News & notes

 Siena College's men's basketball team is doing the COVID-19 schedule shuffle again.

Instead of playing at Niagara this weekend, the Saints will instead visit Marist on Saturday & Sunday. A home series vs. Canisius has been split into a pair of stand-alone mid-week home games on February 3 & 17.

The complete, revised schedule for the rest of the regular season is as follows:

January 30-31: @ Marist.

February 3: Canisius.

February 5-6: Quinnipiac.

February 12-13: @ Niagara.

February 17: Canisius.

February 26-27: Manhattan (Senior Day is February 27).

March 4-5: @ Iona.

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament is scheduled to begin around March 10-11 in Atlantic City. The Saints were on the verge of winning the tournament last year when play was suspended due to COVID.

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Speaking of COVID, Syracuse's Joseph Girard III (Glens Falls), recovering from a bout with the virus, scored 8 points in 26 minutes, but the Orange were blown out of the gym by Virginia, 82-56, on Monday. The Orange fall to 3-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, 9-5 overall.

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Troy High & Ballston Spa very quietly rescheduled their bowling meet at Uncle Sam Lanes, presumably last Friday, but the result wasn't reported until today's editions of the Albany Times-Union and other newspapers. Olivia DeCitise rolled a 630 triple for high honors as Troy earned its first win of the season, 4-1.

Unfortunately, the momentum didn't last, as Troy dropped a 3 1/2-1 1/2 decision to Guilderland on Monday, also at Uncle Sam. Not including the January 7 meet at Albany, which for unknown reasons was never reported, Troy is 1-3, and could be either 2-3 or 1-4 with the Albany result. The Flying Horses are on the road the rest of the week, at Saratoga today, and Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake on Thursday. However, with a snow storm arriving this afternoon, the Saratoga meet could wind up postponed. We'll wait & see.

Update, 1:51 pm: The match has been postponed. No makeup date has been set.

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It was UAlbany's 10th game of the season, and, with the Great Danes comfortably in front in a win over New Hampshire on Sunday, coach Will Brown decided to give son Jackson (Catholic Central) his first minutes on the court. Jackson played the final two minutes, but didn't score. That's not to say he was running on empty, or allowed to drive the boulevard to the basket, but that will come in time. Seems he felt he stayed on the bench just a little too long.......!