Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:08:51 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY/For the Express
BROADALBIN -- A few years back, Anna Smith was pretty much forced onto the track and field team at Broadalbin-Perth.
"I didn't really do it because I wanted to," she says. "I did it for social reasons."
After her friends joined the B-P modified team when Smith was in seventh grade -- "They were all doing it and I was just chilling at my house," she says -- Smith went out for the team the next year.
One problem: In general, track and field requires a good deal of ...
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:34:02 AM
By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express
JOHNSTOWN -- All six living members the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame's Class of 2013 were on hand for Saturday night's induction ceremonies at the Johnstown Holiday Inn, sharing stories both poignant and humorous about careers which spanned the globe over decades.
Tito Santana, J.J. Dillon, Joyce Grable, Baron von Raschke, Bill Watts and Jody Hamilton -- inducted as part of The Assassins tag team with his late partner, Tom Renesto -- received their Hall of Fame ring ...
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:27:55 AM
B-P's Gage continues impressive season at Siena
Staff report
Siena College's Matt Gage (Broadalbin-Perth) was named MAAC Pitcher of the Week on Monday. Gage played a key role in the Saints' weekend sweep of Saint Peter's and is currently just two strikeouts shy of the school's single season record of 81.
Gage, who was named Pitcher of the Week for the second straight week, followed up his dominant shutout effort of Canisius with one of the top regular-season performances in MAAC history. He stru ...
Last Updated: Monday, May 13, 2013 7:24:21 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY/For the Express
FONDA -- Just as the championship game of the inaugural Ronald D. Papierniak Memorial Softball Tournament came down to the final play a year ago between the host Fonda-Fultonville Lady Braves and the Amsterdam Lady Rams, so did Saturday's final of the tournament's second year.
Again, in dramatic fashion, the Lady Braves took home the championship on a day in which the near-constant rain did not dampen the event's spirit. F-F stayed undefeated in its tournament, ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 10, 2013 6:03:12 AM
Staff report
BROADALBIN -- In high school baseball, Mike Visco singled in Tyler Schmidt with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to cap off a 2-for-4 day at the plate with two runs batted in as the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots edged Gloversville, 6-5, in Foothills Council baseball action Wednesday.
A.J. Klemczak and Tim Gordon each added a pair of hits for B-P, while Patrick Brown, Luigi Magliocca, Connor Pingitore and Joe Zarecki contributed hits.
Chris Rockefeller and Ben VanNostr ...
Last Updated: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:55:37 AM
NORTHVILLE - Opening ceremonies for the Northville Edinburg Little League (NELL) will take place at the NELL field on County Highway 113 outside of the village of Northville on Saturday, May 11, starting with the first game at 9:30 a.m. and opening ceremonies at noon.
The game schedual is as follows:
* 9:30 a.m. Minors game against Wells
* Noon the official ceremony will take place
* 12:30 p.m. coach pitch/Jeff Sawyer team against Johnstown # 2
* 2:30 p.m. coach pitch / Mark Colvin team against ...
Last Updated: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:30:36 AM
BASEBALL
Foothills Council
Johnstown 8,
Broadalbin-Perth 1
Richard Lee scattered six hits and struck out five in a complete game win while also going 2-for-3 with a double and two runs batted in at the plate to lead the Sir Bills past B-P.
Joe Nellis went 2-for-4 and drove in two runs for Johnstown, which also got a 2-for-4 effort at the plate from Adam Caputo in piling up 10 hits against Patriots pitchers Patrick Brown and Mike Visco.
Joe Zarecki singled and drove in a run for B-P (8-5, 5-4 Foo ...
Last Updated: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:28:14 AM
POULTNEY, Vt. – Green Mountain College hosted its annual athletic awards ceremony May 1, bringing the 2012-13 athletic year to a close.
Vice President of Student Life Joe Petrick opened the evening with a speech in remembrance of the people affected by the recent events in Boston and spoke of the will to emerge from such dire circumstances and continue fighting.
First-year Athletic Director Keith Bosley then addressed the student-athletes and thanked them for their hard work and dedic ...
Last Updated: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:24:01 AM
By ADAM SHINDER/For the Express
BROADALBIN -- Anthony Visco slumped behind the backstop, red-faced from baking in the late afternoon sun, barely looking up -- and he wasn't alone.
Monday was a Murphy's law kind of day for Visco and the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots, when anything that could go wrong eventually did go wrong. All of the available good fortune and baseball karma had found its way to Johnstown pitcher Joe Nellis who, less than a week after being taken to the emergency room after fallin ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 03, 2013 6:43:01 AM
Mayfield 16
Berne-Knox-Westerlo 5
Winning pitcher Anna Husain scattered six hits and helped herself with two singles to lead Mayfield to a win over Berne-Knox-Westerlo.
Nicole Little led the Mayfield offense with three singles and an RBI. Jen Little and Maria Messina added two singles apiece.
Last Updated: Friday, May 03, 2013 6:41:37 AM
Staff report
BROADALBIN -- Joe Zarecki hit the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots right into the Section II Class B baseball playoffs.
Zarecki's two-out, walk-off double in the bottom of the seventh inning brought home pinch-runner Logan Ackley with the winning run as the Patriots edged Glens Falls, 3-2, to guarantee B-P a berth in the sectional tournament for the third straight year.
Zarecki finished 2-for-4 at the plate and was the winning pitcher for B-P (8-4, 5-3 Foothills), scattering six hits and s ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:51:44 PM
By MICHAEL KELLY/For the Express
BROADALBIN -- From the outset, it was clear that the experience of last Friday's softball game against perennial Section II power South Glens Falls was going to be more beneficial to the Broadalbin-Perth Lady Patriots than the result on the scoreboard.
"When you get into games like this, you need to learn from what you see from the other teams," B-P head coach Harrie Washburn said.
For a young squad of Lady Patriots, there was a lot to learn from the Lady Bulldo ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:52:11 PM
By ADAM SHINDER/For the Express
BROADALBIN -- For the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots, it's all about Lucky Number Seven.
Seven is the magic number for B-P, the number of Foothills Council wins needed for the team to qualify for the Section II Class B baseball playoffs. Through their first six Foothills Council games, the Patriots sit at 3-3 -- and 5-4 overall -- but since wins like Monday's over Class A South Glens Falls count as two for Class B teams such as B-P, the Patriots' league win total in t ...
Last Updated: Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:06:33 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY/For the Express
MAYFIELD -- After building a five-run lead early in the team's Western Athletic Conference North Division softball showdown with Fort Plain, Mayfield head coach Jamie Hurd had a constant message in between innings Tuesday for her club.
"All Coach was saying was, 'The score is zero to zero, the score is zero to zero -- keep playing your hardest,'" said center fielder Mackenzie Biggers. "She just kept saying that until it was five to five."
After Fort Plain's sixt ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:17:02 AM
Staff report
BROADALBIN -- Amsterdam sophomore Izaiah Brown won three individual events and anchored the Rams' winning 4x400-meter relay team en route to being named the Overall Male Athlete of the Meet at Saturday's annual Kiwanis Bi-County Meet at Broadalbin-Perth High School.
Brown won the 400-meter dash in 48.7 seconds, the 200-meter dash in 22.2 seconds and captured the high jump by clearing five feet, six inches while also anchoring a David Graveley, Anthony Stewart and John Hardies to a ...
Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:41:50 AM
BASEBALL
Foothills Council
Broadalbin-Perth 4, Hudson Falls 2
Anthony Visco carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning and finished with nine striekouts as the Patriots won their Foothills Council opener.
Visco added an RBI single for the Patriots (1-1, 1-0 Foothills) to supplement a complete game three-hitter on the mound. Anthony Payne added a two-run single for B-P, while A.J. Klemczak also drove in a run.
Jordan Williams singled, walked twice and scored both runs for Hudson Falls.
Western At ...
Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:40:37 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY - For the Express
At Southern Vermont College, five local products are figuring out the college baseball scene together.
Helping to make up the roster and coaching lineup for the Mountaineers this season are Amsterdam High School graduates Robby Hisert and Kurt Kowalczyk, as well as Broadalbin-Perth High School graduates Owen Chizek, Dave Gage and RJ Pingitore. Gage is in his first year as the head coach at SVC, Hisert is the team’s hitting coach and the remaining trio ar ...
Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:35:11 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY - For the Express
BROADALBIN -- Head coach Jeff Richards cannot help but let a laugh escape before answering what he thinks his outdoor track and field teams' opening meet will be like Tuesday afternoon.
"Tuesday," he says, "is going to be very interesting."
Both the Patriots and Lady Patriots are in rebuilding mode this season, a campaign which starts with a home meet against Johnstown and Queensbury, as graduation took its toll on each side's roster.
"We lost a lot to graduat ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 08, 2013 8:56:06 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY - For the Express
BROADALBIN -- Head coach Jeff Richards cannot help but let a laugh escape before answering what he thinks his outdoor track and field teams' opening meet will be like Tuesday afternoon.
"Tuesday," he says, "is going to be very interesting."
Both the Patriots and Lady Patriots are in rebuilding mode this season, a campaign which starts with a home meet against Johnstown and Queensbury, as graduation took its toll on each side's roster.
"We lost a lot to graduat ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 08, 2013 8:53:09 AM
SOFTBALL
Non-league
Mayfield 8,
Johnstown 7
Mayfield's Anna Husain picked up the victory in the circle with seven strikeouts, while adding a single and a grand slam at the plate for the Lady Panthers.
Taylor Giffords added two singles for Mayfield, which received a hit apiece from Jen and Nicole Little, Mackenzie Biggers and Lisa Hime.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 04, 2013 3:25:57 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY - For the Express
MAYFIELD -- From the pitcher's circle, it is usually Mayfield softball's Anna Husain who is baffling and confusing all comers. The left-handed senior was the Recorder's Pitcher of the Year a season ago, as she struck out 112 batters in 127 innings, often making executing her craft look simple.
The confidence Husain possesses in the circle is what made her confusion at a preseason practice earlier this week so notable, the rare time when something involving the ...
Last Updated: Thursday, April 04, 2013 3:26:36 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY - For the Express
BROADALBIN -- Seemingly each spring, the story is the same for local baseball and softball squads in the preseason, with clubs lamenting their inability to practice outside because of uncooperative weather.
The girls of the Broadalbin-Perth softball team are no different.
"Oh, yeah. Definitely," says junior shortstop Rachel Orapello when asked if she's tired of the area's too-cold, and too-snowy weather. "It's hard to practice (in the gymnasium) because it's j ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 01, 2013 9:20:38 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY - For the Express
BROADALBIN -- Seemingly each spring, the story is the same for local baseball and softball squads in the preseason, with clubs lamenting their inability to practice outside because of uncooperative weather.
The girls of the Broadalbin-Perth softball team are no different.
"Oh, yeah. Definitely," says junior shortstop Rachel Orapello when asked if she's tired of the area's too-cold, and too-snowy weather. "It's hard to practice (in the gymnasium) because it's j ...
Last Updated: Saturday, March 30, 2013 8:17:36 AM
By MICHAEL KELLY - For the Express
MAYFIELD -- From the pitcher's circle, it is usually Mayfield softball's Anna Husain who is baffling and confusing all comers. The left-handed senior was the Recorder's Pitcher of the Year a season ago, as she struck out 112 batters in 127 innings, often making executing her craft look simple.
The confidence Husain possesses in the circle is what made her confusion at a preseason practice earlier this week so notable, the rare time when something involving the ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:17:54 AM
By ADAM SHINDER - For the Express
BROADALBIN -- The Broadalbin-Perth baseball team has been cooped up inside a gymnasium long enough.
"We've got spring fever right now," Patriots senior catcher Tim Gordon said during yet another indoor practice Monday afternoon. "We want to get out there, get out on the field, get some swings, get a visual of what the field looks like so we can get ready. It's hot in here, the ball's getting ripped at us."
Though some of the Patriots got outside in the cold wea ...
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