Imaging from left to proper: Hayden Cerrie, Lauryn McCracken, Paul Trippy III, Greg Orcutt Jr., Dylan Bankoski, Thomas Shaffer, Davian Alvalle and Ashley Fourger.
Dunkirk – Dunkirk’s athletics division started a brand new custom earlier this month, whereas the district grew up all of the eight senior athletes who swap to the subsequent stage for a signing ceremony on the Dunkirk Excessive Faculty.
“Every senior athlete deserves to have the identical recognition,” mentioned the athletic director, AJ Burnside, the organizer of the occasion.
Three feminine athletes had been honored -the soccer standout Lauryn Mcccrac, Bowler Hayden Cerrie and Majoreta Ashley Forenger. McCracken will play soccer on the Monroe Neighborhood Faculty in Rochester, the place he’ll examine psychology. Cerrie Will Bowl on the College of Ouville in Buffalo, the place he’ll examine enterprise administration. Endlessly will cheer at New York State College in Fredonia, the place he’ll examine bodily science.
Additionally, 5 members of the VI baseball crew, the A2 class, Dunkirk Marauders champion had been acknowledged. Davian Alvalle, Dylan Bankoski, Greg Orcutt Jr., Thomas Shaffer and Paul Trippy III will proceed to play baseball.
Shaffer and Trippy will stay teammates in school, as a result of they are going to each play baseball at Finger Lakes Neighborhood Faculty in Canandaigua. Shaffer will examine bodily schooling and train science, whereas Trippy will examine enterprise administration. Orcutt will take part within the College of Ouville in Buffalo, the place he’ll examine to turn out to be a pharmacist. Bankoski will examine prison justice on the New York State College in Niagara. Alvalle will take part within the New York State College in Erie (ECC), the place he’ll examine sports activities administration.
Marauders was educated by Frank Jagoda, Dunkirk’s most winner. The 5 seniors who go to play in school can declare that they had been champions of Part VI following a 2-1 victory over Lewiston-Porter, every week earlier than the ceremony on Thursday. Shaffer led to successful working, whereas Ocutt gained the victory by throwing an entire sport with 11 assaults and a single allowed run. It was the primary championship of the VI part of Dunkirk in 2011 and the 17th title of this system usually.
Jagoda mentioned that the occasion was a tribute to dedicate all of the 5 seniors in his crew. “It’s good for our program, as a result of it exhibits our youthful gamers that there’s something after highschool in the event that they work quite a bit,” Jagoda mentioned. “These 5 younger folks had been the epithet to work arduous at a sport and to need to excel.”
Dunkirk Baseball has additionally turn out to be a supply of satisfaction for the group for its efforts exterior the sphere, as Marauders typically carry out group service acts. “Our help from the group within the 30 years has been extraordinary. They’ve at all times handed,” Jagoda mentioned.
Jagoda believes that his responsibility as a coach is to not construct solely massive gamers, but additionally nice folks. A number of colleagues have made a transparent notice of this.
“It offers our gamers a chance to be a part of this system by doing these issues, studying what it takes to be a profitable program, not solely on the sphere, however exterior the sphere,” Jagoda mentioned. “This was exceptional for them too.”