Leading off today: Junior Lance Stephenson scored 33 points and grabbed 16 rebounds for Abraham Lincoln in a
75-68 win over Rice last night in the Prime Time Shootout at Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, N.J.
Lincoln is ranked first and Rice second in Class AA by the New York State Sportswriters Association. The game was a rematch of the 2007 Federation final, also won by Lincoln.
By the way, The New York Daily News reported that Rice's Kemba Walker has been invited to play in the McDonald's All-American game in Milwaukee on March 26. Walker will attend UConn in the fall. That could get interesting since the Federation finals begin two days later.
South Jeff girls prevail: South Jefferson, ranked No. 2 in Class B, avenged its only loss of the season by downing Indian River, No. 3 in Class A, 78-72 in triple overtime as Linsey Niles scored 28 points.
The loss ended the Warriors' 19-game winning streak.
Rachael Bassett (17 points) of South Jefferson forced the first OT with a basket in the final 15 seconds of regulation. Indian River's Kwanisha Jones (16 points) scored a layup just ahead of the horn at the end of the first OT and a three-pointer as time expired in the second overtime.
Niles made a pair of three-pointers in the third extra session.
Chloe Armstrong finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds Indian River.
Record leaps: Albert Johnson of Corning broke the Section 4 indoor records in the long jump (23-9) and triple jump (47-8) at the Hurley/Quinney Invitational at Cornell on Friday. The previous long jump mark by Israel Howard of Elmira Free Academy had stood for 30 years. Johnson already held the TJ record.
