BRASHER FALLS, New York (WWNY) – We continue our preview of area high school teams preparing for the upcoming season by heading north to take a look at the St. Lawrence Larries, a club looking to make it to the Section 10 championship game this season.
Coach Jenna Chamberlain’s team finished the 2021 season 7-9 overall and lost in the Section 10 Class C semifinals.
With many players returning from last year’s team, Chamberlain has high hopes for this group as they head into the 2022 season.
“Well, it’s every coach’s dream to have 11 returners. I have good depth. That’s probably my highest number since I’ve been a varsity coach at Brasher, 20 total. It’s looking good so far, we’ve been working hard,” Chamberlain said.
Last season’s numbers for the Larries are deceiving.
Despite finishing under .500, St. Lawrence Central outscored their opponents 36 to 25 and lost 5 of their games by just 1 goal.
With 11 seniors on the team and experience from last year as a motivating factor, the players on the team feel they have all the right ingredients to make it to the Section 10 Class C championship game this season.
“Our biggest expectation is probably to get to the Class C championship game. That’s one of our main goals. This has been our main goal for several years now and I really think this team can honestly go that far. Like I said, I think we have a lot of potential and I’m looking forward to seeing where the season takes us,” said Brionna Foster.
“I’m really excited this year. As Brionna said, there is a lot of potential and everyone comes to training focused and ready to learn. I think we’ll make a lot of progress by the end of the season and I’m looking forward to where it will take us,” said Hannah Agans.
“Without real expectations. Obviously we try to go Class C every year, but we’ll go as far as we can, no limits. As hard as we can and keep going until we get out,” said Rylee Daoust.
Entering her 6th season as the varsity coach, Chamberlain is pleased with the growth of the program and believes the Larries will compete with the best of the best in the Northern Athletic Conference for years to come.
“The program is definitely moving in the right direction. We have a lot of numbers. Modified looks very good. Unfortunately, we are only a modified varsity level, but our numbers are great. We compete at school with a swim program, so for a small school to be able to play 2 fall sports with big numbers is remarkable,” Chamberlain said.
In women’s college soccer, the Canton Lady Saints of St. Lawrence aims to stay complete as it hosts SUNY Potsdam.
There was no scoring in the 2nd half as Hope Donoghue cut into the net: Lady Saints on top 1-0.
Just under 4 minutes later, Kaitlyn Barton connected with a long shot to extend the lead for St. Lawrence to 2-0.
2 minutes later Grace Mochnal tickles the net as the Lady Saints extend their lead to 3-0.
Just over a minute later, Meredith Donahue goes up top to make it 4-0 St. Lawrence.
Then it’s Tyler Potter with a header: 5-0.
St. Lawrence beat SUNY Potsdam 7-0.
On Saturday night at the Dome, Syracuse opened some eyes with a new-look offense and stingy defense, beating Louisville 31-7 to go 1-0 on the season and 1-0 in ACC play.
Heisman candidate Sean Tucker rushed for 98 yards and two touchdowns, one on a 55-yard catch-and-run, and quarterback Garrett Shrader threw two touchdowns and ran for another.
Shrader completed 18 of 25 passes for 237 yards. A marked improvement compared to last season. And Tucker had 98 yards rushing and 85 yards receiving.
The Orange defense was also solid, forcing 3 Louisville turnovers.
A strong start to the season for the Orange.
“It reminded me of the good old days and also told me that we need more. There were a lot of people there, but it wasn’t a full house. Someone said to me, ‘Well, if you win, they’ll come.’ Well, we won. I’ll see you very soon,” coach Dino Babers said.
“I mean, I thought we played free football. We obviously got a good run and did a lot of good things in the run game. We started early, topped that off with a bit of action stuff and got some hits. Then eventually we got to the point where we could just throw the ball and try to get them into some zone coverage and that opened up everything else. Also, there are a lot of turnovers when we talk about defense, it’s hard to win with 3 turnovers. They did a great job giving us the ball back and it only gave us 3 more chances,” defenseman Garrett Shrader said.
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