| VOLUME XXXI No. 7 | Narrowsburg, NY | February 17 - 23, 2005 |
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Boys’ basketball Counterpunch: Bulldogs deliver a haymaker to Burke ‘Dawgs’ ride senior night mania to repay Burke with division-tying win LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY—Much like the historic heavyweight bouts between Mohammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, or Joe Louis and Max Schmelling, the battle for basketball supremacy between Sullivan West and John S. Burke Catholic has become a suspenseful contest marked by great reversals of fortune. The struggle for the right to be named Section 9 Class B boys’ basketball champion has the trappings of a championship title fight played out in rounds with surprisingly different outcomes. The two teams have met twice this season, with each team winning on its own floor, and now, the prospect of a deciding sectional final bout offers basketball fans a potential title fight that could be talked about for years to come. | |||||
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Girls’ basketball Lady Bulldogs take Burke to the brink GOSHEN, NY—Goliath teetered and was nearly toppled in a game that might well have been one of this season’s banner stories in Section 9 girls’ basketball. |
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Indoor track Athletes up the ante at OCIAA league meet WEST POINT, NY—Developmental meets are one thing, but a league championship meet is something of an entirely different nature. As the schools of the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association (OCIAA) began arriving en masse for this winter’s indoor championship meet on February 13, it was a given that many of the hundreds of athletes present would put forth their best effort to date for their personal edification and for the collective pride of their teams. |
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