Leading off today: Mike Toro, suspended as coach while Bishop Ford was rolling to a Federation Class AA championship in girls basketball this winter, resigned from the CHSAA school and has been hired to run the girls program at Medgar Evers of the PSAL.
Toro told the New York Daily he was hired May 1 as a volunteer assistant. That's a technicality due to PSAL rules requiring coaches to be teachers in the public school system. But the paper said Toro will have full reign over the program and will be allowed to bring in his own assistants, according to Medgar Evers AD Keisha Lewis, who will be listed as the team’s official head coach.
“He’ll have full control of the program, developing it, along with my guidance,” Lewis said.
Toro, 25, and two ADs were suspended by Bishop Ford officials in February for possibly having given improper financial assistance to student athletes. A spokesperson for Bishop Ford said the school didn’t have an update on the investigation or a comment on Toro’s hiring.
Ferraro will retire: Carl Ferraro is retiring from his jobs as football coach and physical education teacher at Pawling next month, The Poughkeepsie Journal reported Wednesday.
Ferraro, 58, won 175 games at Highland and then Pawling, when he coached since 1986.
“I really enjoyed being with the kids and being with the people,” Ferraro told the paper. “(Pawling is) a small community. Everybody got along. People tried to help each other. We never had the most stuff or the greatest facilities, but the kids made the best they possibly could with what we had.”
Friars win showdown: The state's top-ranked Class A and B teams in girls lacrosse faced off Wednesday, with St. Anthony's racing to a 3-0 lead and beating Garden City 11-6.
Senior midfield Maggie Bill, a four-year starter and North Carolina recruit, scored four goals and added an assist.
It's the third straight year the two Long Island powers have met.
"It's only been a few years but I think it's a rivalry because we know what a great team they are," St. Anthony's Coach Corinne Lomangino told Patch.com.
Wild afternoon in Wellsville: A suspect in a burglary interrupted a varsity softball game while eluding police, only to be subdued by a Wellsville football player who body-slammed him.
Police charged Christopher D. Jackson, 34, of Friendship, with resisting arrest, second-degree burglary, third-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal mischief and two counts of petit larceny, according to the Wellsville Daily Reporter. He was arraigned in Wellsville Village Court and ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Police said Jackson was wanted for questioning and took off toward Quackenbush Field after spotting police. Alarmed parents gathered young children and coaches
