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Lourdes had its own stars in a game featuring 1,060 yards of total offense. Section 1 career passing yards leader Dean Rotger went 28-for-45 for 408 yards and three TDs to go with two rushing scores. Receiver Luke Timm caught 18 balls to tie the state record for 277 yards and three TDs.
Timm's 7-yard reception pulled Lourdes to within 49-46 with 2:53 to play, but South Park successfully covered the onside kick and proceeded to run out the clock.
A few more wild contests
Tyler Jollie scored seven points of his 31 points in the third overtime period as
Marlboro pulled away from Spackenkill for an 82-76 victory and its second consecutive Section 9 Class B boys basketball championship. Marlboro never led in the first two OTs, but Jollie made a jumper from the free-throw line for a 77-76 margin with a minute left in the third extra stanza. His steal and 3-pointer made it 80-76 with :28 to play.
Down 32-6 at the half, Baldwinsville rallied to defeat Auburn 50-46 in football on quarterback Ben Dwyer's 1-yard sneak for a touchdown in the final minute. Auburn scored twice in the second half to answer Baldwinsville scores and the Maroons still led 46-26 in the fourth quarter after Nasir Smith scored his fifth touchdown. Baldwinsville closed it to 46-42 with Jack Buis' 13-yard run, Dwyer's 46-yard pass to Mark Lannier and a pair of successful 2-point conversion passes. Dwyer's conversion pass to Thir Sutphen after the go-ahead TD closed the scoring.
Host Dolgeville scored the game's first 41 points and defeated Westmoreland 53-9 in a girls basketball game. The score at halftime was 36-0.
Masters of their craft
The
Fayetteville-Manlius girls cross country team wired the field on a rain-soaked course and won its ninth Nike Cross Nationals championship in 10 years in Portland, Ore. The Hornets ate just 55 points to breeze home ahead of Davis, Calif., (144), Temecula, Calif., Great Oak (171) and Saratoga (207).
Beacon senior Rayvon Grey broke the state long jump record -- a mark by Olympic legend Bob Beamon that stood for 51 years -- by clearing 25 feet, 4.75 inches in winning his second straight NYSPHSAA outdoor championship. Beamon had jumped 25-3.50 in 1965 while representing Jamaica High.
That wasn't the only ancient state mark to fall on the track. A week after Grey's leap, Huntington took down what had briefly become New York's newest "old" record while competing in the New Balance Nationals at North Carolina A&T. Lawrence Leake, Kyree Johnson, Shane McGuire and Infinite Tucker won the boys 1,600-meter relay in 3:10.93. The existing record had been 3:12.7 -- at that time a national record -- in the mile relay by a White Plains squad in 1966.
Hilton wrestler Yianni Diakomihalis began his school year by capturing the freestyle gold medal at 58 kilograms in the UWW Cadet World Championships in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and capped it with his fourth straight NYSPHSAA championship by running his winning streak to a state-record 199 matches.
In the same meet, Syosset junior Vito Arujau reached the top of the podium for the third time. The only loss thus far in his 179-match career was to Diakomihalis when the two were eighth-graders.
