News & notes

I've been talking up the basketball tournament at Catholic Central all this time, and only now am I finding out that it's not the Crusader Roundball Classic anymore.

Instead, the school is honoring one of their former coaches, as this year marks the debut of the Rich Gilooly Memorial. Obtained the information through CCHS' own website. Did El Cheapo Media know about it? Well, of course not. What else is new?
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This year's edition of the Mohawks hockey tournament at Union College underwent a format change, likely due to the visiting teams from Long Island, Mahopac & Rye-Harrison, and Section II acknowledging that their representatives, LaSalle and host Niskayuna-Schenectady-Albany, didn't have anything other than a token chance to win the tournament.

Since the downstate reps play each other in their own league, it was decided that there would be a point system for this year's tournament. Because of their own financial/manpower limitations, the Albany Times-Union didn't send anyone to cover the tournament. Again. Seems to happen almost every year. No television cameras to speak of, either, that I know of.

Anyway, Rye-Harrison, now 7-3 overall, beat LaSalle, 7-4, on Wednesday night, then blew away the host Mohawks, 10-4, earlier today. Mahopac, in reverse order of their travel partners, downed N-S-A, 5-2, then beat LaSalle, 4-2. I'm not even sure if they formally declared Rye-Harrison the tournament champs. If they didn't, why bother calling it a tournament?

LaSalle has now lost three of their last four, and will return to Union to play the Mohawks on January 5.