News & notes

The Troy Fighting Irish's season ended on September 21 with a 22-12 loss to Syracuse in the finals of the Northeastern Football Alliance playoffs. Troy finishes 10-4 on the season, with three of those losses at the hands of Syracuse. Once again, we had to locate the information from sources other than the Irish's own web page, since they haven't updated it in over three weeks.
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Hats off to Amsterdam's Peyton Ausfeld, who, despite a broken left wrist, rushed for over 300 yards to lead the Rams past Albany on Saturday. The cast Ausfeld wore was bigger than the ones that college & pro players wear. The Falcons, now 0-4, will have an 8 game schedule, as if they were still in Class AA instead of Class A. They'll play Troy October 18. Expect another slaughter.
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Speaking of Troy, and, to tell you the truth, I didn't know about this until recently, but star RB/KR/DB Xavier Leigh can trace his talent back to his family tree.

You see, Leigh is the great-grandson of the late Charlie Leigh, who was a RB/KR for the Miami Dolphins in the early 70's, winning back-to-back titles after the 1972 and 1973 seasons. Charlie Leigh relocated to Albany after his playing career was over, and, among other things, was an assistant coach at Albany High for several years before his passing in 2006.

Could Xavier follow his great-grandfather to the NFL? Maybe. Just maybe.