Hoops tourney in honor of Gilooly

TROY, N.Y. >> The inaugural Rich Gilooly Memorial Capital District Premier Basketball Tournament will take place this weekend across a host of different high schools in the Capital District.

Rich Gilooly was a teacher at Catholic Central High School in Troy. He attended that school, was a great player, and later returned as a coach. He died unexpectedly at the age of 38 in February of this year.

Gilooly played college basketball at Union and was an assistant coach at RPI. He eventually became the head coach at Hudson Valley Community College. He also coached at Schalmont and Bishop Maginn.

The event will be held at Watervliet H. S., CCHS, Gardner-Dickinson School, Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Mekeel Christian Academy, Schalmont H.S. and Bishop Maginn H. S. on Friday and Saturday. Teams from as far away as Maine have signed up.

There are more than 50 teams signed up grades four through 12. Those wishing to volunteer services at any of the playing venues, or contribute items for raffles, can do so by connecting with event organizers at www.adirondackhoops.com/family.

“Rich was a tremendous friend, an exceptional coach and an even better person,” La Salle Institute coach Steve Sgambelluri said. “The absolute best

compliment that I could give him is that if my son grew up to be like Rich, I’d be a lucky father. His passion for the game was second to none and his ability to connect with players of all ages was remarkable.”

AHL

BRIDGEPORTSOUNDTIGERS 3, ALBANYDEVILS1 » In their final meeting of the season, the Albany Devils fell to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers 3-1. Albany led af-

ter the first period but was unable to overcome three straight Bridgeport goals. The Devils move to 33-272-2 and the Sounds Tigers improve to 39-23-2-1.

Vojtech Mozik netted his ninth goal of the season to give the Devils the lead at 17:35 of the first period. Max Novak won the opening faceoff of a Devils’ power play back to Yohann Auvitu, who fed Mozik for a slapshot that beat Bridgeport goaltender Jaroslav

Halak.

Youth golf

O’HARA WINS JUNIOR GOLF EVENT » Jack O’Hara, of Loudonville, took home the first- place trophy at the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour event at Cimarrone Golf & Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla.

He shot a 69 and 74 for a winning two-round score of 143. O’Hara lead wire to wire and shot the low score of the tournament with his

69 in round one.

There was no lack of action behind O’Hara as there was a three-way tie for second. Sarut Vong, St. Simons Island, Georgia, Augustin Errazuriz, Chile and Alex Hu, Lake Mary, Florida. Each of these young men played very well throughout the two rounds. Vong shot a 74-75, Errazuriz a 77-72 and Hu a 71-78. Errazuriz’s 72 was the low score of the round on Sunday.