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Fulton County YMCA to offer indoor soccer

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:28:30 AM

JOHNSTOWN -- The Fulton County YMCA has announced that they are offering two indoor soccer programs for youth ages 5-10 years old to prepare them for the upcoming outdoor soccer season. The programs will begin the week of Feb. 28. Indoor Soccer f ...

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Catskill eliminates F-F

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:28:30 AM

Staff report CATSKILL -- Shameer Peterson scored 20 points and Cameron Overbaugh contributed with 16 points to lead Catskill to a 65-52 come-from-behind victory over Fonda-Fultonville in a Section II Class B boys basketball game on Tuesday night ...

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Lady Braves fall in Class B play

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:08:49 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff SCHUYLERVILLE -- After 36 minutes of hard-fought, back-and-forth action, it all came crashing down for the Fonda-Fultonville Lady Braves in the first 30 seconds of the team's second overtime session with the Sch ...

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Area teams in sectional action tonight

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:28:31 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff With the final first-round games in the Section II boys and girls basketball set for this evening, here's a series of predictions for the rest of the respective tournaments. Plucky Panthers The big ...

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F-MCC teams split

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:28:31 AM

Staff report The Fulton-Montgomery Community College basketball teams earned a split with the men and women from SUNY Delhi. The Lady Raiders were paced by Antonia Williams' team-high 22 points, as the F-MCC women used a big first half to crui ...

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Lady Braves win track sectionals

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:08:54 AM

ALBANY -- Fonda-Fultonville's Lindsay Therrien won three individual events Monday to lead the Lady Braves to a team title in the Section II Division 4 indoor track and field championship meet at the University at Albany. Therrien scored victores in t ...

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Canjo, FP girls open sectionals away from home

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:08:58 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff After each earning a share of the Western Athletic Conference North Division's regular-season title, one -- if not both -- of the Canajoharie Lady Cougars and the Fort Plain Lady Hilltoppers were bound to get a ...

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Bulls edge Heat in rec hoops action

Last Updated: Monday, February 20, 2012 3:28:48 AM

Sebastian Greco scored a team-high 10 points to pace the Heat past the Bulls, 25-23, in a 3-4th grade boys Amsterdam Recreation Basketball League contest. Kadyn Ruggeri aded six points for the Heat, while Josiah Newborn scored four, Nicholas Hernan ...

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Good for Lin, but let's restore the sanity

Last Updated: Monday, February 20, 2012 3:28:52 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff It's beginning to feel like the sports world's been taken over by a legion of Veruca Salts. For the unindoctrinated, Veruca was a character in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," one of five childre ...

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Santiago, Lanzi lead Rams to big day at Section II swim championships

Last Updated: Sunday, February 19, 2012 3:08:41 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff CLIFTON PARK -- Lucas Santiago doesn't need to be reminded that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. One very particular breakfast, in fact. "My mom makes me peanut butter pancakes in the morning," he ...

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Napier will have huge support group in Lake Placid

Last Updated: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:28:26 AM

By PHIL JOHNSON For the Recorder One of the great things about our area in winter is the opportunity we all have to watch the best athletes in the world compete in person. And what makes this year even better than most is that when the 2012 ...

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Amsterdam's Carbone to play football and baseball at Union

Last Updated: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:28:26 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff Chris Carbone was a wanted man. Two wanted men, actually. There were college coaches that wanted Carbone the football player, the three-year star and two-year captain for the Amsterdam Rugged Rams, a 2 ...

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O'Neil sparks Syracuse in Amsterdam Recreational play

Last Updated: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:28:31 AM

Staff report Ashlyn O'Neil scored six points and Megan Lamont and Anilaz Melendez each had four points to lead Syracuse to an 18-13 victory over Texas in an Amsterdam Recreational Basketball League playoff game. Syracuse advances to the grades ...

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Big game season results are in

Last Updated: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:28:38 AM

By RON KOLODZIEJ For the Recorder According to the Department of Environmental Conservation , the agency will compile and release the results of the 2011 big game seasons sometime late this month, a tad earlier than normal. I'll pass those res ...

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Fonda-Fultonville boys and girls have new life

Last Updated: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:29:13 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff FONDA -- After a season of struggling in the Colonial Council, both the Fonda-Fultonville basketball Braves and Lady Braves enter their respective Section II Class B tournaments with new life and a chance ...

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A look at possible upsets

Last Updated: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:29:14 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff Besides the boys and girls from Fonda-Fultonville, which five teams (Class A through Class D) have the best shot to score an upset when the Section II basketball tournaments' first rounds begin next week? ...

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Amsterdam's Duemler gets favorable opponent

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:28:33 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The 2012 Section II girls basketball seeding meeting took on a different tone for Amsterdam head coach Eric Duemler than it had in years past. After representing the Big 10 on the see ...

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Fort Plain boys not looking in the past

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:28:34 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff FORT PLAIN -- Fresh off a disappointing loss Tuesday night in the Western Athletic Conference Cup championship game, the Fort Plain Hilltoppers were dealt another blow Wednesday afternoon in the form of t ...

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Lady Patriots earn a 'B' home game

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:28:34 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff SARATOGA SPRINGS -- A week ago, Broadalbin-Perth girls basketball head coach Mike Magliocca was tempering his expectations for his club come sectional-seeding time. Maybe getting a worse seed in the Sec ...

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Don't tell Running Rams they are one-and-done

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:28:35 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff SARATOGA SPRINGS -- When Amsterdam High School boys basketball coach got his first glimpse of the Section II Class A playoff pairings Wednesday, he wasn't too surprised to see his Running Rams seeded 12th. ...

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Amsterdam's Lanzi, Santiago expect to fare well

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:28:43 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff Lucas Santiago almost can't believe that this is his last go-round. After four years as a standout for the Amsterdam High School boys swim team, Santiago is on the precipice of his final Section II champ ...

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Lady Rams hold off Schenectady

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:28:31 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff TOWN OF AMSTERDAM -- One minute before halftime Tuesday night, and the Amsterdam Lady Rams were in the middle of a Senior Night party, up 23 points and rolling past Big 10 rival Schenectady. Fast forward ...

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AHS boys fall to Schenectady, 72-64

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:28:31 AM

Staff report SCHENECTADY -- Shateek Garlic scored a game-high 22 points, and the Schenectady Patriots held off a late charge to score a 72-64 victory over Amsterdam in both teams' Big 10 regular season finale Monday night. Jallah Tarver added ...

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Fort Plain falls short in title bid

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:28:32 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff JOHNSTOWN -- Fort Plain head coach Casey Russom tried out every defense in his team's arsenal, just trying to find a way to slow down Mekeel Christian Academy's Collin Stewart for long enough for the Hill ...

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Hilltoppers meet MCA for WAC Cup

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:28:49 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff JOHNSTOWN -- After figuring out a way to limit Sharon Springs' Brett Ullman to 19 points -- and just five in the second half -- in their Western Athletic Conference Cup semifinal victory, the Fort Plain H ...

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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.

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

Lorraine (Lorry) Grace Overbaugh

February 13, 201 Lorraine (Lorry) Grace Overbaugh, 57, of Elk Street, Amsterdam, NY passed away surrounded by family and friends Monday February 13, 2012 at St. Mary's Hospital. She held a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, worked for Chil ...

Joeella (Briskie) Marek

February 19, 2012 Joeella (Briskie) Marek, 83, peacefully passed to eternal life on Sunday, February 19, 2012. She was born to Stanley and Agatha Briskie of Fort Johnson, attended local schools and raised her family locally. She married Clem ...

Jamie Lynn Hoyt Gannon

February 19, 2012 Jamie Lynn Hoyt Gannon, age 27, of Gloversville, passed away on Sunday February 19, 2012, at Albany Medical Center after being stricken at home. She was born February 13, 1985 in Gloversville. She was employed as a Certified ...

Carl J. Nasse Jr.

February 19, 2012 Carl J. Nasse Jr., 89, of Palatine Nursing Home and formally of Mapletown Road, Canajoharie went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 19, 2012 with his loving family at his side. The only son of Carl and Katherine Jone ...

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

An eyesore at our gateway To the editor: I was pleased to read in this past weekend's newspaper that someone, albeit a federal agency, HUD, has finally addressed the appalling conditions that exist within the Highland/Holland apartment complex. I ...

Letter to the Editor

Out of money; out of time To the editor: Attached is a copy of an open letter I have sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Dear Gov. Cuomo: I am writing to you today to request your assistance. This year, my district and other small rural school distric ...

Letter to the Editor

The train has run off the tracks To the editor: As we tick toward Election Day 2012, there seems to be a fairy tale type mantra being told by our media. When someone becomes an elected official, the things they say in front of the cameras, q ...

Letters to the Editor

Taxpayers can't afford more To the editor: I recently read the article in which the Broadalbin-Perth School Superintendent was whining about not having enough money in the budget this year and how he cannot possibly come under the cap as proposed ...