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Schenectady boys' basketball holds off Columbia 62-60
SCHENECTADY — The scoreboard showed Schenectady ahead throughout the second half of its season-opening basketball game with Columbia, but the victory was by no means a breeze. Damari Holder put down a slam dunk, and C.J. Gomez and Quy-Maine Haggray both followed with a pair of free throws after → Read More
Trick play aids Niskayuna in winning first Section II football title
COLONIE — Sometimes all it takes is one big play to provide a spark.The Niskayuna football team just happened to pull one of those off on its first snap, and never looked back in Saturday night’s Section II Class A championship game against Averill Park at CBA.Dahvion Wimberly scored on a 69-yard pa → Read More
Legacy of standout twins continues for Scotia-Glenville field hockey
SCOTIA — In time, freshmen Morgan and Makenzie Westbrook want to play and lead like Angelina and Isabella Regels, two of the senior standouts on the Scotia-Glenville field hockey team. In a way… → Read More
Schenectady City School District Athletic Hall of Fame: Undefeated 1969-70 Linton basketball to be honored
Editor’s note: The 23rd Schenectady City School District Athletic Hall of Fame & Reunion Dinner takes place Monday at Glen Sanders Mansion. Inductees are Ed Alger, Al Burnham and Joe Zelezniak… → Read More
Awards ceremony at Proctors recognizes standout female athletes
Recent Taconic Hills graduate Clare Howard couldn’t help but notice just how proud the parents, siblings, coaches and friends were of the individuals who were honored Monday evening at the second… → Read More
Boynton’s stretch run as Schenectady’s athletic director full of challenges
Schenectady's football team had just completed its "Fall II" season with a win over Saratoga Springs, and as his players ran off Larry Mulvaney Field, Patriots coach Carm DePoalo gave high school… → Read More
Olivia Olsen joins Niskayuna girls’ basketball 1,000-point club
Olivia Olsen joined Niskayuna’s 1,000-point club Monday when the senior dropped in an early layup as part of a 75-14 non-league win at Scotia-Glenville. The Providence-bound Olsen needed four points… → Read More
With his mother in attendance, Schenectady honors basketball player who died in October
SCHENECTADY — In some ways, Sondra Banks' Saturday at Schenectady High School was a lot like so many before it. She rooted for the Patriots basketball team, hugged some players afterward… → Read More
Leg lengthening procedure enables Mantia to play basketball for Saratoga Central Catholic
SARATOGA SPRINGS — All the boys on the Saratoga Central Catholic basketball team know at least some of the details of what Danny Mantia has been through, but they don't bring it up very often. → Read More
Burnt Hills wins over Guilderland in matchup of field hockey champions
BURNT HILLS — One of last season's Section II field hockey champions turned in a display of offensive execution and defensive might at the expense of another 2019 area title holder Monday night. → Read More
Duanesburg senior class donates $4,000 to food bank
DUANESBURG -- The Duanesburg High School senior class saw a need, and on Friday afternoon, those 57 Eagles gave. "There was a food drive at Schenectady County Community College the other day, and the kids saw the footage," Duanesburg English teacher Rebecca Press said Friday in a phone interview. "They saw the 600 cars there and said, 'This is not OK. We need to do something.'" The Duanesburg… → Read More
Di Fabio named Shenendehowa girls' swim coach – The
Alyssa Di Fabio is moving up to take the lead coaching position for the Shenendehowa High School girls’ swimming and diving team. Di Fabio will be replacing Sandy Stanislowsky, who spent the last four years as the Plainsmen’s head coach before stepping away. Di Fabio served as Stanislowsky’s assistant over that four-year span. “I am over the moon right now,” Di Fabio said of her new position.… → Read More
For Niskayuna lacrosse players, one last hurrah
NISKAYUNA — Gabe Nish and Drew Collins joined the Niskayuna youth lacrosse program when they were in third grade. Dan Brownell and Nick Fraterrigo picked up sticks when they were in fourth grade. A year later, Matt Frankel started playing the sport. "When you're a little kid, you have no sense of time," said Nish, who, like his lifelong friends, is a now a senior at Niskayuna High School. "You… → Read More
Chmiel wins fourth title with record run
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake sweeps the Class B titles → Read More
Shenendehowa, Burnt Hills defend volleyball titles, extend streaks
Plainsmen make it nine in a row; for the Spartans it's 17 → Read More
Saratoga defends field hockey title
GLOVERSVILLE — It was over, and then it wasn't. Then it was. Saratoga Springs got a save from an unlikely source and then a goal by its biggest star in a quick flurry of overtime action that capped Sunday's Section II Class A field hockey championship game on the Gloversville High School turf. Liz Pratt made the stop before Lindsey Frank sifted through the Shenendehowa defense and scored with… → Read More
Blue Streaks find a way
CLIFTON PARK — Same teams and the same location, but the stakes were so much higher, and so was Saratoga Springs' level of play. The Blue Streaks used a variety of ways to generate their points against a Shenendehowa football team that hadn't given up much all season long, and prevailed 34-26 in a Section II Class AA semifinal game Friday night at Steuerward Stadium. Shenendehowa had beaten… → Read More
Burnt Hills outlasts Mohonasen in soccer marathon
STILLWATER — Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake took the long road back the Section II title game. Raia James scored on a tap-in 49 seconds into the second sudden-victory overtime as the Spartans clipped Mohonasen in a physical Section II Class A semifinal soccer game on the Stillwater turf Monday night. The game had several player collisions and the last of them, on the goal line, came just before… → Read More
Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons boys' soccer has a mix
Team with boys, girls playing together has won 6 in a row → Read More
Holy Trinity wins playoff opener
SCHENECTADY — The five touchdowns were all spectacular, but it was a couple of defensive plays that pointed Holy Trinity toward the next level of the Section II Class C football playoffs. The Pride backed Joe Tortello's four touchdown passes with four takeaways in a 35-18 quarterfinal win over Voorheesville Saturday that was more difficult than the final score indicated. Ja-Del Whitfield's… → Read More