The postseason awards for Whitehall’s athletes have begun to roll in. A number of players from the school’s softball and baseball teams were named to Adirondack League all-star teams. Brett Christian and Josh Hoagland were both named second-team all-stars. Christian, a senior, was the team’s leader and its best pitcher, consistently squaring off against [...]
Track wraps up season high note
Strong performances by Rebecca Lavin and Zach Diekel led the Whitehall boys’ and girls’ track teams to a pair of fifth-place finishes at last week’s Section II Class C sectionals held in Fort Plain. Diekel captured the boys’ shot put title and finished second in the discus, and Lavin turned in a second-place finish in [...]
Great season comes to a close for softball team
A tremendous regular season didn’t translate into a successful postseason for the girls softball team, which lost in the opening round of the Section II Class C tournament against Waterford 8-0 last Wednesday. Ashley Lefebvre was in control throughout, allowing only a pair of singles and striking out 17 batters in a dominating performance. Carly [...]
Baseball falls 3-2 in playoffs
Craig Stalker was too much for Whitehall. Stalker struck out 14 batters in a complete game and drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning to lead seventh-seeded Schoharie past 10th-seeded Whitehall 3-2 in the opening round of the Section II Class C playoffs. Brett Christian nearly matched Stalker, limiting Schoharie [...]
Softball finishes at 12-4 with wins
The Whitehall girl’s softball team wrapped a successful season with a pair of convincing victories. The Railroaders defeated Hadley-Luzerne 9-2 last Wednesday and followed up that performance with a 12-1 victory over North Warren on Friday afternoon. With the wins, Whitehall improved to 12-4 on the season and finished tied for second place with Fort [...]
Baseball wins final game
The Whitehall boy’s baseball team wrapped up its regular season with a dominating win over Hadley-Luzerne last Thursday. The Railroaders pounded out 21 hits en route to a 21-6 victory. Justin Hoagland recorded five hits, including two doubles, and drove in three runs. Brett Christian drove in four runs and scored four times, Paxton DeLorme [...]
Wrestling preview
As head coach Steve Palmer heads into his 12th season leading the Granville Golden Horde wrestlers onto the mat the team faces a challenge that is as daunting as it is typical of high school sports. The team’s graduation losses were big, very big. With the departure of Eric Hastings who placed in the New [...]
Clark goes National
Alicia Clark ran the race of her career Saturday, Nov. 26 at Bowdoin Park, Wappingers Falls, cross country head coach Lance Jordan said Monday. “This event is the premier race in the country and is sponsored by NIKE,” he said. To qualify runners must be on one of the top two teams or be a [...]
Clark 6th at States
Granville cross country’s Alicia Clark finished the season as one of the best runners in the state Nov. 12, turning in a sixth place finish at the New York State Championships. On a wet and cold course Clark logged a 20:34 for sixth place finishing behind second place Victoria Houser from Greenwich. In the Class [...]
Horde fall to Blackbirds
Granville had more yards in penalties than their featured running back gained and lost two touchdowns because of them, as the Golden Horde fell to Class C South’s Voorheesville Blackbirds Saturday, 33-6. Kody Bardin ran for 87 yards and a second quarter touchdown, but had two long touchdowns and the associated yards negated by penalties. [...]






