(Glens Falls, NY)

 - The back of the Albany Academy warm-up jerseys had a message saying "All IN" signifying a team motto hoping to win the 2018-19 N.Y State Federation title after a disappointing loss at the buzzer in last year's game. Well, mission accomplished for the Cadets as they defeated Frederick Douglass Academy 75-49 for their third Federation title in four years and fourth overall.

-Albany Academy jumped out to an 11-0 lead, paced by nine points by August Mahoney on three treys, and led 44-13 at the half. The first half ended with a great sequence for Academy that showed the type of determination, hustle, and teamwork the Cadets played with on this day. August Mahoney near mid-court found Riley Mulvey, in the lane and in traffic, who then kicked it to Rob Brown for the buzzer beating corner three pointer.

- Frederick Douglass outscored Albany Academy in the second half, 36-33, but their first half deficit was too big to overcome.

- August Mahoney led the Cadets with 24 points on eight three pointers, Rob Brown had 16 points and Andre Jackson added 13 points including four crowd pleasing dunks.

-Ferderick Douglass also placed three players in double figure scoring led by Derek Mejia with 14 points, Jonathan Delacruz and Abubakar Kromah both had 10 points.

  Box Score with full play by play HERE: 

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By Ed Bemiss

It’s now possible to easily create team and player highlight videos from the over 8,000+ videos in the site’s video clip database that is located HERE.

This is great for a single game or a full season highlight video for public or private use. Create a highlight video to share or merge a couple of clips from a game as a training tool. Teams can upload their full game videos and have the option of tagging their own individual highlights or we can help cut your film and tag the highlights to each player. Once the video is processed and the clips are sent to the team and player pages they’ll be available to use for a custom highlight video.

Here’s how you can create full highlight videos.

1. Create a username and password for the site if you don’t already have one. You can do that by registering a new account on the bottom of the page of this link. You will get an email link to activate your account. Click that link. (Check spam folder if you don’t get the email in your primary folder)

2. Once you are signed in, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and let us know that you’d like to use the new video highlight creator. Your account will then be changed to a video list member and you’ll be able to create custom videos.

It’s free to try until the start of the 2019-20 season begins!

Next step is picking your videos to merge for the single highlight video. You’ll be able use any of the videos in the system located HERE.

-Begin adding videos to the list by clicking the green “Add to list” button at the bottom of any of the clips.

-Users can view all of the videos in their list by clicking the blue “Video list” tab on the top of the page.

 -The last step, after you select all of your video clips, allows users to move the videos up and down in the list to rearrange them in any order they’d like. 

This is also the page where users will download their merged video.

– Until you click “merge” the list is saved in the current browser tab. So if you close the tab your list is cleared. Once you click merge the server saves the list so it can process it. The processing of the video may take just a minute or two or up to 15 minutes depending on the timing that it hits the server.

(Glens Falls, NY)

 -Glens Falls captured the Class B N.Y. State Federation title as they knocked off Cardinal O'Hara 88-79 in their home city of Glens Falls. The Indians after trailing 2-0 used an 18-1 first quarter run to gain control of the game and held on late in the fourth quarter for the victory.

-Joseph Girard III of Glens Falls, playing on a sore ankle scored a game high 43 points, however his cousin Trenton Girard was just as important as he netted 21 points on five three pointers including one late in the fourth quarter when Cardinal O'Hara was making a scoring run and cut the Indians lead to three points. It seemed as if the clutch Trenton Girard three pointer was scripted as it has happened in just about every game during the Indians magical run to the Sectional, State and Federation titles.

- Joseph Girard III scored 43 points to lead all scorers. Trenton Girard added 21 points for Glens Falls.

- Cardinal O'Hara which trailed by as many as 18 points, cut the Indians lead to three, 77-74, with just under two minutes left on a bucket by Jermaine Haynes Jr., but that was as close as they would get. The Hawks placed four in double figure scoring led by Justin Hemphill with 26 points, Haakim Siner 20 points, Jermaine Haynes Jr. 13 points, and Avion Harris 10 points.

  Box Score with full play by play HERE: 

Game flow chart:

By Ed Bemiss

(Averill Park, NY)

Shaker outlasted Albany 33-29 in a marquee Capital Region basketball tilt. 

Shaker used a fourth quarter surge as they eclipsed Albany 9-3 in the closing minutes. After an Ahniysha Jackson three pointer tied the game at 29 with less than two minutes left, Shaker's Jules DeBeatham made three clutch free throws that iced the game. 

The Falcons held a small 2-point lead going into the final frame. 

The outcome was still in limbo as the teams went to the first half intermission with Albany gaining the upper hand. The game had double digit lead changes between the two clubs.

Jules DeBeatham paced the Blue Bison with 15 points. Maddisyn Mahoney contributed 12 points. 

Ahniysha Jackson led Albany with 14 points. Shonyae Edmonds scored 6 points. 
The Falcons drilled 5 buckets from long range. 
Ahniysha Jackson nailed 4 three-pointers. 

  Box Score with full play by play HERE: 

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By Ed Bemiss