High School Sports

Friday, June 14, 2013

Five Section II baseball teams including Shenendehowa and Schalmont are ranked in the top-10 on the final New York State Sportsriters Asociation poll. Shenendehowa (19-3) ended up No. 6 in Class AA and Schalmont (20-5) finished No. 7 in Class B. Both teams won league and Section II championships before ...

Friday, June 14, 2013

Niskayuna High School athletes Olivia Jaquith, Allyson Mayo and Aaron Simone recenently signed with Division I Marist College, the University of Buffalo and Rider College, respectively. With a Section II indoor 300 championship among her senior credentials, Jaquith will run for Marist. Aside from the 300, she ran the team’s ...

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Niskayuna is ranked No. 2 on the final New York State Sportswriters Association Class B boys’ lacrosse poll. Niskayuna (21-1) reached the state semifinals before losing to Garden City, 10-9, on a goal with two seconds left. Garden City (Section VIII, 19-3) is No. 1 on the poll and Jamesville-DeWitt ...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Former Mont Pleasant fullback Tony Parisi will be among the players inducted into the Capital Region Football Hall of Fame in August. Line star Matt Tarullo of Colonie, record-setting quarterback Don Kehn of Watervliet and state championship-winning coaches Frank Derrico of Amsterdam and Jack Burger of Troy will be also ...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Eighteen teams from the Capital Region will be among the 228 in action Saturday and Sunday at the GymRat Challenge Girls’ AAU Basketball Tournament. Teams will compete in the 16-under, 15-under, 14-under and 13-under age brackets at the University at Albany, Schenectady High Scool, Niskayuna High School, Skidmore College, Saratoga ...

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Ward Melville, Garden City and Cazenovia captured state boys’ lacrosse championships Saturday at St. John Fisher College in Rochester. Ward Melville and Garden City used Shenendehowa and Niskayuna as state semifinal stepping stones before winning their New York titles. Ward Melville (Section XI, 22-0) dominated the Class A final, building ...

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Former LaSalle Institute catcher Will Remillard has been selected in Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft. The redshirt-sophomore from Coastal Carolina was tabbed by the Chicago Cubs in the 19th round with the 558th overall pick on Saturday — the third and final day of the draft — after a ...

Friday, June 7, 2013

MIDDLETOWN — The state track and field championship meet at Middletown High School was postponed Friday due to persistent rain. “It’s been one of those seasons. It’s out of our control,” said Dave Petersen, the Section II boys’ track and field coordinator. “It’s been 90 degrees one day and rain ...

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Breton LaRose of Ogdensburg Free Academy struck out 23 Schalmont batters in the Devils’ 3-1, nine-inning win Tuesday in a state Class B regional final at Bleecker Stadium. LaRose, a senior righty, went with fastballs on all but one pitch to accomlish his feat. Andrew Cote drilled a second-inning home ...

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Hudson High School senior Winston Lee smashed the Section II 100-meter dash record with his FAT 10.56 at Friday’s state meet qualifier at Knox Field in Johnstown. Lee Ansaldo of Bethlehem ran an FAT (fully automatic timed) 10.73 in 1999 for the previous record. When comparing hand-held and FAT times ...