Leading off today: Niagara Falls' boys basketball team has finally lost at home for the first time since the 2000 merger of the old Niagara Falls and LaSalle high schools.

   Syracuse Henninger outscored the Wolverines by 16-8 in the second overtime to earn a 73-65 win on opening night of the Cataract Classic.

   Seven-footer Ben Cronin scored 14 points for Henninger. Rahshon Tabb led Niagara Falls with 29 points. His basket with 12 seconds left in regulation forced overtime, and Henninger’s Karie Blue made two free throws with 6.9 seconds left in the first OT to force the second one.

   Girls streak snapped: The Northeastern Clinton girls basketball team, which hadn't lost a home game in the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference since Jan. 3, 1997, was taken down by Saranac last night, 51-44.

   Carissa Fournia led the Chiefs with 12 points and Michele Favreau had 11. Saranac outscored Northeastern Clinton by 22-16 in the fourth quarter.

   Stephenson sits out: Lance Stephenson rested his sprained ankle and did not play yesterday as Abraham Lincoln routed Louisville St. Xavier, 56-46, in the 2K Sports All-American Shootout in Kentucky.

   Stephenson sprained his ankle a week ago and hurt it again on Tuesday while scoring 20 points in Lincoln's opeing win against Thomas Jefferson.

   "I wish I had never played in that game," Stephenson told The Courier-Journal. "I don't like watching my team play (on the sideline). I was dressed and taped and thinking that I was going to play, but it just didn't feel right."

   Human ATM disrupted game: The Times Union reports that a fan who threw an estimated 50 one-dollar bills into the air was the source of Thursday's disruption that shut down the Bishop Maginn vs. Albany boys basketball game

with 3:37 to go. Maginn won the game, 103-43.

   The identity of the culprit is unknown, and there were no arrests in what Ron Lesko, the Director of Communications for Albany school district, termed a "nonviolent disruption."

   "All of a sudden, we heard a ruckus and the next thing I knew there were 50 to 60 kids in the stands diving for dollar bills," Maginn coach Rich Hurley told the paper. "I also definitely heard coins hit behind our bench. One of my assistants did too. Nothing was thrown directly at us, but we took the team onto the floor 25 feet away from the bench."

   Albany AD Kathleen Ryan met with police officers and the game officials, and the decision was made to end the game.

   Turf, turf everywhere? Mamaroneck's sports teams and other area residents could soon go from zero to five artificial turf fields in the very near future according to the Larchmont Gazette's exhaustive report this week.

   The Mamaroneck School Board unanimously agreed Tuesday to put a plan in front of voters to reconfigure the high school’s Manchester and Memorial Fields and add synthetic turf and lights at a cost of $7.1 million.

   A few days earlier, the Village of Larchmont approved of a bid to install a turf field at Flint Park. Two more fields could be redone by 2010.

   Extra points: Former Red Creek three-sport athlete Darcie Enea recently completed her rookie season as the first female boys soccer coach at Plymouth (Mass.) North High School. Enea, who played on the boys golf team at Red Creek and graduated in 1998, coached the freshman team to a 7-1-8 record. . . . The PSAL still does not know if it will be allowed to play basketball games at Madison Square Garden this season in the aftermath of last winter's melee in the stands during the tournament final between Lincoln and Boys & Girls.

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