By Jaime Thomas In a sweeping match, Granville defeated the Whitehall tennis team 7-0 on Friday at home. Both Joey Lea and Matthew Bixby crushed their Railroader opponents in 10-0 matches. Ean Smith defeated Ryan St Clair 10-3, while Kyle LaPlante took down Zach Rice 10-4. For the girls, Alexis Smith defeated Rachel Aubin 10-1. [...]
Wrestling teams beats SGF, falls to Corinth
The Whitehall wrestling team’s lone seniors led it to a victory over South Glens Fall last Tuesday. Trailing 28-27 heading into the final three bouts of the night, Al Aubin and John Diekel won the final two matches to lead the Railroaders to a 42-28 non-league win. Al Aubin recorded a 7-1 decision at 132 [...]
Wrestling team falls to Warrensburg
Whitehall’s wrestling team opened its league slate last Wednesday falling to Warrensburg 62-21. The Burgers recorded six pins in route to the win. Austin Rich (106) and John Diekel (138) won by fall for Whitehall and Al Aubin (126) defeated his opponent on points 8-3. Chad Amerio picked up a win via forfeit. Diekel pinned [...]
Whitehall grapplers defeat Fort Ann
Whitehall rode a wave of forfeits to a 66-24 victory over Fort Ann in the school’s annual afternoon Assembly match. Each team recorded three pins but Whitehall scored eight victories on forfeits as Fort Ann just didn’t have the bodies to compete. Zach Diekel (195), Austin Rich (99) and Al Aubin (120) all recorded pins [...]
Diekel keeps rolling
Zach Diekel continues to have a strong season forWhitehall. A week after recording his 200th victory, the senior was named Whitehall’s Most Outstanding Wrestler at the Montgomery County Duals in Amsterdam. However, despite compiling a 5-0 record, Diekel couldn’t preventWhitehallfrom going 0-5 at the tournament which features some of the best wrestling programs in the [...]
Youth leads the way as grapplers roll
Whitehallwrestling coach Robert Diekel knew he had a young potentially solid team that had a chance to be competitive at the end of the season, but even he had to be a little surprised by their performance on Saturday afternoon. Whitehallpicked up four pins and four wins by forfeit as they kicked off the 2011-12 [...]
Tennis topples North Warren
Whitehall’s tennis team continues to show improvement winning their second match of the season last week. The railroaders routed an under-manned North Warren team last Wednesday, winning six of seven matches. Number one singles Trey LeClair set the stage for Whitehall with a decisive 10-1 victory over the North Warren’s John Hayden. After North Warren [...]
Wrestlers defeat Mechanicville
The Golden Horde added an unplanned match to fill the schedule when the highly anticipated match-up with Corinth could not get rescheduled, picking up the Mechanicville Red Raiders and a 54-15 win to end the regular season. Granville reached 13-13 overall with the non-league win. The most significant event of the night was the century [...]







VPR commentator entertains at Slate Valley Museum
By Jaime Thomas About 75 people gathered at the Slate Valley Museum Thursday evening to listen to Vermont Public Radio [...]