DON McCORMACK
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Gone too soon
The life of one of the brightest stars — on and off the playing field — in the storied football history of Geneva High School came to an end last week.
Randy Carter, one of the standout players on Geneva’s Northeastern Conference championship squad of 1972, died after a brief illness last Wednesday in Everett, Wash.
He was 54.
Carter helped that Geneva team, coached by the late Bob Herpy, a member of the Ashtabula County Football Hall of Fame, to a 9-1 record that fall.
A first-team Star Beacon All-Ashtabula County performer, Carter was even more brilliant in the classroom.
He was the first winner of the Robert L. Wiese Award when it was presented by the Ashtabula County Touchdown Club in 1972.
Carter was an Ivy Leaguer at the collegiate level, moving on to Yale after graduating from Geneva in the spring of 1973.
He played both football and rugby for the Bulldogs, earning three varsity football letters as the team’s placekicker.
Carter’s most memorable moment at Yale on the football field was a last-second field goal to defeat rival Dartmouth in 1974.
He was also a standout performer on the Yale rugby team, being named co-captain twice.
Having won the Robert L. Wiese Award at the TD Club banquet in 1972, Carter then became the first young man to double up — he was named the Outstanding College Football Award winner by Gazette Publications at the TD Club banquet in 1975.
He is survived by his wife, Kristine, of Arlington, Wash., daughters Meredith and Lindsay, both of Vancouver, Wash., and brother Bill, of Rochester, N.Y., along with his sisters, Carol Prill and Cindy Stevenson, both of whom still reside in Geneva.
Our sincere condolences go out to Randy’s family and friends. His complete obituary appears on Page A6 of today’s edition.
Tournament trail
Frank Roskovics’ Ashtabula County Women’s Scholar-Athlete Association — which will hold its annual senior all-star volleyball match today at SS. John and Paul’s Mahoney Gymnasium — is expanding its horizons.
Rosko announced Monday that the ACWSAA will be holding three — count ’em, three! — girls basketball tournaments in February.
The ACWSAA will conduct a seventh-grade tournament, an eighth-grade tournament and a freshman tournament this winter.
For more information, contact Rosko at 964-7825
Dept. of corrections
In this business, our mistakes are out there for the entire world to see.
And, yes, Loyal Readers, yours truly makes more than his fair share of gaffes, unfortunately (as in Monday’s “effort,” when I said Miles Iverson’s 44 carries last Friday at Riverside were an area season high when in actuality, he lugged the pigskin 48 times in a Week 3 game at Perry on Sept. 12).
However, a Philadelphia newspaper pulled a real boner in its Monday edition.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has apologized to readers for mistakenly running an ad congratulating the Philadelphia Phillies on winning back-to-back World Series titles.
The Yankees held a commanding 3-1 lead in the championship as of Monday, the day the ad was printed in the Inquirer.
The three-quarter-page Macy’s ad is on the back of the front section and features a T-shirt with the Phillies logo, the commissioner’s trophy and the phrase “Back To Back World Series Champions.”
The Inquirer released a message to readers saying the paper deeply regrets the error.
McCormack is the sports editor of the Star Beacon. Reach him at donmac@suite224.net.
