Leading off today: You know we've reached some level of gender equity in high school sports when we start running across distaff versions of the heartwarming father-vs.son coaching battles. And it happened
yesterday in Bronxville.
Jacquelyn Deppe picked up her first win as a varsity coach — against her mother. The younger Deppe coached Bronxville to a 3-0 victory over Barb Deppe's John Jay squad. Jessica Muruer scored twice for the winners.
"It was fun and I was proud to have her on the sideline with me — even if it was against me," said Barb Deppe, who coached her daughter at John Jay.
ER/Gananda forfeits: East Rochester/Gananda forfeited its football opener at Bath after refusing to resume the suspended non-league game on Monday. The contest had been suspended Friday with 2:39 to play due to a power failure at the Bath field.
Bombers coach Dennis Greco opted for the forfeit rather than make the long round trip. ER/Gananda was leading the game, 21-14.
"To force us to drive two hours there and two hours back and play another game Friday, I don't understand that," Greco told the Democrat and Chronicle. "We played 95 percent of the game with both sets of players playing both ways. It could go overtime, who knows?"
State and Section 5 football chairman Dick Cerone said he could not recall another instance of a team forfeiting a suspended game while ahead.
New hire at CTK: It's not at all unusual for a JV coach at one school to be hired as the varsity coach at another. But it's not every day that you hear of a coach who chooses to go in the other direction.
Dom Cecala, the 2008 Daily News girls basketball coach of the year who led Archbishop Molloy to an 11-3 record after taking over the team in mid-February, has accepted the JV job at Christ The King, where he will also serve as a varsity assistant to Bob Mackey. Cecala's squad beat CTK twice last season.
Cecala, 27, was not retained by Molloy, which hired Mary Louis assistant Tom Catalanotto as Molloy's new coach following last season. Molloy AD Mike McCleary reportedly held Cecala in high regard but felt the program needed "a new start."
"This is a good opportunity, a good position," Cecala said. "I really feel good."
A long way from home: Construction of new athletic fields at Kenmore East and Kenmore West has scattered the varsity and JV soccer teams to four locations this fall. Baseball and softball teams will face the same problens in the spring, and phsy ed classes will be disrupted for the entire school year.
