SYRACUSE – The 2018-2019 high school sports season is near complete with softball and baseball still to crown New York State Champions. However, Section III honored their top senior scholar-athletes who excelled in both the classroom and on the playing field on Monday night at the Section III Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner presented by Coca-Cola Bottling Company of NY. 

The dinner celebrated the accomplishments of 185 scholar-athletes and recognized the achievement of each student throughout their career as a student-athlete. The best male and female scholar-athletes from 105 schools located within Section III were honored at the event with scholarships, plaques and certificates.

Four student-athletes that attend schools in the Chenango County area were recognized at the dinner for the 2018-2019 year.

Sherburne-Earlville’s Kaitlyn Furner and Adam Aldrich were joined by Otselic Valley’s Jessica Comfort and Micah Lyon as Section III Scholar-Athletes for their school.

Furner is a three-sport athlete in soccer, basketball and track and field who participated on the varsity teams for at least three of her four years in high school. The Marauders’ future graduate was named as a member of the Center State Conference Division-I First Team, earning all-league honors for basketball once again with her 265 points scored this past season.