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Monday, Aug. 13, 2007: Churchville-Chili's Collier has Clemson high on his list
   Leading off today: Churchville-Chili football star Averin Collier has trimmed his list of suitors to Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech and Clemson, with his final decision likely to come after the high school season, the Democrat and Chronicle reported Monday.

   Collier confirmed Clemson is in the lead for now even though his brother Kevin, the 2005 All-Greater Rochester player of the year, is a sophomore running back for Pittsburgh.

   Collier accounted for 2,200 yards as a junior to help the Saints into the Section V Class AA champtionship game. He rushed for 1,542 yards and 22 touchdowns.

   Vandals strike at Nottingham: Vandals spray-painted graffiti in Nottingham High's new football stadium and track over the weekend, damaging the Syracuse school's facility just weeks before it is set to open.

   Police said they have no suspects, but several of the painted messages point toward students from Christian Brothers Academy, The Post-Standard reported. "CBA '07" and "CBA Seniors '07" were sprayed on equipment at the site.

   Nottingham is scheduled to play CBA on Sept. 7 in its first football game in the new stadium. Police estimated the damage to be in excess of $3,000.

  
   Divided about divisions: Count Middletown reporter Kevin Witt among those who would realign some Section 9 football conferences. He called for the elimination of the two-division formats for Class AA and Class B football in favor of one division with rotating league schedules in a Monday column in The Times Herald-Record.

   Witt points to the discrepency between how AA and B teams and the rest of the Section 9 schools qualify for sectionals.

   You can read the nuts and bolts of his argument in the column, but Witt also suggests that it's time to award home-field advantage to the higher semifinal seeds. As it stands now, one of the Class A semifinals is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, in Kingston. Besides being fan-unfriendly even for a regular-season game, that's a day and time better suited for junior-varsity games.

   Extra points: There have already been at least two deaths on southern football practice fields this month. In Mississippi, Mount Olive High School football player Lonnie Magee, 17, collapsed during practice Wednesday and died at a hospital. Heat stroke is suspected as the cause. On Aug. 1, Will Orr, 16, of Dyer, Tenn., collapsed during a full-pads practice conducted in hot weather and died. His family declined to authorize an autopsy and said the teen may have had an undiagnosed medical condition.

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