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Falls through: Sweet Home earns upset - 3/4/2007
In a week that had seen its share of upsets, Sweet Home saved the best show for last. Sweet Home pulled off one of the biggest wins in its history and one of the greatest upsets in Western New York history by beating Niagara Falls, 66-64, in the Section VI Class AA championship Saturday night before an estimated 3,000 at Buffalo State Sports Arena. |
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Third time's the charm for Maryvale - 3/4/2007
The coaching cliche says that it's tough to beat a team three times in one season. It's especially true if that team is the Maryvale Flyers, and if that game is being played at Buffalo State. |
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McKinley turns back the clock - 3/4/2007
The last time McKinley won a Section VI championship, none of its current players were close to being born and coach James Daye was just a spry teenager in North Carolina a year away from playing for the Tar Heels. |
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Heartbreak over as Olean captures B-1 - 3/4/2007
You can learn how to win big games by losing a few of them. Just ask Olean High School. Still stinging from a bitter loss to Maryvale in last year's Section VI A-2 boys basketball final, the Huskies showed more resolve and grit to eliminate defending state champion Lackawanna, 53-47, in the Class B-1 final Saturday before a crowd of 1,000 at the Buffalo State Sports Arena. |
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Falls boys, Frontier girls finish third - 3/4/2007
After finishing second in the state last year, the Niagara Falls boys bowling team wound up in third place this year, and the Frontier girls also placed third Saturday at the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Bowling Championships at a packed Thruway Lanes in Cheektowaga. |
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Mills lifts Bulldogs; East Aurora earns return trip to regionals - 3/4/2007
It was toward the end of the third quarter when Kacie Mills changed her approach to the game. "It was either now or never," the senior guard said. "Our three-pointers - they weren't really falling, so we had to find another way, and that was driving to the basket and getting the foul." |
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Mariacher, Betts win mat titles - 3/4/2007
Section VI wrestlers Matt Mariacher of Iroquois and Kenny Betts of Fredonia captured state championships at the New York State meet Saturday in the Times Union Center in Albany. |
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Maple Grove spreads out the glory - 3/3/2007
JAMESTOWN - The Maple Grove Red Dragons are the Section VI Class C champions because they have an excellent point guard in freshman Chris Secky and a huge, spring-loaded front line of four players, any one of which can hurt teams. |
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Return to Class D brings title to Pine Valley - 3/3/2007
JAMESTOWN - Cody Troutman has been waiting a long time to hold the Section VI Class D championship plaque again. Troutman and Pine Valley won their third title in four years Friday night with a 72-53 victory over Brocton before an estimated 1,000 at Jamestown Community College. |
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O'Rourke must chase Geary this time - 3/3/2007
It's not often a two-time defending state champion is in the role of the hunter, but Grand Island senior Ian O'Rourke will have his work cut out for him if he's to pass good friend Nathan Geary and win his third straight title. |
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Mount Mercy wins, to meet Sacred Heart - 3/2/2007
Do you believe in Magic? Mount Mercy sure made believers out of Nardin during Thursday night's Monsignor Martin Association semifinals. On a Canisius College basketball court that has proven to be the graveyard of regular-season MMA champions this week, the Magic ended the playoff title dreams of Nardin, 52-45, before an estimated 300. |
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Falls, Sweet Home on easy street - 3/2/2007
The Niagara Falls basketball team just left the court after its Class AA semifinal Thursday night, and was celebrating its way back to its locker room in the Buffalo State Sports Arena when it passed the Sweet Home team that had also won earlier in the evening. |
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Lancaster ousted; Immaculata advances - 3/2/2007
Two power-play goals and two empty-netters derailed Lancaster's hopes of advancing in the state hockey tournament Thursday in the Pepsi Center. Clarkstown North of Rockland County, ranked seventh in the state's Division I (large schools) poll, scored the final four goals in a 4-1 victory over the Redskins in the round of 16. |
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Pioneer, Ken East patch things - 3/1/2007
Locked in a struggle for their basketball lives, Pioneer's Panthers took it sitting down. Nursing a two-point lead at the time over Springville, the Panthers called back-to-back timeouts to regain their lost composure. |
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McKinley wins a thriller - 3/1/2007
Normally a fine all-around performance in which an individual wills a team into its first Section VI championship game in a decade wouldn't be relegated to opening act status. |
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Maple Grove, Silver Creek get to Class C final - 3/1/2007
Cam O'Neill scored 24 points and freshman Chris Secky had 21 as No. 1 seed Maple Grove defeated Salamanca, 76-43, at Jamestown Community College on Wednesday night and advanced to a third meeting with Silver Creek in Friday's Section VI Class C boys basketball championship game. |
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Jamestown, Lancaster make final - 2/28/2007
While top-seeded Jamestown survived a scare, third-seeded Lancaster gutted out a win in the Section VI Class AA girls basketball semifinals Tuesday night. |
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Depew shoots down Lafayette in OT - 2/28/2007
Depew coach Larry Jones walked out of his locker room and summed it up for the 1,000 or so who had witnessed it: "Wow!" Depew hit two final-second three-pointers - one to force overtime and another to win the game in the extra session - to beat Lafayette, 79-78, in one of the best high school playoff games ever played in the Buffalo State Sports Arena. |
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Allegany-Limestone, East Aurora advance - 2/28/2007
In the event its offense doesn't show up, East Aurora is covered. The Blue Devils' defense, stingy all season, held Olean to a season-low in points to highlight a 50-22 win in the Section VI Class B-1 final. In Class B-2, Allegany-Limestone beat East, 62-16, to win its third sectional title in four years. Tuesday's girls basketball doubleheader was played before 280 at the Flickinger Center. |
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Kopp lifts Franklinville - 2/28/2007
Talk basketball in Franklinville and the name Kopp has to come up. Six-foot-2 sophomore Samantha Kopp, whose mother (Laura Hughes Kopp) and brother (Ben) starred in the sport for the Panthers, scored 23 points, pulled down 20 rebounds and blocked 13 shots for a triple double in a 46-41 victory over Barker on Tuesday night in the Section VI girls Class C semifinals at Jamestown High School. |
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