Leading off today: Syracuse CBA golfer Mark Finlay aced the seventh hole yesterday en route to medalist honors at The Pines.

   Finlay shot a 34 on the front nine, including his ace on the 175-yard No. 7 hole. CBA recorded a 200-265 victory over Mexico.

   Rankings: The second weekly sets of New York State Sportswriters Association rankings are now available in football and boys soccer, with the inaugural cross country rankings also released.

• Boys soccer
• Boys XC
• Girls XC
• Football

   Girls soccer will be released later this week.

   Dollars and nonsense: The Hadley-Luzerne school board needs to rethink a proposed policy change before it's too late. The board is coming dangerously close to instituting a rule from the "do as I say, not as I do" line of governing.

   The board thinks it's alright for it to pick and choose which sports and activities get funded each year -- and to a large extent they're right. After all, the members were elected by the public to set policy within the district,.

   But now they want to tell residents who want to raise money for an athletic program that they have no right to pick and choose. If members of the community want to dig into their own pockets to restore one dropped sport they'll have to do it for all of them.

   The board voted 3-2 on Monday to approve the first reading of the policy. Members must approve a second reading -- probably in October -- and conduct a board vote for it to become official.

   The board approved various cuts this summer under a contingency budget necessitated when voters in May

rejected a spending plan that included a 25 percent increase to the tax levy, The Post-Star reported. The cuts included all 10 junior-varsity sports and saved $63,900 for the district.

   The current district policy prohibits Hadley-Luzerne from accepting funds from the public, although the

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superintendent has the authority to make exceptions. That's a poor policy, and the new proposal is worse.

   "If we can't fund it for all, we can't fund it for any," board member Duane Moulton pontificated.

   To which I say, "$@#&*!@."

   If the board wants to set a policy that says any restorations have to be consistent with Title IX, that's fine. After all, there are federal funding implications to think about there.

   But why should cross country and tennis -- two very inexpensive sports -- have to pay the freight for baseball and soccer if boosters from those sports don't step up to help for whatever reason?

   There would invariably be hurt feelings if some sports were revived while others were left in mothballs. But you know what? The seeds for that hurt were sown over the summer when the board made the decision to axe everything.

   And for what it's worth, a school board that proposed a budget calling for a 25 percent increase to the tax levy no longer holds the high moral ground to tell residents how to spend their money.