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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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Extras doom Patriots

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:08:34 AM

Staff report ALBANY -- The Broadalbin-Perth Patriots and Albany Academy Cadets battled through 11 innings of baseball Tuesday afternoon, and at the end of the day, one slip-up was enough to put a crushing end to B-P's season. Rory Flaherty sco ...

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Cougars vanquished in first round

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:08:36 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff DELANSON -- Canajoharie baseball head coach Brent Watterson gathered his team in the third-base dugout at Duanesburg High School and gave his team one last speech about what the Cougars had accomplished th ...

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Mayfield gets 10th seed in 'C'

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:39 AM

Staff report Mayfield led a group of five local softball teams headed to sectional play, as the Lady Panthers received the No. 10 seed in the Section II Class C playoffs. Mayfield won the Western Athletic Conference North Division, and will tr ...

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Amsterdam to open against Queensbury

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:39 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff When he looked at the numbers heading into the seeding meeting for the Section II Class A playoffs, Amsterdam baseball coach Brian Spagnola saw the bracket laying out with the Rams as the No. 5 seed with a ...

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Fort Plain grabs No. 1 seed in 'C'

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:40 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff The Fort Plain Hilltoppers are in a familiar place as the top seed in the Section II Class C baseball playoffs -- but according to longtime head coach Craig Phillips, that doesn't make the Hilltoppers' pa ...

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Amsterdam's Dyakiv earns award

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:08:40 AM

Staff report Nichols College junior women's tennis student-athlete Anna Dyakiv of Amsterdam has been named to the 2012-13 Capital One Academic District 1 NCAA Division III First Team. Dyakiv, meanwhile, was named CCC Player of the Year for the ...

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Warner wins feature at Glen Ridge

Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:08:53 AM

By THOMAS COUGHLIN For the Recorder FULTONVILLE -- Glen Ridge Motorstports Park fans were greeted with another great night of fast racing action Friday night, highlighted by Rocky Warner capturing his first career Modified division feature win ...

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Traffic no problem for Varin in Fonda victory

Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:08:54 AM

Staff report FONDA -- With four laps to go in the 30-lap Modified feature event Saturday at Fonda Speedway, there were six or more lapped cars racing side-by-side for position in between leader Danny Varin and the checkered flag. When theb checkered ...

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Hardies helps lift Rams to team title at Eddy Meet

Last Updated: Sunday, May 19, 2013 4:09:03 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff SCHENECTADY — As teammates rushed to congratulate Amsterdam High School’s Izaiah Brown after he anchored the Rams’ winning 4x400-meter relay team to close Saturday’s William F. Eddy Jr. ...

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Amsterdam's Brown dominates Eddy Meet

Last Updated: Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:48:54 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff SCHENECTADY — For the duration of Saturday’s 73rd annual William F. Eddy Jr. Track and Field Meet, no athlete attracted as much attention as Amsterdam High School’s Izaiah Brown. The sophomor ...

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Rams' season ends with 6-5 loss to Troy

Last Updated: Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:08:55 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff A loose ball that rolled just out of the crease and a clearing pass into traffic that took a bounce in the wrong direction. Two slip-ups that ultimately spelled the end of the season for the Amsterdam High School ...

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Lady Braves roll

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:54 AM

Staff report FONDA -- Emily Frollo belted a second-inning grand slam as part of a six RBI afternoon that powered the Fonda-Fultonville softball team in Friday's 11-0 rout of Watervliet. Emily Parslow ripped two doubles and a triple for the Lad ...

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Angelo hurls complete-game two-hitter to lift Amsterdam, 4-1

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:54 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff Dylan Angelo knew the way he was pitching was leaving Amsterdam outfielders Jonardy Anil, Ayden Healy and Jared Gallup a bit bored. He just didn't care. "A couple of them, actually, told me to show the ...

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AHS modified falls to La Salle, 4-3

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:54 AM

Staff report Nate Healy had a double and single and Robbie Spagnola added two singles, but it wasn't enough as the Amsterdam modified baseball team dropped a 4-3 decision to La Salle. Isaiah Pereicich added a single for Amsterdam.

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Sectional titles up for grabs

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:55 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff The brackets for the Section II baseball playoffs will be released Monday, and in that postseason spirit, we crack open the Extra Bases Mailbag (cue dramatic music) with this question from Cindi R.: "O ...

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Amsterdam U11 travel splits pair

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:55 AM

Staff report Richard Gannon tossed a four-hit complete game to lead the Amsterdam Rams Under 11 team to a 7-4 victory over Twin Town in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday. Twin Town won the opener 4-3. In the nitecap, Damian Colon h ...

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AHS seniors say goodbye to 2013

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:55 AM

It went by so quick. That was the overriding sentiment Monday, as the Amsterdam Lady Rams softball team went through the steps of its Senior Day celebration prior to a 10-0 win against Albany. While it seems like it was just a few weeks ago that ...

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The big one: Athletes set for Eddy Meet

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:55 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff Amsterdam High School's John Hardies had the best answer to sum up the importance of today's showcase track and field event at Schenectady High School. "I mean, it's the Eddy Meet," he says, the simplic ...

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Rain makes local tracks a risky venture

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:57 AM

By THOMAS COUGHLIN For the Recorder Rain in the forecast last weekend made racing a risky venture around New York, but most of the Friday and Sunday tracks were able to get their programs in. Glen Ridge Motorsports Park had another great sh ...

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Brown ready for his encore at Eddy

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:57 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff TOWN OF AMSTERDAM -- Coming off a state championship in the indoor season and with the memories of his spectacular freshman season a year ago still fresh, Amsterdam High School track and field's Izaiah Br ...

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Hard work pays off for Amsterdam's Hardies

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:58 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff TOWN OF AMSTERDAM -- It is not that Amsterdam High School track and field's John Hardies felt helpless during past seasons -- and there was no reason to feel that way. Entering his senior season, Hardies ...

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Braves vary in approach to today's competition

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:58 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff FONDA -- Mostly calm and cool, the members of the Fonda-Fultonville Braves track and field team heads into today's William F. Eddy Jr. Track and Field Meet. Senior Matt Hoffman, who competed last season ...

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Once reluctant, B-P's Smith is now a top thrower

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:58 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff 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." ...

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Climbers, hikers warned about muddy conditions

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:08:58 AM

By RON KOLODZIEJ For the Recorder The Department of Environmental Conservation is warning climbers, hikers and other backcountry trekkers to be careful and cautious on trails above 3,000 feet, until at least early June when trail conditions ar ...

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Knuckler helps Braves' Shaw flummox hitters

Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013 4:08:27 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff FONDA - It's almost a rite of passage for Little League players, that time in their formative baseball careers when they pick up a ball and ponder the same proposition. "I bet I could throw a knuckleball ...

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Sports Reporters

PAUL ANTONELLI (SPORTS EDITOR)

Paul is a graduate of SUNY Albany, and is a 10-time award winner of the New York Newspaper Publisher's Association and a member of the Associated Press Sports Editors. Antonelli covered 44 of Mike Tyson's 56 professional fights and was one of just five American journalists to cover Tyson's stunning loss to Buster Douglas in Tokyo, Japan. His Tyson stories appeared nationally (USA Today) as well as in some of the top publications internationally.

Antonelli was a long-time beat writer for the New York Giants, covering Super Bowl XXV and also spent three years covering the New York Knicks, including the team's appearance in the 1994 NBA Finals.

Antonelli lives in Amsterdam and is married with two children. He can be reached via email at paul.antonelli@recordernews.com.

ADAM SHINDER (SPORTS REPORTER)

Adam Shinder has been covering sports at the Recorder since September 2008.

A native of Holland, Pa., Adam is a 2007 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University with B.S. in Newspaper. He was the recipient of a 2008-09 and 2009-10 New York News Publishers Association award for Outstanding Sports Writing.

Adam can be reached via email at adam.shinder@recordernews.com.

MICHAEL KELLY (SPORTS REPORTER)

Michael Kelly has been covering sports at the Recorder since May 2011.

Michael is from Clifton Park and is a 2010 graduate of Stony Brook University, with degrees from the school of journalism and history.

Michael can be reached via email at michael.kelly@recordernews.com.

RON KOLODZIEJ

Ron is an outdoor writer and regular columnist for both the Recorder and Express newspapers. He can be contacted at rkolodzi@nycap.rr.com while he blogs at Blog - Kolodziej Outdoors.

Obituaries

Donald R. Thane

May 17, 2013 Donald R. Thane, 90, of 115 Laurel Drive, Amsterdam, NY, passed away peacefully on May 17, 2013 at St. Mary's Hospital with his family at his side. Born in Weehawken, NJ on January 31, 1923, Donald was the son of Robert and Elsi ...

Hazel Pearl

May 17, 2013 Mrs. Hazel Pearl, 96, a resident of St. Johnsville Rehabilitation & Nursing Center since 2005 passed away on May 17, 2013 at the facility. She was born on May 21, 1916, in Little Falls, daughter of the late Willis and Carrie G ...

Virginia Herlihy McKeough

May 18, 2013 Virginia Herlihy McKeough, 87, of Loveland, Ohio and formerly of Amsterdam, New York passed away Saturday morning May 18, 2013 at The Lodge Retirement Community in Cincinnati, Ohio. Born in Glens Falls, New York on September 15, 1 ...

Lena G. Campione

March 4, 2013 Graveside services for Lena G. Campione, who passed away on March 4, 2013 will be held at 11:00am on Saturday May 25, 2013 at St. Johnsville Cemetery with the Rev. Thomas Lawless officiating. The family is being cared for by the E ...

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Balance and perspective To the editor: My name is Kathy Hans and I am a candidate for the Greater Amsterdam School District Board of Education. I am a life-long resident of Amsterdam, a mother of two children in the district and a taxpayer. As ...

Letters to the Editor

The town has a lot to offer To the editor: I am writing to say that I have been a very proud citizen of the town of Amsterdam my whole life. Our Supervisor Thomas DiMezza has been an integral part of making our community a great place to live, wo ...

The GASD's four goals

By NELLIE A. BUSH For the Recorder Thank you for the opportunity to use the Amsterdam Recorder as a means to communicate with the citizens of the Amsterdam community as we approach the school district budget vote, which will take place on Tues ...

Letters to the Editor

Change is what is needed To the editor: Hello, my name is Laurie Hamblin. I am a married mother of five children. First and foremost, I am not by any means a politician. I am not running for school board to scratch anyone's back just to have mine ...

Entertainment

Celebrities

Actor Depardieu to play Chechen seeking revenge GROZNY, Russia (AP) -- French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of his son. Chechnya, a southern Russian province, has been in the spotlight since it emerged that the suspects in April's Boston marathon bombing are ethnic Chechens. The predominantly Muslim province was devastated by two separatist wars with Moscow, and its current Kremlin-b ...

The Doors' Manzarek dies at 74

By CHRIS TALBOTT The Associated Press Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complimented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald. Robinson-Fitzgerald said his manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed Manzarek died after ...

'Star Trek' falls short of box office expectations

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations. The latest voyage of the starship Enterprise fell short of its predecessor, 2009's "Star Trek," which opened with $75.2 million. Since premiering Wednesday in huge-screen IMAX theaters and expanding Thursday to general cinemas, "I ...

In Miami, Donna Karan showcases Haitian artisans

MIAMI (AP) -- The handbag Donna Karan was showing off Friday lacked her signature logo, or any designer's logo. It was made of paper mache and, the fashion designer said, represented Haiti's handmade carnival masks -- in wearable form. She said the tote bag and other similar fashion and decorative items made by Haitian artisans are part of her "dressing and addressing people" campaign: taking art to where the most people will buy it. "A painting can ...