News & notes

 UAlbany's lacrosse teams now know where they'll play in the NCAA tournaments.

The men will play North Carolina, the 3rd seed, on Saturday (ESPNU, 12 noon). The women will be a little closer, as they travel to Baltimore to play 4th seeded Johns Hopkins on Friday, with a time TBA.

Albany isn't the only 518 school going to the NCAA's, though. 

Union's women's team will play Mount Union in the 1st round of the Division III tournament, Saturday at 11:30 am in Salisbury, Maryland.

RPI has a new women's basketball coach. Megan Yawman was hired Monday. She succeeds John Greene, who led the Lady Engineers to a 17-9 finish this season. Yawman, an Ithaca graduate, had been an assistant at Carnegie Mellon.

Another week, another Section II player moving to a prep school.

Marcelin Mukendi is leaving Shaker for CATS Academy, located near Boston, for next season. CATS Academy is still another team in the NEPSAC program. CATS plays in a league sponsored by Nike, one of the top manufacturers of overpriced sneakers.

This is one of those things my generation didn't have to deal with.

Monday's high school scores:

Women's lacrosse:

South Glens Falls 20, Hudson Falls 1.

Greenwich-Cambridge 6, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 4.

Columbia 21, Ballston Spa 8.

Schuylerville 12, Queensbury 6.

Men's lacrosse:

Mechanicville-Stillwater 17, Greenwich-Cambridge 4.

Albany 15, Schenectady-Mohonasen-Schalmont 5.

Guilderland 19, Colonie 2.

Softball:

Whitehall 5, Corinth 0.

Ravena 9, Albany 4.

Shaker 7, Cohoes 6.

Scotia 6, Amsterdam 4.

Mechanicville 24, Waterford 8 (5 innings).

Cobleskill-Richmondville 11, Duanesburg 1 (5 innings).

Guilderland 4, Troy 1.

Schuylerville 18, Gloversville 4 (5 innings).

Mayfield 10, Canajoharie-Ft. Plain 3.

Greenwich 21, Stillwater 1 (5 innings).

Taconic Hills 17, Germantown 0 (5 innings).

Queensbury 12, Broadalbin-Perth 0 (5 innings).

South Glens Falls 2, Hudson Falls 0.

Coxsackie-Athens 25, Watervliet 10 (5 innings).

Hoosic Valley 27, Cambridge 0 (5 innings).

Fort Edward 17, Hadley-Luzerne 5 (5 innings).

Argyle 24, North Warren 1 (5 innings).

Granville 10, Hartford 0 (5 innings).

Ballston Spa 5, Glens Falls 2.

Fort Ann 8, Warrensburg 2.

Schoharie 5, OESJ 2.

Northville-Wells 4, Johnstown 0.

Baseball:

Saratoga Catholic 9, Waterford 0.

The Albany Times-Union's weekly power rankings for softball and baseball are out, and, once again, Troy High, now 9-4 after losing to Guilderland, was passed over in Class AA. In fact, the Class AA rankings are all screwed up.

With their win, South Glens Falls goes to 11-3 overall, which would put them at #2 instead of #5, behind top-ranked Columbia. Ballston Spa, now 8-4 per the paper's records with a win on Monday, should be bumped from the top 5. The bias against the Colonial & Foothills Councils couldn't be more obvious.

Left up to ye scribe, the top 3 would be Columbia, South Glens Falls, & Troy. The rankings do not appear in today's print editions due to space limitations.