Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:33 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
JOHNSTOWN -- At times, Friday's rain at Knox Field lessened in intensity, but it never failed to continue for the duration of the girls' Section II Group 3 Track and Field Championships.
"Basically, I g ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:33 AM
The Section II baseball playoffs were about as cruel as can be for most of our area's squads. In a 48-hour stretch from late Tuesday afternoon to Thursday evening, five of the six area entrants in the Section II playoffs -- Amsterdam in Class A, Broa ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:34 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
FONDA -- With Tuesday's successful budget vote for the Fonda-Fultonville Central School District, the district's athletic department was able to set aside nearly a year's worth of worrying.
"It seems l ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:34 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
JOHNSTOWN -- In the end, the Fonda-Fultonville Braves' bid for a team victory at Friday's rain-drenched Section II Group 3 Track and Field Championship at Knox Field came up short.
"Going in, we knew it ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:39 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
I once read that dealing with small children is like dealing with aliens who have had some exposure to human culture. Through several weeks of assisting in coaching a 10-and-under softball team here in th ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:39 AM
By THOMAS COUGHLIN
For the Recorder
We had a great week for racing last week as Rocky Warner scored the first Modified feature win of his career at the Glen Ridge Motorsports Park last Friday, in only his seventh time competing in the top divi ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:40 AM
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Winning pitcher Brenden Williamson helped himself with a three-run home run over the right center field fence to lead unbeaten Kyle's Bounce Rentals to a 6-3 victory over Crane Sealcoating in an Amsterdam Youth Baseball League Major ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:08:40 AM
By RON KOLODZIEJ
For the Recorder
Upwards of 150 youngsters participated in the Sunday, May 19, 26th Annual Reid Hill Fish & Game Club Kid's Fishing Derby at the Perthshire on Route 30. Attendance was down a but from previous years, but th ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:08:19 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
FONDA -- Officially, Lindsay Therrien has been a member of the Fonda-Fultonville girls track and field team for five seasons.
Unofficially, the junior has been a member of the Lady Braves' squad for mos ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:08:19 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
BROADALBIN -- After a season of acting as the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots' jack of all trades, Pierre Laport is ready to concentrate at today's Section II Group 3 Track and Field Championships on the two ev ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:08:19 AM
FORT PLAIN -- Tied in the bottom of the seventh inning of the Section II Class quarterfinals, Fort Plain's Chris Hanifin delivered a walk-off RBI single to advance the top-seeded Hilltoppers, 5-4, past No. 8 Hoosick Falls.
The Panthers (15-7) jumpe ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:08:20 AM
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Dan Russo shot a 70 to take low gross honors during Men's Day competition at Rolling Hills Country Club.
Bob Cantine placed second with a 73.
Rob Golden won the low net division with a 61. John Sabol finished with a 68 and Mike ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:08:20 AM
By ADAM SHINDER
Recorder Sports Staff
QUEENSBURY -- Dylan Angelo could feel it the moment the wheels started to come off on what turned out to be his final game in an Amsterdam High School baseball uniform.
With the Rams down a run to start the botto ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:08:22 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
BROADALBIN -- With a makeshift lineup, the Broadalbin-Perth Lady Patriots' 4x100-meter relay team is one of the favorites on the girls' side at today's Section II Group 3 Track and Field Championships at ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:08:23 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
Both the Broadalbin-Perth and Fonda-Fultonville boys and girls will look for big finishes to their respective team seasons at today's Section II Group 3 Track and Field Championships, which being at 4 p. ...
Last Updated: Thursday, May 23, 2013 4:08:33 AM
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Glenn Stopera shot a 33 to take low gross honors during Men's Day at Amsterdam Municipal Golf Course.
Jim Gardiner shot a 30 to take low net honors and Jerry Nethaway and Chuck Kuiber each finished with a 33 to share senior net ho ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:40:18 PM
By MICHAEL KELLY
Recorder Sports Staff
Thursday’s Section II Group 2 Track and Field Championships at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School have been postponed to Tuesday because of weather concerns.
The Amsterdam Rams are one of the favorites ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:08:34 AM
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ALBANY -- The Broadalbin-Perth Patriots and Albany Academy Cadets battled through 11 innings of baseball Tuesday afternoon, and at the end of the day, one slip-up was enough to put a crushing end to B-P's season.
Rory Flaherty sco ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:08:36 AM
By ADAM SHINDER
Recorder Sports Staff
DELANSON -- Canajoharie baseball head coach Brent Watterson gathered his team in the third-base dugout at Duanesburg High School and gave his team one last speech about what the Cougars had accomplished th ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:39 AM
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Mayfield led a group of five local softball teams headed to sectional play, as the Lady Panthers received the No. 10 seed in the Section II Class C playoffs.
Mayfield won the Western Athletic Conference North Division, and will tr ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:39 AM
By ADAM SHINDER
Recorder Sports Staff
When he looked at the numbers heading into the seeding meeting for the Section II Class A playoffs, Amsterdam baseball coach Brian Spagnola saw the bracket laying out with the Rams as the No. 5 seed with a ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:40 AM
By ADAM SHINDER
Recorder Sports Staff
The Fort Plain Hilltoppers are in a familiar place as the top seed in the Section II Class C baseball playoffs -- but according to longtime head coach Craig Phillips, that doesn't make the Hilltoppers' pa ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:40 AM
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Nichols College junior women's tennis student-athlete Anna Dyakiv of Amsterdam has been named to the 2012-13 Capital One Academic District 1 NCAA Division III First Team.
Dyakiv, meanwhile, was named CCC Player of the Year for the ...
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:08:53 AM
By THOMAS COUGHLIN
For the Recorder
FULTONVILLE -- Glen Ridge Motorstports Park fans were greeted with another great night of fast racing action Friday night, highlighted by Rocky Warner capturing his first career Modified division feature win ...
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:08:54 AM
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FONDA -- With four laps to go in the 30-lap Modified feature event Saturday at Fonda Speedway, there were six or more lapped cars racing side-by-side for position in between leader Danny Varin and the checkered flag. When theb checkered ...