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SLP girls lax fall in season opener

The Saranac Lake Placid girls lacrosse team kicked off the season with a 23-8 loss to the Salmon River Shamrocks on the road Monday afternoon. SLP Freshman Emma Clark scored three goals. Tyler Burth had two goals and one assist. Juliana Tremblay chipped in with two goals and Lizzie ...

Cornell tops St. Lawrence to earn ECAC title

LAKE PLACID — A 14-year drought for the Cornell Big Red men’s hockey teams ended on Saturday. The Big Red defeated the St. Lawrence Saints 3-1 at the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena to earn its first Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference crown since 2010. As sticks and ...

Bobsled, skeleton World Cup season wraps up in Placid

LAKE PLACID — The IBSF World Cup season concluded on home ice this week with three days of competition this past weekend. In the two-man bobsled event on Friday, Team USA’s Frank Del Duca and Manteo Mitchell placed fifth in a two-run time of 1 minute, 50.96 seconds. Teammates Kris Horn ...

Mystique Ro earns skeleton gold

LAKE PLACID — Team USA’s Mystique Ro recorded her first-ever World Cup win in the women’s skeleton event on Thursday, the opening day of the IBSF World Cup, at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The win marked the first World Cup victory by an American skeleton athlete in eight years. Ro won ...

Elana Meyers Taylor wins monobob silver

LAKE PLACID — The 2023/2024 IBSF women’s monobob World Cup came to an end at Mount Van Hoevenberg with a race for the sporting history books. In the eighth race of the season, Breeana Walker — with a two-heat combined time of 1:58.67 — claimed the first bobsled World Cup victory for ...