News & notes

 The Albany Firebirds have filled the vacant spaces on their schedule the next two weekends. 

For starters, the Southwest Kansas Storm will visit MVP Arena Sunday at 1 pm. Ticket giveaways resumed this morning on WROW's Magic in The Morning show with Ben Patten, and will continue through Friday. Then, next Friday, May 24, the West Texas Desert Hawks roll into town.

In the midst of this, Lee Hutton III was voted out as commissioner, replaced by former NFL coach Jeff Fisher, the president of the Nashville Kats. Hutton, for whatever reason, would not communicate with the media over the first three weeks of the season. Fisher, prior to this season, was coach/GM of the USFL's Michigan Panthers (now part of the UFL).

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Please check with your schools today to see if sectional games scheduled will go on despite the weather. It is expected to rain all day today, and possibly also tomorrow.

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Tuesday's college scoreboard:

Baseball:

UAlbany & LeMoyne played to a 4-4 tie in 7 innings due to weather.

Fairleigh Dickinson 14, Siena 5.

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Tuesday's sectional scoreboard:

Tennis:

Class A final:

Burnt Hills 4, Queensbury 3.

Softball:

Class AA first round:

Bethlehem 10, Mohonasen 1.

Queensbury 13, Niskayuna 2.

Class B first round:

Holy Trinity 13, Albany Academy 2.

Greenville 10, Fonda-Fultonville 3.

Voorheesville 6, Granville 0.

Stillwater 5, Taconic Hills 1.

Coxsackie-Athens 6, Cobleskill-Richmondville 5.

Class C first round:

Maple Hill 4, Whitehall 0.

Galway 9, Hoosic Valley 3.

Greenwich 25, OESJ 0.

Saratoga Catholic 6, Schoharie 5.

Hoosick Falls 11, Lake George 0.

Duanesburg 10, Mayfield 2.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 9, Cambridge 0.

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Guilderland won the Suburban Council women's track championship on Tuesday. Troy High finished 11th in their final meet in the league.

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The Tri-City Valleycats will play their first mid-week matinee today, hoping to salvage the final game of their series with Schaumburg. The Boomers blew out the 'Cats, 9-1, Tuesday night. Arlo Marynczak (Bethlehem/Siena) pitched 1 2/3 innings in relief, and gave up 2 runs on 3 hits and 2 walks with 1 strikeout.