Greater Utica Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025

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Hockey star Dan Kane, longtime college basketball coach Bob Montana and noted sportswriter Ron Moshier were formally inducted into the Greater Utica Sports Hall of Fame (GUSHOF) in 2025.

The Class of 2025 also included the 1982 New York State champion Little Falls High School baseball team.

All three men and the team were honored at the Hall of Fame’s 35th annual induction banquet Sept. 14, 2025, at Monarch Banquet Facilities in Yorkville.

Kane, son of Clinton Comet captain and GUSHOF inductee Jack Kane, starred at Clinton High School and Bowling Green University, where he helped win an NCAA championship in 1984. He later played in the American Hockey League.

Montana, a Notre Dame High School graduate, won 248 games at Union College and is the second-winningest coach in school history, with 14 of his 17 teams reaching the postseason.

Moshier has been one of New York State’s premier sportswriters for more than four decades. Although his work covered the gamut of the local sports world, he was best known for his thorough and exacting coverage of scholastic sports in Central New York and across the state. The former Richfield Springs three-sport athlete worked at the Herkimer Telegram, the Cortland Standard, and for the bulk of his career at the Utica Newspapers. He is a contributing writer covering local collegiate athletes for the Daily Sentinel.

The Little Falls baseball team enjoyed a fabulous season in 1982 under late coach Ted Schoff, a New York State Baseball Hall of Fame member and GUSHOF honoree. It culminated with a 12-5 victory over Wilson of Niagara County in the first-ever state title game. Joe Morotti, who threw 44 innings in eight postseason games – four complete game wins, three relief wins and a save – was the tournament most valuable player. Chris Connolly, George “Corky” Demeree, Gary Mizerak and Brian Rohacek were the other seniors on the team, which also included Scott Blumberg, Rich Bucenec, John Douglas, Mike Liddon, Bob Matus, Mark Rose, Mark McEvoy, Eric Pelli and Mike Pohleven.

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The Greater Utica Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1990 to honor excellence in all facets of sports throughout the area. As of 2012, nearly 150 men and women have been enshrined.

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