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Shenendehowa baseball advances to championship game
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter CLIFTON PARK — He’d hit a batter and walked another to start the May 19 game. Partially covering his face with his baseball glove, Shenendehowa senior Ian Anderson...
View ArticleBoyhood friends Anderson and Huerter are national-level athletes
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter CLIFTON PARK — Twenty boys made up last summer’s USA Baseball U18 national team, which won a world championship in Japan. Twenty-six players were selected this...
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Shenendehowa baseball advances to state semis
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter TROY — Down a run after a two-error defensive third inning, Ian Anderson reminded his Shenendehowa baseball teammates there was no reason to worry. “Hey,” the...
View ArticleShen’s Ian Anderson drafted by Atlanta Braves
Michael Kelly Gazette Reporter Just like his mid-90s fastball, the buzz around Ian Anderson in the final days before Thursday’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in Secaucus, N.J., was...
View ArticleBlue Jays draft Ben Anderson
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter VESTAL — The Anderson family now has two Major League draft picks. Two days after Shenendehowa senior pitcher Ian Anderson became the third overall selection in...
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The making of Ian Anderson
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter CLIFTON PARK — Several hundred people were already in the stands around the baseball field at Larson Playfield, a complex where spectators can see the body of...
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State champs! Shenendehowa baseball walks off with historic win
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter VESTAL — Tears and dirt staining his reddened face, Joe Palko smiled. He’d been smiling all season, though, especially when his senior teammates razzed him. In...
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Keith Lansley guides Shenendehowa pitchers through another great season
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter CLIFTON PARK — Just more than a week before two of his sons were selected in the Major League Baseball amateur draft, Bob Anderson laughed while watching...
View ArticleAnderson begins first spring training
ORLANDO, Fla. — He was one of the first out of the clubhouse Saturday on the first day of minor league workouts at the Braves Complex at the ESPN’s Wild World of Sports, sporting a big smile. Ian...
View ArticleHow do replace Ian Anderson? You don’t
BY MICHAEL KELLY Gazette Sportswriter CLIFTON PARK — He laughed because, really, how else is head coach Greg Christodulu supposed to handle a query regarding his plans to replace an irreplaceable...
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