Mudville Softball Complex News Today

MALTA, N.Y. — Gary Holtz, 72, was able to devise quite a recipe over his 40-plus years of coaching and not just for his famous ‘Holtzy-burgers,’ or ‘Holtzy-chicken.’ While he won’t be giving that recipe out anytime soon, the former coach at Columbia and Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High schools and at Hudson Valley Community and […]

OSWEGO — Mike McCrobie believed his career on the diamond was over when he was cut from his junior varsity baseball team as a high school freshman. But now at age 64, the former Oswego High School softball coach remains active in a men’s slow-pitch league and is celebrating his first summer as a member of the NYS High School Softball Hall of Fame. McCrobie was selected by the New York State Sportswriters and Coaches Organization for Girls Sports and recently enshrined as a coach and c...

SANDY CREEK — Margaret Yerdon-Grange developed her softball skills by pitching at a target outside of Pat McDougal’s Sandy Creek classroom, igniting a work ethic that has led to joining her former coach representing the Comets in the NYS Softball Hall of Fame. Yerdon-Grange was inducted by the New York State Sportswriters and Coaches Organization for Girls Sports as a pitcher/infielder for its softball Hall of Fame Class of 2020, which was enshrined earlier this summer at the Mudville...