On the evening of March 16, 1962, the dominance of the Livingston Manor boys’ basketball team in sectional tournament play ended with their defeat to their Western Sullivan League rival, the Trojans of Jeffersonville-Youngsville Central School. The lead between both teams see-sawed throughout the game, with the Wildcats holding a slim two point advantage in the game’s closing minutes. But the boys from Jeff-Youngsville stormed back with an 8 – 2 run, giving them a six point advantage which would became the difference in the final score.

Over the course of its existence, the schools of the Western Sullivan League each would have team coaches that would be characterized as legendary; Si Pesevento from the Manor; Bruce Lamb from Roscoe. But perhaps the most legendary WSL athletic coach of all, revered by his charges as well as respected but feared by his opponents, was Paul Zintel. Perhaps the shrewdest coach in the league, and a worthy adversary for Manor's Coach Pesavento. Zintel knew how to manage the game of basketball, manage and motivate his young players, and some say, manage and motivate the referees. Unless you played for Coach Zintel, he was the coach you loved to hate.

Paul Zintel came to Jeff-Youngsville in 1959, and for the next twenty-five years, Zintel coached Jeff-Youngsville teams to an overall record of 348 victories against 126 loses. During this reign, Coach Zintel-led teams captured eight Western Sullivan League titles, six Section IX titles and one regional championship.