Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- The Niagara Power bolted to within one game of the medal round in the New York Collegiate Baseball League playoffs Monday night. With 350 frenzied Bolt Nuts rockin’ the metal at Sal Maglie Stadium, Taylor Sears, subbing for wounded warrior Shakeel Newton, crippled a 3-1 pitch past a pulled-in infield … [Read more...] about Niagara squeezes past the Twins in game one, 4-3
Sal Maglie Stadium
Niagara shuts out Olean in game one, 4-0
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- The Niagara Power drilled the Olean Oilers 4-0 Friday night in Sal Maglie Stadium’s first midsummer playoff game since 1993. Nearly 400 Bolt Nuts, summoned in a moment’s notice, watched pitcher Steve Beckham hang seven zeroes on the O’s, Steve Voyles stagger through a Halloweenish ninth … [Read more...] about Niagara shuts out Olean in game one, 4-0
Circus music, Rice Krispies and Base Paths
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- With a break in the Power schedule, Base Paths wandered into Coca-Cola Field for a Bison game last Tuesday. He’d been so long away that he felt he oughta’ wear a name tag. Duties with and about the Power have him all but keeping a cot in the pressbox at Sal Maglie Stadium. Well the Herd and the Toledo … [Read more...] about Circus music, Rice Krispies and Base Paths
Power stays on with 5-1 triumph
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- Like horses keen to the course, Niagara Power batters blasted out of the starting gate with four consecutive hits Wednesday night and left the Rochester Athletes in the dust of Sal Maglie Stadium, 5-1. For pitcher Jordan Schwartz, though, it was more like a steeplechase. His fielders … [Read more...] about Power stays on with 5-1 triumph
Astronomers set their sights on stars in Niagara Falls
Courtesy of the Niagara Gazette By Doug Smith NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- For the next three days, you don’t have to look up to see stars, just look around, with the Class AAA and New York State Collegiate League’s finest vying for attention and TV viewers Wednesday night. On the surface, it seems almost foolhardy that Niagara Power President Cal Kern lobbied for the NYCBL … [Read more...] about Astronomers set their sights on stars in Niagara Falls