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Monday, Jan. 24, 2011: Bena picks up 600th coaching victory
   Leading off today: Duanesburg coach Joe Bena registered career victory No. 600 over the weekend as his wrestling team went 3-2 at the Lansingburgh Duals.

   Bena is in his 45th season of coaching, having guided Niskayuna from 1968-2003, and has been enshrined in four halls of fame. He has coached 12 individual state champions.

   Cazenovia still perfect: No. 1 Cazenovia improved to 14-0 in hockey, topping No. 5 Clinton 4-0 in a matchup of teams state-ranked in Division II.

   Lakers goalie Mason Powell made 18 saves two register his second consecutive shutout, and Sam Lewis scored twice for the winners.

   Decision made: Cardinal Spellman girls basketball star Troi Melton had a good reason for exiting Friday's game vs. Blessed Sacrament after putting up five points, five rebounds and four assists in the first quarter.

   She had to catch a flight to Boston for a recruiting visit. Twenty-four hours later, she committed to attend Boston University next fall.

   "At first I was kind of nervous saying, 'Yeah I want to come here,'" she told The New York Post. "But then after I said it I was happy. I know where I am going to school now. I was just happy to be done. I don't have to worry about it."

   Speaking of recruits: Jamesville-DeWitt junior star Dajuan Coleman says no college on his list of contenders -- which includes Syracuse, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio State, and Louisville -- has the early lead.

   "I'm basically wide open as far as schools," Coleman told the Dominion Post in West Virginia after scoring 27 points in a 65-57 loss to Wheeling Park in the Prime Time Shootout on Saturday. "I'm not leaning toward any school. I'm just taking my time."

   That doesn't mean the process isn't moving along.

   "In Dajuan's case, we'll sit down in a week or so and see what kind of decision he wants to make," J-D coach Bob McKenney told the paper. "I think he kind of has an

  
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idea of what he wants to do, so we'll set up the visits for the spring and go from there."

   That's a long night: The score in Estill County's boys basketball victory over Bourbon County -- 102-99 -- was a bit high last week.

   That's probably because they played six overtimes, three short of the Kentucky state record.

   Senior guard Cade Berryman scored a career-high 40 points to go with 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the win. Berryman made 19 of 29 free throws after the end of regulation.

   Six Bourbon County players were among the 10 who fouled out. Sophomore Chris Gillispie, whose previous career high had been 25 points, scored 51 in a losing effort.

   "We ran out of water in one of the overtimes," Bourbon County coach Jay Bordas told MaxPreps. "So I switched to chewing gum and then we ran out of that. We also ran out of dry-erase marker. It almost felt like a heavyweight boxing match – round one, round two.


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