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Football players brought a dynamic to Babylon basketball team

Babylon's Raymond Wardell attempts a hook shot. (March

Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy | Babylon's Raymond Wardell attempts a hook shot. (March 16, 2013)

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. -- How do you turn a football school into a basketball school? With help from the football players, of course.

The Babylon basketball team may have fallen short of its first state championship Saturday night -- losing to Watervliet, 72-60, in overtime -- but this season still will be remembered as the best in program history.

It was a season in which Jake Carlock, Ray...

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