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

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perform surgery but it was his second serious injury since the end of the 6-foot-3 swingman's sophomore year. He suffered a concussion and was hospitalized for three days as the result of a summer-league game collision.

   Cavallo, 16, had been averaging 22.8 points a game for the Baymen, including a 34-point performance in his season debut.

   Hockey shocker: Freshman Pat Egan scored twice as Gates Chili defeated host West Genesee, 3-1, to hand the state's top-ranked Division 1 hockey team its first loss.

   Eighth-grader Jake Mattiole's first career goal midway through the first period gave the Spartans (5-3-3) a 1-0 lead and they were up by 2-1 after two periods. Gates Chili killed off a 5-on-3 power play to start the third period and Egan scored into an empty net with 13 seconds to go.

   Gates Chili goaltender T.J. Noce finished with 17 saves.

   Boys basketball: No. 23 Newburgh Free Academy beat defending state Class AA champion and seventh-ranked Bishop Maginn, 71-56, as Michael McLeod and Danon Cousar posted 17 points and eight rebounds apiece.

   Marcus Henderson added 10 points and 10 assists to offset 23 points from Maginn's Taran Buie.

   Buffalo Nichols, No. 2 in Class A, posted a 64-51 triumph at St. Joe's as Will Regan contributed 20 points and 16 rebounds. Nichols is 9-1.

   Robby Seyler became the all-time scoring leader at Lewiston-Porter and tied the single-game mark as well with 42 points in an 81-75 win against Niagara Catholic. Seyler (1,390 points) surpassed Rich King’s career record set in 1961. He matched Steve Murphy's one-game output in 1974.

   With numerous past players in attendance Friday, Bishop Ludden's Pat Donnelly earned career win No. 400 with a 66-56 victory over winless East Syracuse-Minoa. He's been in coaching for 25 seasons, the last 21 (with eight Section 3 titles) with the Gaelic Knights.

   Boys cross country all-state team: Hamburg senior Joe Whelan, who capped a comeback from injuries throughout the spring and summer by placing ninth in the Foot Locker Nationals in San Diego last month, has been selected boys runner of the year by the NYSSWA.

   Whelen had no training base to speak of before Labor Day but improved steadily from a 36th-place showing at the East Aurora Invitational and 20th at McQuaid in September to place first in the NYSPHSAA Class A race at Sunken Meadow State Park.

   The other class athletes of the year are Fayetteville-Manlius junior Alex Hatz, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake sophomore Otis Obriaco, Greenwich freshman Austin Lane and Wayne eighth-grader Colin Kerr.

   The full list of all-stars can be found here.

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