Aquinas junior has 12 offers: Aquinas junior football star Jarron Jones, a first-team all-state defender for the Class A state champions, already has a dozen Division I scholarship offers, The Democrat and Chronicle reported.

   The 6-feet-7, 305-pound lineman, received his first offer from Boston College at the end of the 2010 season. Alabama, Buffalo, Connecticut, Florida State, Louisville, North Carolina, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida and Tennessee have followed suit. Michigan State and Ohio State are among the schools that could be next to offer.

   "He's going to keep me very busy," Little Irish coach Chris Battaglia said. "My phone hasn't stopped ringing. (The list) keeps growing every day."

   Stepping down: Joe Luken, a rookie varsity coach after more than 40 years in the youth ranks, took his job this season seriously. And, as he came to realize, he took it too seriously.

   So he resigned effective immediately as the basketball coach at St. Joseph Hill after his one and only season after eight with the JVs.

   "When I decided to leave, I slept about seven straight hours that night —- the best sleep I've had in a long time," he told The Advance.

   Luken, who took over for nine-year coach Mike O'Connor this year, mad health issues that caused him to miss time at school in the fall. "None of us wanted to take any chances," AD Janice Phillips said. "He actually missed school in September and October due to certain issues, but he wanted to come back and be with the team for the season because he loves the school and the game."

   Assistant coach Carolyn Suarez will take over for the remainder of the rest of the season. "The team is playing very well right now, and Carolyn is a great kid who has terrific rapport with the kids," said Luken.

   More coaching news: Mike McMullin has retired after 24 seasons coaching football at Dansville. The Mustangs closed out last season with three straight wins to finish 5-4.

   "I’m happy that I can step aside knowing that I was really happy working with the kids right up until the end," he told The Evening Tribune. "Not everyone can say that. That was important to me.”

   Kevin Mutz has stepped down from the baseball job at Rondout Valley, his alma mater. He led Rondout Valley to its first Section 9 title in 1997, and the Ganders followed with four more Class B titles in a row, reaching the state championship game in 2000.

   Mutz, who went 221-108, also won a Section 9 Class A title in 2004.

   "When I was a player, I played hard for Rondout Valley, and I took a lot of pride coaching," Mutz told The Times Herald-Record. "It was awesome, it was my pleasure to coach at my school. I'm not saying I'm done forever, I just

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want to take a break right now."

   Cornwall counterpart Tom Fanning has also stepped down, turning duties over to Guy Maisonet, who was

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Fanning's high school coach. Fanning went 142-30 in seven seasons, winning four Section 9 Class A championships. Cornwall reached the state Class A final in 2005.

   Jimmy Ventriglia, a 117-goal scorer during his career at Highland in the late 1990s, is switching over from coaching the girls soccer team to the boys at Marlboro. He'll be replacing his father, Gene, who left to take the men's job at SUNY New Paltz.

   "It's something I put a lot of thought into, but I'm ready to go back to the boys," Jimmy Ventriglia said. "I'm really excited where I think we can go. I absolutely have expectations for the program and so do the kids.

   The girls' team was 8-7-2 last year; the boys went 7-7 and will welcome back 10 starters and 15 lettermen.