Harpursville Central High School | Archive | October, 2013

Rhodes Finishes 3rd in Wounded Warrior Race

Congratulations to Allyn Rhodes for his 3rd place finish in the last motorcycle race of the season yesterday.  It was a  90 minute race over an 8-mile course.  All proceeds of the race race benefitted the Wounded Warrior Project.  Over $7,000 was donated to our servicemen and women.

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JV Field Hockey Concludes Successful Season

The 2013 JV Field Hockey season started out with a new coach and the players getting used to new philosophies and style of play.  We emphasized basic skills and fundamentals throughout every practice and this carried over into the success we experienced throughout the season.  This translated to us outscoring our opponents 18 to 9 and out cornering them 71 to 43.  Every player worked hard and improved tremendously.

There were 6 returning players and 6 new players to compete at the JV level.  They consisted of 7th
grader Sarah Peterson; Freshmen Sam Cower, Brynn Crocker, Emma Davis and Sabrina Gates; Sophomores Rayann Baker, Crystal Riegel, Ashley Rucky, Sydney Schultz, Allison Storrs and Sam Strollo; Junior Mackenzie Havens; manager Makenna Lowe; and coach Cheryl Hamilton.

I look forward to all of them returning to the Field Hockey program next year and continuing to improve.

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Harpursville Places 2nd in Windsor Tourney

Our Harpursville Varsity Lady Hornets advanced through pool play at Saturdays Windsor invitational to take the 4th seed in the semi-finals.  The road was difficult but the hornets persevered beating Chenango Valley, Susquehanna Valley, and Sidney in straight sets.  The fourth seed meant we would have to face the #1 undefeated STAC team, Owego.  Owego is currently working to win their 3rd consecutive STAC championship title.  Harpursville played hard and pulled out a win making us one of the only schools to beat the Owego team.  The lady hornets went on to the final game to face AA volleyball giant Vestal who has already secured their championship title in the Metro division.  We fell to Vestal in the finals, but the lady Hornets played with passion and skill that won them much well deserved praise.

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Tioga 45 Harpursville 20

Published in the Binghamton Press, October 13, 2013

HARPURSVILLE — It would appear most all is well in the football headquarters of Tioga Central, New York’s second-ranked Class D team up to a 6-0 record with Saturday’s 45-20 thumping of seventh-ranked
Harpursville.

Let the record reflect 392 rushing yards on a per-carry average of 7.7 for the Tigers, who accounted for the first 25 points in a game that attracted a heartier-than-usual gathering and made for an atmosphere not
experienced in recent memory at Harpursville.

Of Tioga’s seven touchdowns, four came from 28 or more yards, which is to suggest that this offense has some quick-strike pizzazz to complement its pound-on-the-ground signature.

Victory No. 6 this season — and No. 25 in their past 28 games — brought the Tigers a fourth consecutive weekend with 44 or more points.

Leading man this time out was Jesse Manuel, who piled up 262 rushing yards on 27 carries. In fact, 180 of those yards were in the book by halftime.

Enter backfield mate Brad Jump, a 5-foot-4, legs-churning plugger who gained all but 14 of his 105-yard rushing total in the second half. That was when Manuel concentrated a good bit on his defensive duties, and made the second of his two interceptions.

The Hornets (5-1) got 186 passing yards from Devon Dean, who delivered two of his three scoring passes in the final quarter after Tioga’s lead had been built to a sturdy 32-6. Dean completed 13 of 28 passes — 10 of
the connections after halftime when there was little choice but to throw and throw some more.

“It’s very easy to get up on a team and just get, not lazy but just get a little flat and wish that the game was over,” Tigers coach Nick Aiello said. “It’s something we talk about, that when you’re up on a team you’ve really got to put the pedal down and seal up the win. I think that’s something we’re going to have to address and maybe even practice.”

Not that Tioga’s lead was threatened. It’s that such matters will need shoring up if this big-bodied, highly talented cast of potential program history makers is to realize its goal.

A 54-yard rushing touchdown by Manuel with 8:52 elapsed brought the first points of a contest between teams that brought in per-game scoring averages of 29.3 (Hornets) and 36.5 (Tigers). But Tioga was simply
warming to the occasion.

The Tigers’ next possession began after an “oops” of a 14-yard Harpursville punt at their 36-yard line with 2:15 left in the first quarter. The third play brought a 28-yard pass from Ryan Vergason to tight end Josh
Kithcart to the hosts’ 23.

Manuel turned in a go-right-and-fight rush to the 6 on the final play of the first quarter, and Jump followed his preferred interior path across the goal line to open the second and make it 13-0.

A healthy helping of defense and five punts followed before Tioga took the football at its 42-yard line 3:10 before halftime. Jon Andrews’first-down sack of Vergason backed the Tigers to their 39, but on second down Manuel parlayed vision, footwork and desire into a 61-yard TD rush for a 19-0 lead that held through halftime.

To open the second half, Tioga went into full-out bash-and-bang mode for a 12-play, 56-yard scoring drive on which no play gained two-figure yardage. Jump crashed over the left side 5:34 into the half and it
was 25-0.

At the time, the Tigers’ only real shortcoming was failure to make good on three conversion tries.

“They really have a good team out here in Harpursville, I know they’ve been building on it for a while,” said Tigers lineman Carter Jackson, whose 287-pound frame spent an inordinate chunk of time as a valuable
blocking back. “They’ve got real big boys on the line, they’re bigger than they looked on film. They played hard, but we came out and did our thing like we thought we would.”

Um, C.J., about the Tigers’ “thing”?

“We like to hit — we’ve been taught that since the time we could play football, we love hitting, we love making people not want to hit us and that’s our favorite thing to do every day.”

The teams proceeded to trade touchdowns through the conclusion, three-per-side, five of them coming during a lengthy final quarter in which the Hornets’ Dean passed for 103 yards — 72 registered on a throw
underneath that Andrews turned into a touchdown reception in the first minute.

Andrews closed with five catches for 158 yards, further establishing his reputation as a high-grade playmaker.

“I was not surprised at how good Tioga was,” said Hornets coach Tim Petras. “We knew what they were running, and particularly in the first half we just couldn’t stop it. Those plays we’d rep’d 1,000 times during
practice. I was surprised at the execution and consistency of Tioga. I mean, they’re No. 2 in the state for a reason.”

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Dual match MAC Champions and MAC Tournament Champions

Harpursville had three of the top four overall finishers and won the Midstate Athletic Conference tournament at Chenango Valley State Park.  The Hornets finished with a score of 445. Cody Hawkins won medalist (First Place) honors with a 6-over 78, Tyler Graham was second with an 80, and Matt Johnson fourth with an 85.

Coming into the tournament the Hornets had already won the dual match MAC Championship

Tyler graham was named Overall MAC league MVP, Cody Hawkins and Matt Johnson were named 1st team all stars and Jake Andrews was named 2nd team all-star.  With the win the Hornets completed their second straight undefeated season.

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Hornets go to 8-0

Last season was perfect for the Harpursville girls volleyball team until the Section 4 Class D title game, losing to Tioga in three games after going into the match with an 18-0 record.

With four senior starters on that team, it looked like it might be awhile before Harpursville would have another chance at getting that elusive Section 4 volleyball title. But the Hornets have not missed a beat this season, improving to 8-0 with a victory over Oxford on Tuesday.

“I didn’t expect to do as well as we have in the beginning,”said first-year coach Tim Strantz, who was the JV head coach and varsity assistant last season. “The girls have really come around, it’s a pretty young team but I do see us going real far.”

Erika Whitney has excelled in the service game, and Sarah Miller and Madison Paugh have emerged as big hitters for the Hornets.

Strantz is eager to see how his team will fare when it competes in the Johnson City Invitational this weekend.

“It’ll be good to see some STAC teams,” Strantz said. “We scrimmaged Chenango Valley before the season and I thought we did pretty well.”

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Hornets Place 2nd in JC Tourney

September 28th marked the finest showing our lady hornets have had since we began attending the Johnson City Invitational years ago.  The varsity hornets showed their quality as they split matches with volleyball titans Vestal, Mercyhurst Prep, and Trumansburg.  They continued their run deep into the silver bracket to bring home 2nd place losing only in the finals to a much larger Homer team.  

Our lady hornets currently hold a record of 9-0 and hope to continue this streak deep into sectional play.  I am very proud of our athletes.  They played with passion, skill, and showed considerable endurance throughout the tournament.  I could not ask for a better group of young athletes to coach. 

-Coach Tim Strantz

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Harpursville 18, Delhi 0

Delhi, NY (WBNG Binghamton)  Harpursville’s defense shutout Delhi, as the Hornets offense put up just enough to win 18-0 on Saturday afternoon.

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Harpursville 28, Waverly 14

Harpursville, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Harpursville’s defense held Waverly to just 8 plays in the first half and 14 points, half of which came on a kickoff return in a 28-14 win.  Andrew Kimmell rushed for 153 yards and a touchdown for the Hornets.

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Harpursville 2-0; Hungry for More

Harpursville, NY (WBNG Binghamton) The Harpursville Hornets have started the season 2 and 0, beating two very good teams. But this team knows to reach their ultimate goal, they need to keep improving each week.

After blanking Delhi in week 1, Harpursville shut down Waverly’s passing attack in a 28-14 win.

The defense has been especially stingy this year, allowing only one touchdown in the first two games.

The other came on a kickoff return.

Even with the great start, this team is hungry to improve upon last season where they won a division title.

“We set the tone a few years ago.  A winning season is a starting point.  That’s going to be expected.  We have aspirations for the playoffs.  We’re looking for that next level and like I said, winning a game is not enough.  We need to play well and we need to get better each week,” says head coach Tim Petras.

“No, we want to be 9 and 0.  We want to get to the Carrier Dome at the end of the year but we take it one game at a time.  We got this one, that’s good, but now we go back to work on Monday, get ready for homecoming, get ready for Seton,” says senior Andrew Kimmel.

As Kimmel mentioned, the Hornets face Seton this Saturday, another team with a potent passing attack.

The Saints are coming off a tough loss at Newark Valley this weekend.

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