Board member Joseph Berhalter's proposal called for sending high school students from Bridgehampton, a long-time boys basketball power, to East Hampton, Sag Harbor and Southampton. Because of low enrollment, many classes at Bridgehampton contain 10 or fewer students.
Hobart does a 180: Hobart College annouced an astonishing reversal this afternoon, saying it will keep its lacrosse program in Division I just five days after announcing it was dropping back to Division III, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.
The Board of Trustees voted Thursday night to keep the Statesmen at Division I, where they have played since 1995. They cited an outpouring of negative feedback this week.
“The engagement of our alums was impressive,’’ Hobart president Mark D. Gearan said in a statement.
Board chair David Deming sent e-mails to alumni, faculty, staff and students announcing the reprieve.
'Newsday' reports on turf: Newsday reports at least 60 artificial-turf playing fields have been installed since 2001 on Long Island, many of them at high schools.
The information was part of a story following up on a DEC study approved in November that will help assess whether the tire crumbs used as a base beneath the fields leach harmful chemicals into groundwater or release them into the air.
Scrutiny of artificial turf increased earlier this month, with news of high lead levels in older AstroTurf fields at Cicero-North Syracuse and in New Jersey, none of which contain crumb rubber.
Here's a new one: I though I'd heard of every imaginable fund-raising idea for high school sports programs. And then someone at Lockport decided to think outside the boxspring to come up with a new one.
Lockport football supporters can buy new mattresses at wholesale prices tomorrow at the high school, The Niagara Gazette reported.
Football coach Greg Bronson said he learned about the unique program from Frontier coach Richard Gray, whose neighbor Tom McNamarra started Custom Fundraising Solutions two years ago. CFS tried the promotion last year in Cleveland.
Release the hounds: McQuaid Invitational organizers have announced that their 44th annual cross country meet next fall, which will attract 5,000 competitors from the United States and Canada, will have computerized entries and results for the first time. Leone Timing will handle the duties at the meet Sept. 27.
