disorderly conduct in Canandaigua City Court in February.
Romeo had rolled up 200 victories since taking over in 1993.
Throw-ins: Schalmont senior Jessica Strang scored all of her team's goals in a 6-2 soccer victory over Ravena. Strang now stands at 98 career goals.
Third-year Utica Notre Dame girls soccer coach John Del Buono resigned this week, citing the demands of his insurance business. AD John DePerno has taken over the 9-1-1 team, assisted by Dominica Reina Paladino. ND beat New Hartford on Thursday, 3-1.
MRSA hits Section 3: MRSA, a form of a staph infection that is resistant to some antibiotics, has been making the rounds in at least one Central New York school.
It was first reported Sept. 7 by a Syracuse Henninger football player, followed a week later by a teammate. It appears on the skin as a red bump comparable to a spider bite.
"The most common way it's transmitted is person-to-person," said Cynthia Morrow, Onondaga County Health Commissioner. "So, someone has a wound, they have skin contact with someone else."
Henninger officials sanitized the school's athletic facilities, including the football field.
Stowin' Somoans? A California assistant football coach is accused of illegally recruiting more than a dozen players from American Samoa and offering them housing.
The six-month probe alleges a Samoa-based relative of the coach began meeting with the students' parents in 2004, and persuaded them to send their sons from the remote South Pacific island to Lodi. The coach is accused of housing the students at his home, with his brother or with other coaches.
Fourteen students and their families flew in with plane tickets purchased by the coach's mother, and were put up briefly in Stockton-area motels paid for by Franklin High School personnel, authorities said. The coaches helped forge utility bills to establish residency.
Extra points: The Observer-Dispatch reported yesterday that running backs Wayne Towne (Rome Free Academy) and Eric Morrissette (Westmoreland) will be sidelined for the remainder of the season by knee injuries. Towne ran for 1,333 yards and scored 16 touchdowns last season. He was up to 400 yards and 5 TDs this fall before getting hurt late in the Auburn game last weekend. Morrissette tore a ligament and is awaiting surgery. He had rushed for 218 yards and four touchdowns this fall. . . . Injury-ravaged Pulaski (0-4) forfeited its football game at Thousand Islands (4-0) this weekend. It was supposed to be the homecoming game for TI, 16th in the state in Class C.
Kenmore West soph swimmer Marissa Dressel continues to break more records than a bulldozer at an anti-Sinead O'Connor protest rally. Dressel clocked 2:08.82 in the 200 IM yesterday for a Grand Island pool record. The Buffalo News says the three-time state meet participant has also broken marks at Niagara Falls, Clarence, Kenmore East and, of course, Kenmore West this month.
