Local sports this 'n' that

High school basketball season is over. Section 2 gained one Federation title, as Albany Academy, in an independent league, defeated John Adams High of NYC on Saturday. Troy High's women's team finally ran out of magic in losing to Long Island Lutheran, but there is every possibility remaining, in this writer's opinion, that the Lady Flying Horses will be honored by marching in the Troy Flag Day parade on June 9. Congratulations to all the teams on a sensational season.

Union College claimed the ECAC hockey title for the 2nd straight year, and thus are going to the NCAA tournament. RPI, however, was denied even an at-large bid, which again speaks to the bias against upstate New York's colleges. This was just as evident in the NCAA basketball tournaments, as the University at Albany's teams were fed to ACC powers Duke (men) & North Carolina (women). The Lady Danes nearly pulled off an upset that might've knocked Florida Gulf Coast off the headlines, but lost by 5 to the Lady Tar Heels. So, naturally, the speculation has begun on what will happen to UAlbany's coaches, Will Brown & Katie Abramson-Henderson, who might be entertaining offers from bigger schools. UAlbany seems willing, however, to break the bank to keep them in town. Which would be the best thing to do.

It appears that after 3 shows, 787 Pro Wrestling may be in trouble. As I wrote on Sunday, no date was announced for the next show, and now the promotion's Twitter & Facebook pages, along with the website, have been taken down. All that's left are the videos that are available on YouTube. I honestly don't know what's going on. Angles were set up at Sunday's show, as I reported, but if there's no follow-up show, it will have been done in vain. The web pages were up on Monday, and gone today. It just doesn't make sense, unless everything is being reconfigured, but fans are being left in the dark, with no clues. Let's just hope that, yes, everything is being reset. As soon as there is news on this matter, I'll pass it along, that's all I can say and do for now.