Stillwater 54   Mayfield 37

Leading Scorers:  Stillwater – Miranda Price 24   Andie Luskin 11        Mayfield – Cloey Dopp 11

Key Stat:  Stillwater held Mayfield to single numbers in each of the first three periods.

Take Away:  Stillwater built a 20-point lead after three quarters and posted the comfortable win over Mayfield in both squads’ season-opener.

Hoosick Falls 62   Berlin/New Lebanon 8

Leading Scorers:  Panthers – Ava Case 22   Mackenna Roberson 12   Jaedyn Roberson 11      B/NL – Morgan Sharpe 4

Key Stat:  Hoosick Falls led 31-4 at intermission.

Take Away:  The Panthers rolled in their season opening victory that saw all nine Panthers in the scoring column.  

Hoosick Falls 79   Berlin/New Lebanon 23

Leading Scorers:  Falls – Andrew Sparks 17   Mat Kempf 15   Connor MacNeil 14   Eli King 10     B/NL – Chris Shorter 8

Key Stat:  The Panthers drilled 12 triples on the night.

Take Away:  Hoosick Falls puts four players in doubles and rolls to the “W” in the season-opener for both squads.

Greenwich 75   Hadley Luzerne 50

Leading Scorers:  Witches – Cal Curtis 31 7 3’s   Ryan Ingber 22   Joe Radovich 10     HL/ Conley 20

Key Stat:  Greenwich outscored their guests 48-22 after the break.

Take Away:  Curtis and Ingber combine for 53 and Greenwich uses a big second half to notch the victory.

Cohoes 35   Waterford 33

Leading Scorers:  Tigers – Carli O’Hara 9   Kaelyn Greene 9      Fordians – Maddy Atwood 15

Key Stat:  Cohoes ran pout to a 20-9 lead at the half.

Take Away:  Cohoes built a double digit lead early and hung on for the win in opening night for both teams.  

Our first edition of Where Are They Now where we’ll track former Wasaren hoop stars now playing basketball at the college level.  

Stillwater 21   Haldane 20

In a Class D state semifinal where both teams, led, trailed and were tied, it took a defensive stop on a two-point conversion try with seconds remaining to give Stillwater a one-point “W” and send them to the state championship game next weekend in Syracuse.

Haldane, from Section I took an early 7-0 lead on the second play from scrimmage when Evan Giachinta scored on a 49-yard run.

But Stillwater answered with their vaunted ground attack, tying things later in the period on a four-yard touchdown run by Jaxon Mueller.

In the second frame Mueller doubled and tripled down with two more four-yard runs for points and Stillwater held a two-score advantage at 21-7.

Haldane narrowed the gap before the break on a Ryan Van Tassel 53-yard scoring run sending the teams to intermission with Stillwater holding a 21-14 cushion.

After the break, despite dominating time of possession including an 11:00 drive in the third that was stopped at the Haldane one-yard line, Stillwater was held scoreless.

Haldane was kept off the board as well until late in the fourth when with 1:42 left a Stillwater fumble gave Haldane life.

The Blue Devils connected on a 22-yard pass play on fourth down with :21 remaining, and on the next play Van Tassel found Gianchinta with a 33-yard scoring strike and Haldane was within one at 21-20.

The Blue Devils rolled the dice going for the win on a two-point try, but Haldane QB Van Tassel was hit as he threw and the ball fell incomplete sending Stillwater onto the title game on December 2nd at the JMA Wireless Dome where they’ll play top-seeded Tioga (13-0), from Section IV for the Class D crown.  

Stillwater 28   Moriah 20

In a Class D state quarterfinal game that was close throughout, Stillwater used a dominating ground attack and a big defensive play late, to get past Moriah in action at Mechanicville on Saturday.

Moriah of section VII broke on top when Joe Pelkey found Dieter Olcott with a 33-yard scoring strike and a 6-0 lead. 

Stillwater quickly answered with James Cocozzo crashing in from a yard out and with the point after Stillwater led 7-6 after the first period of play.

Stillwater scored the only points of the second quarter when Jaxon Mueller threw his only pass of the game finding Thomas McDonough on a 19-yard TD connection and Stillwater took a 14-6 lead into the break.

Moriah cut the margin with the only third period points on a Logan Gilbo one yard touchdown run, but the two-point conversion attempt failed as the teams headed to the final frame with Stillwater nursing a 14-12 advantage.

With 5:40 remaining Meuller gave Stillwater a two-score cushion on a 13-yard rushing score and with the point after a 21-12 cushion.

That cushion quickly dissolved as Moriah used a three-play drive capped by a Pelkey to Olcott 23-yard touchdown pass and with the two-point conversion Moriah trailed 21-10.

The Vikings then recovered an on-sides kick and were set up at the Stillwater 45 with 4:30 left in regulation.

But Stillwater’s McDonough had other ideas, stepping in front of a Pelkey pass and taking it 63 yards for six, sending the Section II squad to a state semifinal matchup with Haldane (Section I) at Middleton High School on Friday at 3 p.m. 

Lucas Lilac led the Stillwater ground game finishing with 134 yards on 30 carries while Mueller added 80 yards on 18 totes.  Lilac has now run for 1611 yards on the year setting the single season rushing record at Stillwater.   

Waterford 2   Mount Academy 2

The Fordians of Waterford repeated as Class C state champions on Sunday, earning a share of the title after battling Mount Academy to a 2-2 tie in the title game at Homer High School in Cortland.

The Fordians broke on top when Addy Galuski connected on a scoring strike early in the first half.

But Mount Academy answered with goals from Hayley and Brooke Huleatt before the break, taking the 2-1 advantage into intermission.

The Fordians searched for the tying score through nearly the entire second half and it came with 3:00 remaining when Mia O’Brien found Riley Noto for the finish, sending the game into overtime.

Neither squad was able to score through two overtime sessions and the match ended with the Fordians and Mount Academy recognized as co-state champions. 

Waterford finishes a remarkable season at 19-1-3 with league, section, regional and state championships.

MVP   Josh Catanzarita   Waterford    

Offensive MVP  Tom Wendel      Mechanicville 

Defensive MVP  Eli Strasswimmer   Greenwich

First Team

Scotty Lynch     Mechanicville

Ben Rubenstein    Stillwater

Logan Sheehan    Waterford

Jake Catanzarita   Waterford

Miguel Gonzalez   Greenwich 

Gabe Coffin        Hoosic Valley

Josh Poovey        Greenwich

Garret Hackman   Cambridge/Salem

Matt Soden        Waterford

Cruz Goverski     Mechanicville

Logan Kelly        Waterford

Second Team

Tristan Carutasu    Waterford

Landon Staie       Stillwater

Jacob Eiseman     Mechanicville

Carlo Giso         Stillwater

Jack Fortier       Greenwich

Ethan Raucci     Mechanicville

Sam Klaken     Tamarac

Isaac Wiley      Hoosic Valley

Aaron Stutzman   Greenwich

Logan Fletcher    Waterford

Cody Maloney    Waterford

Mark Pingelski    Mechanicville

Jack Roseberger   Tamarac

Logan Healy      Berlin/New Lebanon

Honorable Mention

Mechanicville:  Joey Devito   Rece Dyer   Alex Micare   Charlie Weiss   Logan Starks

Waterford:   Sam Caulkins   Zach Kalinowski   Mason Noto   Anthony Scunziano   

Cambridge/Salem:   Ethan Hickman   Ethan Adams

Greenwich:   Evan Merrill   Brendon McClay

Hoosic Valley:   Mason Speanburg   Landon Reilly   Austin Brown  

Berlin/New Lebanon:   Tyler Shuhart

Tamarac:   Anthony Garner   Owen Blakesley   Jacob Smith   Gavin Jeffs    Trevor Bishop

Stillwater:   Dylan Izzo   Ryan Henderson   

Waterford 3    Holley 0

Waterford with single scoring strikes from Cassidy McClement and Payton and Addy Galuski and a lockdown defensive effort earned the Class C State semifinal victory over Holley on Saturday.

Fordian keeper Maddy Atwood with 10 saves anchored the shutout, pitched by the Waterford “D” for their 13th clean sheet of the season.

Waterford (19-1-1), advances to the Class C championship game this morning at 10 a.m. and will face Mt. Academy of Section XI, as the Fordians look to defend their Class C title from a year ago.  

Mount Academy 4   Waterford 2

Mount  Academy started fast taking a 2-0 lead just twelve minutes in on goals from Jake Maendel and Chris Reginos and added another Maendel tally in the 24th minute for a 3-0 lead.

But Waterford would answer on a Josh Catanzarita finish off a Tristan Carutasu find in the 25th minute, and pulled to within one, ten minutes into the second half when a Catanzarita header, off a Sam Caulkins corner found the back of the net.

The Fordians however could draw no closer and with 6:00 remaining Mt. Academy connected on a PK to close things out.

Waterford finishes a special season at 19-3-1 with a share of the Wasaren crown, while capturing sectional and regional titles in the C classification.  

Spackenkill 3   Mechanicville 0

Spackenkill scored three times before the break and held off Mechanicville over the second half to post the Class B state semifinal win on Saturday.

Dylan Updike with a pair pf goals and Jacob Rivera with a single score paced the Spackenkill attack.

Mechanicville (19-2-1), finishes another outstanding soccer campaign with league, section and regional titles including their second straight trip to the state final four.    

Four short weeks ago Warrensburg/Lake George rolled over a depleted Stillwater football team posting a 50-7 decision on their way to an undefeated regular season.

Fast forward to Friday morning at Troy High where a healthy Stillwater squad stepped on the field and flipped the script, scoring the last 27 points of the game to pull away from W/LG and earn the Section II Class D championship.

In an 11:00 start with a December feel in the air, W/LG scored the only points of the first frame taking a 6-0 lead on a Caden Allen to Nick Jeckel 45-yard scoring strike.

Early in the second period Stillwater edged in front on a Jaxon Mueller one-yard run and with the point after held a 7-6 lead.

They would pad that lead when Mueller found Lukas Lilac with a 29-yard touchdown pass extending their advantage to 14-6.

But W/LG pulled even with 2:50 remaining in the half when Allen ran it in from four yards out and with the two-point conversion the teams were knotted at 14-14.  

Stillwater answered on a 14-yard TD run by Mueller just before the break and took a 21-14 lead into intermission.

In the third Lilac made it a two-score Stillwater cushion on an 11-yard touchdown run, and later in the quarter Stillwater took total control when Brody Burdo tipped a Wildcat pass to himself and fell into the end zone for six and a 34-14 Stillwater advantage.

Mueller capped the scoring in the fourth period, plowing in from one yard out for his third rushing score of the contest.

Mueller finished the day with 136 rushing yards, while Lilac ran for 157 yards with rushing and receiving scores.  

With the “W” Stillwater (9-1), advances to face Moriah (7-1), next Saturday in a state quarterfinal at 12:30 in Mechanicville.