Leading off today: Stan Wier, who helped Buffalo Nichols to a Federation Class A boys basketball championship in 2010 and then transferred out of state, will play his senior season at East Aurora.
Wier disclosed his intention in a weekend e-mail to The Buffalo News.
Wier played for East Aurora as a freshman and then transferred to Nichols, where he averaged 16.5 points a game and was selected to the New York State Sportswriters Association all-state fifth team after helping the Will Regan-led Vikings to the Federation crown.
Last August, he transferred to La Lumiere, a private boarding school in LaPorte, Ind., that plays a national-caliber schedule that helps attract the attention of Division I college coaches.
Softball all-stars: A pair of pitchers who combined for 28 no-hit innings on the final day of the state tournament have been selected 2011 softball players of the year by the New York State Sportswriters $ Coaches Organization for Girls Sports, the sister organization of the NYSSWA.
Seniors Brittany Grage of Pittsford Mendon and Marissa Diescher of Livingston Manor were selected players of the year in Classes A and D respectively. Each pitched two no-hitters on June 11 to carry their schools to New York State Public High School Athletic Association championships.
The other players of the year are Bethlehem senior shortstop Mary Beth Dombrowski in Class AA, Windsor senior pitcher/outfielders Cara Martin and Leslie Dempsey sharing it in Class B and Elmira Notre Dame sophomore pitcher Olivia May in Class C.
The full list of all-stars in the five classes as well as the coach of the year selections can be found here.
New AD at Walton: After one year as the principal of arch-rival Delhi's high school and middle school, Julie Maney is leaving to become the athletic director at Walton beginning next week.
