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Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008: St. Raymond stumbles against Rice as both prepare for Nike Super Six
   Leading off today: We might have a new No. 1 this week in the New York State Sportswriters Association boys basketball rankings in Class AA, but it's awfully tough to tell just who that should be.

   Rice got 29 points from UConn recruit Kemba Walker last night to knock reigning No. 1 St. Raymond from the ranks of the unbeaten with an 81-74 victory in overtime.

   Both will be back in action today at Madison Square Garden in the Nike Super Six, pairing New York teams against highly regarded New Jersey competition. St. Raymond faces St. Patrick and Rice gets St. Benedict's, top-ranked nationally but reeling from a loss to Bryn Athyn, Pa., Academy of the New Church on Tuesday. The tripleheader kicks off at 11 a.m. with Mount Vernon playing Paterson Catholic.

   Maybe — hopefully, perhaps — today's results will straighten out the issue of who deserves the top ranking in the state. St. Raymond has a loss to No. 5 Rice, which has a loss to No. 3 Christ The King, which (naturally) has a loss to St. Raymond.

   Current No. 2 Holy Cross also owns a loss to St. Raymond, and No. 4 Brooklyn Lincoln has a clean record inside New York but two out-of-state setbacks by a total of five points.

   Rice's victory over St. Raymond required a rally from a seven-point deficit in the third quarter, and Walker scored 10 in the fourth quarter but missed a jumper at the buzzer that would have broken a 65-65 tie. Walker had two points and two assists in OT.

   Darryl Bryant led St. Raymond's with 27 points.

   Tragedy in Canada: A van carrying a Canadian high school boys' basketball team collided with a truck yesterday near Bathurst, New Brunswick, killing seven players and the wife of the driver.

   Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Derek Strong said the Bathurst High players, all between 15 and 18 years old, were pronounced dead at the scene. Their van, carrying 12 people, apparently crossed the center line and hit the tractor-trailer shortly after midnight.

   The team was returning home to Bathurst from Moncton.

  
Road conditions were said to be slippery.

   Milestones: Shenendehowa Coach Ken Strube picked up victory No. 500 on Friday with a 51-40 win over Colonie. He is Section 2's career wins leader in girls basketball.

   Meg Cullinan collected No. 400 on Friday with West Canada Valley's 59-26 victory over Morrisville. Cullinan is in her 24th season.

   Mike Rapone of Batavia Notre Dame will have to wait a bit longer for his 500th boys basketball triumph. The Fighting Irish, third in Class D, dropped a 43-36 final at No. 2 Prattsburgh yesterday.

   Prattsburgh scored the last 15 points of the first half to wipe out a six-point deficit and ran off the first 11 points of the fourth quarter to take control while avenging its only loss of the season.

   More weekend basketball: No. 16 Scarsdale upset the No. 14 White Plains boys in two overtimes, 83-80, despite 36 points by Rashad James and 23 by Sean Kilpatrick.

   Scarsdale escaped a 10-point hole midway through the first OT and won behind 23 points apiece from David Zaitz and Lucas Radov. Evan Livingston scoring eight of his 12 points in the first OT.

   In girls action, Penfield surprised Rush-Henrietta, 50-49, on Erica Yohannes' three-pointer from the right wing with nine seconds left in overtime. R-H had won 11 straight meetings between the teams over the last four seasons.

   Police blotter: The New York Times reported that prosecutors announced a former biology teacher and soccer coach at Manhattan's Cathedral High has admitted sexually assaulting five students in his car and at a movie theater.

   Richard Ali, 28, pleaded guilty to one charge of second-degree rape, two charges of third-degree rape and two charges of third-degree sexual abuse according to the office of Queens district attorney Richard A. Brown. Ali is expected to be sentenced Jan. 25 to 1½ to 4½ years in prison, officials said.

   The incidents took place from April 2005 to January 2007, authorities said.

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