High School Fridays: Hoops roundup

The cold weather kept ye scribe at home, monitoring the action. Hey, it happens.

As expected, Saratoga defeated Troy in women's action, 64-37. The big story was senior star Dolly Cairns was held out after sustaining an injury last night. Lauren Patnode picked up the scoring slack, and led the Lady Streaks with 20 points, which was the game high. Nadia Brown led Troy with 11 points, as leading scorer Jenalyse Alarcon was held to 7.

Troy falls to 4th place in the Suburban Counci's Gray division with Burnt Hills winning tonight. Troy finishes 5-8 in league play, 10-10 overall.

However, Gray division champion Averill Park, playing their third game in four nights, lost to Niskayuna, 68-38. Kelsey (8) & Amelia (1) Wood were held to a combined 9 points. Kelsey Wood shared team high honors with Anna Jankovic. The Lady Warriors will close with another Blue division foe, Shenendehowa, on Monday.
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In boys' action, Saratoga knocked off Troy, 73-58. Michael Rogan led all scorers with 25 points. Jadon Cummings led Troy with 10, the lone double figure scorer for the Flying Horses, who drop to 9-10 overall as their up and down season continues.

Over in the Colonial Council, LaSalle snapped a 2 game losing streak on Senior Night, dispatching Ichabod Crane, 71-41. Owen Kane led the Cadets with 13 points. Gabe Lucarelli & Kaylon Dickson added 12 each. Meanwhile, Vinny Tario led Lansingburgh with 16 points, as the Knights beat Mohonasen, 62-50.
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Other stuff: RPI's women's hockey team dropped another one, this one to Harvard, 3-1. It's one thing if they can't draw more than 200 fans to a game, but things have gotten so bad, that RPI TV carried the game without commentary. If you remember NBC's experimental "silent game" broadcast of NFL football in the 80's, you might have some idea of what I'm talking about. The home finale is tomorrow.

Saturday is also Senior Day for the men's basketball team, which got back on the winning track by beating Hobart, 57-53, overcoming another halftime deficit to move a step closer to clinching the Liberty League regular season title. RPI will play RIT tomorrow, then go on the road to close with Clarkson & St. Lawrence.

RPI graduate and Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia returned to RPI tonight as the keynote speaker prior to the ROTC Military Ball. Bank on this getting some play on the late news.

College baseball/softball: Pittsburgh squared their record at 3-3 by beating Michigan State, 3-2, earlier tonight. Troy grad Hunter Levesque, leading off and playing center field, went 2-3 with 2 doubles.

Virginia Commonwealth opened their season by blowing away UNC-Charlotte, 17-5. Section II products Danny Watson (Columbia), Carter & Brooks Knapek, & Brett Young (Albany Academy) didn't play. The two teams will continue the series Saturday afternoon.

Games will be seen for Pittsburgh on ESPN's ACC Network or, with the Big 10-ACC Challenge, Fox's Big 10 Network. Subsequent Pittsburgh games will air on ACC Network or the other ESPN channels. VCU games will air on one of the Fox regional networks.