BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter NISKAYUNA — Obviously, things are going to be a bit different this season for the Niskayuna baseball team. Gone is Garrett Whitley, off preparing for his second season of professional baseball in the Tampa Bay…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter NISKAYUNA — Spring weather came early this year, and high school sports are not wasting any time getting going. At Niskayuna, the boys’ and girls’ lacrosse teams are looking to defend Section II championships. The…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter NISKAYUNA — To say the least, 2015 packed some serious sports punch. While there were enough great sports moments in 2015 to produce a much longer list, here are 10 of the year’s stories that…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter Earlier this week, Garrett Whitley had only one complaint about his first season playing professional baseball. While expressing excitement about the opportunity to get home to Niskayuna for a couple weeks, Whitley was not quite…
FORT MYERS, FLA. — In his return to the Gulf Coast League Rays’ lineup after a string of absences, Garrett Whitley connected today for the first home run of his professional career. Whitley, a 2015 Niskayuna High School graduate, hit…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Reporter COLONIE — A pair of Niskayuna High School alumni got the chance to further their baseball dreams this summer as key members of the town’s 15U travel squad, which won an Eastern New York state…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Reporter COLONIE — With its ebbs and flows, baseball has a way of being as unpredictable a game as any. If they did not know that already, the players on the Niskayuna 15U travel squad learned…
BY ANDREW PUGLIESE For Your Niskayuna GUILDERLAND — Niskayuna’s entry battled to a runner-up finish at the Connie Mack State Championships at Dutchmen Field in Guilderland’s Keenholt Park on July 20. The 18-and-under wood bat baseball team lost to the…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Reporter Garrett Whitley recorded the first hit of his professional baseball career today, a single, in a 4-3 loss for the Gulf Coast League Rays against the Gulf Coast League Orioles. In a 1-for-3 game, Whitley…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Reporter NISKAYUNA — After a big hit resulted in a couple runs scoring toward the close of the July 14 session of the annual sandlot baseball camp in town, one of the field’s youngsters tried to…
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Reporter The Niskayuna 15U travel baseball team recently won its Babe Ruth state tournament, toppling Beekman 8-0 in Wednesday’s championship game in Saugerties. In the title game, Sean Barry struck out 10 batters in a complete-game…