Boys Soccer
Greenwich 4 Doane Stuart 3: AJ Rymph with two goals, and Charlie Gartner and Tommy Abate with single strikes led the Witches past Doane Stuart on Thursday.
Greenwich gained some breathing room when Gartner and Abate both found the range in the first ten minutes of the second half to open up a game that was tied 1-1 at the break. Continue reading
In 2018 the Panthers of Hoosick Falls put together yet another winning season in their long history of football success. The Falls went 4-1 in the Class C North and 7-2 overall and will look to do more of the same this year.
Longtime head coach Ron Jones highlighted four players as key returning starters for this year’s edition of Hoosick Falls. Seniors Dmitri Rose OT/LB, Max Kipp QB/LB, Liam McGarvin HB/LB and junior Josh Colegrove will all provide two-way leadership for the Panthers this fall.
When Jones was asked what he’s liked about the preseason he said, ” Our young players are learning quickly.” Continue reading
Last season the Bengals of Tamarac played to a 5-4 overall record while going 1-4 in the very competitive Class C Central. This fall Tamarac will look to improve on their conference mark, a conference with the departure of Holy Trinity that will have five teams this year in Mechanicville, Stillwater, Fonda and Canajoharie/Ft. Plain along with Tamarac.
Four important two-way players return for the Bengals this year in RJ Doyal LT/NT, Jonah Rescott RB/DE, Sean Pusatere LG/DE, and Peyton Nealon RB/LB. Doyal, Rescott and Pusatere are part of 14 seniors that will dress for head coach Eric Roadcap this season.
Another senior player has been the surprise of the preseason in Tamarac as Tristan Nemjo QB/K/P, will strap on the pads this year for the first time. Nemjo, heading to Hobart College next year to play baseball, “Has shown us how much of a D1 athlete he is with the game of football”, said Roadcap. Continue reading
The winds of change have blown through the Hoosic Valley football program this off season as a new head coach takes over and the Indians step up in class.
Last season the Valley played in the D classification, and fought their way to a class D Super Bowl appearance. This fall the Indians move up to class C and will compete in the C North with Cambridge-Salem, Granville, Greenwich, Hoosick Falls and Lake George.
Leading the Valley into the 2019 campaign will be first year head coach Eric Baker, a Florida native who brings 15 years of experience in the sport as a player and coach, most recently as Wide Receiver/Defensive Back coach at Watervliet.
The new coach has been quite pleased with what he’s seen in the preseason thus far. “The kids have been very receptive to the new schemes that we’ve been putting into action” said Baker. Those schemes are part of the new identity being put into place on both sides of the ball that Baker describes as, ” A smash mouth spread and a bend but don’t break defense.” Continue reading
The Witches Charlie Gartner scored a hat trick leading Greenwich past Glens Falls 4-1 in a season-opener for both teams on Saturday.
Glens Falls broke on top, just four minutes into the match on a Cyrus Guillet goal, but :20 later Gartner found the range off an AJ Rymph find to even the score at 1-1.
Liam Niesz gave Greenwich the lead on an unassisted strike at the 32:00 mark and the Witches took the 2-1 advantage to the break.
Gartner’s second and third goals came early in the second half giving the Witches complete control as Greenwich keeper Andres Gonzalez ( 5 saves ), and the Witches defense closed things out for the home “W”.
As fall creeps ever closer we all anticipate what is sure to come over the next few weeks. The day’s grow shorter, apples will be picked and none of us can find the scraper the first morning there’s frost on the windshield. One more thing we’ve come expect, Cambridge will win football games almost every weekend and compete for sectional, if not state championships.
Last season after years of dominating the Class D ranks, the Indians moved up to the C classification and never missed a beat going 10-1, with a Section II title and a state quarterfinal appearance.
While graduation in June took many key players with it, head coach Doug Luke certainly has a nice selection from which to fill the void. Continue reading
The Stillwater Warriors coming off an excellent 2018 season where they compiled a 7-2 mark, will look to build on that this fall and will do so with a talented and experienced roster.
When head coach Ian Godfrey was asked about team leadership he responded simply, “The senior class.” He does so with good reason.
Three of those seniors in quarterback James Galarneau, and running backs Mason Seymour and Luc Lescault lead an explosive, offensive attack that can score in bunches. Continue reading
The Red Raiders of Mechanicville hosted Schuylerville on Friday in the boys soccer, season-opener for both schools that ended with the Black Horses prevailing 1-0 in a close match throughout.
The two squads battled through a scoreless first half with the deciding goal coming at the 9:45 mark of the second on an Ian Winchell tally off a Zach Saddlemore find, giving Schuylerville all the offense they would need to notch the road victory.
Black Horse keeper Brady Eugair saved 12 shots and combined with the Schuylerville defense to post the shutout.
Keeper Zach White turned back ten shots for the Red Raiders.
While the Wasaren golf season wraps up it’s second week of play, the leagues soccer squads have begun their 2019 campaign with the girls and boys of Stillwater opening in impressive fashion.
Stillwater 2 Queensbury 1 OT: A remarkable sidebar from the 2018 championship season for the Stillwater girls was the fact that never once trailed. Yesterday in the championship match of the Meehan Invitational in Stillwater, a Brigid Duffy goal for the Spartans in the 56th minute put the Warriors on the wrong side of a 1-0 game.
Stillwater responded in kind, drawing even in the 65th minute on a PK by Teya Staie, and notching the win on a Paige Brinsko header in the second overtime, to turn back the Class A Spartans and win their season-opening tournament.
The Warriors move to 2-0 on the year and push their unbeaten streak to 25 games, a streak that will be tested the next time out when Stillwater will face AA opponent Colonie.
Stillwater 3 Doane Stuart 0: A pair of goals from Grant Baker and a single strike by Issac Curtis led the Warriors to the “W” in the championship game of the Meehan Invitational on Thursday.
Tim Buchal with four saves combined with the Stillwater defense to earn the shutout as the Warriors improve to 2-0 on the young season.
Greenwich 8 Glen Falls 1: The Witches jumped out to a 5-1 lead at the break and cruised to the season-opening victory at Greenwich on Thursday.
The Witches Tess Merrill and Faith Ingber both tallied hat tricks with Cate Abate and Kiara Vasquez finding the range as well to lead the impressive Greenwich attack.
Golf
Hoosic Valley 5 Mechanicville 0: Oliver Eckler fired the low round of 44 to lead the Indians to the sweep of Mechanicville in action at the Mechanicville Golf Club on Thursday.
The Valley’s Nolan Rafferty, Mitchel Jones, Brandon Watkins, and Brett Pruso all posted wins in their one on one matchups.
Hoosick Falls 5 Waterford 0: In a match played at the Hoosick Falls Country Club, Ryan Bloomer torched the course, carding a 31 and showing the way in the Panthers shutout victory over the Fordians.
Mat Smith, Miles Smith, Alison Hathaway and Brady Hathaway all joined Bloomer in the winner’s circle for the Falls who improve to 5-0 with the “W”.
Cambridge 3 Stillwater 1: Ben Epler, James Toleman and Lydia Fronhofer all notched wins for the Indians with Epler’s 43 claiming medalist honors, in action at the Saratoga Lake Golf Club on Thursday.
Logan Pickett won the Stillwater point with a victory in flight three.
A year ago the Stillwater girls calling card was a high powered attack that fueled the Warriors run to a state championship. On the turf yesterday in Stillwater it appears very little has changed.
Stillwater opened their season in style with their offensive prowess on full display shredding Schenectady 11-0.
Four Warriors scored multiple goals led by Broke Pickett’s four goal effort. Paige Brinsko, Teya Staie and Kylee Peacock all added a pair of scores with Devon Wagner’s goal rounding out the Stillwater scoring.
Stillwater keeper Kiersten Conroy saved three shots to earn the shutout, while her counterpart Nicollette Gauf turned back 14 Stillwater shots.
On the boys side of things the result was much the same in an 11-1 defeat of Bolton/Warrensburg, that saw four Warriors score and seven different players pick up assists.
Grant Baker led the Stillwater assault with four goals, with Jack Rubenstein adding three, and Harry Rubenstein and Issac Cutler both finding the range twice to round out the Warrior’s attack.
Dante Corrireau scored the visitors lone goal on a second half strike.
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