girl in the State (#38 overall and #6 in New York State Class C). But the Maple Grove duo of 9th graders Hope Pietrocarlo and Megan Marsh are ranked 2-3 just behind her in the league rankings. Jamestown’s Olivia Zabrodsky, ranked 4th and lone senior in the top 12, has three league meet wins, and Holly Eliason of Sherman, now #5, has been moving up in the rankings all season. With the Maple Grove-Fredonia-Sherman team battle stirring adrenaline and influencing tactics, it should be a scramble among Zabrodsky, Eliason, Taylor Norris, Caroline Benson, and Abby Sirwatka of Maple Grove, Sherman’s Rebecca King and Michaela Tramuta of Fredonia to fill out the rest of this year’s top 10.
. . . and beyond: Sectionals and States (posted 10/22/12) With both Sectionals (11/2) and this year’s State Meet (11/10) at our own Elma Meadows Golf Course, plus the success of Maple Grove and Fredonia, Wefing and Reyda on the State level, anticipation for this post-season is higher than ever.
Olivia Zabrodsky, Jamestown, ought to qualify for the State Meet as an individual in Class A, and Olean’s John Panus looks good in boys Class B.
Led by Lauren Reyda, #1 girl runner in Section 6 Class C and #2 in State C, the Fredonia girls are the favorites to qualify for the State Meet as a team, along with individuals Kirsten Holmberg, Falconer, and possibly Alyssa Stroud of Allegany-Limestone. On the boys’ side, freshmen Owen Barber of Allegany-Limestone and Ryan Hetrick of Southwestern should be among the top five individuals, with Jacob Brown of Fredonia also having an outside chance.
But it’s in Class D that things get really interesting for us locals. First, there are the Maple Grove girls, who should put five finishers in the top seven at Sectionals to set up their quest for a third straight State Class D championship a week later. Throw in Holly Eliason and RebeccaKing from Sherman, and very possibly their #3 runner, 8th grader Katy Pacy, plus Hannah Seiders of Silver Creek and the Section 6 State representatives will be nearly 100% from our League, not to mention very fast, possibly fast enough to upset powerful Section 3 in the Section team race at States.
And on the boys D side there’s more fun, with the Maple Grove boys taking aim at de-throning Barker, defending State Champions and winners of Sectionals the past five seasons. Barker has reloaded more quickly than anyone expected, but led by junior Wefing and new senior recruit Josh Ahlstrom, and aided by freshman Frank Zuroski, seniors Matt Nelson, Colin Green, Nick Zuroski, and Peter Cala are poised to make the best of their final season. Cala, #2 for MG last season, suffered a broken leg in spring track and the progress of his long, slow rehab just might be key to Maple Grove’s success. But if they don’t bring home a team championship from Sectionals, Maple Grove might still claim four of the individual slots for the State Meet, along with Ryan Carpenter of Sherman. Almost as much as in the girls’ competition, Class D Sectionals—and States—will be a CCAA affair.
Cross Country 2012 Preview (posted 9/1/12)
Highlights ¨
new coaches at Sherman, Falconer, Franklinville, and Randolph;
Maple Grove girls, defending Section VI and State Class D champions, #2 among Section VI small schools (behind East Aurora), and tops in class D, working to get past an improved Greenwich (Section II) for a State “three-peat”;
Maple Grove boys, looking for a Section championship at last, also #2 among Section VI small schools (also behind East Aurora), and also tops among Section D schools, projected first or second in the State;
Fredonia and possibly Sherman girls looking to give Maple Grove a race; Olean, Jamestown, and Gowanda girls well back, within a few points of each other;
Jamestown, Southwestern, Gowanda, and Olean boys all looking strong2;
ten of last year’s top 11 girls back for 2012
Junior Corey Wefing looking tough to beat for the County title, but newcomers Matt Kruszka (8th grade, Gowanda) and Owen Barber (9th, Allegany/Limestone) may join seniors Panus, Lienhart, Brown, Cala and Green, and underclassmen Carpenter, Edborg, and Hetrick, in a very interesting battle to decide the next ten spots.
pre-season rankings Girls Teams Boys Teams 1. Maple Grove, class D 1. Maple Grove, class D 2. Fredonia, C1 2. Jamestown, A 3. Sherman, D 3. Southwestern, C2 4. Olean, B2 4. Gowanda, C2 5. Jamestown, A 5. Olean, B2
top returners from 2011 girls boys 1. Lauren Reyda, 10, Fredonia 1. Corey Wefing, 11, Maple Grove 2. Hope Pietrocarlo, 9, Maple Grove 2. John Panus, 12, Olean 3. Megan Marsh, 9, Maple Grove 3. Hunter Lienhart, 12, Randolph 4. Holly Eliason, 11, Sherman/Clymer 4. Jacob Brown, 12, Fredonia 5. Caroline Benson, 11, Maple Grove 5. Ryan Carpenter, 11, Sherman/Clymer 6. Olivia Zabrodsky, 12, Jamestown 6. Peter Cala, 12, Maple Grove 7. Kirsten Holmberg, 11, Falconer 7. Christian Edborg, 10, Jamestown 8. Michaela Tramuta, 11, Fredonia 8. Colin Green, 12, Maple Grove 9. Alyssa Stroud, 12, Allegany/Limestone 9. Ryan Hetrick, 9, Southwestern 10. Hannah Seiders, 9, Silver Creek 10. Matt Nelson, 12, Maple Grove 11. Emily Kent, 12, Southwestern 11. Jordan Johnson, 12, Jamestown 12. Taylor Norris, 10, Maple Grove 12. Michael Capestrani, 12, Jamestown 13. Meredith Zebraski, 10, Fredonia 13. Patrick Walsh, 10, Jamestown 14. Rebecca King, 9, Sherman/Clymer 14. Jordan Boland, 11, Sherman/Clymer 15. Kelsey Branch, 12, Olean 15. Jesse Middleton, 11, Falconer 16. Stephanie Krempa, 12, Maple Grove 16. Frank Zuroski, 9, Maple Grove 17. Colleen Steward, 10, Gowanda 17. Jacob Frangione, 11, Frewsburg 18. Maitland Langworthy, 9, Fredonia 18. Jordan Powers, 11, Southwestern 19. Kelly Vincent, 11, Randolph 19. Zachery Barnes, 11, Jamestown 20. Kylie Pleakis, 10, Allegany/Limestone 20. Nick Zuroski, 12, Maple Grove