Leading off today: Queensbury won the highly competitive girls championship race at the Green Mountain Lake Cross Country Invitational at Lakeside Park in Pawling yesterday with 45 points to hold off Arlington (59) and Shenendehowa (60).

   Shen junior Lizzie Predmore took top honors in 18 minutes, 20.6 seconds to hold off Brittany Winslow (18:23.27) of Queensbury, which placed three girls in the top six.

   The meet was held on the course that will host the New York State Public High School Athletic Association championships in November.

   Shaker won the boys championship division with 45 points on the strength of a 1-2 finish from Mike Libruk (16:16.08) and Jon Vallecorsa (16:27.56). Connetquot was a distant second with 106 points.

   Other boys team champs were Monroe-Woodbury in Division I, Miller Place in 2 and Fonda-Fultonville in 3 with 60 points to edge Holland Patent (71) and Pawling (72).

   The other girls division honors went to Ward Melville in Division 1, Canton in 2 and Tully in 3.

   Full team and individual agate is available on TullyRunners.com.

   More cross country: Cornwall senior Aisling Cuffe breezed to victory at the Bowdoin Park Classic in 17:54.29, more than 1:46 ahead of the pack.

   At East Aurora, Pittsford Mendon star Shaylyn Tuite (16:38.55) was particularly impressive in beating the host school's Marta McLaughlin by more than 43 seconds en route to a course record.

   Rush-Henrietta beat Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake for boys teams honors at the Baldwinsville Invitational. Otis Ubriaco was in top form with a 15:01.68 clocking.

   Milestone: When Lake George swept Granville in girls volleyball on Thursday, it marked coach Cathy Stanilka's 600th victory in a 35-year career. The Warriors improved to 6-1 overall this season by a score of 25-11, 25-12, 25-11.

   The late show: Nothing like waiting until the last second to get the job done, I guess.

   Eric McGuire scored with :01 left in the second overtime period to lift Duanesburg over Galway 1-0 in boys soccer yesterday. McGuire knocked in Brandon Preston's corner kick just before time expired.

   Duanesburg is 5-1-1. Galway, ranked 12th in Class C by the New York State Sportswriters Association, falls to 6-1.

   More soccer: This isn't what the PSAL needed after Friday's mooning incident by a Boys & Girls assistant football coach became national news.

   Staten Island Curtis was awarded a 2-0 boys soccer victory over McKee/Staten Island Tech when the game was called with about 30 minutes left due to a red card.

   Sea Gulls coach Mike Padmore was carded, leaving the

team without an eligible coach. Since the game had already reached the second half, it went into the books as official.

   Curtis got goals from Christian Aldaz and Eduardo Bravo.

   Trailing 2-0, MSIT thought it scored on a shot that Padmore thought crossed the goal line and then bounced back out. A Curtis defender cleared the ball out quickly, and the goal was not counted.

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   "The ref was at the 20-yard line," Padmore told The New York Post. "He wasn't even in position. One of my guys was given a yellow card (for arguing) and I needed to protect my player. If my kid is wrong, they will hear it from me. I will be the first one to tell them. But when he's right, I will have my player's backs at anytime, all the time."

   Padmore will have to miss Wednesday's game at Port Richmond.

   Enterprise alert: The Post-Standard in Syracuse has been doing a great series on the Fowler football program this fall, with veteran reporter Donnie Webb tracking the team's progress with in-depth reporting and strong prose that has APSE award written all over it.

   Now, Donna Ditota is writing a seven-part series about the world of big-time basketball recruiting through the eyes of a pair of prized Central New York pivot players -- Jamesville-DeWitt's Dajuan Coleman and Cicero-North Syracuse's Breanna Stewart.

   She's doing a seven-part series that kicked off today. HoopGurlz rates Stewart No. 1 in the Class of 2012 prospects. No recruiting service worth a damn has Coleman lower than No. 5 nationally in the list of 2012 boys prospects.

   Speaking of enterprise, James Johnson of the Democrat and Chronicle had an interesting piece today on incredible hulks -- the 28 players in Section 5 listed at 300 pounds or more this football season.

   According to The Associated Press, there were three NFL players who weighed 300 pounds in 1980, 94 a decade later and 301 in 2000. The number climbed to 294 last season.

   More media: John Day at the Watertown Daily Times had an excellent take today on last weekend's 85-0 high school football blowout in which general Brown pummeled Alexandria Bay.

   As Day noted, there were immediate negative reactions in letters to the editor and on Internet forums. But -- as he noted -- you cannot judge what happened by the score.

   You can read his excellent analysis here.