Gatorade honor for Dupra: Greece Athena pitcher Brian Dupra has been selected as Gatorade's New York baseball player of the year. The Notre Dame-bound senior is 6-0 with a 0.17 ERA and is batting .456 with 20 RBIs.
He's the first Section 5 player to snare Gatorade's state baseball honor since another Athena pitcher, Dave Allen in 1987.
Good things happen to those who wait:
Nick Weiermiller, a 2006 graduate of Elmira Free Academy, has signed a letter of intent to play basketball for Texas-Pan American, a Division I program.
Weiermiller, a 5-foot-11 guard, spent a year attending IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., and improving his game. He attracted interest from James Madison, East Tennessee State and a few others.
Weiermiller averaged 21.1 points and was a fifth-team Class A all-state pick as an EFA senior but hadn't attracted much college interest.
Extra points: Skaneateles senior midfielder Stephanie Rice had a monster game with 11 goals for the Lakers (18-1), defending state champions, in a 15-10 girls lacrosse victory over Westhill in the Section 3 Class C semis. She has 95 goals this spring after scoring 99 as a junior. . . Niagara-Wheatfield’s Aaron Foote broke the Niagara Frontier League's meet record in the 1,600 meters with a time of 4:18.52, knocking the superb Joe Dunlap (4:23.7 for Grand Island in 1992) out of the book.
