Leading off today: New Paltz State men's basketball coach Doug Pasquerella
has resigned after five seasons in order to return to coaching and teaching at Homer High, the
Times Herald-Record reported.
At Homer, Pasquerella expects to coach boys' basketball, a fall sport and possibly girls lacrosse, the newspaper reported. He will be teaching physical education in high school and elementary school.
"The irony is it's the same position I left five years ago -— it opened up through retirements and teaching moves,'' Pasquerella, 33, told the newspaper.
New Paltz was 11-14 last season, bringing Pasquerella's five-season record to 42-85. His first team finished 11-17 but came within a victory of an automatic berth in the NCAA Division III tournament. He previously spent seven seasons as a men's basketball assistant at Cortland State.
New Paltz has begun its search for a new coach.
Habecker's back in business: Former Ithaca High soccer coach Terry Habecker will coach Newfield's boys this fall, he told The Ithaca Journal.
Habecker was let go at Ithaca in June after 35 seasons (435-176-37 record) because of a district policy that gives priority to district employees for coaching positions. Habecker retired as a physical education teacher in 2004.
Newfield was winless with two ties in 2006.
Milano's family files suit: The family of Spackenkill High football player Mark Milano, who died last Oct. 7 after he was treated at Saint Francis Hospital for an ankle injury, is suing.
The lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court names the hospital and the emergency room physician, Dr. Kimberly Wattoff, as defendants. The medical group that ran the emergency room, Emergency Physicians Services of New York, was also named in the suit, which alleges the teen was given an overdose of narcotics.
