Two games into the season, perennial Western Athletic Conference softball power Duanesburg is right where it wants to be. Galway just wants to be outside. Duanesburg made Galway’s lack of time on the field show in the early innings Tuesday as it took a 14-0 lead after three innings and went on to a 16-3 league win.
Guilderland put together a pair of five-run innings and beat Colonie in a Suburban Council baseball game, 13-3, Friday, to clinch a spot in the Section II Class AA tournament.
Dave Slattery won two events and ran a leg on a winning relay Thursday as host Queensnbury edged Scotia-Glenville, 170 1⁄2-170 for the boys’ team title at the Foothills Council championships.
Erika Daigle threw a three-hitter, and Shenendehowa used an eight-run sixth inning to close out a 17-2 win over Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake in a Suburban Council softball game Thursday,
Scotia-Glenville pulled away with a second-half burst and clinched a share of the Foothills Council boys’ lacrosse championship Thursday with a 16-2 win over Johnstown.
Haley Schultz kept scoring timely goals. Lexie Ball kept making saves on point-blank drives.
Behind the two freshmen, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake forged a dramatic comeback victory Thursday and earned a shot at its second Section II Class B lacrosse championship.
So many good things have happened to Izaiah Brown on his trips around the track at Larry Mulvaney Field.
Even dangling shoestrings in the midst of Wednesday’s 400-meter run at the Big 10 championship meet couldn’t curtail his winning ways there.
There is a reason Duanesburg coach John Conway fights to keep the Western Athletic Conference Cup on the league softball schedule. That reason was evident Wednesday as his Eagles posed with the trophy after beating Mayfield, 10-3. The win kept the Cup in the only home it has known since it was first contested in 2010.<
Connor Brown of Schoharie pitched a no-hitter, and St. Johnsville freshman Dylan Klock struck out 18 batters in leading their teams to Western Athletic Conference wins Wednesday.
Morgan Hardt fired in five goals, and Guilderland qualified for its seventh straight Section II Class A girls’ lacrosse title game with a 17-3 semifinal win over Bethlehem on Wednesday.
Mikaila Ford won both sprints and four teammates won the other individual races, leading Holy Names to the girls’ team title at the Colonial Council track championships, hosted by Ichabod Crane.
Marcus Failing was in a big jam when Fort Plain coach Craig Phillips trotted to the mound for a sixth-inning chat with his senior ace. The conversation was brief, and one-sided.
“He said, ‘I’m going to strike these two guys out,’ ” Phillips said.
Carylann Geddes drove in seven runs Tuesday as Albany Academy beat Cobleskill-Richmondville, 18-5, to clinch the Colonial Council’s Patriot Division softball title.
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