The Ithaca Journal from Ithaca, New York • 11

us v'V SURPRISE WINNERS IN NYC MARATHON Gebre Gebremariam wins the men's race and Edna Kiplagat, left, finished ahead of American Shalane Flanagan. PAGE 8B Live sports scores on your cell phone Send a text message to 44636 (4INF0) with SPORTS, then select your team (Cornell, Yanks, Mets) Sports a IB Sports Editor: Brian Delaney 1 274-9214 1 bdelaneyithacajournal.com THE ITHACA JOURNAL ithacajournal.com Monday, November 8, 2010 SECTION 4 CHAMPIONSHIPS J)J Tramans bllUISf 9MS6 1 Ay IS I i i i 3ft V- if DAVE BURBANK Contributed Photo TV i tl Cornell quarterback Jeff Matthews passes to Shane Savage, left, Saturday at Schoellkopf Field. Dartmouth won, 28-10. Big Red sacked by Dartmouth's second-half rally Punt return ignites comeback vK TV Cornell now ranks last in the 117-team Football Championship Subdivision with 538 sacks allowed per game well clear of next-worst Nicholls St. (456) and Idaho (4.00).

The Big Red was held to 188 yards of total offense, 89 of which came in the first quarter. Cornell had just 24 yards on 27 carries, a statistic worsened by the high sack number. "They shut down the run game and we were awful on third-down conversions (2-for-14)," Austin said. "We've been a pretty good third-down conversion team, but when you can't protect the quarterback, it's going to be a long day Still, Cornell took a 10-7 lead with 22 seconds left in the second quarter on Brad Greenway's 49-yard field goal. It tied for the sixth-longest field goal in program history, and was the longest See BIG RED Page 5B By Brandon Thomas blthomasgannett.com Staff Writer ITHACA The Cornell football team surrendered seven sacks in the first half Saturday, but the second half was more debilitating.

Dartmouth's Nick Schweiger rushed for 125 of his 164 yards after Cornell led at halftime, and the Big Green defense wore down the Big Red to put the finishing touches on a 28-10 victory at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell (2-6, 1-4 Ivy League) surrendered 10 sacks in all despite the fact Dartmouth (5-3, 2-3) had 13 sacks in its first seven games this season. "We just physically couldn't hold up," Cornell coach Kent Austin said. "That's just as honest as I can be about it. They beat us up front.

We couldn't protect Jeff, and we didn't run the ball." R0BYN WISHNA Contributed photo Abreham Kittel jumps into the arms of Ben Glasner after scoring his second goal in the second half Saturday. Trumansburg beat Oneonta 3-1 to win the Section 4 Class boys soccer championship. Raiders knock off defending champs Hockey split ends CU's woeful start OFF THE CROSSBAR Follow Brandon Thomas' coverage of Big Red hockey, including in-game updates on his Off the Crossbar blog and on Twitter The Yellowjackets (16-3) entered Saturday's game as defending sectional champions, the state's second-ranked team with losses only to Class AA champion Vestal and the tournament's top seed. But when they failed to convert pressure in the opening portion of the second half into a go-ahead goal, Trumansburg's counterattack was debilitating. The quickness of Trumansburg's midfielders and forwards pressured the Yellowjackets into failed, or partially failed, clears onbothKittel goals.

On the first, the springy freshman took possession of a ball in the middle of the field around the 18-yard box and drove a shot past goalie Zachery Erbe for a 2-1 lead. Under 9 minutes later, pressure from Kittel and several teammates partially blocked a clear in which the ball landed about halfway between Kittel and Erbe, behind the See RAIDERS Page 4B ON PAGE 4B Ithaca boys unable to take advantage of Vestal's red card in Class AA final. Marathon boys are champs again. Southern Cayuga wins volleyball title. ON THE WEB i For photo galleries of Saturday's boys soccer sectional finals, go to ithacajournal.com 3-1 victory Saturday at the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

"We're pretty fast," Oneonta coach Alex Brannen said. "They, obviously, have a couple players that are really fast. They put us under more pressure than probably we've been put under." Trumansburg (17-2) will play No. 1 ranked Skaneateles (19-0) in an NYSPHSAA Class quarterfinal onSaturday back at Oneonta. Game time will be announced early this week.

By Brian Delaney bdelaneygannett.com Staff Writer ONEONTA It had been 14 long years since a Trumansburg boys soccer team last played itself into position to win a sectional championship. That 1996 group, much like their 1995 brethren, didn't waste the opportunity. Now the 2010 team can say the same. Playing with breathtaking poise, pace and touch through the middle and down the wings, and playing a step quicker than top-seeded Oneonta was accustomed to seeing, Trumansburg proved its cohesive game canbe successful outside the competitive Interscholastic Athletic Conference. Maybe even outside Section 4.

Freshman Abreham Kittel scored the whining goal in the 67th minute, then tackedon the all-import ant insurance tally with 4 minutes, 32 seconds remaining in the Blue Raiders' Staff report POTSDAM EvenintheCor-nell men's hockey team's heyday years, it would be happy to leave the North Country with a weekend split. With that in mind, perhaps it serves as a bonus that the Big Red's 6-1 victory at Clarkson on Saturday not only achieved that, but it also halted the program's worst start in 31 seasons. "It think that it's good for us as a team to see the results of sticking to the game plan," Cornell junior winger Locke Jillson said. "Be-cause we've seen some progress, but we hadn't seen the results. It was nice to finally get the result." Jillson was one of three players to register their first goal of the season to go with an assist Saturday, with the others being Jordan Kary and Kirill Gotovets a freshmen defense which was also a plus-4 the night after the Big Red dropped a 3-0 decision at St.

Lawrence. It was Kary's goal 13:42 into the game that gave No. 19 Cornell (1-3, 1-1 ECAC Hockey) its first lead ofthe season, thenfreshmangoalie Andy lies helped make it stand up. In his collegiate start, the Ithaca native made a handful of pivotal saves early in the second before Braden Birch's first collegiate goal doubled the Big Red lead at the 8:06 mark. "As a goalie, your one job out there is to just give your team a chance to win the game and that usually requires making a few big IHS still the class of section in pool (iBThomaslJ) at ithacajournal.com saves," said lies, who finished with 35 saves.

"When you can get those, that kind of helps the team and gets their momentum going, and we took over and responded right from there." Gotovets and Jillson scored 50 seconds apart to expand Cornell's lead to 4-0 before Brandon De-Fazio ruined lies' shutout bid. Freshman DustinMowrey scored his team-leading thirdgoaL thenco-cap tain Joe Devin capped the scoring in the latter half of the third. The victory gave the Big Red two points in one of its perennially toughest road trips. Cornell hasn't swept a North Country weekend since 2004-05. Now the team returns home for four straight home games and a nine-game stretch of no true road games there are three neutral-site contests before Cornell plays Jaa 7 at Princeton.

"There was a lot of pressure on our kids this weekend, because of the expectations of our program and alumni and everyone else," coach Mike Schafer said. "The kids felt it. We get back to Ly-nah now, where we played well last Saturday." i Little Red's run of titles reaches 21 with a time of 5:22.15. Nicole Klohman won the 100-yard backstroke in 1:02.68. Forks finished points, ahead of Lansing's 347 and Watkins Glen's 322'A For Lansing, Erin Trowbridge won the 500 freestyle, clocking a 550.25.

She also anchored the 200 free relay team, combining with Courtney Pollack, Alex Conte and Anna Conte to win in Watkins Glen's Haley Tuttle won the 200 freestyle and Haleigh Wixson came away with a first-place finish in the 100 backstroke five other schools for the sectional championship. Little Red junior Shelby Williams was a four-time winner. She won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events in 25.04 and 53.93 seconds, respectively, then anchored Ithaca to relay victories in the 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle. Tacia Angelopoulos also had a big day for Ithaca. She won the 200 freestyle in a time of 1:58.46, then captured the 100 butterfly (1:00.28) by edging teammate Rebel Tod-hunter Todhunter then turned around to win the 500 freestyle by more than 8 seconds I Staff report Ithaca High made it 21 straight sectional swimming championships, recording 477 points to easily top the eight-team Class A field at Owego Free Academy.

The Little Red took first place in eight events Saturday to keep its strangleholdon the section. Owego won the Class title with 634 points, and in Class Chenango Forks edged Lansing, Watkins Glen and.