Honorable mention

■ Ualbany’s basketball team beats UMBC 83-39 in a January game at SEFCU Arena. UMBC (which beat the Danes in Baltimore) would go on to make history in the NCAA Tournament, becoming the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 (Virginia).

■ Union beats RPI 4-3 to win the sixth annual Mayor’s Cup hockey game at Times Union Center in front of 7,672. This is the first time a team has won it in back-to-back years.

■ Glenn Merkosky, who played in 430 games during his career with the Adirondack Red Wings (1986-91), is inducted into the AHL’S Hall of Fame.

■ Schuylerville’s Orion Anderson (126 pounds) wins his third straight New York State championship in wrestling. Two other wrestlers, Maple Hill’s Trent Svingala (120 pounds in Division II) and Shenendehowa’s Steve Poulin (99 pounds, Division I), also win titles.

■ The annual Albany Cup, the basketball game between Ualbany and Siena, is over as both sides can not agree on where to play the game. Since being revived in 2001, it has been played every year but one at Times Union Center, Siena’s home court.

■ Horse owner Bob Baron of Voorheesville, watches his 3-year-old Promises Fulfilled run 15th in the Kentucky Derby. The horse rebounded in the summer, giving Baron wins in a Grade I (Allen Jerkens) and a Grade III (Amsterdam) at Saratoga Race Course.

■ Albany’s Dion Lewis, who had been with the New England Patriots the past three seasons and appeared in two Super Bowls, signs with the Tennessee Titans.

■ Retired LPGA player and current CBS golf analyst Dottie Pepper of Saratoga Springs, is inducted into the New York State Golf Association Hall of Fame.

■ After 32 years as the head coach of the College of Saint Rose men’s basketball team, Brian Beaury announces his retirement. Beaury, only 58, had a 643-326 record at his alma mater, where he also played.

■ Nick Lydon of Shenendehowa, now at the University of Florida, wins the New York State championship in diving.

■ The new voice of Monday Night Football on ESPN is Joe Tessitore, who was raised in Niskayuna, went to CBA High School, and worked at WRGB (CBS-6) as a weekend sports anchor from 1993-95.

■ Union, the second seed in the ECAC playoffs, gets swept in the bestof-three series at home by eventual champion Princeton, the seventh seed. The Dutchmen had defeated Princeton seven straight times.

■ The Shenendehowa High School boys’ volleyball team wins its fourth straight Section II championship.

■ Kelsey Chmiel from Saratoga Springs High School won her fourth straight Section II Class A cross country championship and helped the Streaks win their first state championship since 2005. The boys’ team from Bunt Hills and the girls’ team from Greenwich also win state championships.

■ The girls’ soccer team from Stillwater wins the Class C state soccer championship.

■ It was the coldest Turkey Trot on record in Troy, but 6,400 runners braved the 8 degree temperatures to run the traditional Thanksgiving Day race.

■ The Ualbany women’s soccer team and field hockey teams get to the NCAA Tournament but do not win a game. The College of Saint Rose women’s soccer team qualifies for the Division II Tournament. The Golden Knights win a game before their season ends.

■ Times Union Center is the site for the NCAA Albany Regional championship and Uconn, for the second straight year, leaves town with a pair of wins, making it to the Division I women’s basketball semifinals for the 11th straight year. But, for the second straight year, the Huskies fall in the national semifinals, this year to Notre Dame.

■ Ualbany’s Connor Fields is named a finalist for the Tewaaraton Award, the highest individual award in college lacrosse.

■ Jockey Javier Castellano wins the Travers Stakes for a record sixth time as he rides 7-1 shot Catholic Boy to victory.

■ Sarah Pagano of Brighton, Mass., wins the 40th running of the Freihofer’s Run for Women with a 5K time of 15:48. There are 2,781 runners who finish the popular race.

■ Six athletes from Section II win state track and field titles, led by Saratoga Springs’ Shea Weilbaker, who won the 3,200 meters (he also won the same event at an indoor event in March). He also won the state cross country championship in Class A and Tyler Berg of Burnt Hills took the Class B race. Other Section II winners include Alexandra Tudor of Shenendehowa (triple jump), Alana Carroll of Averill Park (pole vault), Brittany Castelluccio of Fonda-fultonville (long jump), Michael Babriel of Greenwich (discus), Ama Boham of Ichabod Crane (100 hurdles), Isabella Bruno of Guilderland (triple jump, Division II), Natalie Ricci of Cohoes (200), Sharde Johnson of Emma Willard (high jump) and the Shenendehowa girls’ 3,200 relay.

■ Lake George’s boys’ basketball team wins its third Class C state championship in the past five seasons; Mekeel Christian wins its first Class B boys’ state title.

■ Former Union College football coach John Audino is back, taking over the program at La Salle Institute.

■ Queensbury High School wins the Class A state baseball title; Ichabod Crane (Class B) and Fort Ann (Class D) win state softball championships.

■ Former Siena standout Edwin Ubiles, now playing with the Albany Patroons, is named Player of the Year in the Premier Basketball League (now called The Basketball League). The Patroons, in their first year in the league, make it to the championship series, but lose to the Yakima Sun Kings.