Leading off today: Abraham Lincoln advanced to its seventh straight PSAL boys basketball final at Madison Square Garden by beating Thomas Jefferson, 75-60, last night at St. John's University.
Lincoln will be looking for its third championship in a row when it faces Boys & Girls on Sunday at 1 p.m. The Railsplitters beat the 'Roos by 27 in last year's final.
Trailing by 11 after the first period, junior Lance Stephenson scored 10 of his 25 points in Lincoln's 19-7 second-quarter run that put the Railsplitters up for good.
Boys & Girls, which split league games with Lincoln this season, earned its second straight trip to the final with a 68-55 victory against Thomas Edison as Brandon Romain poured in 20 points.
Section 6 wrestler wins in Europe: Fredonia junior Carlene Slubersky won the 43-kilogram class at the Klippan Ladies Open over the weekend in Klippan, Sweden.
Sluberski became Section 6's first female overall champion the previous weekend when she won the 96-pound title. She passed up the New York State Public High School Athletic Association tournament in favor of the event in Sweden.
She was one of three individual champions from the United States, which finished fourth in the team standings. The event included 130 competitors from 18 countries.
Sluberski finished 4-1 in the competition with a pair of pins.
Difficult decision: At least three Bethlehem Central females athletes have been told to choose between attending a week-long church trip or remaining on their spring sports team, The Times Union reported.
The students were told by varsity softball and girls lacrosse coaches that they could not play if they went to Mississippi to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina during the spring break in April. The girls passed up the annual missionary trips in the past because they wanted to play. This year, seniors Lindsey Ryan and Kate Halvorsen told their coaches they wanted to travel to Mississippi with a youth group from the Reformed, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches of Delmar. A third student, Amy Halvorsen, chose to play softball instead of joining her sister on the trip.
Kim Ryan, Lindsey's mother, said the school policy
