Ron Moshier

1 week ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

It was the SUNY Cobleskill softball team’s Senior Day, but it was freshman outfielder Avery Prievo (Camden) who stole the show. After going 2 for 4 with a triple in Saturday’s opener, Prievo hit her first home run as a collegian — a third-inning grand slam — as the Fighting Tigers swept Vermont’s Johnson State University for the second straight day.

1 week ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

WHITESBORO — John Flisnik remembers sitting in the Whitesboro High School gymnasium’s bleachers, listening to coach Tom Schoen explain what the sport of lacrosse was all about. Armed with his old wooden lacrosse stick, Schoen — a Whitesboro native who had played football and lacrosse at Ithaca College and had coached the Dean Junior College men’s lacrosse team — made an introductory offer Flisnik and 32 others couldn’t refuse.

1 week ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

Yes, it has been quite a week for several women’s lacrosse players from the Utica-Rome area. Over the weekend, two of them — senior attacker Mary Fiorentino (New Hartford) and sophomore attacker Chelsea Lopata (Clinton) — helped unbeaten and nationally-ranked No. 16 St. John Fisher University claim a 13th consecutive Empire 8 Conference championship.

2 weeks ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

The Russell Sage College’s NCAA Division III baseball program is only four years old, and with the help of junior newcomer Aidan Green (Whitesboro), the Gators — last year’s Empire 8 Conference regular-season champions — are playoff-bound once more. Green, an Onondaga Community College transfer who went 2-0 as a reliever in his two years with the Lazers, on Monday was named the Empire 8 Pitcher of the Week.

2 weeks ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

It was the summer before last, and Siena College men’s lacrosse coach Liam Gleason was scouting a club tournament in Delaware and paying special attention to an Orange Crush travel team from Syracuse armed with a faceoff specialist named Logan Banek (New Hartford). There wasn’t much to see because Banek hobbled off the field with an ankle injury. Gleason, though, had seen enough. “When he limped off I said, ‘I don’t care.