Phil Blackwell
Sports Editor
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Phil Blackwell has been sports editor of Eagle Newspapers since 1998 and is the co-host of the Inside High School Sports show, Saturday mornings from 10 to 11 a.m. on ESPN Radio 97.7 and 100.1.
He can be reached at pblackwell@eaglenewsonline.com.
Recent Stories
CBA fights off J-D for OHSL golf title
Hair takes individual title by three shots; F-M falls to Auburn
A season-long trend continued for Christian Brothers Academy and Jamesville-DeWitt when the two sides battled for the Onondaga High School League tournament title Wednesday at Woodcrest Golf Club.
CBA girls shake off bad start, rout Skaneateles
Senior night at Alibrandi Stadium featured two of the top three ranked girls lacrosse teams in the state as Christian Brothers Academy greeted Skaneateles in Wednesday's regular-season finale. In actuality, though, the Brothers didn't show up until midway through the first half - and when it did, it smothered the Lakers with a 15-1 outburst on its way to a 17-6 victory.
J-D girls lacrosse tops ESM, 15-14
Narsipur scores twice down stretch for Red Rams
Regardless of the month, and regardless of the venue, the Jamesville-DeWitt and East Syracuse-Minoa girls lacrosse teams cannot avoid playing tight, exciting contests against each other. So it was again on Tuesday afternoon at ESM Stadium, where the Red Rams gave up a five-goal lead in the second half, but still pulled out a 15-14 victory over the Spartans.
CBA boys track wins OHSL Liberty meet
Smith wins steeplechase, 3,200 for victorious Brothers
From distance races to field events to sprints to the pentathlon, the Christian Brothers Academy boys track and field team had answers in every discipline. As a result, the Brothers won Monday’s Onondaga High School League Liberty division championship meet at Marcellus, earning 132 points. Hannibal was second with 108 points, while the host Mustangs (72 points) finished third.
Hornets, Red Rams sweep weekend track meets
F-M takes over at Oneida meet; J-D handles foes at Weedsport
With league titles already behind them, the Fayetteville-Manlius and Jamesville-DeWitt track and field teams continued to roll over opposition in a pair of weekend meets.
J-D boys lacrosse pulls away from ESM
Rams' 16-5 romp is same score as in first regular-season meeting
On a splendid, sun-filled Saturday, the Jamesville-DeWitt boys lacrosse team gave another efficient demonstration of its capabilities against its neighbors from East Syracuse-Minoa. The Red Rams handled the Spartans 16-5, the exact same score by which J-D prevailed the first time they played this season on April 19 at ESM Stadium.
CBA girls lax beats Brighton in overtime
Romeo, Poplawski combine for all 14 goals
By the time they would get together Wednesday for a highly-anticipated regular-season finale at Alibrandi Stadium, the Christian Brothers Academy and Skaneateles girls lacrosse teams both were firmly entrenched in the state Class C top five.
F-M baseball edged by B’ville in extra innings
Hornets go 4-1 overall as Godleski wins twice
Another week of strong play was helping to push the Fayetteville-Manlius baseball team toward another high seed for the Section III Class AA playoffs. The lone blemish was last Thursday’s game at Baldwinsville, where the Hornets were one strike from defeat, rescued the game, went into extra frames, took the lead – and still lost a 4-3 decision to the Bees in nine innings.
J-D baseball beats ESM in 3-0 week
Red Rams also get past Fulton, Cortland
Jamesville-DeWitt’s baseball team had all kinds of difficulty with one of its neighbors this spring, but not the other. Swept by CBA in two head-to-head-meetings, the Red Rams turned around and did the exact same thing to East Syracuse-Minoa, capping it with last Monday’s 7-2 victory over the Spartans.
CBA golfers beat J-D for second time
F-M girls set team mark in win over West Genesee
Even deep into May, the area’s girls golf teams were working their way through bad weather, and making the best of things.
