Leading off today: Matt Buddenhagen, who led Cornwall to the brink of a state football championship last fall, is
resigning from his coaching and teaching positions in the district this month, the
Times Herald-Record reported.
He coached Cornwall to back-to-back Section 9 Class A titles. Cornwall was 11-2 last fall, losing to Corning East in the NYSPHSAA finals at the Carrier Dome.
Buddenhagen, previously an assistant at Warwick and Goshen, said he's been offered a teaching and coaching position at a "pretty big school," and recently interviewed for an athletic director position. He vehemently denied rumors that he had run afoul of district officials this spring, and Buddenhegan said he had been recommended for teaching tenure at Cornwall.
The newspaper reported that assistant Tom Pinder is expected to replace Buddenhagen.
Big name, big step: Following in the footstops of her brothers, guard Sarah Paulus has accepted a scholarship to play basketball for Fairfield.
Paulus, wrapping up her junior year at Syracuse CBA, will be the seventh member of the Paulus family to play in Division I. Her oldest brothers played football and basketball at Georgetown; Greg is the point guard at Duke, and Mike is bound for North Carolina to play quarterback.
Paulus helped CBA to a 22-2 record by averaging 14.8 points and 9.5 assists per game.
Dept. of dubious timing: Could Syracuse University officials possibly have waited any longer to drop the men's and women's swimming programs?
No. 1, it left athletes high and dry with respect to having time to tranfer in time for the fall semester.
No. 2, the announcement came long after scholarship money for potential transfers had already been committed to incoming freshmen at other programs.
No. 3, the news broke after students had left campus for the semester, conveniently obliterating any opportunity for
