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Wednesday, March 4, 2009: Niagara Falls point guard suspended remainder of for season
   Leading off today: Niagara Falls point guard Wayne Ollison will not return to the team this season, The Niagara Gazette reported.

   Boys basketball coach Giulio Colangelo told the paper Ollison had been suspended indefinitely for his role in an altercation with backup point guard C.J. Cox last week. Cox suffered a broken jaw as a result of the incident in practice and is also out for the year.

   Colangelo said he expects shooting guard Davon Marshall to take over point responsibilities, with a hand from Kelvin Agee, Kenny Stokes and Mike Carson contributing at times.

   Colangelo also said senior center Mike Crumpton will return tomorrow against No. 5 Frontier in the Section 6 Class AA semifinals. Crumpton was suspended for the quarterfinal win over Niagara-Wheatfield due to a violation of school policy.

   Albany Academy advances: Senior Jimmer Bennett scored a layup with 6.1 seconds left in overtime to lift Albany Academy, ranked No. 2 by the New York State Sportswriters Association, to a 60-59 victory over No. 15 Bishop Maginn, the defending NYSPHSAA champion, in the Section 2 Class AA semifinals at Times Union Center.

   Bennett picked up a deflected length-of-the-court pass and slipped past two defenders for the bucket.

   "I'm watching it happen and I'm saying, 'That just didn't happen' and he laid it in," Bishop Maginn coach Rich Hurley said.

   Jamel Fields scored 17 of his team-high 22 points in the first half for the winners.

   MSIT prevails in two OTs: Lowell Ulmer scored 29 points, including a three-point play in the second OT that put the Gulls up for good, as McKee/Staten Island Tech upended Benjamin Cardozo, 76-73, in the PSAL Class AA round of 16.

   MSIT, the first Staten Island team to reach the quarterfinals since 1995, will play Bronx JFK on Saturday at St. John's University.

   The Gulls rallied from deficits of 26-14 in the first half and 52-42 in the first minute of the fourth quarter.

   Freddie Thomas romps: Regrouping after its 16-point lead had been cut in half midway through the third quarter, Dr. Freddie Thomas went on a 16-0 run and routed Class A No. 25 Aquinas, 78-50, in the Section 5 Class A2 semifinals at Blue Cross Arena.

   Senior guard Nate Dukes (21 points, five assists) led the pivotal third-quarter outburst by scoring 11 points in the closing three minutes as the Titans pushed their lead to 57-33. Dukes is fifth on the all-time Section 5 scoring list with 2,103 points.

   Pelham into state tourney: Adrian Rivera's second goal in a six-minute span, an empty-netrer with 39 seconds to go, capped Pelham's 3-1 win over Rye for the Section 1 Division II hockey championship.

   The senior forward had entered the playoffs with just four varsity goals before his game-winner against Ossining in the semifinals.

  
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  •    No. 3 Pelham will face No. 2 Queensbury on Saturday in Glens Falls in the state quarterfinals.

       Monday leftover: Someone forgot to tell the Stillwater boys basketball players that their season was essentially over with five straight losses at the end of the regular season.

       The Warriors (13-10) pulled their third straight Section 2 tournament upset with a 54-52 win over Hoosick Falls in the Class CC semifinals. Senior guard Nick D'Alberto led the way with 28 points.

       Stillwater will face No. 3 Maple Hill in the title game.

       Predictable: Call me a jerk, but I swear I only needed to scan the first five words of The Post-Standard story -- "The mother of two girls . . . " -- to know I'd soon be immersed in a tale involving perceived unequal treatment.

       Elizabeth Passer, whose daughters play for Mexico, has filed a civil rights complaint to prevent the school district from reducing the number of coaches for girls varsity and JV lacrosse. District officials want to move two coaching positions to the boys an girls track teams, which have two coaches for 85 athletes according to Superintendent Nelson Bauersfeld.

       Passer contends all contact sports should have the same number of coaches, hence the complaint with the civil rights office of the federal Education Department.

       About 100 people met with Bauersfeld on Monday; the school board could decide the allocation of coaches at its March 11 meeting.

       Bauersfeld said the 85 track athletes have two coaches. The 52 varsity, JV and modified girls lacrosse players have six coaches; even with the changes, the lacrosse players would have a similar player-coach ratio to football, which puts a dent in Passer's contention that lacrosse is a contact sport requiring closer supervision.

       The federal Education Department's civil rights office will interview Passer today, the paper reported. I do hope they take note of the fact that there's a hell of a difference between teaching a sprinter how to get out of the blocks, showing a thrower how to safely lauch a discus and guiding a pole vaulter over a bar set at 10 feet. I'd want more than one coach for every 40-something kids.

       Extra points: Highly regarded Bishop Loughlin junior forward Jayvaughn Pinkston is back on the roster after missing six games because of poor grades, FiveBoroSports.com reported. Pinkston is on the recruiting radar of UConn, Louisville and St. John’s to name a few. . . . Moore Catholic will leave the CHSFL and play an independent football schedule this fall in a bid to rebuild from a 2-9 mark last fall and a 6-33 record since 2005, The Advance reported. . . . Alex Hatz of Fayetteville-Manlius broke Don Paige's 1975 record by winning the Section 3 1,000 meters title in 2:2.44 on Friday at Manley Field House. Paige had run 2:27.5 for Baldwinsville.


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