While weather impacted a handful of Tuesday’s scheduled games six league teams stepped on the hardwood in non league runs last night as holiday week continues.
Boys Basketball
Mechanicville 55 Schuylerville 52
Leading Scorers: Raiders – Giovanni D’Ambro 18 Evan Dunn 17 C.J.Tironi 10 Black Horses – Clayton Patrick 14 Zachary Pierce 14 Joshua Signor 13
Key Stat: Both teams placed three players in doubles in an even game throughout. A 14-9 second period proved the difference for the Red Raiders.
Take Away: The Raiders improve to 7-1, including seven straight and are right back in action tonight taking on the Warriors of Lake George in a 5:30 run at Stillwater.
Stillwater 69 Lake George 57
Leading Scorers: Stillwater – Mitchel Wayand 33 Jared D’Aloia 17 Zach Travis 12 Warriors – Caleb Scrime 20
Key Stat: A 22-7 second period, and converting 20 of 33 free throws fueled the Stillwater “W”.
Take Away: Stillwater put’s their ninth straight win in the books and lay’s that unbeaten streak on the line tonight when they host Schuylerville at 7 p.m.
Granville 70 Salem 42
Leading Scorers: Horde Matthew Fuller 21 Zach Vanderminden 14 Generals – Nate Holmes 12 Andrew Terry 11
Key Stat: Granville throws a shutout in the first, out scoring the Generals 23-0, and the Horde coasted from there.
Take Away: Granville improves to 3-7 with the victory while Salem at 0-11 continues to search for their first win of the season.
Girls Basketball
Tamarac 47 Cohoes 26
Leading Scorers: Bengals – Emily Erickson 11 Cohoes – Nerea Brajac 9
Key Stat: The Bengals held Cohoes to single digit scoring in each of the first three periods, building a 34-15 advantage on their way to the easy “W”.
Take Away: Tamarac goes to 6-3 on the season, while Cohoes with the loss falls to 3-7.
Stillwater 44 Burnt Hills 20
Leading Scorers: Warriors – Abby Higgins 21 Spartans – Kelly Waters 8
Key Stat: Stillwater held the Spartans to single numbers in all four quarters as Higgins put more points on the board than the Burnt Hills team.
Take Away: Stillwater improves to 5-6 on the season with their next contest a week from tonight at Tamarac. Burnt Hills searches for win number one at 0-9 on the year.
Cambridge 56 New Lebanon 19
Leading Scorers: Indians – Lila Nolan 11 Helen Mooney 11 New Leb – Alex Miller 7
Key Stat: Cambridge out scored New Lebanon 27-1 over the middle two periods on their way to the easy victory.
Take Away: Cambridge at 7-2 has put together a nice first half of the season and look for this squad to make some noise in the race for the Wasaren title.