Sunday Sports: College softball, baseball highlights from the diamond

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) – Jefferson Community College hosted Hudson Valley Community College on the turf in a college softball doubleheader Sunday afternoon.

The Cannoneers looking for their 5th straight win in game 1 but would fall 4-0.

Game 2, Jefferson Community College would be the away team and get 1st crack at getting back on track.

Top 1, Kiannah Ward rips a shot to right that would go for a triple, both Delaney Wiley and Emily Birmingham score, 2-0 J.C.C.

Then it’s Katie Call with a shot through the hole to right for a base hit, Ward checks in, 3-0 J.C.C.

Katelyn Adams strikes out, but the ball is dropped, Call comes home on the throw to 1st, 4-0 J.C.C.

But Hudson Valley completes the sweep, beating J.C.C. 14-5 in game 2.

Liberty League baseball from Jack Phillips Stadium, Clarkson hosting Hobart in a double dip.

Game 1, bottom 3, Joe Pagano flies out to right, Jake Millich tags and scores, 5-2 Hobart.

Then it’s Cam Jerrett with the suicide squeeze, Robert Fratangelo scores, Golden Knights pull within 2.

Bottom 4, Fratangelo singles to left field, Joe Figliolino crosses, Clarkson down 1 5-4.

Still in the 4th, Pagano hits a shot to short that’s booted, both Fratangelo and Millich score, Clarkson up 6-5.

James Mason follows with a single to center, Pagano and Kent Wilson cross, 8-5 Clarkson.

Clarkson beats Hobart in game 1, 9-5.

Yesterday, SUNY Canton hosted nearly 70 athletes for the 2024 NYS Special Olympics Summer Games.

It was the 9th year SUNY Canton has hosted the event, which saw almost 100 athletes and volunteers from the school help out.

Some of the events that were offered included track and field, softball throwing competitions and basketball.

SUNY Canton Athletic Director Randy Sieminski said ” Hosting the Special Olympics is always a tremendous experience for our campus and community as a whole.”

Syracuse wrapped up spring football practice on Saturday night with their annual spring football game.

A crowd estimated at around 9,000, the largest ever to watch an SU spring game, showed up at the JMA Wireless Dome to see the beginning of the Fran Brown era.

Coach John Lally’s team beat Zaire Franklin’s team 31-10, with Kyle McCord leading the way.

The Ohio State transfer went 18-28 for 242 yards and a touchdown. LeQuint Allen rushed for 73 yards on 6 carries and scored 2 touchdowns.

“See, I just look at this as practice. You all look at it as a game or whatever. The only thing different is there’s a lot of people there. I create chaotic situations every day. I know who I’m going to put the pressure on, who I’m not. I just seen them continue to do what we practice on. There were a few things that I saw that I didn’t like…not football wise. it was things on the sideline like turning around and talking to the crowd and signing stuff during the game. I don’t like that b.s. We’re playing football and you’re signing an autograph during a game. I don’t like those kinds of things because those are the things that get you beat,” said Fran Brown, Syracuse Head Football Coach.

Former Buffalo Bills linebacker and 2-time All-Pro Darryl Talley was in town this weekend for the 2nd annual Spider’s Anti-Bullying Softball Tournament.

Talley, part of an elite group, playing in 4 straight Super Bowls with the Bills.

A member of the Bills from 1983-1994, Talley says he often hears the criticism of Buffalo not winning in 4 tries but adds making it to 4 straight Super Bowls is a feat that hasn’t been matched.

” Us going to 4 Super Bowls in a row, do you realize the type of fortitude that takes, the type of commitment that takes and what it means and what it says about the guys that did that. I’d like for those people that think that we went to 4 in a row and lost…I’d like for them to do it and get to 1. There are people that have played in the NFL that have never made it to a Super Bowl. There’s that,” said Talley.

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