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Friday, Jan. 2, 2009: U-E Duals coming up tomorrow
   Leading off today: Fresh off a championship in its own annual wrestling tournament, Spencerport goes into tomorrow's Union-Endicott Duals as the top seed in the state's most competitive annual wrestling tournament.

   The Rangers won the 2008 championship with a 33-14 victory over Fulton in the final to all but sew up their fifth New York State Sportswriters Association championship in eight seasons.

   Spencerport and Phoenix have first-round byes. Monroe-Woodbury and Amsterdam round out the top four seeds for the 14-team event, which begins at 8:30 a.m. (See: Complete brackets)

   "You look at these teams, and we're just stressing to our guys to wrestle hard for six minutes," fourth-year U-E coach John Giacche told The Press & Sun-Bulletin. "It's an exciting lineup of teams. We could wrestle very well and have a rough day. You knock off one of these teams and it makes your day."

   More wrestling: Fredonia 96-pounder Carlene Sluberski became the first female champion in the 43-year history of Spencerport's Teike/Bernabi Invitational this week. Six other titles were won by defending state champions: Ian Paddock (Warsaw, 135), Zach Clemente (LaSalle, 145), Ryan Leblanc (Morrisville-Eaton, 160), Austin Meys (Shenendehowa, 171), Paul Glover (Spencerport, 215) and Ken Altarac (LaSalle, heavyweight).

   Meys, by the way, says he'll stay at 189 for the season

  
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  • rather than try to get back down to defend at 171. He could be heading for a showdown in March against Brockport's Christian Boley, who placed third in Division 1 at 189 a year ago and was the subject of a Democrat and Chronicle feature this week.

       Extra points: A Section 5 source confirms the rumor that Steve Romano has been selected as the new football coach at Penfield, pending approval from the school board. Romano was 15-3 at Webster Schroeder in 2004-05 before returning to the St. John Fisher College staff, where he also worked from 2001-03.

       No. 11 Sherman and No. 13 Clymer will meet Tuesday in a good girls Class D basketball matchup that could be indicative of who'll play in the state semifinals in March. . . . Bishop Ludden basketball coach Pat Donnelly shoots for career victory No. 400 in 21 seasons tonight vs. East Syracuse-Minoa.

       Just got done reading a rip job aimed at a certain girls basketball team that I won't identify other than to say it's located east of Cleveland, west of Boston, south of Toronto and north of Williamsport. And trust me when I say that my geography is a hell of a lot more precise than the logic and "facts" employed by the author. Thank God he only gets to write weekly instead of daily.


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