and across the state since.
But Newburgh Free Academy has a slightly different twist this season with two girls on the roster. Junior defenseman Julie Horn gets two or three shifts per period and senior forward Brittany Carey is on the ice a bit less.
"I've (played against girls before), I see no difference," Monroe-Woodbury coach Paul Bacsardi told The Times Herald-Record. "You can't tell with the helmet and a lot of guys have long hair. If any player is good enough to make the team, they should play. I'd actually love to see some high school girls' leagues around here, like they do upstate. But we don't have the ice time or the participation numbers."
Random thought: I received a couple of e-mails recently from people upset with the amount of attention that some of the major sports — football and basketball, for instance — get relative to other sports. The complaints were unrelated and not aimed at anyone in particular (media, ADs and administrators, etc.), but instead just vented in general.
My advice is to keep things in perspective, as I was reminded while scouring the Section 2 web site recently. Football and basketball go a long way toward subsidizing many other sports.
In Section 2 last year, the profit turned in my the football committee more than made up for the net losses posted by field hockey, softball, swimming, bowling, golf, indoor track, skiing and cross country. And the combined boys and girls basketball revenue offset all of the section's administrative expenses (including trophies) not covered by various other reimbusements.
The picture is similar across much of the state.
