Leading off today: Senior Joseph Kiesa scored 30 seconds into overtime to lift
Jamesville-DeWitt a 9-8 victory over Victor in boys lacrosse Saturday.
Kiesa (two goals) scored off a feed from Casey Platenik. Ryan Archer and Griffin Cook scored three goals apiece for the Red Rams. Goalie Bennett Chirco had 11 saves in the victory.
The teams were the NYSPHSAA champions in their respective classes a year ago, with each moving down a class this spring as the tournament expands to four classes. Victor is ranked fourth in Class B and J-D is second in third.
"It's great timing for us, to play a team like that and win it," J-D coach Jamie Archer told Syracuse.com. "It was a great game -- hard-fought all the way through."
Loucks Games: North Rockland freshman Katelyn Tuohy shook off a cold rain to wire the field in the girls championship mile in 4:49.43.
Junior Katherine Lee of Shoreham-Wading River was second in 4:52.91 as she continued a comeback from a mid-February injury at the Millrose Games that wrecked the conclusion of her indoor season.
Fairport's Ben Bulkeley won the boys mile in 4:21.30 seconds to edge Mason Gatewood (4:21.38) of St. Anthony's.
New Rochelle's Olivia Morgan was selected the meet's outstanding female field athlete after putting up a score of 3,205 points in the pentathlon. Morgan PR'd in the shot put (32-04.25) and 100 hurdles (:15.12).
• Cary Smith and Dr. Stan B. Dawkins were presented the Eleanor Loucks Memorial Award for service to the Games, with each having officiated all 50 Loucks meets.
More track: Rush-Henrietta senior Sammy Watson warmed up with a 2:06 leg in the 3,200 relay and then won the girls 800 in 2:04.88 at her school's own invitational for the nation's top scholastic time this spring.
O-A ceremony: Oakfield-Alabama dedicated its baseball field in the memory of coach Dan Gilbert, who died March 1 at the age of 47.
Gilbert was a 1987 graduate of O-A and returned after college to be a teacher's aid and special ed instructor. After a stint in another job, he returned and became a teacher and coach.
L.I. soccer figure dies: Former Brentwood boys soccer coach Bill Lown died Wednesday at the age of 82. Lown was varsity coach in Brentwood for 10 seasons and was the school's AD and Suffolk County soccer chairman from 1990-99.
Lown was inducted into the New York State Soccer Hall of Fame in 1998.
Still streaking: The Owings Mills (Md.) McDonogh girls lacrosse team won its ninth consecutive Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland conference crown and finished its eighth straight perfect season with a 12-9 victory against Towson (Md.) Notre Dame Prep.
The win extended McDonogh's streak to 177 straight victories.
