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Mike Perrone out as Warrensburg boys basketball coach

The move appears to be in connection to a sexual abuse scandal that cancelled the season of the Warrensburg/Lake George/Bolton football team this fall

Gary Adornato, Kevin L. Smith

SBLive Sports

Mike Perrone is out as head coach of the Warrensburg boys basketball team, according to areport by The Post-Star.

The move was apparently made in connection to the alleged sexual abuse incident that cancelled the season earlier this month for the Perrone-led Warrensburg/Lake George/Bolton football team, a combined move made by the school districts.

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Each of the three schools are located about an hour north of Albany.

The Wolverines’ season ended on Nov. 2 in the midst of a potential state championship run. The allegations stemmed from an incident on a Lake George school bus on Aug. 31, during a team trip to a Syracuse University football game.

Two Lake George students, an 18-year old and a 17-year old, who are members of the Wolverines, were subsequently arrested a week after the season ended.

Warrensburg athletic director Scott Smith confirmed earlier in the week that Perrone was replaced by Chris Herbst. Perrone coached the boys basketball team for nine seasons.

Smith declined to comment whether or not Perrone is still the football coach, or Perrone’s status as Warrensburg’s baseball coach during the spring.

The Wolverines, sporting an 8-0 record as they headed into the Section II football tournament, was the top-ranked Class D team in the state in the Oct. 30 rankings by the New York State Sportswriters Association.

The school district’s officials, Perrone or any of the coaches on his staff have not provided further comment on the matter.

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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

Kevin L. Smith
KEVIN L. SMITH

Kevin L. Smith, a native of Rochester (NY), has been covering high school sports for over a decade. He started out as a freelance sports writer in 2013. Since then, he’s held sports writer and editor positions for newspapers in Coudersport and Sayre (PA) and Oswego (NY). Smith currently covers high school sports in the Greater Syracuse Area for syracuse.com, a position he’s held since 2021.

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