Woodsmen's Team Dominant in Preparation for Home Fall Meet

Paul Smiths, NY ~ The Paul Smith's College Woodsmen's Team has been dominant in the early season in advance of the renowned PSC Fall Meet that will occur this weekend on Saturday, November 5th.  Over the past weekend, the team competed in the ESF Fall Meet at the Tully Field Station in Tully, NY, with impressive 1st place finishes from the Men's 1 and Jack and Jill teams.

 

In the overall Men's Team Competition, PSC Men's 1 took 1st place in their division with a total of 1241 points (1400 is the max).  The 2nd place team, Finger Lakes Community College, had 1095 points, a nearly 150 point different.  PSC Men's 2 finished in a very respectable 5th place with 904 points.  PSC Men's 3, made up of mostly freshman athletes, placed 7th out of 12 men's teams with 754 points.

 

The Jack and Jill Division (three men and three women competing) placed 1st out of nine teams with 1076 points.  The PSC Women's Team placed 3rd in their division with 1058 points.  Less than 200 points separated the 1st and 3rd place teams. 

 

In the singles event, Paul Smith's College athletes achieved signficant success which led to their respective teams doing well in the overall team divisions.

 

Singles Events Highlights: 

• Men's 1 Captain, Daniel Miner, placed first in the Underhand Hard Hit event. He chopped his 8'x8" block in just ten swings. 
• Women's 1 Axe Thrower, Gabby Dowd, placed first in her division in the Axe Throw event .
• Men's 1 Bow Sawyer, Justin Perry, placed first in the Super Swede event, making four bowsaw cuts on an 8"x8" cant of wood in just under 28 seconds. 
• Men's 1 Cookie Stacker, Bradley Tessier, made 18 successful cuts on a vertical 8"x8".  The second place finisher was PSC Men's 2 sawyer, Noah Hogan.
• Women's 1 Single Buck Sawyer, Sarah Bailey, took first place in her division making the fastest cut of the day on a 15" round piece of Aspen. 
• Jack and Jill Bow Sawyer, Cal Barber, took first place in his division
• in the Super Swede event. 
• Men's 1 Axe Thrower, Curtis Betty, scored 23 out of 25 available points in the axe throw event with a near perfect display of axe throwing form. 

The teams are competing this weekend as Paul Smith's College hosts their Home Fall Meet at the PSC Forestry Arena.  The Fall Meet will see more teams and visiting schools attending the event than have attended any previous woodsmen's competition so far this season.  Head Coach Keith Braun looks forward to what his choppers can do on Saturday.  "We are excited to host the teams from all over the northeast at the Gould Hoyt Woodsmen's Arena for the 2022 Fall Woodsmen's Meet at PSC.  All of our PSC teams have been practicing hard and honing their skills in anticipation for this weekend - we're excited to be on our home turf."

In addition, this weekend is also the first event to be sanctioned by the North East Intercollegiate Logger Sports Association (NEILA) to be held at PSC.  PSC is a founding member of the NEILA, which is a group formed to support and grow programs on campuses in the region.  The event will be livestreamed at Paul Smith's College on the YSCC Sports Network