Here is the Nye Automotive Top 10 for the week of October 25…..

  1. The girls soccer Section III playoffs began with two no. 1 seeds atop their respective state rankings – New Hartford in Class A and Cincinnatus in Class D. Both have reached the semifinals with the Spartans facing a Chittenango side whose star forward, Ally Scheidelman, reached 100 career goals this week as the Bears knocked off Westhill 3-1 after losing to them 9-3 earlier this season..
  2. C-NS in Class AAA and Marcellus in Class B are both no. 2 in the state rankings and top seeds in their girls soccer sectional playoff brackets as the Mustangs’ Cece Powell got her 100th career goal in the quarterfinal round. ESM holds the top seed defending its Class AA title and have reached the semifinals while Tully holds the top seed with a 15-1 record in Class C….
  3. Moving to the boys soccer sectional playoffs Baldwinsville, aiming for a third straight title, holds the top seed in Class AAA as Liverpool is the no. 2 seed. F-M has the top seed in Class AA as defending champion Nottingham has advanced to the semifinals, while New Hartford tries to repeat in Class A as the no. 1 seed where one semifinal between J-D and Indian River is set…..
  4. Though it fell from the top spot in the state rankings Westhill was still the no. 1 seed for the boys soccer Class B sectional playoffs with Skaneateles the no. 2 seed after it beat the Wolf Pack last week. Bishop Ludden-Grimes finds itself the top seed in Class C, while in Class D Hamilton, a state champion last fall, has moved from the top seed into the semifinal round with two playoff victories..
  5. An instant football classic Thursday night had CBA barely maintain its 36-game win streak edging C-NS 21-20 with a fourth-quarter touchdown, two-point conversion and blocked field goal on the game’s final play. In this last week of the regular season big games include 6-1 Whitesboro against 6-1 Carthage and unbeaten Canastota hosting 6-1 General Brown as the playoffs loom..
  6. The field hockey sectional playoffs have started and have reached the semifinal round. Undefeated Rome Free Academy is the top seed defending its Class A title, while VVS works from the top seed in Class B. Moving to Class C it’s Mount Markham holding the top seed and Little Falls in that same position in Class D. Semifinals and finals take place next week with Camden as the home venue..
  7. In girls tennis the qualifiers for next week’s state tournament are set. Sweeping the sectional qualifying tournaments was Baldwinsville – Ayla Kalfass in singles, Mira and Sonia Nadzan in doubles. F-M has two doubles teams along with seventh-grade singles player Mina Leopold, with Skaneateles senior Eva DeJesus filling out the field going to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center..
  8. During the cross country Salt City Athletic Conference championships this week, Auburn won the overall championship on the boys side and F-M the same on the girls side, while host Baldwinsville took both Metro division titles. Individually, Auburn’s Ryan Maher and Owen Gasper went 1-2 while Nottingham junior Delilah Pandori-Howell was the girls individual champion…
  9. An exciting final week of the girls volleyball regular season had, among other things, Marcellus see its 14-match win streak ended by Westhill who avenged an early-season defeat to the Mustangs but only after it lost to Cazenovia on Monday. Then there was Liverpool knocking off C-NS in five sets, only to drop its next match to F-M who is the clear favorite going into the Class AA playoffs….
  10. Before girls swimmers went off to prepare for their Section III championship meets in early November, this week included J-D win a duel of unbeaten teams with New Hartford and end up joining Watertown with the only perfect regular-season marks. And in an SCAC Metro first-place showdown F-M edged Liverpool 95-91 though the Legends’ Rose Piorkowski won the Burgos Dive Invitational..