Week in review

Sports spotlight

By RICHARD A. ROSS

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — Soccer rose to the forefront this past week with Sullivan West’s teams engaged in heated frays with Liberty, first in a boys match on September 16, and then a day later in a fiery girls tilt. Liberty won the boys match 2-0 with a pair of second-half goals from Conor Siegel and Tim Burgio. Outstanding keeper performances were turned in by Sullivan West’s Austin Sauer and Liberty’s Will McGuire, who had 10 and eight saves respectively.

Sullivan West came from behind to garner the girls’ match 2-1, with goals from Jillian Fife and Shelby Grishaber that offset an earlier goal by Liberty’s Paulina Kleinberger.

For Eldred, the biggest story was not the football team’s commanding 39-8 win over Liberty that moved the Yellow Jackets to a 3-0 start this season and a point disparity of 139-25 versus its opponents to date, but the far-less-touted fine performance of the boys and girls cross-country teams at a meet at Monticello. Pitted once again against schools that dwarf Eldred in size, (see bigger story on this page), Eldred’s girls took second in the meet to Monticello. In terms of team results, the boys were outpointed by first-place Liberty and second-place Monticello.

Stats and records

Boys soccer: Family School 6, SW 0. Sauer 22 saves for SW. Chapel Field 4, Eldred 3. Eldred goals from Chris Bolduc (2) and Ryan Conway. Saves Travis Steimle 5. Eldred fell to 0-3 (0-1 OCIAA). Liberty 2, SW 0. Liberty improved to 3-1-1 (1-0 OCIAA). SW fell to 2-3 (0-1 OCIAA).

Girls soccer: Sullivan West 2, Liberty 1. SW improved to 2-2-1 (1-0 OCIAA), while Liberty fell to 2-2-1 (0-1 OCIAA). Tri-Valley suffered its first loss of the season, a 3-1 defeat to Tuxedo. Jakki Pugh had the team’s only goal. She is second in Section 9 with 16 goals, one behind Livingston Manor’s Marissa Diescher. Pugh also has one assist thus far for a total of 31 points.

Football stat leaders: Eldred’s Ian Halloran is third among Sect. 9 rushers with 35/432 with six TDs. LMR’s Troy Correa is second with 37/532 with 5TDs.