Here is the Nye Automotive Top 10 for the week of November 1….
- Baldwinsville earned its third consecutive boys soccer sectional Class AA championship when it beat Utica Proctor 4-1 in Thursday’s final at Fulton helped by a three-goal hat trick from Jack Dutter, while in the Class AA title game F-M edged defending champion Nottingham 2-1 on a goal from Alex Porter with four minutes left in regulation, his second of the night…..
- In the other boys soccer sectional finals in Class A New Hartford goes for back-to-back titles against Central Valley Academy while in Class B it’s a showdown between Westhill and Skaneateles. The Class C sectional final has top seed Bishop Ludden-Grimes facing Frankfort-Schuyler and in Class D the final pits 2024 state champion Hamilton against another traditional power, Fabius-Pompey….
- Saturday and Sunday will bring us the girls soccer sectional finals at SUNY Cortland. C-NS is again heavily favored in Class AA with an unlikely challenger in Liverpool who eliminated Baldwinsville in penalty kicks. Class AA is a rematch of 2024, ESM trying to defend the crown against West Genesee, while state no. 1-ranked New Hartford is challenged by J-D in the Class A final….
- Having scored 23 goals in two sectional games Marcellus girls soccer is a big favorite in the Class B final against Phoenix. Hamilton, who stunned top seed Tully in penalty kicks, plays against Frankfort-Schuyler for the Class C sectional championship while another team atop the state rankings, Cincinnatus, is in the Class D sectional final taking on Copenhagen….
- Then there’s the field hockey sectional finals. On Sunday unbeaten Rome Free Academy barely survived a 4-3 semifinal in Class A against Liverpool and now takes on Baldwinsville. Class B on Saturday has Camden on its home field taking on VVS, while in Class C Mount Markham meets Holland Patent and the Class D final will pit Little Falls against Morrisville-Eaton….
- Already the football sectional playoffs are underway. While most top seeds advanced there was a Class C surprise when Little Falls avenged an earlier defeat to Marcellus to earn a semifinal against defending champion General Brown. And in Class A F-M scored a late touchdown to beat Corcoran and meet ESM in one semifinal as Whitesboro will face Carthage in the other semifinal…
- First-round sectional playoff football games in Class AA have set up a big semifinal where Liverpool and C-NS go at it again to see who likely gets CBA in the sectional title game. In Class B the semifinals have New Hartford against Indian River and VVS against ITC, while in Class D Lowville will face Sandy Creek in one semifinal, Dolgeville against Cato-Meridian in the other…
- A remarkable run was made in girls tennis by Baldwinsville’s doubles team of Mira and Sonia Nadzan in the NYSPHSAA tournament at the USTA-Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens. The Nadzans won three matches getting all the way to the semifinals before falling to the defending and eventual champion Rosenblit sisters from Horace Greeley High School….
- Various league championships took place in cross country including the OHSL meets where the Mexico boys and Skaneateles girls won overall titles in the Liberty division and the Patriot division meet had the Tully boys and Pulaski girls at the top of the standings. The Clinton boys and girls teams pulled off a clean sweep during the Center State Conference championships..
- And F-M boys volleyball ended the 64-match win streak of J-D in a four-set battle Monday night, remarkable given that the Red Rams beat the Hornets a week earlier. In the girls volleyball sectional playoffs early-round wins set up good Class B semifinals early next week where top seed Marcellus faces Skaneateles and Westhill is challenged by Cazenovia, who needed five sets to edge Chittenango..
