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Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011: Fracas brings early end to Kingston-Newburgh game
   Leading off today: The Times Herald-Record reports that it may go down as one of the most talked about games ever between Newburgh and Kingston, two schools with a pretty lively boys basketball rivalry.

   Personally, I'll probably remember it as the game at Kingston where F-bomb-laced chants flowed freely

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and a canine unit (Check out video from The Daily Freeman here) was used to clear the court at a game that had to be stopped with 14.2 seconds to go.

   Lovely.

   Officials called the game with Newburgh winning 58-53 after fans charged the floor during a skirmish between players. Officers from the City of Kingston Police, Ulster County Sheriff's Department and the state police handled the incident and largely restored order within two minutes; no arrests were made.

   “It's a shame that kind of stuff happens, it should have never escalated from the fans on the court,” Newburgh coach Frank Dinnocenzio told The Times Herald-Record. “I saw a bottle of Gatorade thrown from the Kingston stands and then I saw a Coke bottle. After that, I was just trying to get my guys on the bench. It was crazy, I've never seen anything like that.”

   Fans from both sides rushed the court when Newburgh's Dominique Jacobs and Kingston's Jeff McQueen exchanges shoves after McQueen fouled Parish Canty from behind on a layup; McQueen was assessed an intentional foul.

   “Jeff fouled him from behind, but he had to,” Kingston coach Ron Kelder said. “He's not going to give up a dunk on his home court. I don't even think it was a flagrant foul."

   Milestone victory: Elba's Tom Nowak picked up his 400th girls basketball coaching victory as the Lancers routed Oakfield-Alabama 55-22 to improve to 5-2 this season.

   He should have some company in Section 5 soon as Phil White (Bloomfield, 396 wins) and Steve Willoughby (Honeoye Falls-Lima, 392) are closing in.

   Gamesmanship alive and well: I'm not a "New Yawker," so I don't know all that much about Manhattan Center. Maybe the school has a 100 percent graduation rate and a healthy Advanced Placement or IB program that allows every senior to enter college with two full semesters of credits toward a degree already completed.

   If that's the case, then great. I'd have no problem with principal David Jose Jimenez approaching Murry

  
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Bergtraum coach Ed Grezinsky DURING the game to request that the team videographer quit working.

   Alas, I'm pretty sure Manhattan Center isn't a spectacular example of educational success and that Jimenez should devote more time to his job and less time to being a pain in Grezinsky's ass.

   The Bergtraum videographer did pack up and leave after being told to do so by a school safety officer, The New York Daily News reported. Bergtraum had the last laugh with an 80-55 win, and I'm almost sorry Epiphanny Prince wasn't available to tack on 113 points or so to the winning score.

   Here's the back story: In November, a Bergtraum staffer asked Manhattan Center assistant Eppy Vilella to leave a scrimmage the school was hosting against Mary Louis Academy. Considering that it was a scrimmage as opposed to a game, there should have been no expectation that anyone could walk in and watch uninvited.

   On Dec. 13, Bergtraum assistant Bruce Campbell was approached by Manhattan Center staff and asked to leave their game against Bronx JFK, the paper reported.

   Yesterday's harassment came under the guise of "privacy issues," according to the paper. Manhattan Center AD Dan Albeta said he was afraid the Bergtraum videographer might film someone in the crowd who hadn't signed a consent form.

   Irondequoit stays unbeaten: Josiah Heath scored a career-high 30 points and grabbed 17 rebounds as Irondequoit (7-0) upset Class AA No. 9 Rush-Henrietta 73-70 in boys basketball. Mike Rosier scored 10 of his 13 points in the first quarter to stake Irondequoit to a 21-14 lead.

   Rush-Henrietta fought back to a 68-67 lead as Mandell Thomas made a layup and free throw with :51.9 to play. Heath then countered with his own three-point play with :40.3 to go.


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