Homer Comes Out On Top, Fall 2014
Joe Settineri
Homer High School had an overall winning record for 2014 fall sports. The fall sports included: golf, girl’s tennis, girl’s soccer, boy’s soccer, field hockey, football, boy’s cross country, girl’s cross country, volleyball, and all junior varsity sports. The Trojans (in varsity sports) won 58 and lost 45 games/matches/meets resulting in an overall 56% winning rate for The Trojans, not bad for the Homer kids.
In varsity golf, Brody Urban took the spot of MVP leading his team to a 7-8 overall record. Urban earned first team all-league status, with Baylie Goddard and Brent Mcneil earning second team honors. The boy’s and girl’s cross country teams also ended up with high overall standings, earning 4-4 and 6-2 records respectively. The MVP recipient for the boys was Evan Ulrich and Arielle Moheimani for the girls, with each posting impressive times. Second team all-league status was earned by Evan Ulrich and Grant Stokoe for the boys. For the girls, second team all-league status was earned by Zoey Fish and Erica Stevens, and first team honors was awarded to Arielle Moheimani and Mckayla Crawford. Girl’s tennis ended up with a winning record as well as coming out with 9 wins and 4 losses. MVP and first team all-league statuses were awarded to Marissa Sacket and Rachel Crompton. The girl’s soccer team, even with a new coach, managed to produce a winning record of 9-7 with one tie. The MVP’s included Lucy Connery and Kim Dieroff. For the girl’s soccer team, first team all-league honors were awarded to Kim Dieroff and Caroline Yonta. Second team all-league statuses were awarded to Nina Armideo and Stephanie Kristof. Boy’s soccer had a winning record of 9-8. The MVP award was earned by Anthony Levitskiy and first team all-league players included Anthony Levitskiy, Nick Yarnell, and Marton Tozer. Second team all-league players included Brad Sovocool, Mark Harris, and Nick Sahm. Varsity volleyball came out with a winning record of 12-7. The team benefited from powerful performances from the team's MVP, Emily Cottrell . First team all-league players were Emily Cottrell and Molly Urich, no second team members were selected. Unfortunately, the girl’s field hockey team didn't fare so well with a 3-13 record. Erica Barhite was selected as the MVP for girl’s field hockey and also a member of the second team with Maddie Mallory. Last, but definitely not least, the boy’s football team came out on top with percent of games won. An impressive 10-1 record was earned by the team, and their standout MVP and running back, Alex Bush, led the team in points. First team all-league statuses were awarded to Anthony Basile, Jayden Gavidia, Drew Cottrell, Alec Bush, Joel Christopher, Jake Hayes, Gage Root, and Matt Suits. Second team all-league awards went to Dylan Hotchkiss, Luke Sears, Zach Clark, Dean Riley, Drew Becker, Chris Birchenough, Adam Raymond, and Dylan Williams-Bachman. Overall, Homer Central High School had a winning record, with seven out of nine teams having greater than a 50% winning rate.
Percent of games/matches/meets won
Golf: 42%
Girl’s tennis: 69%
Girl’s soccer: 56%
Boy’s soccer: 53%
Field hockey: 19%
Boy’s cross country: 50%
Girl’s cross country: 75%
Volleyball: 63%
Football: 91%
