The 2005 London Dorchester
Tournament
The 2005 London Dorchester Tournament took place August 12th -14th in London
Ontario, Canada. The Silver Gloves +55 team was undefeated in 7 games beating
the Seniors Unlimited team 12 to 11 in the Championship Game!
August 18, 2005 Section: Sports
Page: 2D, Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin
Silver
Gloves grab title with 1-run wins
The New York Silver
Gloves 55-and-over women's slow-pitch softball team went
undefeated last weekend in winning the London, Ontario,
Senior Slo-Pitch Tournament.
The Silver Gloves are
a Binghamton-based team that practices in Homer to accommodate
for team members from the Ithaca, Cortland and the Syracuse
areas. In their eighth season, the Silver Gloves have moved
into the 55-over age bracket from the 50-over, where they
have had past successes in the Empire State Senior Games,
including six gold medals, a bronze, and most recently
a silver this year. The Silver Gloves twice defeated Michigan's
Seniors Unlimited by one run on Sunday to win the tournament.
The Silver Gloves posted 7-6 and 12-11 victories. It was
the Silver Gloves' first tournament title in six seasons.
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Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
The 2005 Senior Olympic Games
The 2005 Senior Olympics will take place in Pittsburgh,
PA June 4 - June 9, 2005. Senior athletes
from around the country will compete in archery, badminton, basketball, bowling,
cycling, golf, horseshoes, race walk, racquetball,
road race, shuffleboard, softball, swimming, table
tennis, tennis, track & field,
triathlon, and volleyball. The NY Silver Gloves qualified
in the 2004 Empire State Senior Games in women's softball
in two age divisions to compete in the Senior Olympics. This
will be the fourth year the NY Silver Gloves has achieved
this qualification. You can find out more about The
Senior Olympics online at: http://www.nsga.com.
Mary Spencer Leads Silver Gloves to Gold at
Empire State Senior Games
The Deposit Courier, Wednesday
June 30, 2004
Mary Spencer, 50+, of Deposit, struck gold with a grand
slam home run in the medal game at the Empire State Senior
Games on June 12-13, in Cortland, NY.
Spencer's 9-for-13 in the medal game helped to push the
Silver Gloves into the first place gold
medal position. The team won the 50-plus tournament by outscoring
their opponents 65-18 in three games. This
not only got them gold medals, it also qualified the team
to compete in the June 2005 nationals at Penn Hills, PA.
"It was just one of those days when everything went
right with the bat," Spencer said.
The Triple Cities based, Silver Gloves slow-pitch softball
team is comprised of women ages 50 and up residing in the
Southern Tier of New York and surrounding area. Most of the
members of the Silver Gloves team also play on league teams
throughout the area. Spencer regularly plays on the Deposit
BES Splinters team.
She said that she has been playing
softball for 24 years. "I
didn't play in high school, but we always played ball in
the yard at home," she said.
Proving that 50 is really not too old to play ball, she
plays with her sister Kate and 13 other ladies on the Deposit
team. "Of the 14 ladies that play on our team, five
or six have played for over 20 years," she said.
When she's not playing softball, Mary Spencer can be found
behind her desk at the Courier front office.
Spencer's stats in the Empire State Senior Games are very
impressive:
First Game: 2 for 5; 2 runs; 2 triples, and 4 RBI92s.
Second Game: 2 for 3; 2 runs; 2 doubles; 3 RBI92s.
Third Game: 5 for 5; 4 runs; 1 triple; 1 grand slam; 9 RBI92s.
This gives her a total of: 116 RBI92s; I Grand Slam; 3 triples;
2 doubles; and 3 singles for the tournament.
Congratulations Mary on a job well done!
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Norwich
woman wins five ESG Senior medals
Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin,
Wednesday June 16, 2004
From staff reports
Norwich's Barb Lopiccolo won three gold medals and
a silver medal in track and field at the Empire State Senior Games, held
June 8-13 in Cortland.
Lopiccolo took first in the 55-59 age group in the javelin, discus and hammer
throw, and was second in the shot put.
She was also a member of the Syracuse Blue 3-on-3
basketball team that won gold in the 50-plus division.
Phyllis Meade of Endicott
won a gold in the high jump, a silver in the 100-meter dash and a bronze
in the long jump in the 55-59 division of each.
Triple Cities-based softball
teams also won gold medals. The Silver Gloves won the 50-plus tournament
by outscoring their opponents 65-18 in three games. Windsor's Mary Spencer
led the way, going 9-for-13 with a grand slam home run in the gold medal
game. The Silver Gloves 55-plus team also won a gold medal, and the Karousel
Kids won the 65-plus competition. All three teams qualified for the June
2005 nationals at Penn Hills, Pa.
The Taylor Law basketball team went
6-0 to capture the gold medal in the 60-64 division and qualify the National
Tournament at the University of Pittsburgh next summer. The team included
Bill Carrig of Apalachin, Jerry Taylor of Chenango Forks and Hamilton,
and Jim Taylor of Sherburne.
EMPIRE STATE SENIOR GAMES (June-8-13
in Cortland) 2004
Basketball (3-on-3 tournament)
Taylor
Law Basketball (60-64 Men's) Gold: 6-0 record.
Syracuse Blue (50+
Women's) Gold.
Bowling (June
11 at Cort Lanes)
Joni McCarthy (50-54 Women's Singles)
Gold: 213, 163, 203, 579.
Don Wargo (50-54 Men's Singles)
Bronze: 266, 236, 232, 734.
Joni McCarthy/Don Wargo (50-54
Mixed DOubles) Gold: 1306.
Anne Vimislik/Jim Vimislik
(Mixed Doubled 54-59) Gold: 1153.
Betty Sparby/Karl Sparby (Mixed
Doubles 60-64) Bronze: 1120.
Softball
Silver
Gloves (50+) Gold.
Silver Gloves (55+) Gold.
Karousel
Kids 65 (65+) Gold; Championship game: Karousel
Kids 16, Albany Royal Palms 6 (Poliquin home run); Other
games: Karousel Kids 17, Albany Royal Palms
2; Karousel Kids 28, Dutchess County 3 (Sheridan home run); Karousel
Kids 17, Dutchess County 3.
Tennis Marilyn
Stine, Oxford, (65-69 Women's singles)
Bronze.
Track and field
Barb
Lopiccolo, Norwich, (55-59
Women's) Gold: javelin, discus and hammer throw; Silver:
shot put.
Phyllis Meade, Endicott, (55-59 Women's) Gold:
high jump; Silver: 100-meter dash; Bronze: long jump.
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