Leading off today: Horace Mann shocked Collegiate 58-55 in boys basketball last night. Jordan Federer scored 21 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, and Brett Lieberman added 13 points in the victory.    Collegiate (11-2), the two-time defending state Federation Class B champion, is ranked No. 2 in Class B by the New York State Sportswriters Association. Horace Mann is 4-6 this season.

   "We set the tempo of the game, we were able to make it more of an up-tempo game that I think they didn’t want, and we really did an excellent job of rebounding," Horace Mann coach Tim Sullivan told The New York Post. "We didn’t give up many offensive rebounds."

   Extra effort: Gary Acquah (16 points) cashed in a three-point play with 2.9 seconds left to lift Mount St. Michael to an 87-86 win against Fordham Prep in four overtimes.

   Peter Aguilar played the fourth quarter and the four OTs with four fouls to finish with 28 points for Mount St. Michael, ranked eight in Class A.

   Tom Whelan had a game-high 29 points for Fordham Prep.

   Jamestown cracks down: One player on the Jamestown girls basketball team was dismissed and nine of the other 12 were suspended for three games each for unspecified violations of the school's athletic code, The Buffalo News reported.

   The nine suspensions will be staggered so the team can continue to play out its schedule, coach Ken Ricker said. The team is 7-4.

   Junior guard Dashawna Sparks, who led the team in points (15.5), and rebounds (9.0), was dismissed.

   "For me, it's very disheartening," Ricker told the paper. "These kids, we basically live together 11 months of the year. We drive all over the country together. They didn't break any laws or do anything crazy. It's a real unfortunate thing, but they knew what they were signing."

   Middletown to host state soccer: The NYSPHSAA's Executive Committee on Thursday awarded the boys soccer final fours in 2010-11 to Middletown High School. All five classifications will be contested Nov. 20-21, 2010 at Faller Field (turf), an adjacent grass field and at Twin Towers Middle School.

   "It's great news, we are pretty pumped," Middletown AD David Coates told The Times Herald-Record. "We're ecstatic about this. It will be great for the community."

   The last nine championship weekends were held in Oneonta at the National Soccer Hall of Fame facility.

   Rejected again: The latest requests by the Utica and Rome school districts to move from the Central New York Counties League to the Tri Valley League have been denied by TVL officials.

   The schools submitted separate applications in December, and each was notified by the TVL that their requests had been denied primarily because of their size, The Observer-Dispatch reported. Utica Proctor and Rome Free Academy, both Class AA schools, have substantially larger enrollment than the TVL's eight members.

   "It was not a surprise, but I was certainly disappointed by the decision,” Rome Superintendent Jeffrey Simons told the paper. "I am saddened by it."

   As members of the CNYCL, Proctor and RFA teams travel as far away as Auburn and Oswego for league games. Simons, however, said Rome’s request "wasn’t all about saving money."

   "This was an opportunity to reignite a tradition of local rivalries," he said. "It was about strengthening programs."

   Extra points: The NYSPHSAA's Executive Committee approved new football enrollment cutoff numbers that we detailed in a blog last week. One of the effects will be a return to a six-game regular season for Section 5's Class AA schools, which will split into two classes for sectionals.