Leading off today: The Monroe County Sheriff's Office arrested a spectator who assaulted players from the East/World of Inquiry football team during Friday night's game at Rush-Henrietta,
WHAM-TV reported.
In a letter addressed to the community, R-H AD Jeffrey Onze said the spectator approached the sideline during the fourth quarter of the game, which was televised locally in the Rochester area.
Onze said first responders subdued the individual, who was arrested. No serious injuries were reported..
Rush-Henrietta won the game 17-14.
End of the line for century-old Section 6 rivalry
Lancaster defeated Depew 48-8 on Friday in what figures to be the last football game between the two for quite some time.
Legends senior Justin Teubner opened the scoring with a 28-yard run on the fourth play and Teubner then from a yard out, and Aiden Banks followed with a 9-yard touchdown and a 21-0 lead.
It was the Lancaster's 11th straight win in the series, and the Legends hold a 59-33-6 lead in the series. The size difference between the districts has become more pronounced in the past decade. Class B Depew brought a roster of 27 players into the matchup against Class AA Lancaster's 50 players.
Fit to be tied in the PSAL
Here's who you don't start late-October football games on unlit fields at 4 o'clock in the afternoon:
McKee/Staten Island Tech and Beach Channel Campus played to a 20-20 tie because the game had to be stopped due to darkness with about four minutes to play in the fourth quarter.
With MSIT 4-0-1 and Beach Channel 3-1-1 in the 14-school Class AA division and next month's playoff bracket based on power points, it will be interesting to see how the PSAL accounts for the tie in its standings.
Record-setting night
Jah Jah Smith of Lyons/Sodus caught three more touchdown passes to set the Section 5 season record during a 45-0 victory over Clyde-Savannah.
Smith, who made for catches for 176 yards, has caught 21 TD passes, two more than Earnest Edwards of Aquinas in the 2015 season.
Quarterback Brayden Kitchen finished 11 of 12 for 267 yards and four TDs.
Bowling team an issue at Section 2 school
Can a girl compete successfully in a boys sport? We've seen female wrestlers win tournaments and even earn berths in the boys state championships, and a few have bypassed playing on the girls soccer or tennis teams to play alongside the boys. And with so few girls ice hockey programs, girls have consistently shown up on the rosters of boys teams for decades.
Though the number of instances is small, would it be enough for a school to successfully fight off a Title IX complaint over fielding a single-sex team?
It's a hypothetical concern at best at the moment, but the father of a Guilderland seventh-grade girl has raised the question of why the school has a co-ed bowling programs rather than separate teams for boys and girls.
With bowling being a non-contact sport, it might seem like gender would not matter. But Darren Anderson told the school board this week the boys have greater upper-body strength, leading to rolling the ball with greater velocity and creating greater pinfalls for comparable pocket hits.
With limited sports in the lineup for head-to-head matches, Darren Anderson is asking the district to begin fielding separate teams for boys and girls. He believes there are as many as 15 girls interested in competing.
"You don't really have a chance to play the matches," Anderson said, according to The Times Union. "They practice, but they don't compete, because you have to have one of the six top averages to do that."
Anderson said he hopes the school board will add a girls team for the 2027-28 school year at an estimated coast of less than $10,000.
