Leading off today: Mount St. Michael senior Brian McGovern highlighted the performances yesterday in the 41st annual
Loucks Games at White Plains, clearing 15 feet, 7 inches in the pole vault on his first attempt.
Two attempts at 16-2 failed, but victory by 25 inches over the next-best vaulter took some of the sting out of no-heighting at the Penn Relays last month.
Following up: Donn Esmonde of The Buffalo News commented on the alleged Wilson hazing incident that took place during the baseball team's ride home from Niagara Falls with a solid column that's worth a few minutes of your time.
"I do not want my kid riding on that bus," he wrote. "I want a team culture that is built on respect, on sportsmanship, on caring. I want a culture built on heathy values.
"Sexual abuse is not a “tradition.” Humiliation is not a team value. Bullying is not bonding.
"This is what happens when coaches are blind or look the other way. This is what happens when parents shrug off abuse as “boys will be boys.” This is what happens when a community blames the victims.
"It is Wilson today. It could be somewhere else tomorrow."
One-girl show: In Texas over the weekend, junior Bonnie Richardson won the 1A team track and field championship for Rochelle High School all by herself by scoring 42 points in five events over two days.
University Interscholastic League officials said it was the first time they can remember a single athlete winning a girls team title. Former Pittsburgh Steeler Frank Pollard did it for Meridian High in the 1970s.
