News & notes

With the regular season scheduled to finish on Monday, and sectional seeding meetings scheduled for Wednesday, baseball & softball teams in Section II are scrambling to finish on time.

In addition to blowing out Niskayuna at Bruno Stadium, Shenendehowa had another makeup game to play, and crushed CBA, 12-3. With the game played in Colonie, it didn't take long for the Plainsmen to hop on the bus and head up the thruway to Troy for the nightcap.

However, it is raining as I write this morning, leaving today's slate of games in danger of being postponed or cancelled outright. We'll see as the day progresses.
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Professional sports teams are accustomed to playing virtually every day, like, for example, the Tri-City Valleycats, who will open their 2019 home schedule on Father's Day, after starting with two games on the road, and only get a couple of off days a year, not counting the NY-Penn League All-Star break in August.

By the end of business on Monday, a lot of teams are going to be exhausted. Troy High's softball team is one of them. Closing the regular season with six games in as many days, Sean Geisel's club rebounded from a Wednesday loss to Ballston Spa by blowing away Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons, 12-0, in a non-league home game Thursday afternoon. Olivia DeCitise threw a two hitter, striking out three, as Troy improves to 8-9 overall on the season. Today's game at Shaker will likely be rained out, and the girls return home Saturday for a matinee with arch-rival Averill Park.

I think one of the reasons Troy chose to enter the Suburban Council four years ago was because of a developing rivalry with Averill Park in women's basketball, which has since extended to other sports. The fact that the two schools aren't that far apart geographically was a big factor. AP has owned Troy in softball in recent years, and Geisel has yet to notch a win over the Lady Warriors since taking over the Troy program in 2017.

We'll know tomorrow if things change for the better for Troy.

Troy's baseball team, meanwhile, dropped a 6-5 decision on the road at Guilderland. With two games remaining, the prospects of a sectional run don't look good.