By Jaime Thomas Golden Horde football played strong for the second week in a row, resulting in a 47-14 win over Coxsackie-Athens on Oct. 20. Junior Evan Hoagland had 205 yards with 20 carries and three touchdowns. Ronnie Taylor scored two touchdowns and gained 105 yards during the game, the first 100-yard game of his [...]
Horde football against a wall
Granville has three weeks left to salvage its football season. After Saturday’s 66-8 nonconference loss at Class B Cohoes, the Horde have two regular-season games remaining, both at home. While their playoff chances are slim, and will end with a loss in either game, they still have some slight hopes of advancing to the first [...]
Horde football opens Friday
In a season stacked with tough opponents, it’s even more important than usual for the Granville football team to get a victory in its season-opener Friday night at Corinth. The Horde and the Tomahawks are traditionally well-matched teams, and both could be challenged in a Section II’s rugged Class C North. So when the teams [...]
Whitehall youth team winds up second
The Whitehall fifth and sixth grade football team traveled to Corinth on Saturday night to take on Warrensburg in the Northern Adirondack Youth football league Super Bowl, and despite a great effort, came away on the short end of a 39-26 score. Whitehall put a scare into the Burgers from the start, taking the [...]
High-flying Hoosick Falls races past Granville
The Granville Golden Horde ended its regular season making the trip few teams in the entire state want to make, visiting Hoosick Falls and falling to the Panthers 53-6 to bring and end to the Class C North season for 2011. The Panthers have been ranked in the state for the entire season, and positioned [...]
Railroaders stopped short by Forts
The Railroaders are unbeaten no longer. Whitehall suffered its first loss of the season Saturday afternoon, falling to Fort Edward in a spirited 28-26 thriller that featured six lead changes. The Forts handed Whitehall a taste of their own medicine, grinding out more than 300 yards of rushing offense and playing the physical, hard-hitting style [...]
Sports: Horde fall in shootout
With the clock running out tight end Jared Beattie popped up out of nowhere and caught a pass over the middle and fell on the goal line at Sam Eppolito Field for a touchdown. The Granville Golden Horde had just pulled even in an improbable Class C North shoot out game with the Corinth Tomahawks [...]
Railroaders ride again
Josh Hoagland could barely control his excitement moments after Friday’s home-opener at Ambrose Gilligan field. The junior tailback had just wrapped up a dominating 21 carry, 244 yard, two-touchdown performance that helped the Railroaders improve to 2-0 on the young season. Hoagland had touchdowns of 71 and 57 yards and senior end Brett Christian added [...]
Whitehall defeats Salem in season opener
By Bill Toscano The voice of assistant coach Neil Hughes boomed across the field asWhitehall’s players stood minutes away from the second half of their season opener againstSalem. “You guys are not fired up,” Hughes let the players – and everyone else there – know. “If you play like that, we’re going to come [...]
Railroaders season ends
In the first quarter, it looked like the Whitehall that played in every other game of the season. After that, it looked like the Whitehall that played Rensselaer two weeks ago. The Railroaders varsity football team jumped out to an opening drive 8-0 lead against the Rams in the Section II Class D semifinals Oct. [...]






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 [...]