Ron Moshier

1 week ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

Hall of Fame basketball coach Tom Blackford was barely two weeks into his retirement when he started having second thoughts. OK, so one of the winningest coaches in New York State had taken a "never-say-never" stance when asked of any comeback chances after ceremoniously ending his second stint as the boys basketball coach at Hamilton Central School. At the time, though, Blackford really did seem content with ending a 43-year coaching career with a Section III-record 643 wins.

3 weeks ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

Senior attacker Grace Stuhlman (Whitesboro), the women’s lacrosse team’s leading scorer each of the last three seasons and one of the top five point producers in program history, is this year’s recipient of the Jim “Doc” Spartano Award as Utica University’s Most Outstanding Female Senior Athlete.

1 month ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

It took some timely hitting by sophomore Todd Abraham (Utica/T.R. Proctor) to get the job done on the final day of the America East Conference championships, but the former Thomas R. Proctor High School star and his Binghamton University baseball team will be playing in the NCAA Division I tournament.

1 month ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

Together, they led last year’s Camden High School softball team to a Section III Class A championship in a 20-win season that reached the quarterfinals of the state tournament. Apart, they’re still doing quite well for themselves. At the NCAA Division I level, UMass freshman outfielder Brooke Musch (Camden) was named to the Atlantic 10 Conference All-Rookie Team after starting 45 of 47 games, going 11 for 20 in her last six games, and batting .304 for the Minutewomen.

1 month ago | romesentinel.com | Ron Moshier

Graduate student Trinity Critelli (Frankfort/Frankfort-Schuyler), a softball pitcher who leaves with a program-record 726 strikeouts, and senior guard LaMarqus Merchant Jr. (Utica/Utica Academy of Science), the transfer who quarterbacked the men’s basketball team to the finals of the Empire 8 Conference tournament, are the SUNY Polytechnic Institute Athletes of the Year. In SUNY Poly’s first season as a member of the Empire 8 Conference, Critelli was named to the All-Empire 8 second team.