Tuesday from prostate cancer. He was 67.
Playing for him was life-altering," Otsego County Chief Assistant District Attorney John Lambert told The Observer-Dispatch. "With him, it was more than a basketball lesson. It was a lesson on how to get through life."
White coached from 1969 to 1996 and compiled a 410-155 record. His teams won 14 Center State Conference titles and five Section 3 championships.
Milestones: Fillmore junior Allison Richter scored her 100th career goal Friday in a 2-1 soccer loss to Bolivar-Richburg. Richter, a two-time all-state selection in Class D, also has 45 assists.
Dick Pike, 62, winless at Rye Country Day in 1983 as a complete soccer novice, improved his girls coaching record to 250-101-33 last weekend.
Fatal Wisconsin accident: Two people died in Lake Geneva, Wis., after their SUV was broadsided by a school bus Friday evening.
Nine members of a high school soccer team on the bus were hurt, but their injuries were not serious.
Extra points: Gregg Sarra caught up with the Sayville girls soccer team, whose coach John Schroeder died last weekend. It's a nice read available on the Newsday site. . . . By the way, Gregg blogged mid-week about coaches calling in incomplete game details, particularly scoring information for the opposing team. It's been a chronic problem for newspapers for years but has gotten especially awful in the last five years. . . . Can anyone figure out how to navigate the high school sports pages on Syracuse.com these days? On the other hand, The Observer-Dispatch web site has improved dramatically this fall. . . . U.S. women's soccer star Abby Wambach paid a surprise visit to the Victor girls team this week. Wambach and Blue Devils Coach Kelly O'Neill Ahern. Wambach and Ahern were teammates at Our Lady of Mercy.
