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Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009: Buffalo schools to play Section 6 football
   Leading off today: The 106-year run of the Harvard Cup appears to have come to an end.

   The Buffalo News reported this week that City School District teams will join the Section 6 Football Federation next season. District officials contacted Section 6 football chairman Chuck Funke with their decision on Wednesday.

   The move means Riverside, Burgard, East, South Park, Bennett, Grover Cleveland, Lafayette, McKinley and Hutch-Tech will be blended into leagues with suburban schools for the first time in their history and be eligible for the sectional and state tournaments.

   Buffalo Schools are part of the section in all other sports.

   Strange happenings: The only goal in Fox Lane's 1-0 victory over Somers/North Salem in hockey Wednesday night was a weird one.

   George Lodge scored in the second period by flipping the puck from Fox Lane's own blue line to facilitate a line change. But the puck took a bad hop and skipped past goalie Evan Tabachnick, who turned back the other 19 shots.

   Cody Williams made 27 saves to earn his first shutout of the seaso at Brewster Ice Arena.

  
   Cleared to play: Yonkers Gorton senior Michael Reyes learned Wednesday that the state overturned Section 1’s ruling that had kept him off the basketball court, The Journal News reported.

   The 5-foot-8 point guard had been ruled ineligible following his transfer from Yonkers High in the spring. His two appeals were shot down by Section 1, but schools Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio appealed to the NYSPHSAA on the grounds that the transfer was for academic purposes.

   Police blotter: Cambridge girls basketball coach Michael Proper, who was placed on administrative leave earlier this year, was arrested Dec. 18 in Waterford on drunken driving charges after police said he drove his car into a building, The Post-Star reported.

   Proper, 33, was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.23 percent at the time of his arrest, nearly three times higher than the legal limit for DWI, authorities told the newspaper. Police said his car jumped a curb and came to rest inside a Rite Aid Pharmacy drive-through shelter.

   Proper is due in Village Court on Jan. 7. A school official told the paper Proper has been on paid administrative leave from teaching phys ed and coaching since the fall, with no reason given.


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