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Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007: Poland's top scorer in soccer out after appendectomy
   Leading off today: Midfielder Ed Rosenburgh, the leading scorer for Poland High's boys soccer team, had an emergency appendectomy on Monday and will not play this weekend in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association final four.

   The senior will miss Poland's Class D semifinal on Saturday vs. Fillmore in Oneonta. The championship game is on Sunday. Rosenburgh leads the team with 17 goals.

   Kevin Jones to W.Va.: Mount Vernon basketball star Kevin Jones announced yesterday that he will attend West Virginia next fall. The 6-foot-7 senior forward had also been considering Pittsburgh and Indiana.

   Jones helped Mount Vernon to its second straight Class AA state title last March, averaging 21 points and 11.4 rebounds.

   MRSA case at Baldwin: The Nassau County Health Department said a varsity football player at Baldwin High was diagnosed with MRSA on Monday. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for some difficult-to-treat infections.

   The school is notifying all varsity players about the risk of exposure and also notifying other students and school employees. Nassau Health spokeswoman Cynthia Brown said 21 confirmed cases of MRSA have been reported in Nassau County.

   Ramapo coach resigns: Bari Vitolo stepped down after 12 years as Ramapo's football coach, saying he would spend more time with his family and concentrating on his physical therapy company, SportsCare Institute, which has more than two dozen locations in New York and New Jersey.

   Vitolo posted a 68-44 record, including 4-5 in 2007.

   "Tapped" out: East Islip band directors Ron Fox and Chris Neske have sent a letter of apology to Newfield football coach Joe Piccininni and his team for the actions of a few band members during Saturday's game at East Islip, Piccininni told Newsday.

   Some band members played "Taps" after a Newfield

  
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  • player was injured on a first-half play. As trainers tended to the player, fans and East Islip coach Sal J. Ciampi ordered the band to stop. According to Piccininni, the letter said that the directors reprimanded the culprits and said the students were embarrassed for their actions.

       "Our band has always done an outstanding job and unfortunately the situation leaves a black mark," East Islip AD Pete Blieberg told the newspaper.

       Artificial grass dangerous? The artificial turf at any number of high school, college and professional facilities may contain harmful materials, according to one study reported by The Leader in Corning.

       Judy Braiman, president of Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides (RAMP), said the artificial turf and crumb rubber used as fill contains components known to cause birth defects and cancer, damage to the nervous system and immune system suppression issues.

       Braiman said Dr. Kathleen Burns, a toxicologist with the Massachusetts-based Sci-encecorps, tested the rubber-based artificial surfaces from five different companies that she did not identify. According to the study, cobalt, lead, manganese and zinc were present in all five samples tested. Other materials, such as acetone, carbon disulfide, chloroform, phthalates and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), were present in at least one of the samples.

       Braiman said Assemblyman David Koon, D-Perinton, is co-sponsoring legislation to stop new artificial turf installations until the New York's departments of Health and Environmental Conservation performed studies. State Sen. George Winner, R-Elmira, told the paper he's heard only anecdotal evidence on potential hazards.


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