More national recognition came Siena’s way this week when the Saints slipped into the last spot on Sports Illustrated’s top 20 list in the magazine’s annual college basketball preview issue.

Schalmont built an insurmountable lead early, and rallied from a big deficit in winning its last two football games to advance to the state Class B semifinal round. Joe Whipple isn’t sure how Saturday’s game with unbeaten Nanuet is going to play out, but the Sabres’ first-year coach has got a gut feeling things will ultimately fall his team’s way again.

Maybe it was a little fine tuning, but the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake girls have used a new defensive scheme to get back to the state Class A semifinals.

There’s no getting away from the success of the program for the Shenendehowa boys’ soccer team. The dates of past sectional, regional, state and even national championship teams are on display on a signboard erected at the north end of their home field in the offseason, a reminder at every practice and home game.

Adhem Elsawi, a 6-foot-6, 313-pound offensive lineman from Saratoga Springs, has become a fixture in the Campbell Univ­ersity Fighting Camels’ offensive line as a true freshman. He’ll make his fifth straight start, and sixth of the season, when the Camels conclude their season Saturday at home against Jacksonville.

Two teams that have accounted for the last 10 Northeast-10 Conference tournament champ­ionships will meet again today with the NCAA Division II East Regional title on the line when The College of Saint Rose (22-0-0), ranked No. 2 in the final NSCAA/Adidas poll, hosts 20th-ranked Franklin Pierce (18-4-1).