Troy High sports review, through April 24

 As we approach the end of April, there are a couple of hot teams that should stay hot going forward.

Flag football:

Current record: 6-1.

The Lady Horses have won 5 in a row. Hudson was the latest victim, losing 31-6 at home to Troy on Friday. 

Consider this for a moment. Troy has outscored their opponents by a ridiculous margin of 283-54. Ouch, babe!! This averages out to Troy averaging 40+ points a game through 7 games while allowing an average of just under 8 points a game. If this sounds familiar, well, we've seen the men's tackle football teams be just as dominant over the years.

Next: The road trip continues at Niskayuna on Monday, before returning home to play Ravena on Wednesday, followed by a road game at Mohonasen on Friday.

Softball:

Current record: 7-2 (5-0 Colonial Council).

Mohonasen was the latest victim on Friday, as the Lady Horses won by mercy rule yet again, to the tune of 18-0. Yipes! Wednesday's game vs. Lansingburgh has been pushed back to May 8. A game vs. Holy Names that was supposed to have taken place earlier this month at home has been shifted to a road game at the NYS Correctional Facility (?) on May 15.

Next: LaSalle comes in on Monday. After that, it's a road trip to Valatie to play Ichabod Crane on Wednesday before hosting Albany Academy on Friday. Three tough opponents stand in the way of a perfect league record.

Baseball:

Current record: 3-6.

After snapping a 3 game losing streak in clipping Lansingburgh on Wednesday, Trevor McCarthy's club dropped a 10-3 decision to Mohonasen on Friday.

Next: Same schedule as softball. Home vs. LaSalle, which has owned the Troy boys in recent years, and Albany Academy, on the road at Ichabod Crane.

Women's lacrosse:

Current record: 4-3.

The winning streak ended Friday with a 19-4 thumping at the hands of Voorheesville.

Next: The ladies stay on the road at Albany Academy on Tuesday before returning home to play Cohoes on Thursday. Then, back on the road for a rematch with Mohon/Schenectady/Schalmont on Friday.

Men's lacrosse:

Current record: 2-4.

Not a good week. From what we can gather, the laxmen fell to Voorheesville as well on Friday night.

Next: The road trip continues at Johnstown on Monday, then back home Wednesday night vs. Greenwich-Cambridge before a rematch with Hoosick Falls-Tamarac on Friday at Hoosick Falls.

News & notes

 After winning a state title with CBA last month, JJ Osinski is changing schools and leagues.

Osinski, who will be a senior next season, is transferring to Albany Academy, now in NEPSAC. Brother Austin will stay at CBA, so the Brothers will be just fine.

Hudson Valley Community College is undefeated no more in baseball.

The Vikings split a doubleheader with Cayuga Community College Wednesday, losing the nightcap after extending their winning streak to 21 in a row in the opener. 24 hours later, HVCC swept Cayuga at Bruno Stadium. All four games went 7 innings except Thursday's opener, which went 5 due to the mercy rule.

I wonder if Cayuga plays the theme of native son Rod Serling's Twilight Zone at their ballpark........

Thursday's high school scores:

Women's lacrosse:

Guilderland 18, Ballston Spa 5.

Emma Willard 20, Voorheesville 4. The Jesters pick up their first win of the season.

LaSalle 10, Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 9.

Suffern 15, Burnt Hills 8.

Bethlehem 16, Columbia 5.

Johnstown 15, Academy of Holy Names 10.

Troy def. Mohonasen-Schalmont-Schenectady. Score has not been published as of press time. The Lady Horses have won 5 in a row.

Men's lacrosse:

Bethlehem 18, Columbia 3.

Niskayuna 17, Averill Park 5.

Glens Falls 15, Amsterdam 4.

South Glens Falls 22, Hudson Falls 0.

Burnt Hills 14, CBA 12.

Saratoga 11, Colonie 3.

Queensbury 10, Scotia 7.

Baseball:

Maple Hill 12, Berlin-New Lebanon 0 (5 innings).

Softball:

Amsterdam 14, Mayfield 2 (5 innings).

Ichabod Crane 14, Voorheesville 2 (5 innings).

Coxsackie-Athens 14, Catskill 6.

Chalk up another win for the NY Phoenix, as they defeated Reading, 111-105, at M & T Bank-Mohawk Harbor Arena on Thursday. The teams meet again Sunday at 3 at Mohawk Harbor.

A quick reminder that due to NFL draft coverage, tonight's Mets-Rockies game will be on WXXA (UFL football shifts to Grit for the night).

News & notes

 A trio of former Section II basketball stars are back home to join the Albany City Rocks for a weekend series of games in Atlanta.

Tre'dell Faison & Devon Maloney (LaSalle) and Stetson Merritt (Troy) spent the season with different teams in NEPSAC. Mahoney helped Newman School capture the NEPSAC Class AAA title after coming off a wrist injury in the preseason. Merritt landed honorable mention status in Class AAA while playing for New Hampton in New Hampshire.

Siena's men's lacrosse team dropped a 14-6 decision to Merrimack on Wednesday to fall to 11-4 overall, 7-2 in the MAAC. The Saints allowed 5 goals in the 2nd quarter, and never fully recovered.

Wednesday's high school scoreboard:

Baseball:

Troy 3, Lansingburgh 2. The Flying Horses snap a 3 game losing streak and an accompanying scoreless streak.

Cobleskill-Richmondville 13, OESJ 3.

Mohonasen 6, Cohoes 2.

Women's lacrosse:

Queensbury 21, Hudson Falls 0.

Men's lacrosse:

Mechanicville-Stillwater 11, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 2.

Greenwich-Cambridge 10, Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 8.

Softball:

Lansingburgh @ Troy was postponed for unknown reasons. The game was rescheduled for Friday, May 8.

Shenendehowa 10, Shaker 4.

Corinth 14, North Warren 10.

Ballston Spa 7, Niskayuna 1.

Averill Park 3, Burnt Hills 0.

Colonie 5, Albany 1.

Saratoga 10, Guilderland 5.

Columbia 6, Bethlehem 3.

Glens Falls 13, Amsterdam 4.

Ichabod Crane 13, Ravena 0 (5 innings).

Chatham 13, Germantown 0 (5 innings).

Hoosick Falls 16, Stillwater 2 (5 innings).

Duanesburg 3, Mayfield 1.

Broadalbin-Perth 6, Gloversville 2.

Schalmont 13, Voorheesville 1 (5 innings).

Greenwich 18, Waterford 0 (5 innings).

Holy Trinity 6, Albany Academy 3.

Mohonasen 7, Cohoes 6.

Flag football:

Shenendehowa 12, Niskayuna 6.

Troy 75, KIPP Capital 0. Troy bettered its own scoring record, set earlier season vs. Lansingburgh.

Tuesday's high school & college scoreboard, 4/21

 Colleges:

Softball:

Siena split a doubleheader with Mount St. Mary's, winning the opener, 3-0, then losing the nightcap, 5-0.

Colgate 9, UAlbany 1.

Union 9, Cobleskill 5.

Russell Sage 7, Hartwick 1.

High schools:

Softball:

Ichabod Crane 11, Burnt Hills 1.

Albany 13, Maple Hill 0 (5 innings).

Saratoga Catholic 20, Cambridge 0 (5 innings).

Chatham 3, Guilderland 2.

Mechanicville 14, Berlin-New Lebanon 0 (5 innings).

Tamarac 4, Hoosick Falls 3.

South Glens Falls 6, Averill Park 5.

Troy 8, Ravena 3. Uh-oh! Troy is undefeated in Colonial Council play.

OESJ 6, Northville 0.

Schalmont 2, Albany Academy 0.

Hoosic Valley 18, Stillwater 0 (5 innings).

Cobleskill-Richmondville 11, Fonda-Fultonville 3.

Whitehall 19, North Warren 2 (5 innings).

Scotia 17, Schenectady 0 (5 innings).

Baseball:

Voorheesville 5, Ichabod Crane 1. Drew Hillicoss & Tim Martin combined on a no-hitter for the Blackbirds.

Albany 9, Troy 0. Three straight shutout losses for Troy (2-5).

Women's lacrosse:

Burnt Hills 17, Guilderland 9.

Shenendehowa 12, Niskayuna 5.

Columbia 11, Colonie 8.

Shaker 22, Ballston Spa 1.

Bethlehem 8, Queensbury 4.

Men's lacrosse:

CBA 12, Averill Park 5.

Mechanicville-Stillwater 17, Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 1.

Scotia 16, Hudson Falls 3.

Colonie 9, Columbia 5.

Niskayuna 14, Shenendehowa 4.

Guilderland 12, Burnt Hills 8.

South Glens Falls 9, Schuylerville 6.

Queensbury 12, Amsterdam 3.

Saratoga 18, LaSalle 7.

The most ignored team in local sports

 Check the sports section of either the Albany Times-Union or Daily Gazette, and you'd be hard pressed to find anything on Hudson Valley Community College's sports teams. Any of them. El Cheapo Media might have something, but at last check, it usually takes them a few days to do a feature story.

Consider, for example, HVCC's baseball team, currently undefeated at 20-0 heading into a 2-day, 4-game home & home series with Cayuga Community College, starting tomorrow in Cayuga. Each team will host a doubleheader.

We bring this up because the Vikings will play an exhibition game on April 30 against the other tenants at Bruno Stadium, the Tri-City Valleycats. While this has been acknowledged on the 'Cats' website, it's not on the Vikings' schedule, which tells you all you need to know about a slight disconnect between the school and the 'Cats.

I've attended a game between these two clubs in the past, and, based on that experience, it's just sad that the Vikings have so much difficulty drawing fans. No pre-game advertising outside of the campus, if there's any on campus at all. Nothing in the papers. HVCC is 20-0, and ignored by the media. Why? Because unlike UAlbany, Siena, RPI, & Union, HVCC is a 2 year junior college. With the dwindling media resources, the Vikings get the Rodney Dangerfield treatment from the media, and an undefeated season shouldn't be swept under the rug at all.

This year's Vikings have a decided Section II vibe, in that of the 55 players on the roster, 16 of them come from Section II schools (i.e. LaSalle, Shaker, Ichabod Crane). Almost 1/3 of the roster. They're lucky if Bill Arsenault (Times-Union) can fit them into his Campus Watch column. WTEN did a feature piece on the Vikings over the weekend, so what's missing? Word of mouth. If there's not enough attendance at games, and the press isn't there, who's going to know what's going on?

The 2nd half of the Cayuga series is at Bruno Stadium on Thursday, beginning at 2 pm. Don't wait for the Valleycats to play the Vikings a week later. You'll be glad you made the trip.

News & notes

 We thought Siena had lost its entire 2026 recruiting class with Gerry McNamara's departure for Syracuse last month.

We were wrong.

Parrish Edmond, Jr. recommitted to Siena Monday, and will play for new coach Nevada Smith. Oh, by the way, Smith is retaining just one assistant from McNamara's staff, and that is local legend Brian Beaury, formerly of the College of St. Rose.

Troy High's Tianna Harris made the Albany Times-Union honor roll in today's editions coming off a 5 TD performance vs. Ichabod Crane last Wednesday. Harris is also in the running to be the Player of The Week.

Scotia alum Karen Bertasso, 41, finished 5th in her age class at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Bertasso crossed the finish line around the 2 hour, 45 minute mark.

Monday's high school scores:

Softball (518 Softball is back up and running):

Hoosick Falls 8, Saratoga Catholic 5.

Amsterdam 17, Gloversville 2 (5 innings).

Chatham 18, Cairo-Durham 0 (5 innings).

Mechanicville 14, Stillwater 12.

Tamarac 5, Niskayuna 4.

Galway 16, Duanesburg 4.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 14, Mayfield 0 (5 innings).

Greenwich 16, Berlin-New Lebanon 2 (5 innings).

LaSalle 19, Holy Trinity 4 (5 innings).

Lansingburgh 5, Mohonasen 4.

Hudson Falls 14, Broadalbin-Perth 8.

Glens Falls 4, South Glens Falls 3.

Ravena 10, Schalmont 9.

Johnstown 11, OESJ 10.

Taconic Hills-Hawthorne Valley 6, Coxsackie-Athens 4.

Cambridge 9, Waterford 8.

Granville 7, Fort Edward 4.

Maple Hill 11, Catskill 4.

Albany Academy 21, Holy Names 9 (5 innings).

Fonda-Fultonville 12, Schoharie 6.

Troy 9, Cohoes 2. The Lady Tigers still haven't beaten Troy.

Fort Ann 16, Hadley-Luzerne 0 (5 innings).

Queensbury 8, Scotia 1.

Cobleskill-Richmondville 21, Middleburgh 0 (5 innings).

Argyle 11, Warrensburg 0.

Lake George 14, Fort Edward 2 (5 innings).

Salem 16, Corinth 1 (5 innings).

Women's lacrosse:

Queensbury 19, South Glens Falls 3.

Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 17, Ichabod Crane 6.

Ballston Spa 14, Greenwich-Cambridge 5.

LaSalle 7, Johnstown 6.

Men's lacrosse:

Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 12, Albany 7. M-S-S picks up its 1st win.

Saratoga 17, Rutland 0.

Johnstown 13, Voorheesville 11.

Shaker 14, Ballston Spa 4.

Mechanicville-Stillwater 9, Troy 1. 

Baseball:

Cohoes 5, Troy 0. Troy drops to 2-4.

Greenwich 8, Waterford 6.

News & notes

 Former Schalmont star Karissa Antoine is coming home.

After 2 seasons at Fordham, Antoine has gone through the transfer portal, and will play for Terry Primm and Siena next season. The Saints' basketball program, both men's & women's, can use the good news. 

Meanwhile, Stillwater football standout James Cocozzo, son of former NFL lineman Joe Cocozzo, has committed to play college football for Greg Schiano at Rutgers, meaning we'll likely see the younger Cocozzo appear on the Big 10 Network's coverage.

State Senator Jim Tedisco is an old school Republican. In other words, he's actually doing things to help his constituents, rather than bend the knee to the current president.

To that end, Tedisco helped secure a state grant for $100,000 to build the new Deanna Marie Rivers Batting Cages as the Miss Shen softball fields in Clifton Commons in Clifton Park. Rivers, you'll recall, was killed in an accident a few years ago while attending Shenendehowa. Thank you, Senator.

Two games, two blowout wins for the Albany Firebirds.

Josh Kulka threw 8 touchdown passes, and the 'Birds blew away Beaumont, 55-27, on Saturday afternoon to start a 3 game road trip.

The NY Phoenix return to M & T Bank Mohawk Harbor Arena on Thursday to begin a 2 game series vs. Reading. Unfortunately, the USBL website is not cooperating, not showing Eastern Conference standings as of press time.

www.518softball.com is experiencing some issues, such that we cannot access scores on a timely basis. Hopefully, this will be resolved before sectionals begin next month.

Speaking of scores, let's catch up on the weekend action:

Women's lacrosse:

Friday:

Queensbury 18, Schuylerville 11.

South Glens Falls 17, Hudson Falls 2.

Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 11, Albany 9. The Falcons cancelled a non-league game vs. Saugerties to make room.

Cohoes 15, Holy Names 3.

Saturday:

Queensbury 12, Wappingers Falls 11.

Scotia 15, Johnstown 10.

Columbia 15, Whitesboro 9.

Shenendehowa 15, Minisink Valley 6.

Fox Lane 15, Niskayuna 6.

Bethlehem 14, Saratoga 4.

Men's lacrosse:

Friday:

Voorheesville 22, Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 6.

Queensbury 15, Rutland 3.

Saturday:

Ballston Spa 13, St. Joseph's Collegiate 10. 

Averill Park 8, Glens Falls 4.

LaSalle 11, Columbia 6.

Maine-Endwell 10, Bethlehem 9.

Johnstown 17, Broadalbin-Perth 2.

Baseball:

Saturday:

Canajoharie-Ft. Plain 10, OESJ 0 (6 innings).

Maple Hill 22, Berlin-New Lebanon 3 (5 innings).

Shenendehowa 3, Mamaroneck 2.

Duanesburg 4, Coxsackie-Athens 2.

Colonie 13, Schalmont 1 (5 innings).

Niskayuna 9, LaSalle 6.

Ichabod Crane 16, Chatham 11.

Ballston Spa 15, Walkill 12.

Saratoga Catholic 16, Fonda-Fultonville 1 (5 innings).

CBA 13, Walkill 2 (6 innings).

Mayfield 15, Corinth 2 (6 innings).

Hoosic Valley 13, Berlin-New Lebanon 3 (5 innings).

Maple Hill 11, Voorheesville 1 (5 innings).

McQuaid 13, Saratoga 6.

North Warren 36, Northville 7 (5 innings). North Warren scored a combined 27 runs in the 2nd & 3rd innings alone.

Johnstown 11, South Glens Falls 2.

Columbia 13, Mamaroneck 4.

Saratoga Catholic 11, Duanesburg 1 (5 innings).

Softball:

Saturday:

Ballston Spa 21, Salem 0 (5 innings).

Canajoharie-Ft. Plain 5, OESJ 2.

Ballston Spa 4, Kellenberg 1.

Galway 8, South Glens Falls 5.

Saratoga Catholic 18, Gloversville 0 (5 innings).

Schoharie 9, Holy Trinity 4.

Tamarac 11, Whitesboro 1.

Northville-Wells 19, North Warren 7 (6 innings).

Bethlehem 14, Kellenberg 5.

Chatham 16, Webster Thomas 7.

Shaker 5, Liverpool 4.

South Glens Falls 12, Webster Thomas 0 (5 innings).

Galway 7, Wellsville 6.

Averill Park 6, Liverpool 4.

Johnstown 12, Hadley-Luzerne 4.

Voorheesville 7, Maple Hill 4.

Saratoga Catholic 14, Argyle 3.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 13, Salem 8.

Niskayuna 9, Hudson Falls 1.

Ichabod Crane 13, Bethlehem 4.

Chatham 6, Whitesboro 2.

Shenendehowa 3, Wellsville 0.

Maple Hill 18, Warrensburg 0 (5 innings).

Tamarac 7, Berne-Knox-Westerlo 5.

Voorheesville 9, Amsterdam 3.

Amsterdam 12, Warrensburg 11.

Averill Park 18, Jamesville-DeWitt 3 (6 innings).

Lansingburgh 3, South Jefferson 2.

Schalmont 15, Coxsackie-Athens 0 (5 innings).

Shenendehowa 4, Ichabod Crane 0.

Ardsley 1, Lansingburgh 0.

Schalmont 8, Cobleskill-Richmondville 3.

Argyle 21, Mayfield 6 (5 innings).

Tennis:

Saturday: 

Taconic Hills 7, Maple Hill 0.