News & notes

Tonight's Queensbury-LaSalle hockey game is Pink The Rink night at Queensbury, as the Spartans are raising funds for breast cancer research. Game time is 6:15. LaSalle will try to snap a seven game losing streak that has landed them in the cellar of the CDHSHL.
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Troy High's combined swimming & diving team with CBA had a make-up meet vs. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake on Tuesday, with the Flying Brothers winning, 50-39, to run their record to 4-1 on the season. The two teams will meet again in the regular season finale February 4 at Burnt Hills.
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However, Troy's bowling team lost at home, 27 1/2-4 1/2, to Saratoga. While we still don't have the result of last Thursday's match vs. Shaker, the loss might not be enough to blunt Troy's momentum, with the Suburban Council tournament two weeks away.
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Everyone was hoping Derek Jeter would be a unanimous pick for the Hall of Fame, like Mariano Rivera last year.

Didn't happen. Jeter finished one vote shy of unanimous election to the Hall, as he becomes the second straight Yankee with 518 ties (he began his career with the Albany-Colonie Yankees, as Rivera did) to gain induction in his first year of eligibility.

A third member of the "Core Four", Andy Pettitte, failed to earn enough votes in his first year of eligibility.

Congratulations to Jeter. Yankee fans will be causing traffic issues in Cooperstown come July. Again.