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Undefeated NY high school football team kicked out of playoffs over 53-second mistake
Fifty-three seconds is all it took to change a season — but not in the way you’d expect. An undefeated New York high school football team saw its championship hopes wiped out because one player — who spent less than a minute on the field — wasn’t eligible to play. Middletown High School in Orange County was disqualified from the Section IX Class AA championship after the school district withdrew its emergency court petition on Friday to reverse the disqualification. The Middletown High School Middies football team gathers in New York. Credit: Middletown High School Football/Facebook Texas high school girls’ basketball game descends into chaos as adult bodyslams player during brawl The Middies deployed a kicker, later ruled an “ineligible kickoff specialist,” who played 53 seconds in their 48-15 semifinal playoff win against Valley Central on Nov. 6 without meeting a postseason eligibility requirement. Middletown acknowledged that it made a mistake but contested that the students should not be disqualified for a decision made by adults, and the player had no impact on the game itself. The decision came after a near two-hour hearing at the Orange County Courthouse in Goshen before state Supreme Court Justice Verris Shako. Parent caught
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OSHA Cites NY, NJ Construction Companies for Violations
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed more than $648,000 in penalties against six construction employers in New York and New Jersey for exposing workers to serious safety hazards at a project in Monroe, N.Y. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the violations involved excavation work at the site...