News & notes

 Ian Anderson might not have been as dominant as usual, but the Shen grad picked up his 3rd win of the season for Atlanta Saturday night, allowing a run on two hits, while striking out four and walking four over six innings, as the Braves beat Milwaukee, 5-1. Anderson lowered his season ERA to 3.20 in the win. Unfortunately for Mets & Shen fans, Anderson as of now will not face the Mets this week in Atlanta, as his turn would come up again after the series ends on Wednesday.

The return match at Citi Field, though, may be another story, as I think he'll be pitching in Flushing. Stay tuned.

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Troy High was scheduled to compete in a multi-school track meet at Guilderland on Saturday, but there's no record of any Troy runners having competed. It was a mini-invitational, and it seems there might've been a communication issue leading to Troy either pulling out, or they were not invited after all.

A men's tennis meet at Albany was postponed to June 1 at the last minute. Also, the softball doubleheader vs. Cohoes has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 29, with the first game set for 10 am. After what happened at the College of St. Rose on Saturday vs. Albany, if I'm on the Cohoes coaching staff, I'd have reason to worry.

That would be because Sean Geisel's club blew away the Lady Falcons, 14-2. Jody Rogers pitched a complete game and struck out six. Olivia DeCitise went 3-5, all three hits for extra bases (2 doubles and a triple), good for 3 RBI's for Troy (3-2, 2-2 Suburban Council).

Chris Strack's Troy baseball team remains unbeaten, as they also routed the Falcons, 15-3. Due to some editing errors at the Albany Times-Union, the linescores of the two games look almost exactly the same, as it looks like the T-U transposed the softball linescore on the baseball one in error. Troy (5-0) sits atop the Gray division of the Suburban Council.

This week's baseball/softball schedule:

Monday: Ballston Spa.

Wednesday: @ Shaker.

Friday: Niskayuna.

Saturday: Columbia.

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As I write these words, the Tri-City Valleycats are playing the first of two exhibition games at Bruno Stadium vs. Equipe Quebec. The 2nd game of the series will be tomorrow night at 6 pm. With the Frontier League season to start in a week and a half, the 'Cats are using this to introduce themselves to the fan base, but for the fact there was no advance notice until this morning.

We should have results of today's game tomorrow.