Sectionals or bust

Troy High & Guilderland will try again on Thursday to play a baseball game, which has been postponed twice in as many days due to rain. Unfortunately, rain is also in the forecast for Thursday. As it is, Chris Strack's Flying Horses will start a stretch today where they will play their last four games in a six day period, starting with a game vs. Ballston Spa, whose coach, Curtis Nobles, had been at Troy before taking the B-Spa gig a few years ago. Strack is the second man to coach Troy since Nobles left. Will Whitty, whom Strack replaced, is now at Mohonasen.

Assuming they can get the Guilderland game in, Troy will then host Shaker on Friday before Senior Day next Monday vs. Schenectady in what is meant to be the final regular season game. If Troy can win two out of these four, they'll qualify for the sectionals. We have learned that Troy defeated Burnt Hills, 2-0, on May 7, a game that was never reported to the media for reasons known only to the school.

Six wins are required for teams to qualify for the sectionals. The Troy softball team has already qualified at 7-8, and will likely be a mid-level seed in the Class A sectionals when the pairings are announced next week. With four wins, the baseball team, four days removed from a 9-2 loss to Averill Park at home, would be happy to win out to ensure a spot in the tournament, but I don't see it happening, not when they have to play B-Spa today.

Will they get to the sectionals? I'm going to say yes. They won't beat B-Spa, but Shaker and possibly Schenectady are do-able, not so sure about Guilderland. Stay tuned.
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If they're lucky, the Coaches vs. Cancer series at Bruno Stadium will wrap on Monday with Tamarac vs. Green Tech. The start time for the game has been moved from 4 pm to 5:30, the better to get more people to the ballpark. Last Friday's LaSalle-Cohoes game has been rescheduled for Sunday at 3 pm, weather permitting, of course, and tomorrow starts what potentially is a string of three games in five days, assuming Shenendehowa & Niskayuna are able to have their rematch.