In baseball, Connetquot (Class AA), Levittown Division (A), Greece Odyssey (B), Bolivar-Richburg (C) and Avoca (D) top the respective classifications. In softball, it's Cicero-North Syracuse (AA), Williamsville South (A), Susquehanna Valley (B), Mechanicville (C) and Afton (D).
Extra points: A moment of silence would be in order at the 2008 Penn Relays following the death of Ron Reid, the veteran Philadelphia sportswriter, this weekend. I worked a few events with him and though I may have been slightly louder I certainly wasn't nearly as funny as Ron. My memory may be failing me, but I believe it was Ron who penned a hilarious phony news story that circulated through the press box in New Orleans during the '92 Olympic Track Trials when suspended star Butch Reynolds tried to sue his way into the meet. The premise of the story was that a federal appeals court was so impressed with Reynolds' case that it also decided to overturn the Declaration of Independence.
A fix to note on the NYSSWA boys basketball Class C team released yesterday: The third-team pick from Newfield is supposed to be Matt Ruger, not '06 graduate Dusty Marshall. That's what we get for typing in too much of a hurry on deadline.
