Weather postponement update, 5/6

 Today's rain has wiped out the following. Some dates have already been rescheduled, others have not.

Flag football: Albany @ Schenectady. No make-up date set as of press time.

Tennis: 

Schoharie @ Schalmont.

Ichabod Crane @ Troy. Reset for tomorrow.

Albany Academy vs. LaSalle at Prospect Park-cancelled.

Queensbury @ Averill Park-cancelled.

Baseball:

Columbia @ Burnt Hills. Reset for May 12.

Bethlehem @ Niskayuna.

Cairo-Durham @ Taconic Hills. Reset for May 8.

Catskill @ Greenville. Reset for May 8.

Warrensburg @ Corinth. Reset for tomorrow.

South Glens Falls @ Gloversville. Reset for tomorrow.

Lake George @ Granville. Reset for May 9.

Hartford @ Salem. Reset for tomorrow.

Scotia @ Queensbury.

Softball:

Saratoga @ Colonie. Reset for tomorrow.

Columbia @ Burnt Hills. Reset for May 11.

Cairo-Durham @ Taconic Hills. Reset for tomorrow.

Coxsackie-Athens @ Chatham. Reset for tomorrow.

Warrensburg @ Corinth. Reset for tomorrow.

Lake George @ Granville. Reset for tomorrow.

South Glens Falls @ Amsterdam. Reset for May 15.

News & notes

 We already know UAlbany will be paying Gerry McNamara a visit at Syracuse later this year. Now comes word that McNamara & the Orange may be coming to Albany as well.

Media outlets are reporting that Syracuse & Siena are in talks for an exhibition game at MVP Arena, which would take place sometime in October before non-conference play officially begins. We'll keep an eye out for more details.

The Tri-City ValleyCats cancelled their preseason game vs. Quebec Tuesday, anticipating rain hitting the 518. Instead, a split squad game was played for a maximum 5 innings, and free to the public. The 'Cats begin the season Friday in New Jersey.

Russell Sage College advanced in the Empire 8 softball tournament, outlasting Utica, 7-6, in 9 innings, thanks to a walk-off error.

Tuesday's high school scores:

Women's lacrosse:

Bethlehem 13, Burnt Hills 6.

Niskayuna 16, Saratoga 12.

Albany Academy 12, South Glens Falls 4.

Voorheesville 12, LaSalle 1.

Shenendehowa 22, Averill Park 5.

Shaker 21, Queensbury 8.

Troy 12, Ichabod Crane 2.

Men's lacrosse:

Shenendehowa 10, Averill Park 7.

Shaker 17, CBA 5.

Ballston Spa 20, Columbia 3.

South Glens Falls 20, Scotia 3.

Amsterdam 20, Hudson Falls 0.

Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 8, Broadalbin-Perth 2.

Glens Falls 10, Queensbury 6.

Schuylerville 20, Johnstown 9.

Bethlehem 10, Burnt Hills 9.

Niskayuna 16, Saratoga 3.

Softball:

Saratoga 6, South Glens Falls 4.

Averill Park 5, Ballston Spa 1.

Troy 13, Voorheesville 1 (5 innings).

Colonie 2, Bethlehem 1.

Holy Trinity 8, Mohonasen 7.

Ravena 6, Albany Academy 0.

Shenendehowa 8, Guilderland 3.

Cohoes 8, Holy Names 1.

Germantown 27, Watervliet 9 (5 innings).

Galway 5, Berne-Knox-Westerlo 0.

Chatham 8, Saugerties 4.

Baseball:

Niskayuna 3, Bethlehem 0.

Saratoga 8, Colonie 2.

CBA 5, Shaker 0.

Shenendehowa 1, Guilderland 0.

Ravena 13, Albany Academy 7.

Averill Park 14, Ballston Spa 10.

Hudson 23, Germantown 1 (5 innings).

Glens Falls 4, Schuylerville 0.

Hudson Falls 5, Amsterdam 3.

Saratoga Catholic 7, Mechanicville 3.

Lansingburgh 3, Schalmont 2.

Stillwater 11, Berlin-New Lebanon 1 (5 innings).

Voorheesville 5, Troy 4.

LaSalle 12, Ichabod Crane 1 (5 innings).

News & notes

 UAlbany's lacrosse teams now know where they'll play in the NCAA tournaments.

The men will play North Carolina, the 3rd seed, on Saturday (ESPNU, 12 noon). The women will be a little closer, as they travel to Baltimore to play 4th seeded Johns Hopkins on Friday, with a time TBA.

Albany isn't the only 518 school going to the NCAA's, though. 

Union's women's team will play Mount Union in the 1st round of the Division III tournament, Saturday at 11:30 am in Salisbury, Maryland.

RPI has a new women's basketball coach. Megan Yawman was hired Monday. She succeeds John Greene, who led the Lady Engineers to a 17-9 finish this season. Yawman, an Ithaca graduate, had been an assistant at Carnegie Mellon.

Another week, another Section II player moving to a prep school.

Marcelin Mukendi is leaving Shaker for CATS Academy, located near Boston, for next season. CATS Academy is still another team in the NEPSAC program. CATS plays in a league sponsored by Nike, one of the top manufacturers of overpriced sneakers.

This is one of those things my generation didn't have to deal with.

Monday's high school scores:

Women's lacrosse:

South Glens Falls 20, Hudson Falls 1.

Greenwich-Cambridge 6, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 4.

Columbia 21, Ballston Spa 8.

Schuylerville 12, Queensbury 6.

Men's lacrosse:

Mechanicville-Stillwater 17, Greenwich-Cambridge 4.

Albany 15, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 5.

Guilderland 19, Colonie 2.

Softball:

Whitehall 5, Corinth 0.

Ravena 9, Albany 4.

Shaker 7, Cohoes 6.

Scotia 6, Amsterdam 4.

Mechanicville 24, Waterford 8 (5 innings).

Cobleskill-Richmondville 11, Duanesburg 1 (5 innings).

Guilderland 4, Troy 1.

Schuylerville 18, Gloversville 4 (5 innings).

Mayfield 10, Canajoharie-Ft. Plain 3.

Greenwich 21, Stillwater 1 (5 innings).

Taconic Hills 17, Germantown 0 (5 innings).

Queensbury 12, Broadalbin-Perth 0 (5 innings).

South Glens Falls 2, Hudson Falls 0.

Coxsackie-Athens 25, Watervliet 10 (5 innings).

Hoosic Valley 27, Cambridge 0 (5 innings).

Fort Edward 17, Hadley-Luzerne 5 (5 innings).

Argyle 24, North Warren 1 (5 innings).

Granville 10, Hartford 0 (5 innings).

Ballston Spa 5, Glens Falls 2.

Fort Ann 8, Warrensburg 2.

Schoharie 5, OESJ 2.

Northville-Wells 4, Johnstown 0.

Baseball:

Saratoga Catholic 9, Waterford 0.

Flag football:

Columbia 13, Troy 12. The Lady Horses' winning streak stops at 8.

The Albany Times-Union's weekly power rankings for softball and baseball are out, and, once again, Troy High, now 9-4 after losing to Guilderland, was passed over in Class AA. In fact, the Class AA rankings are all screwed up.

With their win, South Glens Falls goes to 11-3 overall, which would put them at #2 instead of #5, behind top-ranked Columbia. Ballston Spa, now 8-4 per the paper's records with a win on Monday, should be bumped from the top 5. The bias against the Colonial & Foothills Councils couldn't be more obvious.

Left up to ye scribe, the top 3 would be Columbia, South Glens Falls, & Troy. The rankings do not appear in today's print editions due to space limitations.

News & notes

 The Albany Firebirds just keep on winning.

The 'Birds completed a 3-0 road trip by beating Washington, 42-34, on Saturday night. Albany is 4-0 as they return home to play Kentucky this coming Saturday at 7 pm. In fact, four of the next five games will be at home.

If you're like me, and you're looking up the USBL site looking for NY Phoenix results, you may have to dig deeper.

The Phoenix play in the 95x40 league, which represents the USBL's Eastern conference. The Phoenix sit in 2nd place in the division at 11-4, having played one fewer game than the division leading Capital Seahawks. The current homestand continues Thursday vs. San Diego, and then, Baltimore comes in on Saturday. The Seahawks hit town at the end of the month.

Siena lost the services of goaltender Vito DeBellis due to injury in the MAAC men's lacrosse semi-finals, and it cost them in the finals against Marist, as the Red Foxes advanced to the NCAA tournament with a 12-8 win on Saturday afternoon.

Conversely, UAlbany's lacrosse teams are heading to the NCAA's, as the men captured their 3rd straight America East title in clipping Vermont, 14-11, on Saturday. On Sunday, the women followed suit, eliminating the Lady Catamounts, 13-11, for their 2nd straight title. The Siena women fell short, as they lost to Fairfield, 13-4 for the MAAC title.

Albany Times-Union reporter James Allen made a couple of blunders in his best of the week column in today's editions, both involving Troy High.

First, he claimed that Keegan Armstrong had fanned 12 in twirling a no-hitter against Ichabod Crane. The school's morning announcements on Thursday said Armstrong had struck out 13. Then, Allen got Troy's softball opponents mixed up on Friday, as the Lady Horses mercy-ruled Albany Academy, not Mohonasen, 20-3. Mohon fell victim to the mercy rule a week earlier. Maddie Schmidt joined Armstrong and flag football star Tianna Harris on the honor roll. Schmidt led Troy on Friday with 2 homers, including a grand slam, and a single, good for 6 RBI.

Time to catch up on weekend action:

Women's lacrosse:

Saturday:

Burnt Hills 17, Vestal 10.

Johnstown 16, Hudson Falls 5.

Shaker 15, Colonie 7.

Warwick Valley 18, Averill Park 6.

Men's lacrosse:

Saturday:

Averill Park 10, Saugerties 6.

Ballston Spa 17, Massena 7.

South Glens Falls 11, Columbia 9.

Mamaroneck 15, Shenendehowa 0.

Johnstown 15, Voorheesville 8.

McQuaid Jesuit 16, Niskayuna 9.

Baseball:

Sunday:

Burnt Hills 6, Saratoga Catholic 2.

Softball:

Sunday:

Coxsackie-Athens 4, Germantown 3.

News & notes

 Troy High is looking for a new men's varsity basketball coach. Again.

On Friday, it was reported that Jamil Hood would be leaving Troy after two successful seasons to return across the river to his alma mater, Albany High, where he will succeed Sean Brown, who stepped down after the 2025-6 season, ending a 13 year run.

Hood took the Flying Horses to within a game of a Class AA title in March, falling to Niskayuna in the finals at Harding Mazzotti Arena. He leaves with a Colonial Council title in his pocket to close his 2 year run.

So, what happens next?

Albany is hoping Hood can do for them what Tyler Rose did at Columbia this past season, turning around an underachieving program, which is what Hood did at Troy, helping them recover from the disaster that was Josh Pelletier's lone season in 2023-4. Rose succeeded Troy alumnus Curtis Sankey at Columbia, and turned the Blue Devils into contenders.

Would the Troy school board consider the option of having Sankey "come home"? Or do they have someone else in mind?

Stay tuned.

The Tri-City Valleycats will play their first home preseason game today vs. Brockton at 3 pm at Bruno Stadium. Thursday's game vs. Hudson Valley Community College was cancelled over concerns about the weather. We've seen that plenty of times in the big leagues in recent years. Unlike the regular season games, and the Rox will return May 22-24, tickets are just $7 today.

History was made Saturday night at the Kentucky Derby, as Golden Tempo, with Jose Ortiz aboard, came from waaaaaaaaaaaaay back to outduel Renegade, with Ortiz's brother, Irad, Jr., in the irons. Golden Tempo was trained by Cherie DeVaux, originally from Saratoga. 

DeVaux began her career as a stable worker at the Old Spa for Chuck Simon before becoming an assistant to-----who else?------Chad Brown, another Saratoga County native (Mechanicville).

Larry Collmus is on the call for the Derby, with commentary by Mike Tirico.

DeVaux, like a lot of present day trainers & owners, is waiting to see how Golden Tempo comes out of the Derby before committing him to the Preakness on May 16. With the win, DeVaux is the first woman trainer to win the Run For The Roses.

Congratulations, Cherie.

Troy High sports review, through May 2

 Fittingly, on Kentucky Derby weekend, Section II is in the homestretch of the spring season, with 2 weeks remaining for most sports.

Flag football:

Current record: 9-1 (or is it 10-1, as the Daily Gazette & MaxPreps insist?):

Those media outlets claim the March 27 blowout win over Saugerties was a regular season game. Troy AD Paul Reinisch, however, maintains it was a scrimmage, albeit a 1-sided one, between the two teams.

Anyway, Troy continues to roll with 2 games remaining, dispatching Niskayuna, Ravena, & Mohonasen this past week.

Next: Troy visits Columbia tomorrow.

Softball:

Current record: 9-3 (7-1 Colonial Council):

Sean Geisel's club saw their 7 game winning streak snapped by Ichabod Crane on Wednesday. So what happened? They took it out on Albany Academy, mauling the Bears, 20-3, in 5 innings, on Friday. Some jobroni got the result of Monday's game over LaSalle backward, claiming LaSalle won, when they did not.

Next: A road trip starts at Guilderland on Monday, followed by a visit to Voorheesville on Tuesday. The Lady Horses return home to play Cohoes on Thursday and Lansingburgh on Friday.

Women's lacrosse:

Current record: 5-6.

The Lady Horses snapped a two game losing streak in sweeping Mohonasen-Schenectady-Schalmont, 10-1, on Friday.

Next: The ladies visit Ichabod Crane on Tuesday, and Greenwich-Cambridge on Thursday.

Update, 5/5: They've finally reported the April 2 game vs. Albany, which the Falcons won, 7-3.

Men's lacrosse:

Current record: 3-7.

1st year coach Zach Gill has his work cut out for him as we near the end of the season. The laxmen picked up a rare win in completing a season sweep of Hoosick Falls-Tamarac on Friday, completing a 2-part receipt from last year.

Next: The guys are idle until they play Johnstown on Wednesday at home, then a rematch with Stillwater-Mechanicville on Friday.

Baseball:

Current record: 4-9.

Troy started the week losing to LaSalle---again---before beating Ichabod Crane & Albany Academy, then losing to Ballston Spa.

Next: The road trip continues at Voorheesville on Tuesday before returning home to play Cohoes on Thursday. After that is a road trip outside of Section II at Lakeland on Saturday.

Thursday's high school scores, 4/30

 Women's lacrosse:

Columbia 17, Burr & Burton 10.

Bethlehem 13, Niskayuna 5.

Greenwich-Cambridge 13, Ichabod Crane 0.

Voorheesville 17, Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 8.

Shenendehowa 10, Colonie 9.

Shaker 17, Burnt Hills 6.

Cohoes 13, Troy 9.

Men's lacrosse:

Niskayuna 14, Bethlehem 8.

South Glens Falls 23, Amsterdam 5.

Shenendehowa 15, CBA 2.

LaSalle 14, Colonie 13.

Burnt Hills 9, Shaker 8.

Ballston Spa 11, Saratoga 10.

Schuylerville 16, Scotia 3.

Baseball:

Cobleskill-Richmondville 14, Galway 3 (5 innings).

Softball:

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 14, Catskill 1 (5 innings).

Queensbury 35, Gloversville 0 (5 innings).

Albany 8, Cohoes 5.

Ravena 8, Holy Trinity 6.

Berlin-New Lebanon 13, Germantown 12.

Schalmont 24, Schenectady 3 (5 innings).

Schoharie 11, Northville 0 (5 innings).

OESJ 5, Cherry Valley-Springfield 0.