Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 (continued): Nazareth girls rout Christ the King

   Record-setting efforts: Crystle Marion became Western New York's career scoring leader in girls basketball with 26 points in St. Mary's School for the Deaf's 56-37 loss to Park. The 5-foot-8 center has 2,432 career points with five games remaining in the regular season.

   "She was very excited but at the same time very humble," St. Mary's coach Bryan Booke said. "She's very reserved and has accomplished a lot in her career but always gives credit to her teammates and coaches, first."

   The record was held by Franklinville's Samantha Kopp, who finished with 2,420 points.

   Dylan Amo’s first basket of the game broke the Hermon-DeKalb record for career scoring and the Demons went on to a 57-46 boys basketball win over Heuvelton on Friday.

   Amo finished with 15 points while surpassing Andy Bardeschewski’s 1994 record of 1,178 points.

   Signed, sealed, delivered: St. Anthony’s senior Olicia Williams had the entertaining story of the day Wednesday as athletes across the state signed letters of intent in a variety of sports.

   Williams, a middle-distance star bound for Baylor University, frequently rises before dawn for training runs on the streets of her Hempstead or Garden City. Riding behind her in the family car is her father, Keith Williams.

   “We used to run together,” Keith Williams told Patch.com. “Then I got a bike. But I couldn’t keep up. So now I drive the car.”

   Said Olicia: “Sometimes people will stop and ask, ‘Is he bothering you?’” “I say, ‘It’s my dad, it’s fine.’ They think he’s following me.”

   Williams,the reigning Nassau-Suffolk CHSAA champion in the 600- and 1,000-meter indoor events and the 400 and 800 outdoors, was one of 30 Friars athletes taking part in the second big signing ceremony of the school year at the school. Among them were nine girls soccer players heading to seven schools.

   More signings: North Shore distance runners Samantha Nadel and Brianna Nerud have signed with Georgetown and Syracuse, respectively, after leading the Vikings to a state Class B championship in cross country season last fall. Nadel placed 10th and Nerud 17th at the Nike Cross

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Nationals in December.

   Nadel owns the fastest mile clocking (4:46.11) in the country in the indoor track season and will be heading to a Hoyas program that has been solid for a long time and broke through for its first NCAA Division I cross country crown last fall.

   Nerud holds the New York record in the 2,000-meter steeplechase at 6:29.55.

   Other signings of note from the Island's tremendous class of female track stars include Elmont sprinter Valencia Hannon to Clemson and Riverhead horizontal jumps ace Melodee Riley to UConn after she attempts to defend state crowns in the long and triple jumps.

   Indoor track: A great rivalry resumed Saturday at the New Balance Invitational. Zavon Watkins of Liverpool was electrifying in the 600 meters in 1:19.20 but still finished second because Strymar Livingston of Columbus in the PSAL set a national record in a scorching 1:17.58.

   On Friday, Mary Cain of Bronxville sets a state record of 2:47.29 in the girls 1,000. Emily O'Neill of Garden City notched the state record for eighth-graders (2:52.95) in the same race. Zavon Watkins of Liverpool looked like he set a state mark in the boys 1,000, only to be DQ'd on a lane violation after recording his 2:22.58.