Leading off today: A 16-year-old boy who was a sports star at Moore Catholic was killed and another teen was injured when their vehicle veered off a rain-slickened road in Midland Beach early Saturday night.

   Johnny Ray was killed in the crash, The Advance reported. The paper said he was in his parents' Chevy Suburban, which he wasn't licensed to drive.

   Ray, a junior who played varsity football and baseball, was prounounced dead at the scene of the accident. An unidentified passenger, also 16, was hospitalized at Staten Island University Hospital North.

   "Johnny Ray lit up the room when he walked in and that's a God-given thing -- not many people have that," AD Rich Postiglione told the paper. "He was a young man who had a tremendous amount to look forward to."

   Veteran football coach Greg Rocco called Ray the best athlete he has coached. "He was just the best," he said. "He had that charisma.”

   Ray played shortstop and batted leadoff for the baseball team last spring. He played sparingly at receiver in a rout of Snyder on Saturday as the team improved to 7-0. He had three TD catches for the season and was regarded as a dangerous kick returner, having brought one back 80 yards for a TD in a 16-14 win over Long Island Lutheran this season.

   Ray was already being recruited by Rutgers football, Rocco told the paper.

   Potentially costly win: Jesse Signa made a 33-yard field goal with two seconds to play Sunday as Class AA No. 12 St. Anthony's defeated No. 19 Holy Cross 30-28.

   Holy Cross took a 28-24 lead on Dean Marlowe's 8-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, but Signa made a 36-yard field goal, his second of the day, with 4:00 left.

   Friars QB Tom Schreiber was the story of the first half with a 72-yard third-down run for a TD on the opening possession of the game and a 35-yard TD run for a 21-7 lead midway through the second quarter. However, he left the game in the fourth quarter with a shoulder injury and was replaced by James D'Aprile, who directed the final two field-goal drives.

   "Our defense in the fourth quarter gave us an opportunity to win,” St. Anthony’s coach Rich Reichert told The New York Post "That’s all we kept telling them, just give us another shot at a field goal. I think our field goal kicker is as good as it gets."

   More football: Bishop Gibbons' previous Section 2 playoff game was a 71-point loss to Fort Edward in 2007. Things turned out considerably better this time out.

   Senior tailback and quarterback Derrick Pitts scored all six of the Knights' TDs to highlight a 46-12 win over Warrensburg. He finished with 160 yards on the ground. Gibbons had closed the regular season with a 28-6 win at Warrensburg.

   Nolan Robinson threw for 209 yards and four TD as No.

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16 Pleasantville beat Lourdes 38-23 in a Section 1 Class B quarterfinal. Jack Bramswig caught three passes for 95 yards and two touchdowns.

   On second thought: Former Francis Lewis coach Mike Eisenberg was removed as an assistant for the Metro Classic’s New York City girls basketball team at the behest of the PSAL, The New York Post reported.

   Eisenberg was chosen by head coach Tom Catalanotto as part of his staff for Sunday’s event. Catalanotto, the Archbishop Molloy head coach, is a former Eisenberg assistant at Lewis.

   Eisenberg was removed from his teaching job in December after allegedly verbally abusing a student in his gym class. Eisenberg, who is still awaiting an arbitration hearing, played coached teams to six PSAL finals in 15 seasons at Francis Lewis.

   Catalanotto said he was surprised when the PSAL intervened.

   “He didn’t have his hearing yet -– how is he guilty?" he said. "If he had his hearing and he was guilty, then I can see it. He’s already guilty without being tried. That’s ridiculous.”

   PSAL director Donald Douglas did not return voicemail messages left by The Post.

   Extra points: Williamsville East beat Newfane 43-0 in a consolation-bracket football game Saturday to give Joe Shifflet his 200th career coaching win. Shifflet trails Johnny Barnes of Canisius (287), Gene Masters of Brocton and Grand Island (248) Dick Diminuco of Albion and Alden (210) on the Western New York list. He coached at Sweet Home, Tonawanda and Niagara Falls before becoming Williamsville East's coach last year. . . . Bethpage suspended 12 student-athletes for the remainder of the fall season for violating an agreement that mandates athletes "abstain from the possession or use of alcohol," according to a statement issued by district Superintendent Terrence Clark. A police spokesman said an "active investigation'' was ongoing regarding underage drinking at private homes within the school district, Newsday reported.