News & notes

 Saturday's Mets-Astros pre-season game aired on WTEN, which was all well & good, but it should've been over on WXXA instead.

Why?

Fox23 had 3 hours of infomercials booked opposite Mets-Astros, which, in turn, bumped an NCAA women's 1st round basketball game to Cozi TV (Spectrum channel 1240). Seems to me they were afraid that if the game spilled past 4 pm, (and it did, just barely), they'd miss part of Fox's hyped Flag Football Classic, marking the return of Tom Brady to the field in a mere flag football game, and they'd rather diss basketball fans than risk missing even a minute of the alleged greatest player in football history.

For what it's worth, Houston won the game.

One title down, two to go.

Two Section 2 teams play today for state basketball titles, and the games, apparently, will be running concurrently in Binghamton & Troy.

Saturday's scores:

Women's Class AA semi-finals:

Bethlehem 50, Nyack 46. The Eagles play North Tonawanda today at 11:45 am at Hudson Valley Community College for the title.

Women's Class A semi-finals:

Tappan Zee 60, Albany Academy 52.

Women's Class C finals:

Frewsburg 59, Greenwich 52. Frewsburg was down 3 at halftime before taking the lead in the 3rd quarter, holding the Witches to 9 points each in the 2nd & 3rd quarters after making defensive adjustments.

Men's Class AAA finals:

CBA 78, Fairport 67. Galal Cancer & the Brothers completed a perfect season, which may be a first in school history. Austin & JJ Osinski had 21 points each to lead CBA, which won its first state crown since Cancer led them to the title as a player in 2010.

Men's Class AA semi-finals:

Penfield 62, Amsterdam 54.

Men's Class C semi-finals:

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 100, North Salem 66. BKW had 5 players in double figures, led by Jayden Buie & Dayne Coates with 22 points each. They'll play Cooperstown this morning at 11:45 at the Visions Center.

Women's lacrosse:

Burnt Hills 16, Valley Central 13.

Colleges:

Baseball:

RPI swept Vassar, 10-6 & 2-0.

NJIT 5, UAlbany 4. Austin Francis (Troy High) went 2-4 with 2 RBI.

Siena split a doubleheader with Niagara, winning the first game, 10-9 (10 innings), then dropping the nightcap, 9-6.

Wisconsin-LaCrosse 15, Union 3 (7 innings-mercy rule).

Softball:

Chicago 6, Union 5 (8 innings).

Union 10, Knox 2 (6 innings-mercy rule).

Siena split a doubleheader with Iona, winning the opener, 1-0, then losing the 2nd game, 5-0.

UAlbany split with Bryant, losing the opener, 6-3, before rebounding in the nightcap, 9-3.

RPI swept Utica, 5-0 & 9-2.

Men's lacrosse:

Skidmore 16, RPI 12.

UAlbany 10, UMBC 6.

Siena 15, Binghamton 9.

St. Lawrence 11, Union 10.

Women's lacrosse:

Union 10, Skidmore 9.

UAlbany 19, UMass-Lowell 10.

Fairfield 11, Siena 7.

Women's basketball:

Notre Dame 79, Fairfield 60. Jillian Huerter (Shenendehowa/Rutgers) played all but 4 minutes and scored 12 points in a losing effort, as the MAAC champs are 1 & done in the NCAA tournament.