Monday, Nov. 28, 2011: Hornell completes three-peat in coach's finale

   Leading off today: Scott McKibben ran 25 times for 104 yards and two touchdowns Sunday, leading Hornell to a third straight NYSPHSAA Class B football championship with a 22-6 verdict over Croton-Harmon at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.

   Zack Bacon chipped in with 148 yards on 13 carries for the Red Raiders, who rushed for 316 yards in their 39th straight victory -- and veteran coach Gene Mastin's farewell. Mastin ends with 221 wins at Hornell and a 240-75-5 mark overall in 28 seasons.

   "We tell the kids that we can't promise you a championship. We do promise that they will play in big games," Mastin told the Democrat and Chronicle. "They have played in a lot of big games. Thirty-nine in row, who would have thought that?"

   OP caps perfect season: Orchard Park completed a 13-0 season and won its second state title, holding on to defeat Newburgh 21-13 in the NYSPHSAA Class AA final.

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   The Quakers built a 21-0 lead in the fourth quarter and then fended off the Goldbacks, securing the win only when Okoya Anderson intercepted a Hail Mary pass in the end zone on the final play of the game.

   David Crowley threw a TD pass to Ben Johnson in the first half, then switched over to its version of the wildcat offense with linebacker James Fitzgerald taking the snaps. Fitzgerald, who had seven tackles on defense, ran 10 times for 37 yards and two touchdowns, including a 4-yarder with 10:48 left in the fourth quarter.

   Newburgh rallied with two touchdown passes from Mark Risio (9-for-23, 188 yards), the latter with 2:37 to go. Newburgh got the ball back at its 21 with 1:08 to play following a punt and Risio moved the offense 35 yards before his last-ditch throw to the end zone was picked off.

   Dobbs Ferry dominates: Senior quarterback Spencer Avalos went 9-for-9 on first-half passes to spark a normally run-oriented Dobbs Ferry past Southwestern 39-0 for the NYSPHSAA Class C championship.

   "I was kind of surprised, but I knew at some point I'd have to play like a quarterback instead of a running back behind center," Avalos, who finished 9-for-10 for 146 yards and a touchdown, told The Journal News. "Thomas Fleming (five receptions for 86 yards) made me look really good today. He made some amazing catches. He played a great game — his best game as well."

   The duo hooked up on three of Avalos' four completions during a five-play, 81-yard drive late in the first half that ended with Fleming's 16-yard catch for a 27-0 lead.

   Dobbs Ferry rolled up a 567-96 advantage in yardage.

   Floyd slips past East Meadow: A.J. Otranto’s 18-yard touchdown pass to Corey Banks broke a tie and gave William Floyd a 54-47 win over East Meadow in Long Island's Class I championship at Stony Brook University.

   Floyd’s Devante Smith returned the second-half kickoff 75 yards for a touchdown and a three-TD cushion, but East Meadow stormed back with four touchdowns in the third quarter before more than 6,000 spectators.

   But the Jets were never able to get a handle on Floyd running back Stacey Bedell, who broke the LIC record with 412 yards rushing and four touchdowns (covering 80, 51, 59 and 80 yards) on 29 carries. He blew past the old mark of 303 yards (Omar Palmer of North Babylon in 1999) with more than half the third quarter remaining.

   “He’s exceptional,” East Meadow coach Vin Mascia said “Our defense saw speed and moves it’s never seen before."

   Sayville leftovers: I blogged on Sunday about Sayville's ridiculous 78-61 win over Lawrence. Here are a few leftover nuggets.

   Sayville had a trio of 100-yard receivers -- Tyler Fredericks (three TDs) at 119, Jordan Fredericks at 138 and Eddie Robinson (three TDs) at 238 -- as Joe Capobianco threw for 541 yards.

   The Fredericks brothers -- Tyler, Jordan and Ryan -- finished with 19 catches for 424 yards plus 29 carries for 150 yards in a losing effort.

   There were 20 TDs scored, 19 of them coming on offense and one on an interception return.

   PSAL thrillers: McKee/Staten Island Tech sent four receivers to the end zone with 3.2 seconds left in a tied game, and halfback Charles D’Onigbinde gathered in the winning 26-yard catch to give the Seagulls a 20-14 victory over South Shore for the Cup Division championship in Brooklyn.

   “I’m used to running and staying on the ground,” D’Onigbinde told The New York Daily News. “Honestly, I was quite surprised; I didn’t expect the ball to be in my hands.”

   In the Bowl Division final, Madison held off August Martin 22-20 with the help of Dellon Peters' 78-yard kick off return less than a minute before halftime. It was Madison's first championship since 1983 and came in its first season after relegation from the Championship Division on the heels of a winless season.

   It's over: Phoenix Desert Vista upset Chandler Hamilton 45-19 for the Arizona 5A-I championship on Saturday, ending the nation's longest active winning streak at 53 games. The Huskies were three-time defending champs and had defeated Desert Vista by a 35-10 margin on Oct. 6.

   Nike Cross Nationals: North Shore was awarded one of the four girls at-large berths in Saturday's Nike Cross Nationals in Portland, Ore. Rush-Henrietta, which was holding out hope for one of the boys invitations, was bypassed in favor of two teams from California, one from New Jersey and one from Illinois.