Leading off today: Spencerport defeated Monroe-Woodbury, 40-16, in the final to win the Union-Endicott Duals wrestling championship last night. Fairport earned third place in the 14-team field by downing Waverly, 38-25.
The full results for the championship bracket can be found here.
Spencerport, ranked first in Division 1 by the New York State Sportswriters Association, received a first-round bye and advanced to the title match with victories by scores of 36-20 against Wantagh and 43-18 against Waverly. Rangers 145-pound junior Paul Morabito scored a 1-0 victory over Wantagh's Paul Liguori (pictured, right), a two-time Division 1 state champ (96 pounds as a freshman, 112 as a sophomore) who was third in New York last year at 125.
Morabito won his other matches by a decision and a pin.
"I've seen him beat a New Jersey state champion. He has a history of this," Spencerport coach Bill Jacoutot told the Democrat and Chronicle. "He just hasn't gotten to the state championship podium. This year, it's going to happen, barring unforeseen illness or injury, but I don't think those things are going to happen."
The Rangers got a pair of pins from 215-pound state champ Paul Glover as well as 119-pounder J.P. Hayden and Joe Inzana at 152.
Spencerport is on a 51-match winning streak, including 11-0 this season. Fairport hosts Spencerport in a dual meet on Jan. 14.
Former Ludden star stabbed: Syracuse police were continuing their investigation into the stabbing early yesterday of former high school football star Daquan Grobsmith.
As a scholastic running back, Grobsmith, 19, shared NYSSWA Class C player of the year honors in 2007 with quarterback Connor Sweeney after they led Bishop Ludden to the 2007 NYSPHSAA Class C championship at the Carrier Dome.
Police said Grobsmith was involved in an altercation around 1:30 a.m. yesterday inside Johnny B's Jukebox on North Geddes Street. He was stabbed once in the stomach and twice in the chest and transported to University Hospital, where he underwent surgery and was listed in critical condition.
A second man, Keith Horton, 20, was struck in the head with a broken bottle and suffered a cut, police said. No arrests have been made.
L.I. star fractures skull: Hampton Bays basketball standout Bruno Cavallo suffered a fractured skull Friday in the opening moments of a game against Patchogue-Medford and is done for the season.
Cavallo, a junior, went to the floor hard while attempting to block a shot and was diagnosed with a hairline fracture to the skull and slight bleeding on the brain at Stony Brook University Medical Center, the player's father told Newsday.
Joe Cavallo said doctors did not expect to need to
