Sunday, June 9, 2013: Fort Ann has golden day on the diamonds

   Leading off today: Hey, what do you mean the high school baseball season is over? The guys at Fort Ann want to keep going. They've just started rolling.

   The Cardinals won twice on Saturday, pushing their scoring margin since the Section 2 Class D championship game to 47-0, to earn the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class D championship in Binghamton.

   Fort Ann blanked Pine Valley 4-0 in the semifinals and then routed Hancock 14-0 for the championship for its first crown since 2010.

   “This has been my dream,” four-year starter George Lehoisky told The Post-Star. “The first one was a dream, and all I wanted for three years now is to win another high school title. Last game of my career ... nothing could be better than this.”

   Lehoisky pitched a one-hitter in Saturday's semifinal and went 5-for-5 at the plate in the championship game. Joe Foran, who also started as a freshman on the 2010 team but pitched sparingly this spring due to arm problems, picked up the win with five innings of work in the title game and scored five runs.

   Capping the day for Fort Ann was a matching championship by the school's softball team. The Lady Cards completed a 25-0 season with a 5-2 win over Afton in the NYSPHSAA Class D final.

   Sophomore pitcher Molly Bailey induced a long fly ball to right with two on and two out in the seventh inning to close out the victory.

   Perfect season: Bayport-Blue Point finished its season with a 27-0 record by beating Williamsville South 5-3 in the NYSPHSAA Class A baseball final.

   Pitcher P.J. Weeks, in the starting lineup due to a concussion suffered by outfielder Mike Alliegro earlier in the postseason, went 4-for-6 with five runs batted in over two games Saturday at NYSEG Field in Binghamton.

   "P.J. gets pressed into duty today and plays two games and comes up big in both of them," coach Jim Moccio told Newsday. "And there was never a doubt as we were figuring out who we would use, we were comfortable with anybody and he was a great example of that today."

   What a way to win: Hamburg won the NYSPHSAA Class A championship with a 5-3 win over Sayville, but it was the conclusion to the semifinal earlier in the day that will keep people talking about the Bulldogs for years.

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   With runners on second and third and two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning of a scoreless game vs Tappan Zee, Bridget Hogan took a stunning chance. Tappan Zee was attempting to intentionally walk Hogan when she lashed out at a pitch a little too close to the strike zone and drilled the ball to right-center to bring home Maddy Tucker.

   “You could tell the fielders weren’t exactly ready for a ball to get hit,” Hamburg coach Lisa Palma told The Buffalo News. “It looked like she had never intentionally walked a batter. Bridget took it outside -– it was great, it was clutch, and it was crazy.”

   Over the top: After losses in three straight state Class AA championship games, Cicero-North Syracuse earned its first championship since 2006 be defeating East Meadow 5-0 in the final.

   The Northstars won their three state tournament games by a combined 16-0 scoring margin.

   Syracuse University recruit Sydney O'Hara struck out 12 in a complete-game five-hitter and also belted a pair of home runs. She struck out the side in the top of the first and then hit a three-run homer in the bottom half of the stanza for all the offense C-NS would need.

   She had struck out three times in a semifinal win over Brockport earlier in the day.

   "I was like, ‘That’s not going to come into effect in this game,’" she told The Post-Standard. "I was seeing the ball a lot better this game.”

   Much more to come: It's been a long day for me already. I'll hopefully be back shortly with notes from Saturday's championship action in track and lacrosse as well as a few notes saved up over the past 48 hours or so.