News & notes

 Albany Academy won the Colonial Council men's golf title Friday, holding off Ichabod Crane by 7 shots. LaSalle & Troy finished 3rd & 4th, respectively. The Riders' Tanner La Torre won the individual competition, with Troy's Joey Degnan finishing 2nd.

For Troy, it was a stronger showing than they have had in their 8 seasons of competition in the Suburban Council, and, hopefully, a sign of things to come.

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Former Siena basketball star Kyle Downey has reinvented himself as a golfer, and leads the NY Mid-Amateur tournament by 7 shots through one round of play on Friday. Round 2 is underway as of press time.

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College hockey season has started at RPI, but the women's team fell in their opener at Houston Field House to Holy Cross, 3-2, on Friday. The two teams will meet again today at 3 pm. However, because women's hockey doesn't get the same kind of promotion as the men's teams, resulting in a ton of empty seats at the field house.

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Next Friday's Collar City Cup game between Troy & LaSalle just got a whole lot more interesting, as both teams are trending downward after 4 weeks.

As reported last night, LaSalle fell to Amsterdam, joining the Rams at 1-3. Troy is 2-2 after dropping a 33-12 decision to Columbia (4-0). Both city squads needed momentum going into the big game at Sutton Field, but both were found wanting.

I believe the game will be streaming on Hudl, in case anyone's interested.

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The rest of Friday's college scores:

Field Hockey:

UAlbany 2, UMass-Lowell 1.

Women's volleyball:

UAlbany 3, Binghamton 0.

Cobleskill 3, MCLA 0.

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Friday's high school (non-football) scoreboard:

Field Hockey:

Hoosick Falls 4, Greenwich 0.

Women's golf:

Saratoga Catholic 215, Berne-Knox-Westerlo 218.

Men's soccer:

Adirondack League:

Argyle 5, Granville 0.

Lake George 3, Hartford 0.

Bolton-Warrensburg 5, Fort Ann 1.

Foothills Council:

South Glens Falls 3, Scotia-Glenville 0.

Gloversville 2, Hudson Falls 1.

Patroon Conference:

Coxsackie-Athens 4, Taconic Hills 0.

Catskill 1, Chatham 0.

Maple Hill 6, Germantown 0.

Western Athletic Conference:

Berne-Knox-Westerlo-Duanesburg 4, Mekeel Christian 1.

Non-league:

Lansingburgh 2, Watervliet-Heatly 1.

Johnsburg 2, North Warren 0.

Women's soccer:

Patroon Conference:

Maple Hill 4, Germantown 0.

Coxsackie-Athens 2, Taconic Hills 1.

Chatham 4, Catskill 1.

Tennis:

Foothills Council:

Queensbury 7, Amsterdam 0.

Suburban Council:

Bethlehem 5, Guilderland 4.

Saratoga 8, Burnt Hills 1.

Women's volleyball:

Suburban Council:

Columbia 3, Schenectady 0.

Western Athletic Conference:

Galway 3, OESJ 0.