Leading off today: Jamesville-DeWitt guard Brandon Triche has been selected Gatorade's boys basketball player of the year in New York.
The 6-foot-4 senior, fresh off leading J-D to a second straight NYSPHSAA Class A championship in Glens Falls. is averaging 22.3 points, 6.7 assists and 6.2 rebounds per game. He was the NYSSWA Class A player of the year last season.
J-D is 26-1 and heading to this weekend’s Federation Class A semifinals against Iona Prep.
West Genny opens with a win: Defending boys state Class A lacrosse champion West Genesee gave up the first two goals of the game, then rallied to an 8-6 victory over Irondequoit in its 2009 opener yesterday.
It was the 13th straight victory for the Wildcats. Junior midfielder John Glesener scored two goals and was 8-for-11 on faceoffs.
"We've got a long ways to go," 34th-year coach Mike Messere told The Post-Standard after the game. "We're going to need much better efforts at the offensive end of the field than this from now on."
In other upstate lacrosse, Corning East earned a 15-10 win against Corning West, giving the Trojans a 100-1 record in the all-time series. East had been 97-0 until dropping a 9-8 overtime game in May 2007.
Former all-stater slain: Former all-state boys basketball player Chris Rogers was killed yesterday in front of his house in Rochester. Rogers, 22, was 12th-team all-state in Class AA for East High in 2005.
Police said Rogers was shot at least once. He was taken to an area hospital and pronounced dead.
