News & notes

 The Tri-City Tide are an expansion team in The Basketball League, and it certainly showed last night in a 135-110 loss to the Albany Patroons. Ja'Quaye James led 6 Pats in double figures with 23 points as the Patroons soared to 9-1. Coach Derrick Rowland, Sr. earned his 100th career win as Patroons coach.

Here's Chuck Miller's take on the last week and change, including a short laundry list of bad puns in describing last night's game:

Three big wins by the Albany Patroons this week – Chuck The Writer

Ohhh, man, that's even worse than when I used references to Don Henley and Peanuts in doing ValleyCats game results a few years back.

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A quick reminder that tonight's Albany Firebirds game at Salina will air on Vice at 6:30 pm. Get your DVR's ready, grab some after dinner mints or snacks, and get ready.

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Most of Saturday's high school slate was wiped out by rain. 

On the other hand, Shenendehowa won a non-league men's lacrosse match over Lakeland-Panas, 5-1. On the women's side, Burnt Hills handled Kingston, 17-6.

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Saturday's college results:

Baseball:

Merrimack 16, Siena 13.

NJIT swept UAlbany, 7-1 & 3-1.

Men's lacrosse:

Ithaca 10, Union 5.

RPI 8, Clarkson 7.

Geneseo 24, Russell Sage 5.

UAlbany 11, Binghamton 9.

Siena 12, Manhattan 8.

Women's lacrosse:

UAlbany 17, New Hampshire 6.

Geneseo 22, Russell Sage 4.

Siena 7, Sacred Heart 6.

Union 19, Skidmore 11.

Men's tennis:

Hobart 4, Skidmore 3.

Ithaca 5, Union 2.

Quinnipiac 5, Siena 2.

Women's tennis:

Union 4, Ithaca 3.

Skidmore 7, William Smith 0.

Men's volleyball:

Vassar 3, Russell Sage 0.

Water Polo:

LaSalle 17, Siena 15.

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As you can tell, Saturday's softball schedule was washed out, including Lowell @ UAlbany. The game will not be made up.

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Shaker grad Jeff Hoffman entered Saturday's game for Toronto vs. the Mets hoping to keep a tie game moving into extra innings. 

Francisco Lindor had other ideas.

Lindor hit a sacrifice fly to send fans home happy as the Mets downed the Blue Jays, 3-2.

Meanwhile, Ian Anderson had a better outing for the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night.

Anderson gave up a run on 2 hits in 2 innings, as the Angles routed Cleveland, 10-4. Unfortunately, Anderson's ERA sits at 11.25 as of this morning.