Not sure if this is official as it's from an X post but Union has announced their 2026 football schedule. They will be fulfilling the home and home commitments started last year so non conference opponents have not changed. Susquehanna will be visiting on September 5th, Cortland on the 12th and the Garnet are at Morrisville on Sept. 19th...Liberty League play begins on Sept 26th hosting Buffalo St. Trips to St. Lawrence and Hobart are followed by an Oct.17th bye week. Ithaca visits Schenectady on Oct. 24th then a road trip to play Hilbert on Halloween. The last home game is Rochester on Nov 7th and the Shoes will be contested at RPI on November 14th.

Vassar 68 - Union 61 in OT...The home court was kind to the Vassar Brewers this weekend. Friday they got a Shea Fitzgerald 3 with 9 seconds left to tie the score and withstood a Union shot hanging on the rim to take the game to overtime. The Brewers then made 14 Free Throws in OT to run away with it. Parker Neuenhaus was once again a thorn in the side of Union scoring 21 with his soft little jump hook. Fitzgerald added 22 with the Brewers going 23-27 total from the line. Mathew Garside led Union with 19 while Jack Plesser was again in foul trouble and scored only 10. Usual dead-eye Tanner Tedesco was 3/14, 0/5 and finished with only 6.

Vassar 67 - RIT 61 in OT... Saturday was a repeat for the Brewers as they battled a determined RIT. Vassar used a late short jumper from Neuenhaus to tie the score late and again held their breathe as a last second shot by RIT rolled off the rim. Once more in OT the Brewers took charge and pulled away to secure an improbable two for two in overtime games.     

Union 84 - Bard 56...The Garnet Chargers rolled to a win over Bard despite not having their and the Liberty League's leading scorer Jack Plesser. I'm not sure if it was illness, injury or something else but Plesser has not been himself the last few games. First year Cade Furse came off the bench to score a career high 21. A night after shooting a season low 31.4% versus Vassar the Garnet shot much better making 11/26 3's to overwhelm the Raptors.     

Quote from: stlawus on February 11, 2026, 05:18:02 PMWhy am I not surprised to see Frank Rossi be quite literally the only person defending Flo Sports on social media.

Not sure if you are aware of this but Frank in addition to his role with "In the D3fb Huddle" podcasts with James Baker, Frank also refs flag football and serves as Mayor of Ballston Spa, NY. I believe he can handle himself quite well since he's also an attorney. I respect and admire the guy.   

Every team has injuries... Union's starting PF from last year, 6'7" Jr. Brendan Reid has not played a minute all season due to a knee injury. He averaged 6.9 pts/gm and a third in the Liberty League 8.4 rebounds in the 2024-25 season. Think they couldn't use him? And how about another PF Aren Cummings who was the 2022-23 LL Rookie of the year but has battled injuries that have compromised most of his talents. Cummings, now a senior, is just now getting a few minutes of floor time again but is still struggling. Union is guard dependent largely because of the unavailability of Reid and Cummings.     

Union 75 - Hobart 68 ... Union coach Chris Murphy, seemingly concerned about getting little offense from his bench, found a way to get the subs involved early. He started them, leaving his three best players Jack Plesser, Tanner Tedesco and Matthew Garside sitting for the first 3 minutes. Did it work? No...Hobart took advantage and went out to an early 10 point lead...In reality it was senior night and Murph started his four seniors. The Garnet scrambled back, took a lead but trailed the Statesmen 34-31 at the break. In the second half Hobart grudgingly allowed the Garnet Chargers to take control and put it away late...A day after scoring his career high 37 points Plesser had only 6. Foul plagued and frustrated he played only 17 total minutes before fouling out. Hobart seems to have the answer for Plesser, holding him to only 12 and 6 points in the two league meetings, both won by Union none the less. Tedesco 21, Dufort 19 and Garside's 11 got it done. For Hobart Monty Nedd had an impressive 26.

Union 80- Skidmore 62... No offensive lulls tonight for the Garnet Chargers. After a couple of subpar performances in the last 2 weeks Jack Plesser had all his game rolling tonight scoring a career high 37 points including 3/4 from beyond the arc. Tanner Tedesco added 15 and Christian Dufort 12...Roy had 14, Padilla 12 and LaGarde 12 for balanced Skidmore as the Garnet held serve in the tight LL standings.

RPI 56 - Union 50...After scoring 57 points in the second half against Ithaca Friday the Garnet Chargers managed only 50 points total a day later, never "getting it rolling'.. Why?...It was a combination of all things bad basketball, especially after halftime.  Tied at 28 the Engineers got out to a 39-34 lead at the 15:14 mark and then nobody could score. For Union 6 turnovers over the next 6:18, a couple of missed layups and 2 open missed 3 attempts were pure frustration. RPI wasn't much better with their own futility missing 3 layups and having 3 turnovers of their own but a steal and layup gave RPI a 41-34 lead. Their only points during that same span. Union fought back and retook the lead with 4:17 left at 44-43 but RPI closed the deal with 7/7 from the free throw line...Altogether Union had 17 turnovers, 10 in the second half, and shot only 28.57% after the break. An issue for the Garnet was their bench. Normal starter Nate Detarao and big man Scott Schmitt were not dressed and Union got only 2 points from the subs despite 46 minutes of playing time.  RPI gave the LL's leading scorer Jack Plesser fits holding him to only 11 total points.     

Things looked bleak for Union trailing 51-29 at halftime but the Garnet Chargers would have none of it roaring back with a 57 point second half to dump shell shocked Ithaca 86-79. This Union team is so fun to watch when they get rolling. Jack Plesser had 26, Tanner Tedesco 19 and Mathew Garside 17 for Union. For  the Bombers Evan Cabral had a game high 27. Mathew Zenker and David Luberoff had 14 and Thomas Mckiernan 10 for the hard working Ithaca squad.

Union 90 - Hobart 72...The game started as a battle between Hobart's big man Dorian Paki and Union's Jack Plesser who had his hands full trying to stop Paki down low. Paki outmuscled Plesser getting him not only in foul trouble but also off his game offensively. Fortunately for the Garnet the other three of their big four came to the forefront and the teams went back and forth to a halftime 38-38 tie...Once again it seemed like Union head coach Chris Murphy had the halftime answer. The Garnet Chargers hit the second half floor and played nearly perfect basketball to run away from the Statesmen out scoring them 52-34 from there. Tanner Tedesco had 24, Matthew Garside 21, Christian Dufort 14 and Plesser who had only 2 late free throws in the first half contributed 10 more to finish with 12.  6'11" Scott Schmitt had 13 good minutes neutralizing Hobart down low...For Hobart Paki finished with an impressive 26 highlighted by at least four thunderous dunks. 

Vassar 76 - Union 74...Just another Liberty League battle last night in Schenectady. Vassar jumped out to a quick double digit lead over the Garnet who looked like they were not ready to play. They held that lead  throughout the first half behind the play of big Parker Neuenhaus and Shea Fitzgerald. Leading 38-27 at the half the Brewers upped that to 49-32 before the Garnet Chargers dug in. Jack Plesser and Tanner Tedesco went to work and eventually Union took it's first lead with 5:47 left 64-63 on a Tedesco 3...Two clutch free throws by Union's Christian Dufort tied the game at 74-74 with 15 seconds left. Fitzgerald hit a pull-up jumper to put Vassar back ahead. It looked like everything was in place for another Union miracle...BUT...With 3.2 seconds left Union's attempted inbounds pass to an open Matt Garside sailed high off his extended arm to Vassar's Sebastion Medina. Medina was immediately fouled but here's were it got weird. With 1.2 seconds on the clock Medina missed both shots and on the rebound a whistle seemed to indicate that Union's Jack Plesser had been fouled?...After a long table discussion (and me watching repeated replays) the refs called both coaches together and eventually waived the game over. What???   Union coach Chris Murphy seemed to be OK with the decision (me not so much) and Union had it's first LL loss...you can watch it here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ul0GBr-h8     

16 players got at least 2 minutes of floor time and 14 scored as Union defeated Bard 89-60 Friday night. Jack Plesser led the Garnet with 18 points in only 24 minutes. Things promise to be a lot tougher Saturday as Union hosts 9-3, 5-0 LL Vassar.

WOW...yet another near miracle buzzer beater for Union. This time a last second, turnaround, over the shoulder heave by Tanner Tedesco that gets all net and gets the Garnet into overtime where they go 10/10 from the free throw line to stave off a game RIT 94-90... Both teams had excellent moments. Union opened the game strong building up a double digit lead but RIT got themselves together and made the rest of the night very tough for Union. With great hustle and excellent shooting and helped by Union missing some layups and free throws the Tigers got a late 4 point lead and were about to hand the bewildered Garnet their first league loss but it was not to be. Union refused to lose...The win gives Union a season sweep over the Tigers who I believe are capable of giving anybody trouble. Union has played its way onto the national scene and is now receiving votes in the Top 25 poll.

Union 81 - Ithaca 73...For a large portion of today's game it looked like the emotional high of beating their arch rival RPI at their place followed by the long bus ride to face tough Ithaca would be too much. With strong pressure defense and great half court offense the Bombers totally controlled the first half and led 39-32 at the break. Union looked tired and confused...I don't know what coach Chris Murphy said to his team at halftime but they came out refreshed and determined. Led by the ever hustling of Jack Plesser and the sharpshooting of Tanner Tedesco the Garnet turned up their own defense and steadily chipped away at the deficit until finally gaining the lead for the first time with 12:32 left in the game. From there it appeared it was the Bombers that tired and Union poured it on stretching their lead to 70-52 and coasting in... Plesser had 30, Tedesco 16, Matthew Garside 14 and Christian Dufort 9 for well balanced Garnet.

Quote from: stlawus on January 09, 2026, 09:55:02 PMHalftime score: Bard 40, SLU 18.

Final score in OT: SLU 81, Bard 80. 

Never in doubt 

Talk about a tale of 2 halves. SLU had overcome 4 near 20 point deficits on the road but couldn't finish it out, tonight they finally did.  Biggest margin was 24 points.  It was also a 15 point game with 6 minutes left.  Freshmen Aidan Phelan was 1-8, and then made 3 of 4 from three at the end of the 1st half and OT including a 3 with 4 seconds left in regulation. Very tough shot by Bard to force OT too. Career high for Adam Dudzinski the game after getting his 1000th point, 35 points for him who almost singlehandedly willed SLU into the win.

In other news, Union takes the reigns for the Liberty League with an impressive win against RPI at ECAV.  I don't know what Jack Plesser did this summer, but he is a scoring machine.  I really enjoy watching well executed offense and Union does just that.

Sure Union 6'5" Jr forward Jack Plesser has had a great start to the 2025-26 season but it doesn't come as much of a surprise. Plesser was 2nd Team All Liberty League last season and a strong case can be made that he deserved 1st Team as he led the Garnet with 17.3 pts/gm and finished fourth in the Liberty League in scoring, second in field-goal percentage, third in free-throw percentage and ninth in blocks. He scored in double figures in 25-of-27 games and had nine games of 20 or more points. This year he's 1st in scoring 23.5 ppg, 6th in rebounds, 4th in FT% and again 2nd in FG% and 9th in blocks. Oh and this "scoring machine" does all this scoring without taking 3's having only shot from behind the arc 5 times, making 4 of them! 

It was a great win for the Garnet Chargers last night in Troy but things don't get easier. They make the quick turnaround road trip to Ithaca today for a 4:00 pm battle with the Bombers.

Quote from: Bartman on January 08, 2026, 12:29:54 PMThe CSC All District Academic Team was announced(3.5 average or better, Sophomore +, and start in 66% or play in 90% of the games).....it's nice someone still cares about academics.

Rochester_8
Union-8
Hobart-7
Ithaca-5
SLU-5
RPI-2
Buff State-1
Hilbert-1

I'm sure each college will announce their members, but my only comment is it's nice that this type of recognition still matters. Also, it must be that Union and UoR have some smart kids or easy grading professors .

I hope everyone has a great Winter, as I'm forusing on D3 Hockey and Basketball.

I have the utmost respect and admiration for any and all student athletes who achieve this recognition. Here are the members of the Union squad, congratulations... https://unionathletics.com/news/2026/1/8/eight-named-to-csc-academic-all-district-football-team.aspx