Leading off today: Fort Ann boys soccer coach Rich McCabe picked up his 400th career victory yesterday with a 10-0 victory over Warrensburg.
McCabe, in his 28th year at Fort Ann, is the 21st Section 2 boys soccer coach to reach the milestone. His Cardinals teams have won 13 league championships and seven sectional titles.
"I was a ball boy for him when he won his 100th," said Warrensburg coach Brian Lemery, McCabe's nephew, told The Post-Star "I played against him (for Glens Falls) for his 200th win. Now, to be a part of this as a coach, I couldn't be happier for him.
"It's his presence; you can't help but look up to him. Being that we're family, I look up to him that much more."
Allegations of racial slurs: A Horseheads girls soccer coach says Vestal spectators made racial slurs against her players at an Oct. 4 JV game.
Coach Erin Shane, responding to a Freedom of Information Law request from the Press & Sun-Bulletin, said she heard someone in "the Vestal stands" utter the slur and that a player on her team was reduced to tears by the language.
Officials of the Southern Tier Athletic Conference have placed the incident on the agenda for discussion at their meeting today, the paper reported. "You hope that you can resolve this between the schools," said STAC Vice President John Paske. If that's not possible, he said, "you could resolve it at the level of our ethics committee."
The issue came to light last week when a parent of a Horseheads player complained that a Vestal spectator yelled slurs at two black Horseheads players at Vestal's Dick Hoover Stadium. Vestal officials said they found no evidence to support the parent's claim.
Shane took her team off the field with Vestal ahead, 5-0, and a forfeit was declared.
Wrestling clinic: The New York State Public High School Association will conduct its fourth annual wrestling coaches clinic Oct. 30 at Cornell University. The clinic will consist of several workshops, including short offense on feet, traditional and parallel legs, cradles and bar arms, new rules and procedures, setups and finishes using leg attacks, top lifts and turns, and strength and conditioning methods for young wrestlers.
