MBB: State University of New York Athletic Conference

scooterman · February 27, 2008, 07:59:21 AM

Magic--i will be there with bells on--NO Bells--but in attendance--Hey I am back on my ref vendetta--Went to the Bport-Oneonta game and the syracuse official, Len Rausch, needs to hide his disgust for Bport a little better. He made every block call against the Eagles and charge call against the Eagles all night. His charming personality was evident from across the way as he had looked disgusted all night.

I remember him as a player at Lemoyne as tough nose, hard worker but dont like his refereeing style. Sure the coaches werent real impressed either. I have seen him many times over the years. Not a one time deal. Sorry to any LR lovers!!!

thebear · February 27, 2008, 01:10:03 PM

Scooterman - I would venture you're not the only one not impressed with that certain former D-II player's reffing style. Worse than that, rumor has it, he's an up & comer, being considered for a move up to D-I games.

Ask Zola what he thinks.

jdex · February 27, 2008, 06:20:48 PM

Ahhhhhh, Lenny Rausch ......let me count the ways!

We remember when Mike Kitts and Pat Driscoll regularly worked SUNYAC games. Good guys both. Even-tempered Kittsy, great sense of humor, knew how to soothe the soul. Now you see his bald pate any time you tune in big games, Big East or other majors. Driscoll wasn't bad, just didn't have that enforcer look. Appeared 16 with a very weak body. He's filled out for sure and you see him working the majors. Pat actually "inherited" Dick `Froggy' Paparo's director of Syracuse parks cushy position. Paparo a striped legend.

Now comes another Syracusan -- Lenny. Acts as though he's a bit too good for D3. Blows calls left and right. But he's The Man -- at least to Lenny. That's certainly the impression he leaves all the time. He and Cortland's Coach Span not exactly bosom buddies. But mark these words -- Lenny is D1 bound!

thebear · February 27, 2008, 09:05:38 PM

I kept the book on Froggy's very first college JV game in Utica in the fall of '71. Then there was the time that he handed out 5 T's in one game to Welsh & Evans (must be a record). He did know how to keep a game in control.

As I've said we used to get the very best, Jim Burr, Tim Wendt, Gene Monje, Pete Pavia, the Cahill brothers (even got them against Siena one time - no conflict there) all reffed Potsdam games during the 80's.

Mark Di Staola is another Syracuse area ref who was doing D-I games, but haven't seen him in a while.

If none of the coaches like the guy, how does he keep getting assigned? Sad to say he's still better than most we see. Some real weak whistles doing D-III games these days, and the crews for the women's games are even weaker in many cases.

with age comes? · February 28, 2008, 03:33:14 AM

magic - I must agree with your post. I think the whole region is pretty strong this year with Platts capable of doing real damage in the tourney. Especially if they focus and pound weak teams early so their big guns can get a little rest. My one knock on them is that sometimes they let inferior teams hang around too long and think they can "turn it on" when they need too. Sadly they have been able to do that against many teams but in the tournament all the teams will be at least pretty good and I'm afraid if they let someone hang around too long and that someone gets extremely hot at the right time Platts could be in for a problem. Also thank you for your gracious offer to help with tickets, I will be traveling north this weekend but will be stopping in Canton for the Liberty League Tournament. Good Luck to the all the SUNYAC teams, I could see 5 getting post season bids between the NCAA and ECAC if teams accept. The liberty will only probably be able to send one team to the ECAC (either SLU if they lose early -not very likely or Vassar - very likely - last years winners and will probably get beat by Hamilton or SLU in the tournament. For some reason due to another league affiliation, I believe, Hamilton can't accept the ECAC tournament. That being said Nazareth, St John Fisher, Ithaca, & RIT are possibles from the e-8 but one of the first 3 could win their tourney. So a non-champion Oswego, Geneseo, Cortland, or Bport would all get bids I would think and Platts is all but a shoe in to go to the NCAA. That's five and suppose the beloved Bears' Bears get hot and win the tourney, who knows it could be 6 in the post season!!!

with age comes? · February 28, 2008, 03:57:53 AM

My apologies Bear, just noted that tournament results are in and Bear's Bears were eliminated. Injuries are tough to overcome. And as long as refs are being mentionned I want to throw out a name and get opinions?! Shane Quackenbush... thoughts?

WNYOsports · February 29, 2008, 10:21:53 AM

WNYO Oswego is going to Plattsburgh a day early to broadcast tonight's semifinal game between the Lakers and Brockport. You can listen to the game at http://www.wnyosports.com starting at 5:50 p.m.

sb in the seo · February 29, 2008, 05:20:14 PM

First time long time

Just curious if anyone knows of a radio link to listen to plattsburgh vs. geneseo tonight?

... Or at least live stats?

I work for the Geneseo radio station, but we could not get a team together for the long trip.

Any platty station doing the game? Or b'port/oswego station that is planning on doing both?

I guess I'll throw down a few predictions while i'm on here:

Platty by 5 over Geneseo

The good guys keep it close the whole game, but Plattsburgh makes 2 more "plays" in the final minute... 1 on offense, 1 on defense.

B'port by 8 over Oswego

I saw both teams once this year and was a little more impressed with Brockport even though they lost. Should be pretty evenly matched, but I think Brockport shoots a little better and is a little faster tonight and pulls away in the final five minutes.

Thanks.

bsportsfan · February 29, 2008, 07:46:52 PM

Oswego 87 Brockport 72

thebear · February 29, 2008, 08:38:59 PM

Oswego is a good team, they have five starters who can all light it up. Really surprised that Oswego would beat Brockport that badly on a neutral floor. The old saw about being tough to beat a team three times certainly holds up here.

Lakers at 20-6 now in the SUNYAC finals, must have scrambled the at-large situation in the East a bit.

Losses are to Naz (in E-8 Finals), SLU (probably in LL Finals), at Plattsburgh by 5, 2 to 'port and incredibly the loss at Fredonia last weekend. Biggest problem is lack of quality wins, with a schedule remarkable only for its 12 wins against teams at or below 500.

Wish Plattsburgh would invest in live stats, but hockey rules on the west shore of the 6th great lake.

jdex · February 29, 2008, 10:27:03 PM

Plattsburgh overcomes halftime deficit to defeat Geneseo 65-57

magicman · February 29, 2008, 11:06:44 PM

Just back from the Plattsburgh St.- Geneseo St. game. Plattsburgh grabbed an early lead and led 20-14, when Geneseo went on a 15-0 run to take control at 29-20. Cards fought back to close it to 33-29 at the break. Early back and forth play to start the 2nd half when the Blue Knights opened up a 13 pt lead at 43-30 at the 15 min mark. Plattsburgh narrowed the gap to 50-47 with 9:03 left and finally grabbed the lead at 54-52 with 5:48 to play. Opened up a 7 pt lead at 61-54 and closed it out with FT's to make the final of 65-57.
Plattsburgh as usual was led by Anthony Williams with 25 pts. on 9x26 fg 3x14 3pt's. 4x5 FT's. He also added 7 rebs. and 5 assists. Khylan Hunt had a double double with 14 pts on 5x11 fgs 2x2 3 pt's 2x4 FT's and 11 rebs. Chris Ruiz came off the bench with 10 pts. 3 boards 4 assists and 3 steals. Travis Gorham, battling the flu had 8 pts, 4 rebs 2 assists 3blks, and 2 steals in 26 mins. Antwane Miller chipped in with 7 pts., 5 boards, 3 assists and 2 steals.
Geneseo was led by Jeff Howe with a double double of 13 pts and 11 rebs. on 6x9 fgs. Tarik Kitson was right behind with 13 pts and 9 boards on 6x10 fgs. Joe Kling had 13 pts. and 4 assists on 5x10 fgs and Scott Morton added 12 pts. 5 rebs 9 assists7 3 blks.

Plattsburgh takes on Oswego for the SUNYAC Championship at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon at Memorial Hall.

magicman · February 29, 2008, 11:26:57 PM

Also took in the 1st game tonight with Brockport getting upset by Oswego if you can call it that. Lakers came out firing on all cylinders with Tommy Downing leading the way with 13 1st half pts on 5x6 shooting. Lakers grabbed the early lead and never looked back. Up 41-32 at the break they extended it to a 14 pt lead with 5 mins gone in the 2nd half. Brockport closed to 77-70 with 2:20 left but that was as close as they got. Nick Perioli hit a bunch of foul shots down the stretch and Bport kept firing up 3's that missed the mark to make the final 15 pt margin.
Perioli led all scorers with 24 pts on 7x18 fg's and 10x12 FT's. Also had 6 rebs. and 5 assists. Downing was right behind with 23 pts. on 8x10 fg's and4x4 FT's 6 rebs 2 asists & 2 steals. Kyle Reuter chipped in with 11 pts. on 4x7 fg's & 3x4 FT's Dom White added 10 pts. & 9 boards. Mahamoud Jabbi had 8 pts. 11 boards and an amazing 7 blocks.
Brockport was led by Sherod Harris with 23 pts on 9x20 fg's 3x6 3 pt & 5assists. Brandon Williams was the only other player in double figures with 18 pts. on 9x22 fg's and grabbed a game high 15 rebounds.

Cards7580 · March 01, 2008, 02:25:06 AM

Fantastic move of the game by Brockport's Cantrel Parrish, who punched out the water cooler dousing two fans and flooding the bench area. Brilliant move

Brockport had to be looking past Oswego or something because they played in a fog. Downing from Oswego was on fire and Oswego was the best team on the court Friday night.

Cards7580 · March 01, 2008, 02:30:48 AM

Plattsburgh's little bitty gym was rocking in the 2nd game. The whole baseball team was there cheering on their fellow Athletes, a few former Cardinals in the stands, and best wishes emails from former star Tom Chapin.

Cards were not clicking on all cylinders. Travis Gorham gutted out his 26 minutes.

Met the Magicman at his Music Store in Pburgh prior to the game. Extremely nice fellow and not too bad of a business man either. Shared some SUNYAC North Country basketball history with him. Not a single piece of RAP music (?) in his store. Thumbs up Magic Man.