Molly Josephs snared the championship in 7:46.07.
In relays action, the Sheepshead Bay boys won the 400 in :41.23. Girls wins came from Warwick Valley (3,200 and distance medley) and Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake (4 miles).
Scarlino says 'enough': Veteran Utica Proctor softball coach Dave Scarlino, 55, has concluded a 20-year run at the school.
"It’s just the frustration, the stress," Scarlino told The Observer-Dispatch. "A (Class) AA school competing at the level we have to compete at, and we have to work year-round to be a .500 team."
Scarlino pointed to the frequent travel to the Syracuse area and to the total of one victory over Liverpool or Cicero-North Syracuse in two decades as factors in his decision.
Joanne Nassif, Scarlino’s assistant for the last nine years, will take over the program.
Remembering a legend: Nearly 1,000 people attended a memorial service Saturday in Hoosick Falls for Ken Baker, a highly influential coach and teacher at Columbia, Hoosick Falls and Cambridge, who died Jan. 2 in Aiken, S.C.
"He was like a rock. He was the right man at the right time in my formative adolescent years," Bruce E. Buckbee, whom Baker coached as a wrestler at Columbia, told The Times Union.
Hoosick Falls football coach Ron Jones, the last QB Baker had with the Panthers, said, "He could always surprise you. He was an iconic coach, but there so much more to him."
Baker, also highly successful in wrestling, retired from football in 1995 with a 151-61-6 mark.
The Georgia case: One of the wildest stories of the 2007-08 school year got a bit stranger late last week in Georgia when the Stephens County High baseball coach told his school board that the pitch that hit an umpire in the facemask during the state finals happened, in part, because Cartersville was using a television to steal signs.
The Toccoa Record reported that Mark Gosnell told the board that Cartersville had a TV in its dugout and used it to watch Stephens County catcher Matt Hill call pitches. Cartersville "could see everything Matt was doing," Gosnell said.
Cartersville won the deciding game, 13-1, on May 31. In the fourth inning, Hill ducked away from a fastball from pitcher Cody Martin. The pitch, which came after repeated complaints by Stephens County players about the strike zone, hit umpire Jeff Scott in the facemask, and a video of the incident has become a must-see online clip with 937,000 views on Youtube.com alone.
The incident led to a fine and other sanctions from the state high school association. Gosnell claimed Hill dropped to his knees because he had been told previously to be in a better position to block a curveball in the dirt.
Cartersville coach Stuart Chester denied the TV allegation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
