soccer and lacrosse games. Though they estimate $16,000 a year in savings on maintenance of grass fields, Glens Falls will have to spend an estimated $500,000 a decade from now to replace the synthetic surface.
More from Staten Island: Blogger Dan O'Leary is the latest to chime in on the mess at McKee/Staten Island Tech, where Tim Hynes was pressured into resigning.
By the way, one of the players who threw Hynes under the bus has been posting on the message boards on The Advance web site. If his physical coordination is as lacking as is his English skills are, then the kid can get away with crewing a stick of gum as a birth-control method.
Alabama enforcing Sunday ban: The Alabama High School Athletic Association has smashed plans by Hoover High to play an Ohio prep football power on ESPN2 because the game was scheduled for a Sunday.
"Sunday is a day of worship," AHSAA executive director Dan Washburn said when asked why Hoover's application to play an out-of-state opponent was rejected.
Hoover was to play Cincinnati Colerain on Labor Day weekend in Cincinnati as part of the third annual Kirk Herbstreit Ohio vs. USA Challenge. Hoover, which won four straight state Class 6A championships from 2003-06 was featured on MTV's reality show Two-A-Days.
Washburn said there's no specific written rule prohibiting Sunday games, but the policy is nevertheless well-established. Exceptions have been made under emergency circumstances to accommodate playoff games.
Hoover coach Rush Propst said he's uncertain if the game can be moved to a Friday or Saturday.
Gatorade honor for Texas star: Melissa Henderson of Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas, must be a heck of a soccer player, because she's the first junior ever to be recognized by Gatorade as national player of the year in that sport.
In fact, the list of list of junior honorees in any sport is very short: Ohio State basketball All-American Greg Oden, NBA superstar LeBron James, Tennessee women's basketball star Candace Parker, track and field Olympian Marion Jones, Stanford volleyball player Cynthia Barboza and high school track star
Bianca Knight.
Extra points: Reader Jim Wiley makes a fair point regarding yesterday's blog item on Mike Hopkins. Jim Boeheim had no experience as a head coach before replacing Roy Danforth on Piety Hill, and that seems to have worked out. . . . LaFayette (14-3) broke to a 3-0 lead and upset Syracuse CBA (16-1) in boys lacrosse, 14-10. That leaves West Genesee and Huntington as New York's last two unbeatens. By the way, Huntington's win steak has reached 59. . . . Chelsea Plimpton of Williamsville South struck out 12 Sweet Home batters in an 11-0 win, moving her to No. 2 on the state's career strikeouts list.
