News & notes

 We'll start with Wednesday's college results:

Baseball:

Russell Sage 8, Utica 2.

RPI 10, Amherst 6.

Vermont-Castleton 14, Skidmore 10.

Men's lacrosse:

RPI 12, Vassar 8.

Women's lacrosse:

Siena 14, Manhattan 8.

RPI 9, Union 8.

Softball:

Siena swept Stonehill, 5-0 & 4-1.

New Paltz swept Skidmore, 6-0 & 7-1.

Russell Sage swept Cobleskill, 10-0 (5 innings) & 4-3.

High schools:

Baseball:

Ravena 10 Greenville 0.

Saratoga 6, Mechanicville 0.

Middleburgh 11, Windham-Ashland-Jewett 0.

Argyle 5, Berlin-New Lebanon 4.

Men's lacrosse:

Mohonasen-Schalmont-Schenectady 13, Troy 2.

Flag football:

Albany 8, Burnt Hills 0.

Bethlehem 38, Guilderland 0.

Broadalbin-Perth 20, Saratoga 18.

Niskayuna 45, Albany Leadership 13.

Holy Trinity 40, Schenectady 6.

Troy 12, Shenendehowa 7

Softball:

Shenendehowa 15, Queensbury 1 (5 innings).

Saratoga 6, Columbia 0.

Hoosick Falls 17, Ravena 3 (5 innings).

Albany 5, Cohoes 4.

Cobleskill-Richmondville 14, Johnstown 1 (5 innings).

Chatham 35, Cairo-Durham 0 (5 innings).

Hudson Falls 12, Schuylerville 9.

Lansingburgh 8, Berlin-New Lebanon 0

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Jeff Hoffman (Shaker) has settled into his new role as the closer for the Toronto Blue Jays. Hoffman picked up his 3rd save Wednesday, as Toronto defeated Washington, 4-2. Hoffman has a 2.25 ERA to start the season.

After making his season debut Tuesday, and pitching 2 innings of scoreless relief for the Los Angeles Angels, Ian Anderson (Shen) was tagged with the loss Wednesday, charged with 5 runs (4 earned) on 5 hits with a walk and a strikeout in 1 inning as St. Louis bested the Angels, 12-5.

Tuesday's high school & college scoreboard, 4/1

 Colleges:

Baseball:

Siena 12, UAlbany 7.

Union 6, Middlebury 2.

Men's lacrosse:

Cornell 18, UAlbany 11.

Softball:

UAlbany swept Central Connecticut State, 9-0 & 2-0. Game 1 went just 5 innings.

Dartmouth 10, Siena 9.

High schools:

Baseball:

Non-league:

Coxsackie-Athens 8, Johnstown 1.

Men's lacrosse:

Foothills Council:

Queensbury 18, Amsterdam 2.

Suburban Council:

Niskayuna 10, Shenendehowa 6.

Guilderland 12, Bethlehem 7.

Women's lacrosse:

Non-league:

Queensbury 10, Colonie 6.

Softball:

Colonial Council:

Lansingburgh 14, LaSalle 1 (5 innings).

Non-league:

Coxsackie-Athens 9, Johnstown 1.

Shaker 6, Troy 4.

Ravena 16, Greenville 4 (5 innings?).

Galway 19, Albany 12.

Men's tennis:

Patroon Conference:

Taconic Hills 5, Maple Hill 2.

News & notes

 The Albany Times-Union's men's swimming & diving all-star teams have been announced, and the Flying Devil Brothers of CBA/Troy/Columbia are well represented.

CBA senior Quinn Nelson not only made the 1st team in the 100 meter backstroke, but he's all over the 2nd team in the following:

100 & 500 meter freestyle.

200 meter individual medley.

200 meter medley relay (with teammates Liam Witting, Andrew Orcutt, and Rocco Jabour).

Witting, also a senior, made the 2nd team in the 50 meter freestyle, and the relay team was on the 1st team for the 400 meter freestyle relay. Jabour, the lone Troy swimmer, should be these teams again next year, as he's only a sophomore.

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It's opening day in major league baseball for everyone except the Dodgers & Cubs, who opened last week in Tokyo.

For local fans, they'll get to see the Yankees and Mets this afternoon:

Milwaukee at the Yankees, 3 pm, ESPN, WTMM.

Mets @ Houston, 4 pm, SNY.

The Yankees have already made it clear that they will expand their usual pre-game coverage to cover the pomp & circumstance of their home opener, as they do every year. The Mets still don't have a radio home since they dissolved their syndicated network 6 years ago, but you can access the radio broadcast on Audacy.

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Lacrosse season has officially begun in Section II.

In a battle of the Spartans in women's action, Queensbury blew away Burnt Hills, 18-6. The men's game between LaSalle and Guilderland was, as I had suspected, a scrimmage, not an actual game.

Today, Voorheesville hosts the Academy of Holy Names at 4:30 pm, to start the Colonial Council season, while two men's non-league games are on tap, with Hoosick Falls-Tamarac playing at Mohonasen-Schenectady at 4:30, and Greenwich-Cambridge at Ichabod Crane at 5 pm.

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Wednesday's college scoreboard:

Baseball:

UMass 6, UAlbany 3.

Siena 13, Fairleigh Dickinson 1 (7 innings).

RPI 29, MCLA 1. The Engineers racked up 20 runs in the 4th through 6th innings, and they didn't bother with a mercy rule.

Oneonta 13, Cobleskill 9 (6 innings).

Men's lacrosse:

Siena 16, Merrimack 8.

St. Joseph's-Long Island 14, Cobleskill 10.

Women's lacrosse:

Plattsburgh 14, Russell Sage 13.

Clemson 21, UAlbany 8.

Union 18, Bard 3.

Vassar 12, Skidmore 11 (OT).

Softball:

UAlbany 8, Columbia 3. 

Men's tennis:

Union 4, Oberlin 3.

Women's tennis:

Carleton 7, Union 0.

Union 7, Augustana 0.

News & notes

 It's that time of year again, when basketball players enter the transfer portal, looking for new opportunities and a change of scenery.

To follow up on a report from last week, Albany Academy grad Riley Mulvey is transferring from Iowa to Siena. That was made official on Tuesday. The Rotterdam native will be reunited former Cadet teammate Marcus Jackson, unless Jackson enters the portal.

Meanwhile, on the women's side at Siena, leading scorer Teresa Seppala is entering the portal, as is Allison O'Hanlon (Duanesburg), who missed all of this past season due to a foot injury. With Albany grad Ahniysha Jackson graduating, you'd think O'Hanlon would've stepped right in to fill the void, but, as of now, nope.

Over at UAlbany, Amar'e Marshall is re-entering the portal for the 3rd straight year, and taking Justin Neely, Aaron Reddish, Zane Adnan, & Kani Topuz with him. 

UAlbany will lose Byron Joshua, DeMarr Langford, Jr., & Kacper Klaczek, who've used up their eligibility and will graduate, while Wilkin Paulino, an incoming freshman, and junior college transfer Jaden Kempson will join the Great Danes.

Looks like Dwayne Killings is back in rebuilding mode.

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LaSalle is looking for a new football coach.

John Audino is leaving after 7 seasons to take an assistant's job at Marist. The new coach, whomever it is, will be tasked to defend the Collar City Cup when LaSalle plays Troy in October. Audino went 29-31 in 7 seasons at LaSalle, 4-3 in the Cup games. He'll be a special team coordinator & running backs coach at Marist.

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Tuesday's college scoreboard:

Baseball:

Union 10, Elmhurst 5.

Union 6, Williams College 3.

Long Island University 14, Siena 3.

Skidmore 9, Cobleskill 3.

Men's lacrosse:

Tufts 20, Union 10.

Softball:

Siena & Quinnipiac split a doubleheader, each team winning by a score of 8-4.

Middlebury swept Skidmore, 2-1 & 10-2. The 2nd game ended in 6 innings.

Cobleskill split with Hartwick, losing the opener, 8-7, while salvaging the nightca, 11-3 in 6 innings.

Men's tennis:

Colby 5, Union 1.

Women's tennis:

Union 5, George Fox 1.

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You'll see a pair of lacrosse games listed for high schools for today. Not sure if the season is officially starting, as everyone else begins play next week. LaSalle will host Guilderland at Sutton Field at 6 pm, while, in women's action, Burnt Hills visits Queensbury at 4:30 pm.

News & notes

The Albany Times-Union announced its hockey all-star team for 2024-5 in today's editions, and, well, I'd not be surprised if LaSalle fans would be up in arms over the perception of injustice done to their team.

Goaltender Carter Irving was the lone Cadet named to the first team, joining Player of the Year Liam Chartrand (Saratoga), Ollie Coughlan & Brodie LaNoir (Queensbury), George Angelopoulos (Hawks), and Daniel Klochaney (Saratoga). LaSalle's leading scorer, Michael Nocera, was named to the 2nd team. Shenendehowa's Juan de la Rocha was named Coach of the Year.

LaSalle loyalists will argue that their team was screwed. Then again, the T-U didn't publish game results with any consistency, which would fuel the argument.

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Columbia grad Kevin Smith has decided to retire at 28 after spending parts of last season with the Yankees. Smith was never really able to stick in the majors, be it with Toronto, Oakland, or the Yanks. However, he tells the T-U he's satisfied that he lived his dream.

Something tells me we'll hear from him again as a coach, somewhere down the road.

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They are mourning at Saratoga Catholic and Greenwich the passing of veteran coach Harry Lomasney, who passed away March 20 at 84 after a lengthy illness.

Lomasney was the head coach at Greenwich for 24 seasons (1972-95), and served as the pitching coach under Phonsey Lambert at Saratoga Catholic for 9 seasons.

When the two Wasaren League teams meet, expect black armbands on both teams.

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Ousted Northville women's basketball coach Jim Zullo was issued an appearance ticket on Monday on allegations of harassment toward his senior star, Hailey Monroe, during Friday's loss to LaFargeville. Zullo has apologized for the incident, which reportedly began with Monroe using expletives after fouling out with under a minute left in the game.

Zullo will be at Troy City Court at a later date. He'd stated before the season that this would, in fact, be his final season. Not the way he wanted to go out, to be sure, but his Hall of Fame career has been tarnished by one mistake borne of frustration.

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Monday's college scoreboard:

Baseball:

Wisconsin-LaCrosse 7, Union 0.

Softball:

Union 9, Oberlin 3.

Willamette 11, Union 1 (6 innings).

Men's tennis:

Freed-Hardeman (TN) 6, Union 1.

Hamilton 6, Union 1.

News & notes

 While it has not officially been announced on the team's website, the Tri-City Valleycats have traded for Shenendehowa grad Jake Reinisch, the son of Troy High athletic director Paul Reinisch. So far, the Daily Gazette is the only media outlet to report the trade, but it is not known who will be sent over to the NY Boulders in exchange for Reinisch, a 2024 graduate of Wake Forest.

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Meanwhile, another Shen alum is also on the move.

The Atlanta Braves traded Ian Anderson to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Sunday in exchange for lefthander Jose Suarez. Anderson pitched to a 2.25 ERA in Grapefruit League play, mostly as a reliever, but the 20 walks in as many innings convinced Braves management that Anderson's control issues, which prompted his demotion to AAA Gwinnett in 2023, had not been solved.

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When the weekend started, 10 Section II basketball teams were playing for state titles.

As of the end of business Sunday, three state titles had been won.

Glens Falls repeated as Class A state champion, thumping Mt. Sinai, 77-57, on Sunday morning, joining Shaker & Berne-Knox-Westerlo in winning state titles.

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Sunday's college scoreboard:

Baseball:

Bryant 9, UAlbany 8.

Fairfield 10, Siena 0 (8 innings).

Wooster 12, Union 6.

Softball:

Hamline 15, Union 5 (6 innings).

Union 7, Knox 0.

Men's tennis:

Luther 5, Union 2.

Mount St. Mary's 4, Siena 3.

NY University 4, Skidmore 2.

Women's tennis:

Brandeis 7, Skidmore 0.

Siena 4, Mount St. Mary's 3.

Union 5, Luther 2.

Union 5, Hendrix 2.

News & notes

 As we're writing, Glens Falls is in action at Visions Veterans Center in Binghamton in the Class A men's finals vs. Mt. Sinai after disposing of Wayne, 75-55, on Saturday afternoon. 

Meanwhile, Berne-Knox-Westerlo captured the Class C title, taking down Honeoye, 63-47, in Saturday's nightcap. Now, it's up to the Black Bears to bring home another state title.

Unfortunately, the women couldn't fulfill their end, as Catholic Central was denied their bid to repeat, losing to Baldwin, 62-55, Saturday morning at Hudson Valley Community College. Tanavia Turpin, fighting through an injury, finished with 15 points for the Crusaders.

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The Albany FireWolves have won 3 straight after defeating defending NLL champion Buffalo in overtime, 11-10, Saturday at MVP Arena. Next home game is in 2 weeks on April 4.

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Saturday's college scoreboard:

Baseball:

RPI swept Bard, 13-0 & 15-5. The 2nd game ended after 8 innings.

Skidmore swept Vassar, 16-5 (7 innings) and 6-4.

Union 6, St. John's (MN) 5.

UAlbany 13, Bryant 9 (14 innings).

Fairfield 7, Siena 2.

Men's lacrosse:

Husson 17, Cobleskill 9.

UMBC 13, UAlbany 12 (OT).

RIT 13, RPI 10.

Union 14, Clarkson 10.

Skidmore 9, St. Lawrence 8.

Alfred 14, Russell Sage 5.

Siena 18, Iona 12.

Women's lacrosse:

Fairfield 16, Siena 6.

Alfred 15, Russell Sage 6.

William Smith 16, RPI 9.

RIT 15, Union 12.

Skidmore 11, Rochester 10 (OT).

Softball:

Siena swept Colgate, 7-0 & 6-2.

RPI swept Harford, 1-0 & 4-1.

Vermont-Castleton swept Skidmore, 11-0 (6 innings) & 10-5.

Binghamton swept UAlbany, 12-4 & 14-2. Both games ended in 5 innings.

Machester 7, Union 2.

Lawrence 5, Union 1.

Water polo:

Mount St. Mary's 15, Siena 11.

Iona 17, Siena 15.