Leading off today: Ed Petrie collected his
700th victory in 49 years as a boys basketball coach with East Hampton's 77-65 triumph against Floral Park yesterday.
Petrie is second in state history to Archbishop Molloy's Jack Curran (885 at the start of the season) for career wins. He has coached 38 seasons at East Hampton after earlier stops at Bridgehampton and Pierson.
His overall record is 700-243, and Petrie won a NYSPHSAA championship in 1989.
Niagara Falls planning improvements: Niagara Falls schools Superintendent Carmen Granto has been rolling out plans for $17 million is capital improvents, nearly a third of which would reshape the athletic facilities.
The Niagara Gazette reported that Granto unveiled plans for an artificial-turf football field and all-weather track as well as a fieldhouse and a wrestling room, but the district needs roughly $500,000 to complete the plan, which would be