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This winter season will be remembered for masks, virtual competition and near-empty venues among other pandemic-related items, but also for the diligence displayed and some cool and noteworthy numbers produced by our Section II athletes in a variety of sports.
Here are 10 of them already in the books, and over the next few weeks there are certain to be a bunch more as this one-of-a-kind campaign squeezes in basketball, hockey and wrestling events before its completion.
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Pin total surpassed by five Columbia boys in a virtual Suburban Council bowling match against Niskayuna at East Greenbush Bowling Center. With their three-game production, Zack Bogholtz (773), Mason McDowell (760), Ryan Lemay (752), Thomas Stein (745) and Tyler Bogholtz (701) combined to down 3,731 of Columbia’s 4,318 total pins in one of the highlight performances this winter for the SC regular season and tournament champion
Then, COVID-19 struck.
Now, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association has cancelled New York State championships for the 2020-21 season and a start date for some sort of season still hangs in the balance.
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For Lansingburgh, the priority has been to get students back into the classroom, then get them back on the court.
âSince the beginning of the school year, our intentions as a district were to open all of our buildings. With the notice of our state aid getting held back, we were unable to do that and right now we only have one building that is currently in-person instruction, Turnpike Elementary school,â said Lansingburgh Athletic Director Sean Colfer. âThe rest of our grades, 3-12, are completely remote.â