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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BOYS BASKETBALL
Foothills Council
Broadalbin-Perth wins first contest
BROADALBIN — The wait is over.
After going winless over the first seven games of the season, the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots finally broke into the win column last Friday night, as Ben Bellandi scored 14 points to pace a 58-36 victory over Hudson Falls in Foothills Council boys basketball action.
R.J. Pingitore chipped in 13 points for the Patriots (13-10), who outscored Hudson Falls in every quarter and held the Tigers to ...
By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express
BROADALBIN — Monday night’s effort against Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons provided a microcosm of where the Broadalbin-Perth Lady Patriots basketball program currently resides — and, where the team needs to improve.
After posting a string of losing seasons in which the Lady Patriots rarely won a handful of games, B-P has come on strong this season and moved to 7-3 on the season after its 34-25 victory at home against ND-BG in non-league game.
Yet, t ...
By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express
CANAJOHARIE — The visiting Northville Lady Falcons fell Tuesday night to Mackenzie Stahler, Alicia Stetin and the rest of the Canajoharie Lady Cougars, 53-36, for the third time this season.
Stahler paced the Lady Cougars for most of the first half, with Stetin taking over in the third quarter. In the stanza following halftime, Stetin registered a dozen points and led the Lady Cougars in pushing their lead from 11 to 19 points heading into the final quarte ...
By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express
This time, the Mayfield Panthers got to be the ones wildly celebrating a last-second, one-point victory.
When Mayfield boys basketball’s Dylan Toscano hit a baseline jump shot with just a few seconds to play this past Friday, it sent the Panthers past Saratoga Central Catholic, 46-45.
Earlier this season, Mayfield had been on the other end of a last-second finish to a game, when the Galway Golden Eagles (2-8, 2-4 Western Athletic Conference North Division) ...
By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express
BROADALBIN — Tucker Gifford is seeing the improvements in his team every time the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots step onto the court for practice.He’s still waiting for that progress to show itself in a game.
“All I can say is we are working hard every day, but we aren’t getting results,” Gifford said. “As much as I thought we had a good week of practice, we just didn’t produce.”
Gifford’s frustrations continued la ...
By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express
BROADALBIN — The Broadalbin-Perth girls basketball team felt the pressure.
They just held on long enough not to wilt under it.
It took fewer than 13 minutes for the Lady Patriots to build up a 17-point lead over Mechanicville in Wednesday night’s championship game of the B-P Holiday Tournament. But, from the time Katie Herba’s 3-pointer swished through the net as the shot clock expired with 3:04 to play in the first half, B-P spent the rest of t ...
By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express
BROADALBIN — The best season in Broadalbin-Perth Patriots soccer history got a little bit richer this as of Sunday, Dec. 11.
At that weekend’s Section II soccer banquet, a trio of Patriots were recognized for their stellar performances this past season, which ended just under a month ago in a New York State Class B championship.
Dom Kwiatkowski was named the Section II Small School Player of the Year, Madison Wilcox was named the keeper of the year a ...
BOYS BASKETBALL
Foothills Council
Vdoviak’s big night sinks Patriots
BROADALBIN — Mitch Vdoviak scored 30 points to lead Johnstown in a 57-50 win over Broadalbin-Perth in Foothills Council boys basketball action Monday night, extending the Patriots’ hard-luck start to the season.
The 6-foot-6 Vdoviak exploited his height advantage against the undersized Patriots to chalk up 13 field goals — all inside the 3-point line — while finishing 4-of-11 from the free throw li ...
BOYS BASKETBALL
B-P boys falter in opener
BROADALBIN — Andrew Tabbert scored a game-high 17 points, and the Scotia-Glenville Tartans went 27-of-34 as a team from the free throw line to post a 69-56 victory over Broadalbin-Perth in Foothills Council boys basketball action Monday night.
Chris Zanta added 14 points for Scotia-Glenville (4-0, 1-0 Foothills), while Casey Norton scored 12. Brad Callahan was a perfect 8-for-8 from the charity stripe and scored 10 points.
R.J. Pingitore knocked do ...
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Wood, Lady Patriots
cruise in opener
BROADALBIN — Kaitlin Wood scored a game-high 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Broadalbin-Perth girls basketball team to a season-opening 55-33 win Monday over Middleburgh in non-league action.
Kylie Gifford and Monica Magliocca each scored six points for B-P (1-0), while Katie Herba had five points and picked up eight steals. The Lady Patriots outscored Middleburgh 36-8 in the first half and lead 49-17 after three quarters ...
Ladd, Braves open with win over B-P
By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express
FONDA — With some help from their fellow Fonda-Fultonville Braves, the backcourt duo of Jarett Ladd and Charles Parslow led F-F to an opening night non-league 63-53 victory against the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots.
For the game, Ladd had 18 points and Parslow had 13 points, five assists and three steals.
“We kind of relaxed a bit there,” said B-P head coach Tucker Gifford. “We softened up a bit and, when ...
By PAUL ANTONELLI
For the Express
COLONIE — Dominic Kwiatkowski took one final lap of appreciation around Colonie High School’s soccer field, clapping and giving high fives up the entire way to those that stuck around.
The career of one of the most prolific scorers in Broadalbin-Perth boys soccer history will extend at least another week as the senior forward scored both goals — his 32nd and 33rd of the season — to lead the Patriots to a hard-earned 2-1 victory over prev ...
By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express
STILLWATER — Christopher Edwards stepped up to his new job as the Northville High School girls soccer coach this year knowing that not one of his players had ever ended their season with anything less than a Section II Class D championship patch to add to their collections.
He wanted to live up to tradition.
Tuesday at Warrior Park, Edwards got everything he could ask for, as the Lady Falcons got a goal from Ashley Ferguson midway through the first half, th ...
Veronica Arceri had two of Northville’s four second-half goals as the top-seeded Lady Falcons pulled away to a 4-0 win over Salem in a Section II Class D girls soccer quarterfinal match. Allison Wadsworth added a goal and an assist for Northville (12-4-1), while Georgiana Maya also scored and Katie Dickey contributed an assist. Kristi Bills made six saves for the Lady Falcons. ABOVE RIGHT: The team enters the field Monday.
BROADALBIN — Dominic Kwiatkowski scored a pair of goals and added an assist as the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots overpowered Schuylerville, 4-0, in a Section II Class B boys soccer quarterfinal Saturday at Patriot Field.
Kwiatkowski opened the scoring in the 13th minute when he collected a nice feed from strike partner Ben Bellandi, beat a defender and finished into the side netting. B-P (14-0-3) then made it 2-0 in the 39th minute when Kwiatkowski teed up Tucker Wilcox for a bolt from 18 yard ...
By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express
BROADALBIN — Shoulders slumped, the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots watched as the South Glens Falls Bulldogs took a celebratory lap around Patriot Field with just over two minutes to play in Friday’s soccer match.
The Bulldogs’ Ben Firlit had connected off a pass from Kyle Ogden to break the scoreless tie in the contest’s 78th minute. After stopping a shot directly before Firlit’s, B-P goalkeeper Madison Wilcox had the ball stripped away ...
By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express
The Broadalbin-Perth Patriots aren’t going to sneak up on anybody anymore.
Fresh off an undefeated regular season and a Foothills Council championship — despite being the only Class B school in a league otherwise filled with bigger Class A programs — the Patriots were rewarded with the top seed in the Section II Class B boys soccer tournament, but head coach Brian Henry knows that the top billing brings with it plenty of added pressure.
“W ...
Sectional champion from 2008 and 2009 Mayfield is the No. 3 seed in Class D and will open play Friday at home against No. 6 seed Lake George, with the winner heading to the semifinals for a Nov. 2 match against the winner of the 2/7 game between Hartford — the team that eliminated the Lady Panthers in last year’s Class D semifinals — and Waterford.
In Class B, Broadalbin-Perth is the No. 8 seed, earning the Lady Patriots an opening round home game Wednesday against No. 9 seed I ...
BOYS SOCCER
Foothills Council
Broadalbin-Perth 1,
Queensbury 0
Broadalbin-Perth secured a tie for the Foothills Council title with a victory over Queensbury.
B-P can win the title outright with a victory over South Glens Falls on Friday. South Glens Falls can earn a share of the league title with a victory over B-P, but a SGF loss or tie will give the title outright to the Patriots
Ethan Church provided all the offense, scoring unassisted 20 minutes into the game.
“The slick conditions ma ...
By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express
Broadalbin-Perth girls soccer coach Rob Klug was thrilled with his team’s seeding for the Section II Class B tournament. But, he knows that if the Lady Patriots don’t back up their excellent regular season form in the one-and-done playoffs, the fact that they were a No. 2 seed will be nothing but a footnote.
And his players know it, too.
“They know that it’s just a number,” Klug said. “What matters is the next two weeks of socc ...
By ADAM SHINDER
For the Express
BROADALBIN — There’s a simple truth that each and every one of the Broadalbin-Perth boys soccer team’s opponents has had to reckon with at some point this year.
Sooner or later, Dominic Kwiatkowski is going to put one — or several — in the back of the net.
B-P’s star forward has scored with remarkable ease and efficiency so far during his senior year. In 13 games, Kwiatkowski has a Section II-best 26 goals on his account, inclu ...
By MICHAEL KELLY
For the Express
BROADALBIN — Nursing a two-point halftime lead, the Broadalbin-Perth Patriots’ defense was set to deal the visiting Cobleskill-Richmondville Bulldogs quite the blow on their opening drive of the second half.
After Pierre LaPort’s second sack of the game for the Patriots, C-R hiked the ball at B-P’s 34-yard line on a crucial 4th-and-11. Bulldogs quarterback Mitchell Wrighter scrambled out of the pocket to the 25, but seemed trapped there.
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