Sports Flashback: Week of June 25 to July 1
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30 YEARS AGO — 1996
— Brett Paepke and Glen Arnold combine on the first no-hitter in Clinton Lakers history, with Paepke pitching the first five innings and Arnold the last two in an 11-0 win over the Schroon Lake/Crown Point Loons. Earlier in the doubleheader, Mark Leta tossed a one-hitter in a 9-0 Clinton victory.
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— Peru's Kim Swarts is named to the CVAC Division I softball All-Star team after striking out 149 batters in 135 innings, going 14-6 with a 0.62 ERA, batting .551 and tossing a no-hitter against Seton Catholic, in which she fans 14.
— Five members of the Bay Club Waves swim team qualified for the 1996 Empire State Games in Buffalo. Michelle Chevalier set new team records in three freestyle victories at the trials, and Meghan Welch, a two-time ESG bronze medalist, won three events.
— Jon Parks won the Blackfly Challenge, a 40-mile mountain bike race from Indian Lake to Inlet, with Charlie Mitchell second and Shawn Breen third.
— The Barracks Golf Club edged K & L Plumbing on a birdie at No. 18 to win the seventh annual Clinton Masonic Golf Classic at the Adirondack Golf and Country Club in Peru. Both teams finished at 12-under 60.
50 YEARS AGO — 1976
— Members of the U.S. Olympic track team took their first workouts at the Plattsburgh State Field House before a crowd of nearly 200 as the squad prepares for the Montreal Games under coach Lee Calhoun. Among the sprinters on hand are 100-meter world-record co-holder Harvey Glance, Steve Riddick, 800-meter runner-up Mark Enyeart and women's 800 qualifier Kathy Weston.
— Stock car veteran Bob Bruno, a five-time local track champion during the 1960s, ended a seven-year retirement to rejoin the field for the Battle of Plattsburgh at Plattsburgh International Raceway, driving a 1970 Nova for owner Vic Wolfe.
— Phoebe Sturm took Class A honors in the Tin Whistle Tournament on Ladies Day at Bluff Point Golf & Country Club. Marion Pafsky won Class B and Carol Gerrant Class C. Phyllis Augustine and Bernice Jennings tied for second in Class C while Pat Whalen took first place in Class D.
— Doug Doran swept four events — the 25-yard butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle — in the 10-and-under division at the Northern Pike Closed Invitational Swim Meet at AuSable Valley Central School.
70 YEARS AGO — 1956
— Bucky Roche's ninth-inning home run lifted Gabriels to a 3-2 win over Cadyville in the Adirondack League, throwing the winners into a three-way tie for first place. Roche added two singles for a three-hit day.
— Warren Tessier tossed a three-hit shutout and struck out 11 as Morrisonville routed Saranac Lake, 15-0, in the Adirondack League, knocking Saranac Lake out of first place. Pete Cronin, a former Our Lady of Victory Academy star, went 4-for-4, and Red Burnell added four hits in five trips.
— Howard Maxwell threw a one-hitter as Saxony Hotel beat Champlain Genesee, 4-0, in the Rouses Point Border League with Don Demers' third-inning single being the only hit. Maxwell had also pitched the Genesees to a 13-7 win at Hemmingford, Quebec, the night before.
— Imperial outlasted the Flyers 16-15 in an eight-inning City Softball League slugfest at St. Peter's Field, rallying from a 13-9 deficit on a Clarence Dubuque triple and a Ray Reeves home run.
— Plattsburgh High School handed out its 1956 spring sports awards, with Robert Parrish earning the individual trophy given each year to a senior boy who showed "determination, teamwork and sportsmanship in both a winning and losing way." Ann Lawler received a four-year trophy in girls' athletics.
90 YEARS AGO — 1936
— The Plattsburgh Majors' Ray Ratajczak drove in all four runs with a pair of home runs in a 4-1 Northern League win over Burlington, then was forced from the game and held overnight in a Burlington hospital after being hurt turning a double play. Manager Bill McCorry traveled back the next day to bring him home.
— Eighteen-year-old Len Amodio, a Clinton, New York, high school star, pitched the Plattsburgh Majors to a 6-5 win over the Burlington Barons for their second win in seven starts.
— The undefeated Lafayettes rallied for six runs in the fifth inning to erase a 7-3 deficit and beat Cadyville, 9-7, for their fifth straight win, with Dick Elliott outdueling Gib Darrah.
— Long Lawrence Lucy came on in relief and held Lacolle hitless over the final three innings as the 26th Infantry from Plattsburgh Barracks notched its first win of the season, 8-5, over the Quebec Inter-City League club. O'Neil homered with two aboard in the seventh.
— Cadyville scored six runs in the fourth inning to down Camp A-4 of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 9-5, with Gib Darrah going the distance on the mound.
— Compiled by Contributing Writer Ben Rowe