Leading off today: Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons boys basketball coach Garry Horne cites personal reasons for submitting his resignation last week, The Daily Gazette reported today.

   Horne spent four-plus seasons with the varsity team, and led the Golden Knights to the 2008 Section 2 Class A title and two other semifinal appearances. He was 48-57 overall but 43-26 in his final three seasons. Horne took over the team midway through the 2004-05 season and started 5-31 before the huge turnaround.

   "It’s tough to give up something you love, but I’ve got some things I need to take care of," Horne said. "I’ve got to take care of my mom, who is staying with us now, and I have a son that I would like to watch play."

   Justin Horne is a sophomore guard at Guilderland, where he played for the JVs last year.

   “When you coach basketball, you spend so much time in the gym,” said Garry Horne, who works for the Albany County Sheriff’s Department. “I didn’t get to see him play enough. That’s going to change. I want to enjoy his high school career."

   Dake wins at Senior Nationals: Lansing's Kyle Dake, a NYSPHSAA Division II champion last month, earned a title over the weekend in the U.S. Senior Nationals wrestling tournament in Virginia Beach, Va.

   Dake decisioned Max Ortega of New Mexico, 5-2, for the 145-pound championship.

   Three fellow New Yorkers lost in the finals and placed second: Ian Paddock (Warsaw, three-time state Division II champ and a runner-up this season) dropped a 7-3 decision in overtime at 135 pounds, and reigning state champs Zach Clemente (Troy LaSalle, 145), a University of Virginia recruit, and John Greisheimer (Wantagh, 152) also placed second.

   Mike Nevinger of Letchworth, the runner-up to Dake at the state meet last month, placed fourth at 140 pounds.

   Breakthrough for Pearl River: After 16 years of looking up to Suffern as a model program, the Pearl River girls lacrosse team finally reached a new level on Saturday by edging the Mounties, 13-12.

   Lauren Cook scored the winner with 1:49 left, and Molly Davin and Kelly O'Brien scored four goals apiece as the

Pirates won by overcoming a 6-4 halftime deficit in their season opener.

   "Whenever we played them in the past, we never even thought about beating them," Cook told The Journal News. "If we lost by three we would have done a good job. And so it just feels amazing to beat someone like them."

   The Pirates returned six of their top seven scorers from last spring.

   Jenny Califano scored four goals for Suffern (1-1), which rallied from one-goal deficits six times in the second half.

   In other girls lacrosse action, senior Amber Sabo had one of the all-time stats lines for a player in a losing cause. Corning West downed Chenango Forks, 23-12, despite 11 goals from Sabo.

   Sabo has scored 24 goals in four games for winless Chenango Forks.

   Surprise, surprise: The first full week of April is here and, like clockwork, it looks as though most upstate baseball and softball teams not making Easter break road trips down south can pack away the equipment for the week. Though March was a relatively mild month that allowed many upstate teams to get outdoors a little more frequently than in the past, weather forecasts for much of upstate are calling for rain or snow as well as high winds for the early part of the week.

   Corning East and Corning West went 0-for-2 late last week in trying to get in their crosstown season-opener on the baseball diamond and likely won't get back on the field until next week, The Leader reported.

   "It’s so early in the spring and that’s northeast baseball,” East coach John Knapp told the paper. “During early April, chances are you’re going to get games delayed and canceled and you’re going to be condensing the season into about a five-week period.”

   Extra points: Emily Johnson, a Tamarac freshman, won her second state title in the Knights of Columbus free-throw shooting competition at West Point on Saturday. Johnson, who went 23-for-25 to win her age group, previously earned the 12-year-old state and international title by going 24-of-25 two years ago. She played JV basketball last season.

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