Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of December 13….
- CBA football has now won three consecutive state Class AA championships. The Brothers capped off the three-peat by beating Saratoga Springs 41-12 in the state final at the JMA Dome. Gradyn Dixon’s three first-half touchdown passes produced a 21-0 halftime lead and after Saratoga got close the Brothers closed it out with 21 more points in the fourth quarter, including a defensive score..
- The numbers CBA football put up on the way to this state title were quite special. It scored 543 points in 12 games and only allowed 119, most of them long after games were settled by the second-string defense. The really scary part is that nearly every top offensive starter returns including quarterback Gradyn Dixon and the defense returns plenty, too, so that 41-game win streak might just keep going..
- Meanwhile the coaching changes continue. Already eight-man football champion Morrrisville-Eaton coach Don Johnson was retiring. Now it’s New Hartford coach Jim Kramer stepping down to focus on his two teenage children after leading the Spartans to a 31-3 record the last three seasons and the 2025 sectional Class B championship after defeats in the previous two title games…
- Of all the boys basketball games in last weekend’s Peppino’s Invitational the one that really stuck out was Liverpool knocking off Bishop Ludden-Grimes in a rematch of last March’s sectional Class AAA final. The Legends have raced to a 3-0 start and gave the Gaelic Knights its first defeat, and judging from early-season play these two teams might again be the class of the Class AAA field…
- Elsewhere at the Peppino’s Invitational Westhill reinforced its potential Class a dominance with a big win over Rome Free Academy, CBA won twice knocking off both C-NS and J-D and West Genesee began its Class AA sectional title defense with a tough win over ESM, who remains a main challenger to the Wildcats and defeated F-M earlier this week……
- In girls basketball C-NS and, in particular, Leah Benedict made quite an opening statement on Wednesday night defeating Liverpool 53-30 as Benedict, by herself, netted 34 points to outscore the Legends. Another prime Class AAA challenger is Baldwinsville who swept two games against Queensbury and Glens Falls last weekend to get to 3-0 and gets F-M and West Genesee next…
- Fresh from helping win another girls soccer state title Cece Powell and Tenly Baker have led Marcellus girls basketball to a 3-0 start both averaging nearly 23 points per game. Among OHSL teams CBA has also started quickly, going 4-0 including a big win early this week over Bishop Ludden-Grimes as it tries to offer a challenge to Ella Trinkaus and Utica Notre Dame this winter..
- May we be seeing a new top team in Division I ice hockey? West Genesee lost at home 2-1 to Baldwinsville this week as the Bees have started 2-0 and Rome Free Academy is dead-set on its own title run at 3-0 after winning a tournament over Whitesboro and routing C-NS. In Division II Auburn is 2-0-1 after a tie with CBA/J-D this week as everyone continues to look up at Skaneateles…
- This is the weekend where indoor track and field was supposed to get underway for most teams with the Jack Morse Kickoff Meet after some teams took part in the Westhill Invitational at SRC Arena last weekend. Winter weather caused some teams not to appear at the Morse meet but there was still two days of competition with powers like C-NS, Baldwinsville and Cazenovia going on Saturday..
- Though weather has caused plenty of scheduling havoc there’s still plenty of girls volleyball taking place. In the Center State Conference Sauquoit Valley has jumped out 5-0 and Remsen is 3-0, while in the Tri-Valley League favored Whitesboro and Rome Free Academy are both out to quick starts with the Black Knights owning a valuable early-season win over ESM…
