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Week of September 6 – September 12, 2013
Community Sports Bulletin Barcia Gets Revenge, Improves Amateur Record SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Local boxer, and Schuylerville native, Joe Barcia avenged last year’s three-round Junior Olympic loss in Oneonta to Nathan Montalvo with a unanimous decision victory over his rival this past weekend in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Saratoga Boxing Gym trainee improved his amateur record to 24-9 with the win. Back on May 18-19, Barcia won the Junior Olympic Northeast Regional Championship (New York, New Jersey, New England) in the 106pound weight class. The 13-year-old has been training for over three years at the Saratoga Boxing Gym with wellknown Saratoga pro-boxing trainer Tyrone Jackson, as well as Mike Nichols and Andy Faragon, during his successful run. Photo Provided Tyrone Jackson and Joe Barcia.
Hart Named Thoroughbreds Men’s Lacrosse Coach Javier Castellano rides Princess of Sylmar to victory at The Alabama Stakes at the Saratoga Race Course on August 17 during the 150th Saratoga Race Course meet. Castellano clinched his first career riding title at the course this year. Photos courtesy of NYRA.
Castellano Takes First Saratoga Race Course Title SARATOGA SPRINGS — Veteran jockey Javier Castellano clinched his first ever Saratoga Race Course riding title and finished in style with five wins in Day 40 of the meet. The five wins (in nine mounts) left him two short of Ramon Dominguez’s meet record in wins (68) on Monday. In the previous three years, Castellano, 35, was the runner-up. Castellano’s final win of the meet came during Race No. 10, but it wasn’t needed for the title, as he finished 20 wins in front of John Velazquez. Joel Rosario (41 wins) broke his foot a day before the Travers Stakes, unable to ride Orb as scheduled or finish the meet, which also helped the wide-margin title. Castellano, a native Venezuelan, was also ahead of Irad Ortiz Jr. (28 wins) and Junior Alvarado (27).
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Patrick Hart was named the head coach of Skidmore Men’s Lacrosse on Tuesday. After three seasons as an assistant at Amherst College, Hart takes over a team that has gone 9-21 in the last two years and ended the 2013 season with a fivegame losing streak. At Amherst, Hart helped build a 29-20 overall record in his three years, while also a establishing a team that made back-to-back-to-back New England Small College Athletic Conference tournament appearances. In 2011, Amherst qualified for Photo Provided by Skidmore Athletics the program’s first NCAA tournament appearance, while setting a school record for wins (15). Amherst was also ranked No. 2 in the nation at one point during the 2012 season. Hart’s playing days were spent at Holy Cross, where he played midfield and later assistant coached for two seasons. The 2005 graduate earned Holy Cross’ John H. Price Award, given to “a member of the team who best exemplifies the idea set forth by former captain John H. Price, as ‘a man for others.’”