Leading off today: Nazareth girls basketball coach Apache Paschall is resting at New York Downtown Hospital and missed his team’s 61-38 victory over The Mary Louis Academy last night after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure, Nw York City newspapers reported.

   The New York Post reported Paschall was told he has an enlarged heart.

   Assistant coach Ron Kelley is running the nationally-ranked team in Paschall's absence.

   Paschall told the paper yesterday he wasn’t feeling well during the Lady Kingsmen’s win over rival Christ The King on Dec. 4. He went to the hospital that night and was told he had water on his lungs and heart, but checked himself out to prepare for his daughter's 16th birthday two days later. He was admitted Wednesday and is unsure how long doctors expect to keep him hospitalized.

   Last weekend, he brought Nazareth to the Breezy Bishop Showcase in Baltimore, where they split two games.    Paschall is reportedly under investigation by the CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens disciplinary committee for alleged recruiting violations. He coached St. Michael Academy before that school closed last spring, and several players and incoming freshmen followed him to Nazareth.

   48 points go for naught: Camden junior guard Lindsay Jones scored a school-record 48 points in the Blue Devils' 77-72 loss at Tri-Valley League West rival Vernon-Verona-Sherrill.

   Three of Jones' 18 field goals were three-pointers en route to shattering the 1993 school mark of 40 points by Amanda Paul.

   Jones, who finished with five assists and five steals, scored 35 points in the second half -- including 27 in the fourth quarter.

   Speaking of sprees: Easy come, easy go.

   Zach D'Alessandro started his season in style last week with 46 points -- 40 in the second half -- and a school-record nine three-pointers in a 91-52 victory over Sandy Creek.

   The record for threes only lasted until last night, when Zach Allen hit 10 treys on his way to 36 points for Sackets Harbor's 84-56 Frontier League victory over Lyme last night.

   Speaking of threes: University at Buffalo-bound quarterback Joe Licata scored 17 first-quarter points and 31 overall to go over 1,000 for his career during Williamsville South's 87-69 win over Buffalo Bennett.

   Licata made eight three-pointers to move up to No. 2 on the Section 6 career list with 262. Buffalo Burgard star Richie Campbell made 285 from 1986-90.

   300th victory: Blair Estarfaa made 13 of his 14 free-throw attempts in the fourth quarter on his way to 26 points for Maryvale in a 48-42 victory against Amherst.

   The win was the 300th for 26th-year Flyers coach Mark Kensy, and it came against his son Chris, who is the coach at Amherst.

   Change at Farrell: Ben Sarullo, 69, won't return as football coach at Monsignor Farrell next fall -- and it's not by choice. After 30 seasons as head coach and 45 with the program, Sarullo is being replaced, The Advance reported.

   Principal Msgr. Edmund J. Whalen issued a press release Wednesday saying Sarullo had been offered a position of coach emeritus — “Mentoring someone who would be the

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new head coach, bringing the expertise and his wisdom from his many years as the coach to the program as the program moves forward,” -— but that Sarullo had declined.

   Sarullo compiled a 189-103-4 record, but Farrell has been 17-34 over the last five seasons. The Lions reached 11 CHSFL championship games and won titles in 1986, 1991, 1999 and 2000 under Sarullo.

   New look for Corning: Voters in the Corning-Painted Post school district on Thursday approved a $97.5 million project that will transform the school district.

   The proposition passed by a 4,582 to 3,042 margin after six proposals for major changes had been rejected in the last decade.

   The East High building will be expanded and renovated to serve as the high school, and West will become

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a middle school.

   It also has the effect of making permanent the changes to the sports program. Though teams in some sports such as cross country had already been consolidated, all other sports were merged into single teams beginning this fall, with the football team going 9-1.

   U-E Duals: Wrestling fans have Jan. 8-9 circled on the calendar. Those are the dates for the Union-Endicott Duels, bringing together a number of strong teams from around the state.

   As of mid-September, defending champ John Glenn and 16 other schools had accepted invitations. Spencerport, Chenango Forks, and Brentwood, last year's other semifinalists, are also attending. Shenendehowa, Sachem East, Warwick Valley, Saint Anthony's, Long Beach and Mahopac are expected to make their first appearances at U-E.

   The format calls for teams to compete in four divisional round-robins on Saturday, with the top finisher in each of the four groups advancing into the semifinals the next day and the others heading to consolation brackets based on place of finish.

   Other participants: Brockport, Fulton, John Jay Cross River, MacArthur, Minisink Valley, Sayville and Union-Endicott.