WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) – The Jefferson Community College men’s soccer team opened postseason play Sunday on the turf at the Coffeen Street campus hosting Tompkins Cortland Community College in quarterfinal action of the Region 3 Division 3 playoffs.
The Cannoneers were on a roll coming into this game after winning six straight.
It was scoreless in the second half when Brodie Finnie’s shot is stopped. Sebala Letsoara is there to stick the loose ball home. The Cannoneers go on top 1-0.
With two minutes left in the game, Watertown High product Jack Rathbun seals it with a tally. It’s 2-0 JCC.
That would be all the scoring as JCC goes on to shut out TC3 2-0 to advance to the Region 3 Division 3 semifinals.
The JCC women’s basketball team opens their season with a pair of scrimmages this week.
Coach Jeff Wiley’s team is coming off a 24-5 season that saw them go 14-2 in conference play and earn an at-large bid to the NJCAA national tournament.
JCC opens its regular season November 9 against Owens College in the Onondaga Classic and Wiley says the team has been practicing since the beginning of school with the goal of returning to nationals front and center, preparing themselves for Midstate Conference play with a tough schedule on the horizon.
“We open up with a scrimmage at St. Lawrence on October 23 so we’ll see what happens then,” Wiley said. “Then we play Potsdam here on the 25th so we have some really good scrimmages lined up. It’s going to be a tough schedule. We’ve been working really hard, motivated. I know coming off a season like we had and beating some teams we’re going to have a bullseye on our back. We went to nationals and I think people want to get to where we were, the level that we were.”
The Team 24 – Caskinette Ford Carthage Lacrosse Hall of Fame banquet was held Saturday night at the Carthage Elks Club, with 30 men and women that were All-Americans in either high school or college being enshrined.
Names like Casey, Ryan and Mike Powell, Josh and Jason Coffman, Kailah Kempney, Katie Ferris, and Erin Gallagher were among those being enshrined.
The man that spearheaded the event, legendary former Carthage boys; lacrosse coach Kirk Ventiquattro, says having something like this is important to reflect and preserve the history of Carthage lacrosse.
“It’s really important for me but it’s important for this community to make sure that we hang on to our great lacrosse history,” Ventiquattro said. “We’ve got a couple of people doing a great job coaching right now and hopefully this rattles the community again to get more and more kids involved in this great game of lacrosse that, to be quite honest, changed my life.”
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