Sports Flashback: Week of July 9 to 16

30 YEARS AGO — 1996

— Our Lady of Victory Academy captured its third straight Adirondack Catholic Elementary League softball championship, beating St. Mary's of Ticonderoga, 12-6, in the final. Meghan Conroy struck out 10 and added three hits, Stephanie Beshon belted a grand slam and a two-run homer, and Kori Gohlke tripled home two for coach Jim Caron's club.

— Plattsburgh's Babe Ruth 13-year-olds advanced to the winners' bracket of the New York State Eastern District Tournament in dramatic fashion as Mike McNichols — down to the team's final out — laced a two-out, two-run single off Cohoes reliever Vinnie Caglione in the bottom of the seventh to score Ryan DeCamp and Mike Rivers for a 2-1 win at Lefty Wilson Field.

— The Au Sable Forks American Legion Post 504 Old-Timers beat Lyon Mountain Post 1623 to win the Popeye Coolidge Memorial Trophy in the preliminary of the 34th annual Au Sable Forks Fast-Pitch Softball Tournament. Al Bombard threw a complete game and took the Joe "Black Cat" Zeno Memorial MVP Award.

— A Plattsburgh High trio — Matt Flynn, Gus Terry and Matt Meyers — headlined the 1996 CVAC Coaches All-Star Baseball Team, with Terry named at pitcher, Flynn at catcher and Meyers in the outfield, after the Hornets' return to the Class B state Final Four.

— Will Warren raced to a course-record ride in the weekly Viking Beartown Mountain Bike Series in Beekmantown, covering the three-lap, 10-mile expert course in about 57 minutes. Series points leader William Martin was second in 58:14.

50 YEARS AGO — 1976

— A North Country men's All-Star team stunned the touring U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team, 94-89, in an exhibition at Plattsburgh State's Memorial Hall — the prelude to the U.S.-Canada men's clash — with Plattsburgh High's Joe Cardany and Holmes sparking the locals against a Team USA loaded with future legends Pat Head (Summitt), Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers and Lusia Harris.

— Post 20's juniors captured the First Warren County American Legion Baseball Tournament, edging host Glens Falls, 2-1. Mike Jodoin settled in after a first-inning run, and Post 20 (5-3) tied it in the sixth on a Danny Burnell single, a Pete Proctor double and a Rick Vaughn squeeze.

— Bernie Griffith edged 18-year-old Steve Dragoon, of West Chazy, by a car length to win the 33-lap feature at Plattsburgh International Raceway. Danny Bridges took third and Dick Nephew fourth.

— The Lyon Mountain Miners edged into first place in the CVBL, splitting a doubleheader with Altona and taking the opener, 10-2, behind a six-run outburst.

70 YEARS AGO — 1956

— Gabriels beat Peru, 9-5, in an Adirondack League game, riding a five-run second inning to hold first place at 6-1. Bucky Roche got the win.

— Around the local Pee Wee League diamonds: Lyon Mountain routed Peru, 15-0; Dannemora beat Keeseville, 10-3; Champlain topped West Chazy, 5-2; Chazy edged Ellenburg, 4-3; and Altona beat Churubusco 5-3.

— A Plattsburgh team won the inter-club golf tournament at the Plattsburgh Golf Course when approximately 50 women from five clubs played their annual tournament. Plattsburgh finished ahead of Lake Placid, with Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and Malone also fielding squads.

90 YEARS AGO — 1936

— The Lyon Mountain Miners erupted for six runs in the ninth inning to shock the Tupper Lake Colonels, 6-2, in a Northern League game.

— The Plattsburgh Majors outlasted the Malone Stars, 5-4, in 11 innings, with Lefty Collins turning in some masterly pitching and Ray Ratajczak beaning the winning run after Malone had led into the late innings.

— The 26th U.S. Infantry regimental team beat the Texaco Stars of Rouses Point, 7-2, at Plattsburgh Barracks behind veteran right-hander Lawrence Lucy's six-hitter and six Rouses Point errors greasing the skids.

— The Lafayettes bowed 12-7 at Isle LaMotte despite outhitting their hosts 14-9 — undone by 10 errors afield.

— Compiled by Contributing Writer Ben Rowe