TRR photo by Richard A. Ross Class A’s Mexico Tigers cheerleaders sport Martin Luther King warm-ups as they pose with their “adopted” team in the Class D final. The MLK Tigers are from a residential treatment center and did not have any cheerleaders or a cadre of fans like the other teams at the tournament. MLK defeated Fort Edward in the Class D title game.

Boys’ basketball championships

Live from Glens Falls

A virtual tour of the New York State boys' high school basketball championships

By RICHARD A. ROSS

GLENS FALLS, NY—It’s the dream of a lifetime—a chance to play for a state title in front of thousands of screaming fans in the big arena. The teams that can survive the rigors of sectional tournaments and the grueling gauntlet of regional games arrive at the Final Four for the New York State basketball championships, a climax akin to reaching the Promised Land.

The tournament, which just celebrated its 25th year in the Glens Falls Civic Center, is replete with pageantry, outstanding athleticism and compelling drama, punctuated by laughter and tears. In the world of high school sports, nothing compares to this great theatre of life.

The atmosphere…

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Sullivan West sports awards

Another chapter ends, but the great story continues

By RICHARD A. ROSS

LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY—As the images of this past winter’s sports season flashed across the screen at the Sullivan West High School winter sports awards presentation on March 10, the inexorable passage of time seemed to be momentarily halted.

Photographs can do that; they can freeze and preserve images that remind us of the way things were.

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Luge

Simkin medals at USA Luge Youth Championships

LAKE PLACID, NY—Vincent (Vinny) Simkin, a sixth grade student at Sullivan West, competed in the USA Luge Youth B Championship on Sunday, February 27 at the Verizon Sports Complex. He took the third place, bronze metal with a combined time of 1:38.475 in two runs. Simkin has been participating in luge for two seasons.

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• Special needs soccer program to hold registration

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