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Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011: Pal-Mac twins defend state wrestling crowns
   Leading off today: Palmyra-Macedon senior twins Owen and Craig Scott, both Cornell recruits, made it two state titles apiece by defending NYSPHSAA Division II championships Saturday at the Times Union Center in Albany.

   Owen Scott decisioned Burke Paddock of Warsaw 3-1 in the 161-pound final. Craig Scott decisioned Tony Lock of Pioneer 3-0 at 171.

   Section 11 took home overall team honors in Division I with 269.5 points to 199.5 for Section 1. Suffolk County placed 10 competitors in the finals, with five bringing home championships. In Division II, Section 5 prevailed with 266.5 points to 221.5 for Section 6.

   Also noteworthy from the finals:

   • Wayne senior Bobby Dierna placed in the top six for the fifth straight year, though he dropped a 9-7 OT decision to Somers junior Brian Realbuto, who was selected the most outstanding wrestler in Division I.

   • Fox Lane's Steven Rodrigues gutted out a 3-2 win over James Dekrone of John Glenn in the Division I 120 final after going down with a knee injury at the start of the third period while leading 3-1.

   • New Rochelle senior heavyweight Malcolm Allen capped his career with an improbable weekend run to the top of the podium. at 285. Allen, a two-time runner-up in Section 1, received a wildcard entry and upset St. Anthony's Jonathon Desir 6-4 in the final.

   • Huntington senior Nigel McNeil, a champ at 112 last winter, closed out with an 80-match winning streak by winning the Division I 119 final with an 8-3 decision over Fox Lane's Danny Ventura. "I worked too hard for anything to stop me," McNeil told Newsday.

   • Peru 112-pounder Arik Robinson decisioned Tristan Rifanburg of Norwich 7-2 and earned most outstanding wrestler honors in Division II.

   • Holley junior Quinton Murphy secured his third state title with a technical fall against A.J. Rue of Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk-2 in the 135 final in Division II. He'll have a chance to join Palmyra-Macedon graduate Alex Eckstrom as the only four-time state champions from Section 5.

   • Tioga senior Derak Heyman was a 4-2 winner over Derek Pfluger of Sandy Creek (who had advanced via a 12-0 decision and two quick pins) in the Division II 140-pound final for his 255th career victory. Heyman was a state champ as a 130-pound sophomore in 2009 and lost the 140 final as a junior. "It just proves that if you work hard enough anything can happen."

   • Lansing's William Koll was the year's only freshman champion, pulling off a pin of Edgemont's John Aslanian in the Division II 103 final.

   Top-ranked team tumbles: Will Bromirski’s free throw with 2.7 seconds left in the second overtime gave Cambridge (10-10) a 68-67 upset of Argyle, (18-2), the state's top-ranked Class C squad, in the Section 2 boys basketball tournament.

   Bromirski made five 3-pointers and finished with 27 points for Cambridge, which advances to the semifinals against Greenwich on Tuesday.

   Monster performance: Senior guard Vinny Bomasuto scored a school-record 47 points as undefeated Dunkirk defeated Buffalo Arts 83-43 in a Section 6 Class B-1 boys basketball quarterfinal. Bomasuto, who added seven rebounds and five assists, already shared the school mark of 44 with Luis Pagan (2003).

   The Marauders face Lackawanna in the semifinals

  
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Monday at Buffalo State in the next step toward Dunkirk's first Section 6 championship in the sport in 38 years.

   400th victory: Westhill coach Sue Ludwig won her 400th game when the Warriors beat South Jefferson, ranked second in the state, 56-50 in the Section 3 Class B girls tournament.

   Ashley Cianfriglia led the way with 20 points and Anna Ross chipped in with 18. It was the Spartans' first home loss since Dec. 14, 2001.

   “I told my players that we needed to believe we could,” Ludwig, who is 400-75, told The Post-Standard. “We just had to go and play a good game and it’s ours to win.”

   Sidelined: Danielle Winslow, who has finished in the top five in the state nordic ski championships three straight years and is also an accomplished distance runner, may be done for the year.

   The Queensbury senior, a Boston College recruit along with her twin Brittany, was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her femur last month and has been on crutches. The problems began with a dull hip pain in Winslow's junior year and escalated last fall.

   Winslow's recovery routine includes lots of rest and swim workouts to keep muscle tone and cardio condition without further aggravating the injury.

   Winslow placed fourth, third and fifth in the last three NYSPHSAA cross country ski meets.


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