The scoreboard

BOYS BASKETBALL
Western Athletic Conference
Fort Plain 62, Northville 45
After a week-and-a-half break, Fort Plain got right to work and led by 19 points at halftime before cruising to the victory. Harold Dettmer scored a team-high 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the Hilltoppers (11-3, 9-1). Also chipping in for Fort Plain were Zach Sweet, who had 13 points, and Chris Hanifin, who added 10. Northville’s (2-12, 1-9) Kalob Russell had 13 points. The win moved the Hilltoppers to wit ...

Lady Patriots find themselves stifled during loss to Johnstown

By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express

BROADALBIN — Broadalbin-Perth girls basketball coach Michael Magliocca has been trying to tweak with his team’s offense as the Lady Patriots head into the stretch run of the season.
Monday night, the Johnstown Lady Bills weren’t fooled one bit.
Johnstown’s defense shut off the passing lanes to B-P’s leading scorer, Kaitlin Wood, holding her without a field goal, while Lady Bills point guard Stacy Loucks commanded the offensive end of ...

Broadalbin-Perth’s mistakes costly in league game against Queensbury

By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express

BROADALBIN — Some nights, there’s just no explanation.
Last Thursday evening was one of those nights for Broadalbin-Perth Lady Patriots head coach Mike Magliocca, as the coach struggled to muster up the words to describe his team’s play in its 62-35 loss to Queensbury in a Foothills Council matchup.
“There’s really not much to say,” explained Magliocca. “It was just one of those games.”
After a promising start that ...

The scoreboard

BOYS BASKETBALL
Western Athletic Conference
Mayfield 51, Canajoharie 45
CANAJOHARIE — Dylan Toscano knocked down a pair of 3-pointers and scored a game-high 16 points as Mayfield dealt a major blow to Canajoharie’s chances for a split championship in the Western Athletic Conference North Division by scoring a 51-45 win Friday night.
Ryan Hennessy added 12 points and Thomas Perham scored nine for Mayfield (8-6, 5-5 WAC North).
Dillan Veeder scored seven of his team-high 13 points at t ...

The fishing was difficult but not impossible
by Ron Kolodziej

The unusually mild weather we’ve experienced threatened to perhaps derail plans to hold last weekend’s annual Walleye Challenge and Great Sacandaga Lake Fisheries Federation ice fishing contests but after careful examination of the lake’s ice conditions a week earlier, a decision was made to go ahead with both events. Participants in those contests faced ice a bit thinner than expected for this time of year but still safe, and slushy, wet conditions that made fishing a tad more ...

Walleye challenge not the only tourney on tap
by Ron Kolodziej

Based upon tests of ice thicknesses and the integrity of the ice sheet on Great Sacandaga Lake, last weekend a decision was made to hold the Walleye Challenge as scheduled this coming Saturday, Jan. 28. Registrations for this event reached the maximum 1,500 mark over a month ago but for those of you who were lucky enough to enter the event in time, here’s some basic information to refresh your memory.
The contest will run from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and you can fish anywhere on the lake. A total ...

Big-game contest results are (finally) posted
by Ron Kolodziej

We still haven’t published the results of the annual Fuel & Food Big Game Contest so let’s do that now.
The winners during the northern zone early bow season were Paul Peniston of Bleeker who brought in a 108.8 pound doe and 14-year old Kyle Ferguson of Providence who brought in a 148.2 pound 10 pointer.  
Gary Gutowski of Perth took top honors during the early muzzleloader season with a 175 pounder and William Bell of Johnstown took the top spot in the longest spikehorn com ...

Fish House tournament date has changed
by Ron Kolodziej

The Fish House F & G Club Contest originally scheduled for this Saturday, Jan. 14 has been moved to its alternative date of Saturday, Feb. 11. All other contest details remain the same. It will still be headquartered at the Town of Providence parking area on Route 110, 1/4 mile north of Fish House Corners.
It will offer $2,400 in prize money and the fishing hours will be 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., with prizes awarded soon after the 4pm contest closing time.
Three prizes will be awarded in the walle ...

Candidates make their mock

By JAIME STUDD
For the Express

BROADALBIN — With local, state and national elections set to take centerstage in the coming months, the recent culmination of a semester-long project for some Broadalbin-Perth High School seni ...

Education News

Hudson Valley Community College

TROY - Several local students were recently named to the Dean’s List at Hudson Valley Community College. Each fall and spring term, the college’s Deans’ List honors those students ...

Students learn one classroom’s trash is another one’s treasure

By JAIME STUDD
For the Express

PERTH — Students in Dianne Magliocca’s fourth-grade class at Broadalbin-Perth Intermediate School learned some unique, but important, lessons recently—not the least of which is tha ...

New year’s resolutions

Kindergartners from Broadalbin-Perth’s The Learning Community made their New Year’s resolutions last week with intentions of making good and keeping them for 2012. Among them were ABOVE RIGHT: Carissa Calderone wants t ...