Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011: Sayville wins wild Long Island football final, 78-61

   Leading off today: Long Island Championship records fell under an avalanche of offense Sunday as Sayville won the 2011 Class III football championship with a 78-61 win over Lawrence at Stony Brook University.

   The Golden Flashes won their first Long Island crown since 2008. They lost to LYnbrook in the final last fall.

   Zach Sirico ran 17 times for 228 yards and tied the Long Island Championship record with six rushing touchdowns to fight off the Golden Tornadoes and a massive passing attack by sophomore QB Joe Capobianco, who completed 27 of his 41 passing attempts for 541 yards and seven touchdowns. He set LIC records for attempts, completions and touchdowns. Capobianco tied the Long Island single-game yardage mark set by Commack's Mike Laluna in 2003, the same year Syracuse CBA star Greg Paulus set the state mark of 543.

   The teams set LIC marks for points, yards (1,276) and plays from scrimmage (135). Freeport had set the single-game scoring mark a year ago while beating William Floyd 62-35 in a contest that had also set the mark for combined points.

   Long Island career passing yardage leader Steven Ferreira had a relatively mild day -- 10 of 14 for 225 yards -- in support of Sirico, who scored on carries of 1, 21, 32, 41, 51 and 55 yards, and John Haggart (13 carries for 141

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yards and two TDs). Sirico matched the mark of Freeport's Isaiah Barnes, who rushed for six TDs against Floyd in 2010.

   "Offensively I don’t think we could’ve really done it any better,” Sayville coach Robert Hoss told Patch.com. "The thing I’m most proud of is that all year we kind of made our living through the air and today it was really the backs and the offensive line who deserve all the credit. Ultimately, without the backs and the offensive line blocking for Steven all year, we’re probably not in this game."

   Sayville finishes at 12-0. Lawrence ends at 10-2.

   William Floyd won its first crown since 2007, taking Class I by a 54-47 score over East Meadow.

   More tomorrow: I'll be back on Monday with a wrapup of the Long Island and NYSPHSAA finals held Sunday as well as other developing news in the Bernie Fine case.