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Tri-Valley’s Bo Murphy (50) gets position down low and scores while Chester’s Laquan Lopez defends. Murphy led all scorers with 27 points.

Basketball

The show must go on

Tri-Valley downs Chester in league fray as rivalry is renewed with a new cast of characters

By RICHARD A. ROSS

GRAHAMSVILLE, NY—Great shows on Broadway continue for years on end. When the original cast leaves, others assume the starring roles. Casts may change but the show must go on.

In a similar vein, the Tri-Valley-Chester show, which had a rave-review run in 2006-07, retook center stage on December 11, following a weather cancellation that would have pitted the two teams against each other on the Hambletonians’ court on December 7.

Playing Chester away would have suited Tri-Valley coach Brian Tingley just fine, but following his team’s final-minute surge that yielded a 66-56 victory over one of its key league rivals, Tingley was just as happy to have played this one at home.

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Basketball

Work zone

By RICHARD A. ROSS

ELDRED, NY—Building a cohesive basketball team is grueling work, especially when many of the players are young and relatively inexperienced. Much of that learning has to take place in the heat of games and such was the case as Tri-Valley and Eldred entered the school of hard knocks in their scrappy crossover battle on December 14.

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Cross country

Devine caps championship season

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA—On December 1, Brendan Devine of Bethel and Monticello High School traveled to Virginia Beach for his final cross country competition of the 2007 season. Devine, who is a three-time Metropolitan New York AAU Champion, finished third last December in the age 15-16 category at the National Championships held in Orlando, FL. He expected the competition to be even tougher as he moved up to the Young Men’s Division (ages 17-18) this year. As expected, the competition was fierce.

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