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SPORTS
Monday, February 2, 2015 / 19
AREA HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
BOYS BASKETBALL
Fonda-Fultonville at
Schalmont, 7 p.m.
Northville at OESJ, 7 p.m.
Canajoharie at Fort Plain, 7
p.m.
Saratoga Catholic at
Galway, 7 p.m.
Broadalbin-Perth at ScotiaGlenville, 7:30 p.m.
Schuylerville at Amsterdam,
7:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Amsterdam at Schuylerville,
7 p.m.
Schalmont at FondaFultonville, 7 p.m.
Scotia-Glenville at
Broadalbin-Perth, 7 p.m.
BOYS SWIMMING
Hudson Falls at Amsterdam,
4:30 p.m.
Guilderland-Voorheesville
at Canajoharie-Fort Plain,
4:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
GIRLS BASKETBALL
OESJ at Northville, 7 p.m.
Galway at Saratoga Central
Catholic, 7 p.m.
Fort Plain at Canajoharie, 7
p.m.
FRIDAY
BOYS BASKETBALL
OESJ at Mayfield, 7 p.m.
Northville at Canajoharie, 7
p.m.
Galway at Fort Plain, 7 p.m.
Amsterdam at BroadalbinPerth, 7:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Broadalbin-Perth at
Amsterdam, 7 p.m.
Fonda-Fultonville at Albany
Academy, 7 p.m.
Mayfield at OESJ, 7 p.m.
Canajoharie at Northville, 7
p.m.
Fort Plain at Galway, 7 p.m.
WRESTLING ROUNDUP
Garrison, Swank win Big 10 titles
ALBANY — Amsterdam High School wrestlers Chris
Garrison and Brian Swank each won championships as the
Rams placed sixth out of 19 teams Saturday in the Big Ten
Invitational at Albany High School.
Swank, a senior, pinned his way through three matches to
capture the title at 160 pounds. After wins over Queensbury’s
Sean Duffy and New Hartford’s Kyle Kuty, Swank pinned top
seed Luke Marcelle of La Salle Institute six seconds into the
third period of the championship match.
Garrison, a junior, pinned Averill Park’s Jake Lanzillo and
won a 10-5 decision over Cobleskill-Richmondville’s Jack
Brown before pinning Mohonasen’s Mike Stark in 4:28 in the
championship match.
Senior John Rivera was the only other Amsterdam wrestler
to reach the finals, taking second at 145 pounds after dropping a 6-2 decision to Albany Academy’s Zeke Thomas.
Chris Velazquez took third at 106 pounds for the Rams,
falling in the semifinals to Anthony Stramiello of Pine Bush
before wrestling back to pin Averill Park’s Lucien Loeper in the
consolation final. Also taking third was Nelson Quinones, who
fell in the semis at 170 pounds before beating Shaker’s
Andrew Horval in the third-place match.
Francisco Alejandro added a sixth-place finish at 195 pounds
as the Rams finished with 118 team points, four points behind
fifth-place Albany Academy. Averill Park edged Burnt Hills,
Queensbury and Cobleskill for the team title.
THE OUTLET PASS
Local teams jockeying for position
It may seem
like we’ve
still got a
long way to
go, but as of
this morning
we’re just 16
days away
from the
Section II
boys and
By
girls basketADAM
ball seeding
meetings,
SHINDER
when we’ll
find out the
roads our local teams will face
in their respective postseason
tournaments.
And in such a short time, we’ve
still got a lot to figure out.
Heading into this week’s slate,
we know this much: If the
Amsterdam girls win at least one
of their final three games, they’ll
win the Foothills Council South
Division and play the North
Division champion for the overall
league title Feb. 13 at the Glens
Falls Civic Center.
Pretty much everything else after
that is a mystery.
OK, I’m exaggerating slightly.
The Amsterdam boys probably
have a lock on second in the
Foothills South ahead of
Broadalbin-Perth, Johnstown and
Gloversville, while the
Canajoharie girls — despite suffering their first league loss of the
year — control their own destiny
to capture the Western Athletic
Conference North Division,
though Mayfield, Fort Plain and
OESJ are all jumbled in the race
for the second WAC Cup spot.
After that, it gets seriously con-
Trevor Junquera/Recorder staff
Broadalbin-Perth’s
Preston
Taylor (5) puts up a shot in traffic during Friday’s game against
Johnstown in Broadalbin.
fusing — especially when you
look at the boys race in the WAC.
After OESJ beat Canajoharie and
Northville beat Fort Plain on
Friday night — both avenging
losses from earlier this season —
the WAC North is yet again wide
open. OESJ, Canajoharie and
Northville are tied for first at 7-3
with two league games left apiece,
Saratoga Central Catholic is 7-4
with just one game left and Fort
Plain still lurks at 6-4.
Northville and Canajoharie both
play two huge games this week,
with Northville facing OESJ on
Tuesday and Canajoharie visiting
Fort Plain before the Cougars and
Falcons meet each other in their
league finale Friday night in
Canajoharie. After playing
Northville, OESJ will wrap up its
league slate Friday at Mayfield,
while Fort Plain will host Galway
following Tuesday’s game against
Canajoharie. I won’t even try and
figure out tiebreaker scenarios
until Friday night’s action is fin-
ished, as it’s completely possible
we could end up with a five-way
tie where every team has the same
record against its opposition.
Beyond that, these final weeks
of the regular season are a battle
for seeding. The Amsterdam girls
are in the best spot record and
resume-wise, as if they run the
table as undefeated league champions, it’ll be hard not to making a
17-2 team a top-two seed in the
Class A playoffs.
The most interesting case study
will be the Broadalbin-Perth boys.
The Patriots could go into sectionals with five or more league losses, but all to Class A programs,
and though an undefeated Hoosick
Falls team will likely get the top
seed in Class B if it wins out, it
would be difficult to put a B-P
team with wins over Schalmont
and Mekeel Christian below the
No. 3 spot in the bracket.
Marquee matchups
So, so many great games on the
schedule this week. Tuesday night
is packed in the WAC, plus an
entertaining girls game with
Schalmont visiting FondaFultonville; Wednesday night features the always entertaining
Route 5S girls rivalry between
Fort Plain and Canajoharie and
Friday night has not only the final
night of WAC league games, but
also the boys rematch between
Broadalbin-Perth and Amsterdam
that should see one of the wildest
atmospheres in a long time at BP’s Robert Munn Gymnasium.
Contact ADAM SHINDER at
[email protected]
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