News & notes

Union College's hockey team is off to an 0-4 start after losing to Northeastern, 2-1, Friday night. RPI's ECAC squad fell, 5-3, to UMass-Amherst, also on Friday. Sounds like when the two local rivals get together, there might be a shift in the balance of power in the 518.....
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Let's take a look at the Class AA football standings after week 6, courtesy of the Albany Times-Union:

Conference: Class AA

	Conference					Overall
Team	W	L	T	PCT		W	L	T	PCT
Shaker	5	0	0	1.000		6	0	0	1.000
Shenendehowa	5	1	0	0.833		5	1	0	0.833
Guilderland	4	2	0	0.667		4	2	0	0.667
Bethlehem	3	2	0	0.600		4	2	0	0.667
CBA	3	2	0	0.600		4	2	0	0.667
Schenectady	2	3	0	0.400		3	3	0	0.500
Colonie	1	4	0	0.200		1	5	0	0.167
Saratoga Springs	1	4	0	0.200		1	5	0	0.167
Niskayuna	0	6	0	0.000		0	6	0	0.000

After losing to Shenendehowa last night, CBA ends up falling into a tie for 4th place, a half game behind Guilderland in the conference. The downside is that Bethlehem owns the tie-breaker over CBA, and, in turn, Guilderland owns a tie-breaker over Bethlehem, having beaten the Eagles earlier this season. The top two teams, Shaker & Shenendehowa, appear to be locked in to their slots for the semi-finals in week 9. As outlined last night, CBA will close with Shaker & Guilderland, and will need to win at least one of the two to stay in contention. As you can see, we erred last night when we said Saratoga hadn't won a game this season. Just the same, the Blue Streaks, along with Colonie & Niskayuna, have already been eliminated from playoff contention, even though they could play spoiler against Shen in two weeks.