ELMIRA, NY (WENY) - Another Elmira College Girls Basketball standout is headed to play at the next level. Express Senior, Zaria Demember Shazer signed her National Letter of Intent to play basketball at Marist College next year.  

The Avoca Girls Soccer team put together a stellar postseason run over the last couple weeks, winning the Section 5 Title, then rolling through the first 2 rounds of states to compete in the Class D State Title game. However, the Tigers fell just shy of that Title to Poland Sunday afternoon at SUNY Cortland, 6-1, to finish a terrific season. 

The Corning Hawks sparked for 14 unanswered points in the second half to take a 22-21 lead, but were unable to hold on as Cicero-North Syracuse kicked a game-winning field goal as time expired to move on to the NYS Class AA State Semi-Finals. Corning had one of the best bounce-back seasons in the area, going from 3-6 in 2018, to 9-2 in 2019. The Hawks also swept rival Elmira this season, where in the second game they claimed the Section IV Class AA Title. 

The North Penn-Liberty Mountaineers battled for a PIAA State Title in AA Saturday, but fell to North Catholic in 5 sets. The Mounties won the first two, but were unable to capture that third and final set for the title. NPL finishes arguably their best season in program history going undefeated in the regular season and only losing 1 set the entire year until the State Title game. The Mounties also captured the NTL and District IV AA Titles.

The Horseheads Blue Raiders exciting season came to a close Saturday afternoon as they fell to Ossining in a 5-set thriller in the NYS Class AA Regional Final. Horseheads and Ossining traded blows each set to bring it to the 5th and final set, which went all the way to a 27-25 final score. The Blue Raiders finish the season 27-8-4 including tournaments and also own the Section IV Class B Title

The Owego Indians took a 2-0 set lead over Ardsley Saturday afternoon, but the Panthers clawed back and won the next 3 to stun the Indians in the NYS Class B Regional Final. Owego's terrific season comes to a close, finishing with a STAC Title, and a Section IV Class B Title.

Exciting day of playoff sports across the Twin Tiers. Below are the scores around the area for Saturday, November 16th. 

The Ithaca College Bombers brought home their 3rd straight Cortaca Jug as they topped SUNY Cortland Saturday afternoon at MetLife Stadium in the 61st Cortaca Jug rivalry game, 32-20. 

ELMIRA, NY (WENY) - The Elmira Riverview Holiday Inn was packed Friday night as Elmira College Athletics held their inaugural Hall of Fame Induction. The 2019 class includes 4 team inductees and 3 individual inductees. 

The Elmira College Men's Ice Hockey team moves back to .500 on the young season as they shut out Neumann at home Friday night, 4-0. The win improves the Soaring Eagles to 2-2-1 and they'll take on Manhattanville Saturday at 7 PM.

The Elmira College Men's basketball team is eyeing up for a bounce-back season, but they dropped their home opener to Keystone College Friday night, 77-68. The Soaring Eagles will host Ithaca on Saturday afternoon. 

Elmira's Kiara Fisher signed her National Letter of Intent with Syracuse University Women's Basketball on Friday night. 

Tioga rolled to a 43-20 win over Frankfort on Friday night to advance to the State Semi-final.

Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has been suspended for at least the rest of the regular season and postseason by the NFL for swinging a helmet and striking Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head.   

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WENY) - 10 inductees make up the 2019 Chemung County Sports Hall of Fame Class. They will be inducted during the Josh Palmer Holiday Basketball Tournament on December 27th, 2019 at 7:30 PM. The inductees are listed below: Amanda Hubbard - Hubbard played volleyball at Horseheads High School from 2000 to 2004. She was named First Team All-State twice (2002-2003), and Second Team All-State once (2001). The Blue Raiders won the state title in 2001.  Jim Bassage - Bass...

ELMIRA, NY (WENY) - Thursday was a special day for 2 Southern Tier athletes as the Elmira Kiwanis Club awarded their Outstanding Athletes of the Fall season to Horseheads' Gavin Elston and Elmira Notre Dame's Alyssa Walker.

Corning's Quinn Bowler has signed a National Letter of Intent to play lacrosse at Manhattan College. 

Owego senior guard Kaci Donovan signed her National Letter of Intent with Penn State on Thursday. 

CORNING, NY (WENY) - The Corning football team won their first Section IV title since 2014 last Friday with a 14-12 win over rival Elmira. Now they set their sights on the rest of Class AA, starting in the regional round.  The Hawks will take on Section III champion Cicero-North Syracuse on Saturday at 6:00 PM at Vestal High School. CNS topped undefeated Utica Proctor 28-25 to advance to meet the Hawks in the regional round. Corning senior linebacker Seth Hogue tells WENY the Ha...

HORSEHEADS, NY (WENY) - Wednesday was a special day for Horseheads Athletics as 8 Blue Raider student athletes signed their National Letter of Intent to play at the next level. Two of the Blue Raider's Girls Lacrosse players, Avery Snyder and McKenna Woodworth, both received academic and athletic scholarships at the collegiate level. Snyder, a 2-time Section IV All-Team selection and member of the Under Armour All-America and US Lacrosse National Teams, will be attending Co...

ITHACA, NY (WENY) - It's been dubbed the biggest little game in the nation; Cortland and Ithaca College football, otherwise known as "Cortaca". This year, there's nothing little about this game as the two rivals will head to MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Jets and Giants.  Ithaca College Athletic Director Susan Bassett announced on Wednesday the game has sold 45,000 tickets, set to top the previous Division-III football attendance record. The previous record of ...

The Waverly football team will head back to Class C in the 2020 season, 1 of 5 teams making the move from Class B to Class C. This is based on information derived from the Basic Educational Data System, along with the classification requirements on the New York State Public High School Athletic Association's website.  

The North Penn-Liberty volleyball team swept Trinity (25-21, 26-24, 25-18) in the Class 2A semi-final. The Mounties (22-0) advance to take on North Catholic in the state championship game on Saturday at 1:00 PM at Cumberland Valley High School. 

Elmira College Women's Hockey's Emma Crocker has been named the UCHC North Division Player of the Week. Crocker scored 3 goals with 6 assists in 2 wins over Wilkes and King's College this past weekend.

Horseheads boys lacrosse's Parker Winkky-Wade has committed to Division-1 University of Albany, according to the Horseheads Lacrosse Twitter account. 

Your Play of the Week winner for November 11th, 2019 is Corning boys soccer's Griffin Huff for his incredible save in the Hawks' Section 4 Class AA semi-final win over Ithaca. The Hawks would go on to win the Class AA title. 

Here are your nominees for our Play of the Week, brought to you by Alfred State College: - Corning's Max Freeman and Blake VanWoert
- Elmira's Nate Latshaw 
- Canton's Uriah Baillie
- Troy's Damien Landon
- Elmira College's Jenny Heath

The 3rd-ranked Elmira College Women's Hockey team is now 2-0 to begin their season as they shut out King's College, 6-0 Sunday afternoon. EC has scored 18 goals in their first 2 games after rolling Wilkes, 12-0 on Saturday. The Soaring Eagles will be back in action next Saturday, November 16th when they welcome William Smith to the Murray Athletic Center at 3 PM.