SUNY POTSDAM LADIES BASKETBALL:

99 SPORTS AND SUBWAYS GAME OF THE DAY YESTERDAY SUNY POTSDAM WOMEN'S BASKETBALL AS THE LADY BEARS HOSTING ACROSS TOWN RIVAL CLARKSON UNIVERSITY.  THE BEARS WENT ON A 13-2 RUN IN THE FIRST HALF TO GO UP 17-6 BUT THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS WOULD NOT GO AWAY AND AT THE HALF POTSDAM WITH THE 29-25 LEAD.  POTSDAM EXTENDED THEIR LEAD TO 11 WITH JUST OVER TEN MINUTES TO PLAY BUT CLARKSON FOUGHT BACK TO MAKE IT 55-52 WITH A JUMPER BY MICHELLE REDDINGER WITH 1:06 TO PLAY.  THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS PUTTING POTSDAM ON THE FOUL LINE AND SOPHIE PARKS NAILING ONE OUT OF TWO FOUL SHOTS AND CLARKSON DIDN'T HAVE AN ANSWER ANYMORE YOUR FINAL POTSDAM 56 CLARKSON 52.  THE LADY BEARS REALLY SEEMED TO CONTROL THE GAME JUST NOT ABLE TO CLOSE THE DOOR ON THE KNIGHTS A COUPLE TIMES WHEN THEY HAD THE CHANCE.  BEARS GOT GOOD PLAY FROM THE BENCH BUT STARTERS BRITTANY WHITTON FROM HERMON-DEKALB AND CORTNEY POIRIER FROM B-M LEADING THE WAY.  WHITTON 14 POINTS, 5 REBOUNDS, 3 STEALS, AND 3 ASSISTS WHILE POIRIER FINISHED WITH 12 POINTS 5 REBOUNDS, AND 4 STEALS.  MICHELLE REDDINGER LED CLARKSON WITH 16 POINTS AND 6 REBOUNDS.  LADY BEARS NEXT PLAY CAZENOVIA THIS SATURDAY ON THE ROAD WITH AN OVERALL RECORD OF 1-1

MEN'S BASKETBALL:

CLARKSON TAKING ON CANTON, AND KNIGHTS FORWARDS ELSON PICKERING AND JONATHON HOOD EACH PRODUCING DOUBLE DOUBLE EFFORTS AS CLARKSON HUNG ON FOR A 71-61 VICTORY OVER THE SUNY CANTON ROOS.  CLARKSON MOVES TO 2-0 ON THE YEARS AND WILL TIP OFF AGAINST POTSDAM STATE THIS SATURDAY AT 4 WHILE CANTON FALLS TO 0-3 ON THE YEAR

99 SPORTS TRIBUTE TO OLLIE AUDETTE:

99 SPORTS WOULD LIKE TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF OLLIE AUDETTE WHO PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT THE AGE OF 86 AT HIS RESIDENCE IN 7 LAKES, FORT MYERS, FLORIDA.  BORN IN TUPPER LAKE BACK IN 1923 WAS A GOOD ATHLETE GROWING UP, WENT ON EVENTUALLY TO ST. LAWRENCE AND PLAYED FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL.  LATER BECAME A PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER AT MW AND LATER AT CANTON CENTRAL SCHOOL COACHED FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, AND BASEBALL AND WAS THE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS FOR TWENTY YEARS.  HE'S BEEN ELECTED INTO CANTON, TUPPER LAKE, MW, AND ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY HALLS OF FAME.  ANOTHER REALLY NEAT THING IS THAT HE'S MADE 8 HOLE IN ONE AS AN AVID GOLFER OVER THE YEARS.  AS CON ELLIOT MENTIONED, A GOOD MAN, A REAL GENTLEMAN WAS OLLIE AUDETTE PASSING AWAY AT THE AGE OF 86

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