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
