Anthony Asaro (eight carries, 95 yards) and Brayden Robertiello rushed for two touchdowns apiece on Saturday as Garden City defeated New Hyde Park 42-0.
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Passings
Retired Newark boys basketball coach Ron Ceravolo died on Oct. 16 at the age of 76, the Finger Lakes Times reported.
Ceravolo coached the Reds to a 409-117 record and four Section 5 championships in 23 seasons. The district named its basketball court in his honor in 2004.
Ceravolo also coached baseball, soccer, softball, lacrosse, and track and field teams at various times.
High-tech thievery in South Carolina?
Dutch Fork beat crosstown rival Irmo 28-21 in South Carolina football action over the weekend, but winning coach Tom Knotts wasn't happy afterward.
According to Knotts, an Irmo player scouted his team during the week by gaining access to the Dutch Fork Hudl account to view practice footage.
"That's bullcrap," Knotts told a reporter.
An unusual playoff forfeit in Michigan
Mendon, the top-ranked team in Division 2 eight-man football in Michigan, advanced out of the first round of the state tournament via a forfeit after its scheduled opponent declined to play on a religious holy day.
Administrators at Sacred Heart High in Grand Rapids wanted to play on Friday to avoid taking the field on Saturday, which was All Saints Day.
That clashed with a Mendon tradition of playing home playoff games on Saturdays, and also avoided playing on Halloween.
"It's absolutely unfortunate," Mendon Superintendent Leasa Griffith said. "Our kids wanted to play, and our coaches wanted to play, as I would think theirs would as well. This may have been our last home game for our seniors, depending on how the playoffs pan out."
Michigan rules for postseason games between distant opponents require a Saturday afternoon kickoff if the teams cannot agree to an alternative date and time.
Florida football change sparks pushback
The Florida High School Athletic Association is preparing to change its football classifications for the next two school years with a goal of reducing travel and restoring late-season excitement, but the plan isn't going over well.
The plan rolled out last week calls for reducing the postseason for 542 football_playing schools to five classifications plus a rural division and introduce two-week district tournaments to determine playoff berths.
The last FHSAA overhaul came in 2022, when seven classes plus the rural division replaced a metro/suburban structure in what was intended to address wide disparities in enrollments and reduce early-round travel. Unfortunately, it left numerous districts with less than an optimal number of teams in multiple classes.
Still, the new proposal puts more than half of Florida's teams in the two largest classes. It leaves 270 teams spread across the four other classes, including 49 in Class 1A, where enrollments would range from 44 to 492.
The feedback from the approximately 20 percent of coaches responding to a survey was that competitive imbalance is the sport's No. 1 current issue, with performance-based classification preferable to using enrollment cutoffs.
The FHSAA Board of Directors is expected to vote on the new proposal at its Monday meeting in Gainesville.
