Leading off today: Palmyra-Macedon senior twins
Owen and Craig Scott, both Cornell recruits, made it two state titles apiece by defending NYSPHSAA Division II championships Saturday at the Times Union Center in Albany.
Owen Scott decisioned Burke Paddock of Warsaw 3-1 in the 161-pound final. Craig Scott decisioned Tony Lock of Pioneer 3-0 at 171.
Section 11 took home overall team honors in Division I with 269.5 points to 199.5 for Section 1. Suffolk County placed 10 competitors in the finals, with five bringing home championships. In Division II, Section 5 prevailed with 266.5 points to 221.5 for Section 6.
Also noteworthy from the finals:
• Wayne senior Bobby Dierna placed in the top six for the fifth straight year, though he dropped a 9-7 OT decision to Somers junior Brian Realbuto, who was selected the most outstanding wrestler in Division I.
• Fox Lane's Steven Rodrigues gutted out a 3-2 win over James Dekrone of John Glenn in the Division I 120 final after going down with a knee injury at the start of the third period while leading 3-1.
• New Rochelle senior heavyweight Malcolm Allen capped his career with an improbable weekend run to the top of the podium. at 285. Allen, a two-time runner-up in Section 1, received a wildcard entry and upset St. Anthony's Jonathon Desir 6-4 in the final.
• Huntington senior Nigel McNeil, a champ at 112 last winter, closed out with an 80-match winning streak by winning the Division I 119 final with an 8-3 decision over Fox Lane's Danny Ventura. "I worked too hard for anything to stop me," McNeil told Newsday.
• Peru 112-pounder Arik Robinson decisioned Tristan Rifanburg of Norwich 7-2 and earned most outstanding wrestler honors in Division II.
• Holley junior Quinton Murphy secured his third state title with a technical fall against A.J. Rue of Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk-2 in the 135 final in Division II. He'll have a chance to join Palmyra-Macedon graduate Alex Eckstrom as the only four-time state champions from Section 5.
• Tioga senior Derak Heyman was a 4-2 winner over Derek Pfluger of Sandy Creek (who had advanced via a 12-0 decision and two quick pins) in the Division II 140-pound final for his 255th career victory. Heyman was a state champ as a 130-pound sophomore in 2009 and lost the 140 final as a junior. "It just proves that if you work hard enough anything can happen."
• Lansing's William Koll was the year's only freshman champion, pulling off a pin of Edgemont's John Aslanian in the Division II 103 final.
Top-ranked team tumbles: Will Bromirski’s free throw with 2.7 seconds left in the second overtime gave Cambridge (10-10) a 68-67 upset of Argyle, (18-2), the state's top-ranked Class C squad, in the Section 2 boys basketball tournament.
Bromirski made five 3-pointers and finished with 27 points for Cambridge, which advances to the semifinals against Greenwich on Tuesday.
Monster performance: Senior guard Vinny Bomasuto scored a school-record 47 points as undefeated Dunkirk defeated Buffalo Arts 83-43 in a Section 6 Class B-1 boys basketball quarterfinal. Bomasuto, who added seven rebounds and five assists, already shared the school mark of 44 with Luis Pagan (2003).
The Marauders face Lackawanna in the semifinals