Instead of gearing up to defend sectional championships, Northern Athletic Conference baseball and softball teams find themselves playing the waiting game. Read More ⇒
PHOENIX — Phoenix varsity football coach David Johnson received a surprise phone call from athletic director John Jeffries prior to recent school closures regarding 20 students climbing over a locked fence to play football on the John C. Birdlebough (JCB) High School field. Read More ⇒
On Monday, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association announced that all winter state championships, which had previously been indefinitely postponed, are now officially canceled due to concern regarding COVID-19. Read More ⇒
After a week of being stuck in limbo, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association announced Monday morning that the 2020 Winter Championships are officially canceled. Read More ⇒
High school track and field athletes are stuck on the starting line as they wait for their season to begin. Read More ⇒
Copenhagen’s Riley Dalrymple has broken plenty of barriers in her career and she finished with a big one that plenty of male wrestlers don’t achieve. Read More ⇒
A decision is expected Monday on the status of the currently postponed winter championships, but first the New York State Public High School Athletic Association officers want to get as much input from schools throughout the state as possible. Read More ⇒
Sports throughout the world are on pause and the Frontier League is no exception. Section 3’s decision to postpone the start of the spring sports season to April 14 has left coaches and players in a state of limbo as they wait to see if and when their spring season will begin. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — The COVID-19 coronavirus caused the New York State Public High School Athletic Association to postpone the state winter championships last week, affecting basketball, hockey and bowling. Read More ⇒
Spring sports practices in Section 3 will be on hold until at least April 14 due to growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, according to a letter by executive director John Rathbun on behalf of the Section 3 executive committee sent to its members leagues and schools Sunday. Read More ⇒
MEXICO — Dean Shambo started his varsity wrestling career at Mexico High School as a seventh-grader showing promise as part of a state championship team in 2015, and recently concluded his decorated tenure in the spotlight of the state tournament finals. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Multiple generations of Immaculate Heart Central athletes gathered together Saturday night at the Italian-American Civic Association to honor the latest inductees into the IHA/IHC Athletic Hall of Fame. Read More ⇒
LOWVILLE — When Chad Bach saw Lowville athletic director Rob Goss and superintendent Rebecca Dunckel-King enter the gym where the boys basketball team was practicing a little after 4:30 p.m. Thursday, he immediately had a sinking feeling. Read More ⇒
HARRISVILLE — Harrisville senior Hannah LaPlatney recently committed to play basketball for NCAA Division III Sage College of the Albany area in a ceremony at Harrisville Central School. Read More ⇒
On Thursday afternoon at 3:15 p.m., the New York State Public High School Athletic Association sent out a press release stating that all of the upcoming winter state championships will be “postponed indefinitely” due to the spread of the coronavirus. Read More ⇒
The New York State Public High School Athletic Association announced the indefinite postponement of the winter sports state championships Thursday afternoon, casting the basketball, ice hockey and bowling finals in doubt. Read More ⇒
High school basketball: St. Lawrence Central girls, Madrid-Waddington boys advance in state playoffs
A blend of depth and experience gave Section 10 a clean sweep of the opening state basketball playoff games Wednesday at SUNY Potsdam. Read More ⇒
Fans banned from state high school hockey finals; Clarkson men get weekend off for revamped playoffs
The state high school hockey final four in Buffalo will take place without any fans this weekend and Clarkson University’s men’s hockey team will get the weekend off as the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak continued to affect athletic events involving area teams Wednesday. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — Averill Park put together dominating performance Tuesday at SUNY Potsdam’s Jerry Welsh Gymnasium. Read More ⇒
PULASKI — The memory chain that stretches across a long hallway near the Pulaski High School gym can only begin to represent the career impact made by Jeff Shirley. Read More ⇒
Game times have been announced for the Lowville boys and South Jefferson girls state basketball playoff games. Read More ⇒
EAST MEADOW — Watertown senior Nate Carlos took third place in the 100-yard freestyle and seventh in the 50 freestyle at the NYSPHSAA boys swimming championships Saturday at Nassau County Aquatic Center. Read More ⇒
High school boys basketball: Lowville delivers Section 3 championship repeat, Lyme unable to do same
SYRACUSE — Lowville’s top-seeded boys basketball team became the first Frontier League boys team in 10 years to repeat as Section 3 champions with a 71-50 victory over No. 2 Solvay in the Class B final Saturday at Onondaga Community College. Read More ⇒
SYRACUSE — While the South Jefferson girls basketball team prepares for another run at a state title, the Copenhagen girls basketball team will be thinking over its Section 3 Class D final loss to Brookfield. Read More ⇒
EAST MEADOW — Watertown senior Nate Carlos placed second and 10th in the 100- and 50-yard freestyle races, respectively, in the preliminary round of the NYSPHSAA boys swimming championships Friday at the Nassau County Aquatic Center. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — The Canton girls basketball team repeated as Section 10 overall champions with a 74-58 win over Class D champion Hammond in the Overall championship game Friday night at SUNY Potsdam. Read More ⇒
MEXICO — Kian Long missed a swim practice with the Mexico Tiger Sharks during his early years with the club and went to an open swim session to make up for the lost training time. Read More ⇒
PULASKI — Xavier Babcock will celebrate his 18th birthday Friday and then display the maturation of his competitive spirit Saturday as a high jump contender at the state indoor track and field championships. Read More ⇒
SYRACUSE — All four Frontier League teams participating in Saturday’s Section 3 finals will be vying to defend titles. Read More ⇒
CARTHAGE — Carthage two-way lineman Collin Null signed his national letter of intent to play football at NCAA Division II Mercyhurst University on Thursday. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — The Canton girls basketball team will get a chance to repeat as Section 10 overall champions after knocking off Class C champion St. Lawrence Central 60-53 in an overall semifinal Wednesday night at SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Hall. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — The Watertown boys swimming team knows speed is the key to sectional and state success. Gaining that extra bit of speed is a year-round process for the team. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — MeSean Johnson scored 19 points to lead the Ogdensburg Free Academy boys basketball team to an 82-31 victory over Madrid-Waddington in a Section 10 overall semifinal Tuesday night at SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Hall. Read More ⇒
CARTHAGE — In quest of a second consecutive Section 3 title, the Lyme boys basketball team continues to thrive under the pressure during the postseason. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — Along with cultivating a good-luck charm this winter, the Ogdensburg Free Academy boys hockey team crafted a second Section 10 Division II title in three years Monday night. Read More ⇒
SYRACUSE — A couple of close games and a blowout defined the Frontier League’s performance in the Section 3 girls basketball semifinals Sunday at Onondaga Community College. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — The anticipated battle between the defending No. 1 team in the state against the current No. 1 team in the state was simply – a classic one. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Both the Frontier League and Northern Athletic Conference brought home state titles at the NYSPHSAA wrestling championships Saturday night at the Times Union Center. Read More ⇒
SYRACUSE — The top-seeded Lowville boys basketball team will return to the Section 3 Class B finals. Third-seeded General Brown will not. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — The Canton and Ogdensburg Free Academy fans each had something to cheer about and be disappointed over Saturday night at SUNY Potsdam’s Maxcy Hall. The Section 10 Class B basketball championships featured each school’s boys and girls teams, which split the titles. Read More ⇒
CHAUMONT — Mark Wilson likes to refer to his Lyme girls basketball team as silent assassins. The girls in Chaumont are possibly the best girls team to wear the word “LYME” across the front of their jerseys. But Wilson isn’t trying to call much attention to it. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — One fourth-quarter rally succeeded while another fell short as the Madrid-Waddington Central and St. Lawrence Central basketball teams split the Section 10 Class C boys and girls championships Friday night at SUNY Potsdam’s Jerry Welsh Gymnasium. Read More ⇒
OGDENSBURG — Freshman Landin McDonald scored the winning goal as No. 2 Ogdensburg Free Academy advanced past No. 3 Salmon River in a shootout after skating to a 2-2 tie with the Shamrocks in a Section 10 Division II semifinal Friday night. Read More ⇒
Three area wrestlers advanced to the semifinals after winning a pair of matches Friday at the state wrestling championships at the Times Union Center in Albany. Read More ⇒
The second-seeded Lyme boys basketball team’s Section 3 Class D semifinal game against No. 3 Old Forge was postponed from Saturday to Monday evening due to possible inclement weather in the Syracuse area. Read More ⇒
CICERO — In the moments before the biggest match of his high school wrestling career at the recent Section 3 Division I championships, Peyton Rupracht gazed into the crowd at SRC Arena in Syracuse and watched as the legion of Central Square supporters cheered on his co-captain, Kole Mulhauser. Read More ⇒
FULTON — Fulton G. Ray Bodley High School will be represented by six varsity wrestlers at the state championship tournament this weekend, matching a program record to cap off another campaign for the ages. Read More ⇒
NORFOLK — Jayden Grant and Bobby Voss scored goals 11 seconds apart in the first minute of the third period to give top-seeded Norwood-Norfolk the lead for good in a 5-2 win over No. 5 St. Lawrence Central in a Section 10 Division II boys hockey semifinal Thursday night. Read More ⇒
Three of the four Section 10 playoff games scheduled for Thursday were postponed due to inclement weather. Read More ⇒
The Central Square varsity girls basketball team recently raised $14,000 during their annual Coaches vs. Cancer fundraiser game Feb. 5 at Paul V. Moore High School, according to district athletic director James Drancsak. Read More ⇒