NYSSWA blog: Wilson Magnet forfeits its 10 basketball victories

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Leading off today: The Wilson Magnet boys basketball team has forfeited its 10 victories this season because it used an ineligible player, the Democrat and Chronicle reported today.

The unidentified player was too old to compete under state rules, according to Carlos Cotto, the new executive director of athletics for the Rochester City School District, and coach Chris Connell.

The disclosure dropped the Wildcats' record to 0-13 entering tonight's game against Greece Olympia. A statement said the district learned Wednesday that the student didn’t meet eligibility requirements. Connell told the paper the student missed the age cutoff by three weeks.

500 wins for Panzanaro: Peekskill boys basketball coach Lou Panzanaro picked up his 500th win last night with a 70-61 triumph against Poughkeepsie.

In the same game, Ralph Watts scored his 1,000th career point. Watts, a senior who transferred from Lakeland before last season, scored a game-high 24 points as Peekskill improved to 14-0. Poughkeepsie is 12-2.

Panzanaro is 500-102 in 26 seasons and has won 10 sectional and five state championships.

"It honestly isn't real to me," Panzanaro told The Journal News. "Other than standing in this room and cutting cake, it doesn't feel real. This was just another hard-fought basketball game."

The game was originally scheduled to be played at Poughkeepsie, but officials there agreed to move the game to Peekskill in anticipation of the milestone.

Coleman girls sneak by: Despite losing three starters to fouls, the Coleman Catholic girls basketball team, ranked 15th in Class D, pulled out a 54-50 win over Spackenkill in two overtimes.

Anne Shults scored 10 of her career-high 23 points in overtime for Coleman (10-1). She forced OT with a basket with 20 seconds left in the fourth quarter, then made a three-pointer and seven of her 10 free throws in extra time.

Good games tomorrow: You've got to love tomorrow's girls doubleheader at Pittsford Sutherland. It could very well be a preview of the Section 5 Class A semifinals, made even more interesting by the fact the games will be played so late in the season.

Pittsford Mendon (11-1), ranked third in the state, plays No. 9 Honeoye Falls-Lima (12-2) at 5 p.m., followed by Sutherland against No. 4 Newark (11-2).

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2008 all-state football team

Two football commitments: Canisius two-way lineman John Urschel, a first-team all-stater in Class A, will continue his football career at Penn State. Urschel, 6-foot-4 and 275 pounds, also considered Boston College, Stanford, Buffalo and some Ivy League schools.

Over in Section 2, QB Bunduka Kargbo of Bishop Maginn made an oral commitment to the University of Buffalo, where he'll be groomed at free safety. Kargbo, also first-team all-state, was a four-year starter on both sides of the ball for Maginn. He was the point guard on the state-title basketball team last winter and may have attracted basketball offers if he elected to pursue that sport in college.

With the clock running down, there are at least 19 New Yorkers who've made non-binding commitments to Division I Bowl Sub-Division programs, meaning we're heading for the state's best scholarship haul since 34 recuits signed in 2005.

Among the prospects still unaccounted for are Union-Endicott fullback Gary Beddoe and defensive tackle Jared Veruto; Schenectady tight end Marcus Brandon; Pittsford TE Matt Landry; and Monroe-Woodbury cornerback James Young. In addition, there are an estimated six to eight others who are regarded as scholarship possibilities.

Extra points: Onondaga senior Anna Cummings escaped a near pin in the first period and rallied to beat Jordan-Elbridge freshman Colin Ennulat, 10-5, to become the first female wrestler in Section 3 to earn 100 wins. Ennulat took a 5-0 lead in the first period of the 103-pound match and had Cummings in danger of being pin when time expired in the period. "All day, kids at school, as well as some of my teachers, were wishing me good luck in trying to get the 100th win," she told The Post-Standard. "I was more nervous before this match than almost any match of my career."

Niagara-Wheatfield made its case for the title of the top Section 6 wrestling team last night by topping Lancaster, 29-23. Antonio Ventry's pin 20 seconds into the 140-pound match clinched the win heading into the final match. . . . Greece Athena, eighth in Class AA, hopes to get junior Samantha Garbacz (13 points per game) back for the girls basketball sectionals seven weeks after she suffered a stress fracture near her knee. "She has been a big kid for us," coach Mike Butler told the Democrat and Chronicle.

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