Leading off today: Matt McMorrow tipped a rebound in with 15.9 seconds left last night to cap a hat trick and give New Jersey's Don Bosco Prep a 6-5 hockey win over Suffern, which gave up three goals over the final six minutes.

   Suffern is ranked No. 1 in Division I by the New York State Sportswriters Association.

   "That's horrible," Suffern coach Rob Schelling told The Journal News. "I think we're believing in the hype. There's still a lot of time left and we have to get better. I hope they will see that and start to step up."

   Suffern is 11-1-1. Don Bosco is 11-5.

   "It's a huge game for us," McMorrow said. "I played with most of them on travel. It's a big win because everybody knows they are the powerhouse over there."

   ESG's future bleak: As I wrote two months ago, the 2011 summer Empire State Games are dead. They got a little deader today when the Democrat and Chronicle followed up with Monroe County officials.

   “At this point, unless the state restores funding, the games will not occur or it’s highly unlikely,” Monroe County spokesman Noah Lebowitz told the paper.

   With state support to the tune of $1 million pulled last November, the Rochester local organizing committee was left in the unenviable position of having to lock down sponsor commitments while the economy digs out of a recession and when many companies' marketing budgets for 2011 have already been committed.

   Rather than an ESG event, look for movers and shakers in some sports to pull together statewide competitions similar to what lacrosse did with Nike's support in 2009 when the ESGs were shelved by more budget woes.

   Football update: Baldwinsville all-state lineman Nick Robinson has a scholarship offer from Syracuse University, The Post-Standard reported.

   Bees coach Carl Sanfilippo told the paper said Robinson was also offered by Tulane during an official visit last weekend. Buffalo and Western Michigan have also offered.

   Players can verbally accept offers any time but cannot formally sign until Feb. 2.

   Iowa has begun expressing interest in Troy's Jordan Canzeri, and a source familiar with the player's situation says it's serious enough that a Hawkeyes assistant will meet with the running back in the next few days.

   It continues to boggle the mind that he hasn't attracted more interest from Big East and MAC schools.

   On thin ice: The Rochester area has been awash in political stories this month, and one of them has potential fallout for the sport of high school hockey.

   The bid to restructure the finances of The Sports Centre at Monroe Community College have collapsed, raising the specter that the facility could close, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.

   The building has three rinks that are in constant use by youth, high school and college teams from mid-autumn to late spring. Though there's some unused capacity in other buildings, shutting down three sheets would drive up the cost of ice time and force many teams to juggle schedules.

   There's plenty of political intrigue behind the story; major players in the GOP power structure rammed through approvals for the building on the MCC campus, and the newspaper reported this month that Republican politicians received political donations that were likely illegal from the firm operating the facility.

   Give 'em back their games: The Basketball Coaches Association of New York continues to keep the heat on the NYSPHSAA following the recent decision to extend

state budget-inspired schedule reductions for a third year.

   BCANY Executive Director David Archer posted that the 18-game limit for basketball teams (down from 20) leaves many New York schools with the shortest season in the country (other organizations such as the CHSAA and PSAL continue to allow 24-game regular seasons).

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   He's also proposing the implementation of "Service Games" similar to Foundation Games held in Ohio or Endowment Games in North Carolina that raise money for charitable causes and/or the state association operating budget.

   Above all else, though, the BCANY takes the position that individual school districts should be deciding how many contests are to be played. It's their budgets that are directly affected, so it stands to reason that they should be making decisions along those lines.

   As I've written before, I largely supported the initial decision in 2009 to reduce schedules. But it's been fairly disgusting to watch the state budget explode out of control during the worst recession of our lifetime because Albany showed no self discipline or integrity.

   Really big: The Eastern States Wrestling Classic has grown so big that director Jeff Cuilty had to wait-list more than a dozen teams for last weekend's event at SUNY Sullivan in Loch Sheldrake, The Times Herald-Record reported.

   Eighty-nine teams sent competitors last weekend, maxing out the tournament capacity of about 600 wrestlers spread over nine mats. "The depth of the tournament was incredible this year," Monroe-Woodbury coach Steve Fischbein said. "Some weight classes had 20-25 kids that were state-caliber."

   More wrestling: It may not be long before Lehman's Jorje Jimenez is no longer regarded as the best wrestler in the PSAL -- and it's not because someone else is about to surpass the 145-pound junior.

   Jimenez, unbeaten in the league in three years and a candidate to become the PSAL's first state champion next month in Albany, is the subject of considerable speculation as rumors persist that he will move out of state.

   Jorje Jimenez told The New York Daily News he will move the family to New Jersey, where the competition is better, if he can sell his home. He wants to get his two sons out of the Bronx neighborhood where one of Jimenez's former teammates, Carlos Pijuan, was shot and paralyzed last summer.

   Extra points: Packer Collegiate's Edward Owens was selected New York's male cross country runner of the year by Gatorade.