I know. Most of you would be more interested in spring training baseball games, or maybe the NCAA men’s basketball tournament right now.
But for me … my Saturday was spent flipping between a women’s college ice hockey tournament round and a minor league basketball all-star contest.
I started out with the NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey quarterfinal round between my Hamilton College Continentals and the whatever-they-ares from Adrian College of Michigan. Now last year, Hamilton whomped Adrian on our way to the Frozen Four in the NCAA’s.
Not this year. Adrian started out strong, Hamilton was down 2-1 in the first period, coughed up a third goal in the second period, almost let a fourth goal get in (the puck hit the crossbar), and then dropped that fourth goal while we were shorthanded. Adrian goes to the Frozen Four, Hamilton comes home.
A good solid effort by the Lady Continentals, and believe me – two consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, in which our ice hockey team DID notch wins, is still a good accomplishment. And it only means we’ll be even stronger in the 2025 season. Mark my words on this.
Then came the 2024 Basketball Super League All-Star Game, held in Sudbury, Ontario. The Basketball Super League was formed from the remnants of the National Basketball League of Canada, along with some other teams from the US-based The Basketball League. It’s the same league that the Albany Patroons played interleague contests with over the past two years (and they’re playing the Newfoundland Rogues in a three-game series this upcoming week in St. John’s).
But speaking of the Albany Patroons …
The BSL All-Star Game had THREE Patroons alumni in the competition this year.
Shadell Millinghaus, who starred for the Patroons in their 2019, 2020 and 2023 seasons and now plays for the Super League’s Windsor Express, scored 28 points and pulled down nine rebounds in the game. Philip Flory, who was on the Patroons’ 2023 squad and now is a vital part of the Montreal Toundra team, finished his All-Star night with 36 points, going 16-for-29 from the floor and 4-13 from 3-point range.
But the All-Star MVP was another Albany Patroons alumni, AJ Mosby. Mosby, the superstar of the Patroons’ 2022 season and a current veteran of the Sudbury Five team, went nuclear on the scoreboard. He dropped 47 points in the cylinder, including 7 baskets from beyond the arc. He pulled down 8 rebounds and distributed 6 dimes. And for his efforts, he received the All-Star Game MVP award.
Not bad for a Chuck-themed sports weekend.
And the weekend’s not over. I’ve still got a vested interest at Saratoga Harness, where my “$20 on his nose” horse Pay Me To Knight (“Junior”) is going up against another top horse, Reign of Honor, in the sixth race.
That reminds me. I gotta get my bet it. And Daylight Saving Time just started. I’m already late. 😀
Chuck The Writer 
Wait. From what I’d read over the winter, it looked like Millinghaus was going to return to the Pats this season. Must’ve signed with Windsor late. Albany’s on the road today at Rhode Island after losing to Reading on Thursday. As for moi, I’m keeping track of the high school state tournaments. The “real” March Madness starts a week or so from now after all the league tournaments are done.
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