Amsterdam holds off Burnt Hills, earns chance to claim 1st softball championship | The Daily Gazette
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AMSTERDAM Shelby LaMont had hit home runs before, and Sydney Szczepanik had pitched out of jams before, but never with so much on the line.
LaMont drilled a three-run homer in the third inning, and Szczepanik quelled a bases-loaded, seventh-inning threat with a game-clinching strikeout as Amsterdam beat Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake 4-2 in a Section II Class A softball semifinal Thursday at Shuttleworth Park.
Their clutch efforts helped give Amsterdam a crack at its program’s first area championship. The Rams last played for a Section II championship in 1982.
Consultant Alan Pole said at the Dec. 18 merger advisory committee meeting that there is adequate room.
Officials from both districts agreed at the start of the study that the Fort Edward school building would stay open for at least five years after a merger. Pole said based upon enrollment projections, he believes the Fort Edward building would need to stay open to house elementary students for the foreseeable future.
âSouth Glens Falls elementary schools are fairly crowded. I wouldnât say theyâre overcrowded, but there isnât a lot of extra space,â he said at the meeting, which was conducted entirely virtually because of the rising COVID-19 cases.