Leading off today: Russ Smith of Archbishop Molloy and Brandon Triche of Jamesville-DeWitt shared game MVP honors last night in the City vs. Suburbs game of the Jordan Brand Classic at Madison Square Garden.

   Smith scored a team-high 27 points on 10-for-17 shooting, leading the city team past the suburbs, 129-120. Triche, who has signed to play for Syracuse next season, had 33 points and five rebounds in a losing cause.

   Smith, who will attend South Kent (Conn.) next year with Rice standout James Stukes and Thomas Jefferson's Keith Spellman, led the CHSAA in scoring with 29.6 points per game.

   In the showcase game of the event, Michael Jordan was on hand to see New Yorkers Durand Scott and Lamont Jones help the Black squad to a 110-103 victory over the White team. Derrick Favors of Atlanta scored 21 points and was named the MVP for the winners.

   Scott and Jones played two seasons together at Rice, before Jones transferred to American Christian in Philadelphia for his junior year. Jones transferred again to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., last summer.

   Boys lacrosse: Senior Matt Osgood's goal in the fourth quarter proved to be the winner as Penn Yan, ranked sixth in Class C by the New York State Sportswriters Association, edged Class A No. 9 Fairport, 6-5.

   Osgood and John Linnan each finished with two goals and one assist for the Mustangs (4-1), and Ethan Kamholtz stopped 13 shots. Aaron Jones led Fairport with one goal and two assists.

   Girls lacrosse: Highly regarded Mount Hebron came up from Maryland yesterday and dropped a pair of girls lacrosse games to Brighton, ranked No. 3 by the NYSSWA, and Class A No. 3 West Genesee.

   Brighton scored a 12-5 win as Beatrice Conley scored four goals. West Genesee then followed with an 11-8 triumph after breaking to an 8-3 lead in the first half. Kellyn Savage, Morgan Corso, Karlyn Tupper and Maria DiFato scored two goals apiece.

   Speaking of upstate success, Canandaigua has ascended to No. 1 in the nation according to LaxPower.com. The Braves moved up when McDonogh (Md.) edged St. Stephen & St. Agnes on Saturday, 10-9. Canandaigua split a pair of games against those schools last week.

   Besides Canandaigua, Baldwinsville (7th), Penfield (8th), Brighton (9th) and West Genesee (10th) are all in the girls top 10.

   Brittany Hunt scored five goals, including the 100th of her career, as Saugerties beat Monroe-Woodbury, 13-6. Alexa Perry and Erin Thornton added three goals apiece.

   Baseball: Thirty-first-year Queensbury coach Jay Marra collected his 500th career victory with a 5-4 victory over Schalmont in eight innings. He's second in Section 2 history to Craig Phillips of Fort Plain, who won his 600th game last week.

   Schalmont’s Kyle McKelvey tied the game with a two-run home run in the seventh. Queensbury's Tim Hughes drew a two-out walk in the eighth and stole second. He then scored on a ground ball up the middle that the second baseman scooped but couldn’t turn it into a play at first.

   Newburgh Free Academy is off to a 7-0 start in baseball after winning the Mingo Bay tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Friday. Ryan Sussman's infield single drove in Kevin McDonnell in the top of the 11th inning to beat Johnsonville (S.C.), 5-4.

   Taylor Wagner picked up the win by allowing seven hits and striking out five in 10 innings. In his previous start in the tourney, Wagner fanned eight in three innings of work during a 20-0 romp, picking up where he left off during a junior season in which he went 5-1 and whiffed 45 batters in 43 innings.

   Veteran Margaretville coach Rick Funck says sophomore Patrick O'Connell's perfect game April 9 was the first no-hitter by a Blue Devil in his 25 seasons on the job. In striking out 10 batters, O'Connell -- already in his fourth varsity season -- extended his hitless streak to 11 innings.

   Your money at work: The next time the Buffalo City School District cites finances for scrapping plans to replace the pressbox staircase at All-High Stadium, please refer to this morning's story in The Buffalo News. Reporter Mary B. Pasciak documented how the school board spends obscene amount of money feeding itself at meetings and traveling out of state to various meetings.

   Food at lengthy meetings is not necessarily unreasonable. But $300 catered meals that could have been handled instead with $100 sandwich platters from the local deli reek. So do $100 weekly bills to stock the board's office pantry with soda and snacks.

   As for the travel, why do the people spending public funds always find reasons to meet in Orlando or San Diego in the early spring or Nashville in the fall? Notice how they're never racing off to conferences in Edmonton in January or Anchorage in February?

   I know this has nothing to do (directly, anyway) with high school sports, but it needed to be said.

   Extra points: Standout freshman Dominique Claudio of the national champion St. John Villa 3,200 relay pulled up while running the leadoff leg of the sprint medley relay of the Staen Island Relays at Tottenville and was taken to a local hospital on a stretcher, The Advance reported. Cladio returned later on crutches but her status — remember, Penn Relays are this week — was not immediately clear. . . . Though much of the charm of Penn Relays at Franklin Field is the vast relay competition, you've got to love the field they're assembling for the boys mile: The nation's top two outdoor returnees from last year, New Jersey's Brett Johnson (4:08.51) and Indiana's Drew Shields (4:09.64) will be pushed by Canadian junior 1500-meter champ Jeremy Rae (3:49.12) and Trinidad and Tobago prodigy Gavyn Nero (3:47.56). . . . I'm told that the new Yankee Stadium press box has permanent seats reserved for the major sports web sites such as FOXsports.com, ESPN.com and Yahoo! Sports. It's further evidence that times are changing in the media business.