Leading off today: No. 15 Pelham overcame an early deficit with 16 unanswered points yesterday and beat No. 2 Nanuet 16-13 in a Section 1 Class B football game.

   Senior Joe Miller's 40-yard interception return for a touchdown in the third quarter completed the rally after Nanuet's Andy Augustin made the day's first big play with an 82-yard punt return for a TD late in the first quarter.

   Junior Matt Landis (16 carries overall for 87 yards) and Miller (13 for 61) combined for 10 consecutive rushing attempts as Pelham ate way the final 6:26 of the fourth quarter.

   In another Section 1 contest, No. 17 Nyack downed highly regarded Eastchester 41-27 as fullback Donald Davis carried 29 times for 173 yards and two touchdowns on a day in which the Indians collected 347 yards on the ground.

   Wild finish: Trailing 20-12 with under a minute to play, East Meadow pulled off a 21-20 victory over Class AA No. 14 Farmingdale on Hector Guerrero's 48-yard field goal as time expired.

   The rally began when the Jets' Dylan Curry fumbled while being sacked deep in Farmingdale territory on fourth down. Dalers defenders started celebrating, believing Curry had been sacked. But East Meadow lineman Giancarlo Carvalho picked up the ball and started down the left sideline, intentionally fumbling the ball at the 14 as he was tackled. Robbie Healy picked it up at the 12 and ran it into the end zone.

   The ensuing two-point conversion failed, but Shin Shun Kang's subsequent onside kick bounced off two Farmingdale players and was recovered by East Meadow with 15 seconds to go. Guerrero's field goal four plays later won the game.

   Dee-fense, please: We don't often write about the handful of post-grad schools scattered around the state, but it's hard to ignore U.S. Military Academy Prep's 54-53 win over Milford Prep on Friday despite Pierre Narcisse six TD passes.

   Marquel Wade caught two TD passes and also returned a kickoff 93 yards for another score.

   at last count Milford already had six players with Division I scholarships lined up and several more players on the watch list of BCS-level schools.

   Football tidbits: Dan Smith's three first-half TD passes helped Class C No. 16 Westmoreland to a 26-12 victory over Clinton, but the he broke two bones in his left forearm in the third quarter and will miss the rest of the season. Smith, a second-team all-state quarterback in Class D last fall, was 9-for-17 for 139 yards in the game and finishes the season 32-for-60 for 484 yards and six TDs.

   Christopher Columbus ended a 28-game losing streak dating to November 2006 by winning at Long Island City 22-18. Prince Jackson had two touchdowns, including an 85-yard fumble return. A Tre Vis Blackwood interception set up Jackson’s go-ahead rushing TD.

   Columbus won without Rutgers-bound lineman Al Page, undergoing follow-up tests from an August abdominal injury.

   Contrary to previous reports, Canandaigua administrators say they have been told that some of the possible improvements to Evans Field would be eligible for state aid, which will need to be factored into the discussion about whether the football and baseball teams should move their games onto the high school campus.

   Good sports: The host Hunter-Tannersville girls soccer team probably could have just steamrolled a short-handed Coleman Catholic squad on Saturday in the semifinals of its tournament.

   Instead, the Wildcats did the sporting thing.

   Coleman, down to 11 players on the roster, showed up with only eight for the game in part due to some girls not having enough practices under their belt. So the H-T coaches took some of their own players off the field to

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make the game more competitive.

   Kate Shults scored both goals and Coleman ended up advancing with a 2-1 triumph as the hosts failed to capitalize on a pair of penalty kicks.

   "We were actually down to seven at one point, because one of the girls had to step off the field because she was so exhausted,” coach Dave Jutton told The Daily Freeman. "I have to give credit to the AD and coach for playing with 9 or 10 most of the game. It’s a great start for us."

   Catching up on cross country: A few notes from weekend action on the trails as a number of teams set their sights on next weekend's Green Mountain Invitational at Lakeside Park in Pawling, site of the 2010 NYSPHSAA championships:

   Laura Leff won the Varsity 2 race in 18:31.6 to highlight girls racing at the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Invitational, but Cicero-North Syracuse still held off West Genesee, 49-62. It was the second week in a row that both the boys and girls from C-NS edged the Wildcats for top honors. Chris Buchanan of CN-S finished in 16:16.1 for the best showing on the boys side.

   Monroe-Woodbury's girls edged the host school 61-66 at the Queensbury Invitational. Brittany Winslow took top honors in 17:53.11 for Queensbury, but her sister Danielle (hip flexor) did not race.

   Johnson City's Lauren Mullins won her third straight Elmira Invitational, finishing in 19:27.6 at Newtown Battlefield to set a course record and beat the field by about 700 meters.

   Battling back: The "small" sports took the hit at James I. O'Neill last spring when the budget proposal was shot down by voters. Needing to cut corners, the school board axed boys and girls tennis, girls golf, ice hockey and skiing.

   Parents of tennis players approached the school board with a fund-raising plan and were given the go-ahead to try to fund the sport themselves. Through a variety of events, they raised $16,000 in six weeks and received an $8,000 loan from the sports boosters club to save the girls and boys tennis teams.

   "It's a life experience," tennis coach Pam Deans told The Times Herald-Record. "It was great to have the support of the community and the parents, who stuck by the kids and helped them out. It was a great thing. People around town knew how hard they worked to raise the money and saw they wanted it that badly."

   Media watch: James Allen of The Times Union is doing a nice weekly recap of the Section 2 football action on his blog, offering deeper insight into some weekend developments. Some other media outlets around the state should be taking notice.

   Speaking of getting the word out on football, there's a weekly publication in Western N.Y. that really blows folks away. "Section 6 Upstate Football Weekly" used to be a print publication, but editor/publisher Mark Adair now delivers it as a 40-plus-page PDF. (You can check out last week's issue here.)

   Each issue contains several features on players and coaches as well as analysis and recaps of the previous weekend's developments in Section 6 and the Monsignor Martin Association. In addition, each of the approximately 70 schools gets a content module recapping last week's game, updating the schedule/results and highlighting statistical leaders.

   Fire off an e-mail to Mark if you would like to be added to the distribution list.