Leading off today: Cassie Perettine scored her only goal of the game with 1:41 left, lifting Class A
Farmingdale to a 13-12 win over Class B Garden City as Nassau County's top two girls lacrosse teams faced off in a non-leaguer.
Amanda Turturro scored four of her six goals as Farmingdale (10-0) went on a 10-4 run after the half. Alexandra Bruno led Garden City with seven goals.
Clarence controversy: Parents of the Clarence Middle School girls lacrosse team want Superintendent Geoffrey M. Hicks to reconsider his four-game suspension of the program, claiming inaccuracies in allegations of the use of racial slurs during Thursday's 18-4 win over Sweet Home, The Buffalo News reported.
Parents and district staff met Tuesday, a day after Hicks announced a four-game suspension of th team after the allegations of slurs directed at black players on the Sweet Home team. Hicks noted at the time that no Clarence player admitted to using objectionable language, and there were conflicting reports about what was said.
Parents told the paper that Hicks, who left as Sweet Home's superintendent in 2010, and the media rushed to judgment without hearing all of the facts after three parents of Sweet Home players emailed the superintendent on Friday to complain. They said the incident was provoked by Sweet Home players engaging in racial remarks as the score became lopsided.
“It’s useless for me to tell you we are innocent,” said one Clarence parent who requested anonymity but claimed Hicks admitted acting hastily. Hicks didn’t meet with reporters, who were not allowed into the session with parents, or return calls from the paper on Tuesday.
The parent said Hicks indicated he would issue a statement Wednesday. Included in the current four-game suspension, during which players will continue practicing, he set down is racial sensitivity training for the lacrosse team.
Cheap, cheap, cheap: I offer the following item from The Journal News' softball roundup without additional comment:
"Nyack 5, Rye 0: At Nyack, winning pitcher Michaela Contreras pitched a one-hitter and struck out eight. Emily Severance broke up the no-hitter with a bunt single in the seventh. Tiffany Salcito had a double, a triple, a stolen base and an RBI."
Speaking of pitching feats: Delhi's Tyler Hymers had a decent day Monday. Besides striking out 20 Deposit batters, he slugged a two-run triple in the top of the seventh to give the Bulldogs a 4-2 win.
He finished with a four-hitter, walking one in seven innings of work.
"He was throwing as hard at the end of the game as he did in the first inning," Delhi coach Fred Barkalow told The Daily Star.
Contrast that mound work with the pitchers-duel-turned-slugfest played by Oneonta and Johnson City the same afternoon. The host Yellowjackets dog-piled Ben Moxley
