2026 Section 2 women's lacrosse sectional pairings released

 The women's lacrosse sectionals have just been released. Siena University will host the finals in all 4 classes on May 31.

Class A:

Tuesday:

Guilderland @ Saratoga. The winner will play Shaker May 27.

May 27:

Colonie @ Shenendehowa.

Class B:

Wednesday:

South Glens Falls @ Niskayuna. Winner to play Bethlehem May 28.

Ballston Spa @ Columbia.

Troy @ Queensbury.

Semi-finals are on May 28.

Class C:

Wednesday:

Scotia @ Averill Park. Winner to play Burnt Hills May 28.

May 28:

Glens Falls @ Cohoes.

Class D:

Tuesday:

Johnstown @ LaSalle. Winner to play Schuylerville May 27.

Greenwich-Cambridge @ Voorheesville.

Holy Names @ Hoosick Falls-Tamarac.

Both semi-finals will be played May 27.

Good luck to all the teams.

News & notes

 The Tri-City ValleyCats will look to win their first series of the season later today when they take the field vs. Sussex County after losing to the Miners, 12-6, on Wednesday afternoon. We suggest bringing umbrellas & rain slickers tomorrow for the home opener, just in case.

As noted, all 4 Section 2 tennis title matches have been rescheduled for today. As of now, it doesn't appear as though there's any more rain to spoil the action. The fact that the finals have been moved away from Central Park in Schenectady, and to 3 Suburban Council schools (Columbia, Shaker, Bethlehem) and a Patroon Conference school (Coxsackie-Athens) suggests issues between Section 2 and the city of Schenectady. Hmmmmm.

Wednesday's high school scores:

Women's lacrosse:

Greenwich-Cambridge 16, Hudson Falls 6.

Shaker 15, Guilderland 6.

LaSalle 19, Holy Names 11.

Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 14, Ichabod Crane 2.

Johnstown 13, Greenwich-Cambridge 4.

Troy 15, Albany 3. The Lady Horses gain a split of the season series, and clinch the 1st winning record in Troy lacrosse history.

Men's lacrosse:

Troy 11, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 6. 

Scotia 16, Amsterdam 11.

Mechanicville-Stillwater 16, Greenwich-Cambridge 5.

Voorheesville 16, Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 4. The Blackbirds will look to sweep Troy tomorrow night.

Baseball:

Taconic Hills 22, Greenville 0 (5 innings).

Softball:

North Warren 24, Corinth 22.

Burnt Hills 2, Niskayuna 0.

Colonie 2, Guilderland 1.

Chatham 16, Watervliet 0 (5 innings).

Ravena 16, Catskill 1 (5 innings).

Germantown 14, Cairo-Durham 8.

South Glens Falls 3, Schuylerville 1.

Queensbury 8, Hudson Falls 1.

Tamarac 12, Cambridge 0 (5 innings).

Broadalbin-Perth 8, Gloversville 0.

Kyra Santicola, writing in today's Albany Times-Union, has picked Shaker, Troy, & Holy Trinity to win their classes in the flag football sectional playoffs, which begin today. Women's lacrosse pairings will be announced later today.

Weather postponement update, 5/13

 The following have either been postponed or outright cancelled due to weather.

Baseball:

Cohoes @ Albany-cancelled.

Gloversville @ Fonda-Fultonville-postponed. No make-up date set as of now.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo @ Rensselaer-cancelled.

Women's lacrosse:

Cohoes @ LaSalle has been cancelled. LaSalle will instead play another Colonial Council team, Holy Names, in what will be the last game of the regular season, since sectional pairings will be announced tomorrow. The match vs. Holy Names was moved up from Friday.

Softball:

Lansingburgh @ Mohonasen has been rescheduled for Friday.

Maple Hill @ Coxsackie-Athens has been rescheduled for Saturday.

Tennis:

Queensbury has announced that the Class A final has been postponed. One would guess the other finals are also being pushed back. What is not firm is if its tomorrow or Friday or Saturday.

News & notes

 With the Belmont Stakes Festival three weeks away, a labor union is threatening a work stoppage.

No, it's not about money, but, rather, working & living conditions, which the union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1430, says haven't improved in the last three years for 500 backstretch employees, including grooms, exercise riders, hotwalkers, & watchmen.

Stay tuned.

While Troy High was eliminated from the tennis sectionals on Monday, two doubles teams, and singles player Aiden Couture, will play in sectionals at Shenendehowa on Saturday. Given Troy's poor record, we don't expect much.

Speaking of tennis, it leads off Tuesday's scoreboard:

Class AA semi-finals:

Shaker 6, Guilderland 3.

Bethlehem 7, Shenendehowa 2.

Class A semi-finals:

Queensbury 6, CBA 1.

Columbia 5, Burnt Hills 2.

Class B semi-finals:

Scotia 4, Ichabod Crane 3.

Glens Falls 6, Hudson Falls 1.

Class C/D:

Cairo-Durham 4, Argyle 3.

Maple Hill 4, Greenville 3.

The finals are scheduled for the following neutral sites today, weather permitting, at 4:15 pm:

Class AA @ Columbia.

Class A @ Shaker.

Class B @ Bethlehem.

Class C/D @ Coxsackie-Athens.

Women's lacrosse:

Scotia 13, Amsterdam-Broadalbin-Perth 8.

Holy Names 16, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 7.

Burnt Hills 13, Niskayuna 8.

Shaker 10, Shenendehowa 3.

Johnstown 3, Ichabod Crane 2.

Schuylerville 20, South Glens Falls 10.

Voorheesville 17, Greenwich-Cambridge 2.

Cohoes 15, Hudson Falls 1.

Troy 13, Emma Willard 1.

Men's lacrosse:

Niskayuna 11, Ballston Spa 7.

Shaker 11, Colonie 3.

Guilderland 16, Saratoga 8.

Burnt Hills 14, New Hartford 8.

Queensbury 16, Broadalbin-Perth 0.

Shenendehowa 6, Bethlehem 4.

Averill Park 9, Columbia 6.

Softball:

Colonie 2, Guilderland 1.

Shenendehowa 14, Albany 2 (5 innings).

Burnt Hills 7, Shaker 1.

Averill Park 4, Columbia 2.

Amsterdam 2, Glens Falls 0.

Ichabod Crane 12, Ravena 0 (5 innings).

Niskayuna 12, Schenectady 0 (5 innings).

Duanesburg 16, Johnstown 11.

Schalmont 13, Voorhesville 6.

Holy Trinity 12, Germantown 4.

Broadalbin-Perth 7, Schuylerville 6.

Galway 8, Canajoharie-Ft. Plain 1.

Salem 16, Cambridge 10.

Hudson Falls 9, Scotia 1.

North Warren 24, Moriah 12 (5 innings?).

LaSalle 5, Holy Names 0.

Maple Hill 15, Watervliet 10.

Fort Ann 5, Granville 4.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 9, Cobleskill-Richmondville 7.

Argyle 11, Whitehall 1 (5 innings).

Bethlehem 8, Ballston Spa 2.

Colonie 1, Chatham 0.

Saratoga 11, Shaker 2.

Corinth 16, Hartford 3 (5 innings).

Baseball:

Saratoga 7, Shaker 2.

Schalmont 11, Voorheesville 0 (5 innings).

Duanesburg 12, Berne-Knox-Westerlo 6.

2026 flag football sectional pairings released

 The regular season for flag football ended last night, and now, the sectional pairings have been released.

Class A (aka the Suburban Council invitational):

Thursday:

Schenectady @ Saratoga. Winner will play Shaker Saturday.

Also Saturday:

Bethlehem @ Albany.

Guilderland @ Shenendehowa.

Niskayuna @ Colonie.

Semi-finals will be next Tuesday. CBA will host the title game on May 22.

Class B:

Saturday:

Burnt Hills @ Ballston Spa. Winner to play Troy next Tuesday.

Also on May 19:

Mohonasen @ Columbia.

The finals are at CBA May 22.

Class C:

Saturday:

Albany Leadership @ Holy Trinity.

Ichabod Crane @ Ravena.

KIPP Capital @ Broadalbin-Perth.

Lansingburgh @ Catskill. The Knights will look to avenge a blowout loss last month.

The semi-finals are next Tuesday. CBA hosts the final May 22 at 3 pm.

Good luck to all the teams.

Monday's high school scoreboard, 5/11

 Softball:

Schalmont 7, Guilderland 5.

Tamarac 10, Mechanicville 1.

Columbia 3, Burnt Hills 0.

Amsterdam 12, Gloversville 3.

Ichabod Crane 6, Ballston Spa 3.

Chatham 21, Maple Hill 0 (5 innings).

Germantown 16, Catskill 11.

Cobleskill-Richmondville 13, Holy Trinity 2 (5 innings).

Hudson Falls 2, Broadalbin-Perth 0.

South Glens Falls 2, Glens Falls 1.

Ravena 9, Taconic Hills 4.

LaSalle 13, Coxsackie-Athens 1 (5 innings).

Northville 10, North Warren 1.

Albany Academy 12, Fieldston 3.

Schuylerville 14, Granville 7.

Troy 3, Lansingburgh 2. The two teams will try again to play at THS, this time on Saturday. Today's Troy road game at Shen has been cancelled, as Shen will make up a league date vs. Albany.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 8, Fonda-Fultonville 5.

Queensbury 11, Scotia 2.

Hadley-Luzerne 9, North Warren 5.

Fort Edward 8, Salem 7.

Duanesburg 1, OESJ 0.

Saratoga Catholic 12, Stillwater 0 (5 innings).

Mayfield 11, Johnstown 8.

Schalmont 13, Lansingburgh 1 (5 innings).

Women's lacrosse:

LaSalle 11, Ichabod Crane 2.

Johnstown 11, Amsterdam-Broadalbin-Perth 9.

Saratoga 11, Queensbury 5.

Cohoes 9, Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 6.

Men's lacrosse:

Hoosick Falls-Tamarac 10, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 7.

CBA 10, LaSalle 8.

Tennis sectionals:

Class AA:

Shaker 9, Colonie 0.

Guilderland 7, Niskayuna 2.

Shenendehowa 7, Saratoga 2.

Bethlehem 9, Albany 0.

Class A:

Queensbury 7, Troy 0.

CBA 4, Ballston Spa 3.

Columbia 7, South Glens Falls 0.

Burnt Hills 7, Averill Park 0.

Class B:

Scotia 7, Ravena 0.

Ichabod Crane 6, Coxsackie-Athens 1.

Glens Falls 5, Schalmont 2.

Hudson Falls 4, Taconic Hills 3.

Class C/D:

Cairo-Durham 6, North Warren 1. Cairo-Durham will visit top-ranked Argyle today.

Greenville 7, Schoharie 0.

Maple Hill 4, Lake George 3.

Baseball:

Troy 10, Lansingburgh 0 (5 innings). Troy snaps its latest losing streak, hopefully to make the sectionals next week.

Johnstown 5, Mayfield 0.

Colonie 4, Guilderland 3.

Flag football:

Troy 64, Albany Leadership 12. Ouch!!

Weekend sports roundup, 5/8-10

 Lacrosse season is over for colleges in the 518.

For Union College's women, it ended in Salisbury, Maryland on Sunday in a 2nd round loss to the host team, 17-9. The Garnet Chargers finished at 14-7 for the season, much better than the men, who finished well below .500, and didn't land a post-season bid.

UAlbany's women were in Baltimore, not too far from Salisbury, and, with six players missing for various reasons, fell to Johns Hopkins, 21-7, on Friday. The Lady Danes finish at 12-6. As for the men, they were obliterated on national television by North Carolina, 24-6, on Saturday afternoon, a game shown on ESPNU. The men played one fewer game, and finish 11-6. The whole idea of a mid-major vs. a power conference isn't so bad or pronounced in lacrosse as it would be in basketball, but, still, it makes one of this guy......

"Mid-major colleges are like me! No respect!"

In other college action, UAlbany's women finished 4th in the America East track & field championships on Sunday. The men also finished in 4th, as New Hampshire won the men's title, and Bryant copped the women's crown.

College baseball:

Siena 8, Iona 1.

Binghamton 3, UAlbany 1.

It wasn't a sweet homecoming for Darius Prince, as the former Albany Empire/Firebird star returned to MVP Arena as a visitor for the first time in 7 years Saturday. Prince had a pair of touchdowns, but the Kentucky Barrel defense looked more like Cracker Barrel in trying to stop the 'Birds, who won, 55-37.

The Tri-City ValleyCats dropped two of three to New Jersey over the weekend. The 'Cats won the opener, 7-1, as Aaron Whitley (Niskayuna) made his 'Cats debut a successful one. Arlo Marynczak (Bethlehem/Siena) pitched the 9th with no save on the line, and fanned 2. The Jackals won the next two, 7-4 & 10-6.

The 'Cats stay in New Jersey to play Sussex County starting tomorrow.

Time to catch up on the weekend's action in high school sports:

Women's lacrosse:

Friday:

Shaker 13, Bethlehem 11.

Albany 9, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 4.

Schuylerville 15, Averill Park 13.

Cohoes 10, LaSalle 7.

Saturday:

Nyack 17, Bethlehem 4.

Johnstown 14, Scotia 9.

Shaker 12, Saratoga 6.

Shenendehowa 17, Columbia 10.

Suffern 17, Queensbury 9.

Men's lacrosse:

Friday:

Voorheesville 11, Greenwich-Cambridge 7.

Johnstown 17, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 4.

Saturday:

Shaker 6, Duxbury (MA) 4.

Glens Falls 16, Rutland (VT) 1.

Schuylerville 13, Averill Park 12.

Scotia 15, Broadalbin-Perth 5.

Ballston Spa 16, Vestal 8.

Softball:

Friday:

Saratoga 23, Niskayuna 2 (5 innings).

Colonie 5, Averill Park 3.

Columbia 15, Albany 4 (5 innings).

Ballston Spa 5, Shaker 1.

Greenwich 11, Saratoga Catholic 4.

Hudson Falls 9, Amsterdam 6.

Hoosick Falls 15, Waterford 0 (5 innings).

Duanesburg 17, Middleburgh 0 (5 innings).

South Glens Falls 17, Gloversville 0 (5 innings).

Schoharie 14, Mayfield 1 (5 innings).

Hoosic Valley 14, Maple Hill 0 (5 innings).

Fort Edward 11, Hartford 1 (5 innings).

Warrensburg 16, North Warren 3 (5 innings).

Stillwater 16, Cambridge 9.

Tamarac 17, Berlin-New Lebanon 0 (5 innings).

LaSalle 6, Albany Academy 1.

Granville 14, Hadley-Luzerne 0 (5 innings).

Argyle 3, Fort Ann 1.

Cobleskill-Richmondville 9, Fonda-Fultonville 3.

Whitehall 6, Salem 5.

Cohoes 8, Berne-Knox-Westerlo 4.

Bethlehem 6, Shenendehowa 3.

Saturday:

Eastchester 6, Voorheesville 4.

Voorheesville 16, Bloomfield 6.

Holy Trinity swept a doubleheader from Nichols, 9-0 & 14-6.

Galway 11, OESJ 0.

Tennis sectionals:

Friday:

Class AA:

Albany 9, Schenectady-Mohonasen 0.

Colonie 6, Albany Academy 3.

Class B:

Ravena 7, Cobleskill-Richmondville 0.