Leading off today: Hoosic Valley senior Jen Mineau struck out every batter in a five-inning, 21-0 rout of host Cambridge in a softball game stopped yesterday because of the mercy rule. Mineau fanned all 15 batters she faced for Hoosic Valley, which pounded out 18 hits to improve to 5-0.

   Speaking of standout softball performances, Bri Allen of Rochester Aquinas threw her third no-hitter of the season during an 8-0 shutout of Nishop Kearney. The senior struck out 16 as Aquinas improved to 9-0.

   Crackdown at Mynderse: Seven Mynderse Academy varsity baseball players have been suspended from school for five days and from extracurricular activities for 30 days for violating the district's athletic policy during a spring trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C., The Finger Lakes Times reported.

   Superintendent Gerald Macaluso said six of the suspended students were suspended for smoking marijuana and the seventh was suspended for smoking cigarettes. School board President Jim Clark said the athletes also must attend a drug counseling evaluation. Four of those disciplined were accompanied by their parents on the trip, Clark said.

   The district has begun an examination of its policies regarding overnight school trips. The baseball team traveled to play a five-game tournament over the course of the week. The cost of the trip was paid for by the players and through fundraising done by the team.

   Junior-varsity players will be used this week to allow the remainder of the varsity team to continue its schedule without forfeits .

   Milestone alert: Veteran Eastchester baseball coach Dom Cecere could collect career victory No. 600 against Parkersburg (W.Va.) High today at Riverside High School in West Virginia. Cecere is in his 44th season.

   According to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, Cecere is the fifth-winningest coach in NYSPHSAA history and No. 1 in Section 1. Jack Curran of Archbishop Molloy in Queens is the presumed overall state leader.

   Out of season? The PSAL is feeling the pressure to move its girls soccer season from spring to fall to align with most of the rest of the state and country, The Daily News reports.

   The current girls soccer season opened on March 1, more than three months after the boys played their championship game.

   "It puts (girls) at a disadvantage," Marj Snyder, co-CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation, told the paper. "What the law really requires is this: If boys get all the good practice times and best facilities and more meal money, it's a serious violation. One of those things alone may not be

enough, but scheduling of games is a very big factor."

   A disgruntled parent of one soccer player has reportedly filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union has taken up the cause. PSAL officials have been gathering feedback from coaches and athletic directors. Those in favor of leaving soccer in the spring cite a shortage of fields and coaches during the fall.

   On the other side, advocates of a fall season say the current format overlaps with travel leagues and negatively affects college recruiting.

   Cal-Mum coach arrested: Caledonia-Mumford girls basketball coach Nelson C. Miles Jr. has been arrested on felony child pornography charges, the Democrat and Chronicle reported. According to State Police, Miles has been charged with one count of promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, a Class D felony, and one count of possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child, a Class E felony. He was arraigned in Brighton Town Court and released on $2,500 cash bail.

   Miles has been on leave since the district first heard about the charges in March, schools superintendent David V. Dinolfo said.

   Ongoing battle: New York's The Daily News reported today that veteran Dewitt Clinton High softball coach Dan Smith remains idle after sexual misconduct allegations made against him.

   Smith, who has a 215-47 coaching record, spends his work hours reading, watching movies on a laptop and playing board games at a Department of Education reassignment center, where he is likely to remain through at least the remainder of the current school year.

   Smith, 46, was reassigned in September following allegations of sexual misconduct in March 2007. He claims a history of friction between himself and numerous supervisors and contends the effort to remove him stems from speaking openly about what he calls unfair treatment of himself and his softball team by Clinton officials.

   Smith's team has continued its winning ways and is 9-1 in the Bronx 'A' league for interim coach Richard Eaton.

   Extra points: I'm thinking McQuaid got its money's worth out of Jeff Van Gundy. A Newsday feature on the fomer coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets says that Section 5 school paid him $1,500 for the one season of basketball he coached there in the mid-1980s. . . . Long-time Port Jervis football coach Bob Corvino, 57, has submitted retirement papers, ending a 24-year career (he was an assistant for 11 seasons before that) with a 161-70-1 record. The school’s AD has recommended assistant coach Mark Trotta to be his replacement.

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