Here is the Holbrook Heating & Air Conditioning Top 10 for the week of September 30…

  1. High football drama on Friday night as Rome Free Academy scored a touchdown with 13 seconds left to beat Auburn 28-22 and stay undefeated. This was before a big Saturday showdown between two other unbeaten Class AA sides, 3-0 Liverpool and 4-0 CBA at Alibrandi Stadium, with C-NS having already moved to 5-0 with a comfortable 40-7 win over F-M on Thursday…
  2. Cazenovia and Adirondack football had to pull out close games last week to stay unbeaten and in the state Class C top five – Cazenovia holding off Skaneateles, Adirondack outfighting Canastota. Now the Lakers, no. 2 in the state, meets Solvay Saturday at F-M after the Bearcats’ Jaylen Bliss ran for more than 350 yards in a win over Marcellus the week before…
  3. Class B football’s picture altered when Indian River had to forfeit two wins due to using an ineligible player. New Hartford is now the clear favorite and moved to 5-0 by handling Oneida on Friday. Whitesboro’s 48-14 win over Henninger confirms its place atop the Class A pecking order as, in Class D, Mount Markham is 4-0 and Sandy Creek would look to keep pace when it plays Dolgeville..
  4. In girls soccer, Class AA favorites F-M and ESM meet Saturday, both state-ranked and just after the Spartans’ Leah Rehm earned her 100th career goal. C-NS and Baldwinsville also battle on Saturday, the only two state-ranked Class AAA sides as defending state champion New Hartford is undefeated and no. 4 in the state Class A rankings, chased by Westhill in the no. 9 spot…
  5. Through 10 games in boys soccer, Westhill has still not allowed a goal, having shut out reigning state Class B champion Skaneateles this week on the way to a no. 4 state Class A ranking. Liverpool has shut out nine of 10 opponents and are part of a good Class AAA race with Baldwinsville and Henninger, while CBA is no. 4 in the state in Class AA but Westhill shut them out, too, in a 0-0 draw..
  6. Among the big girls volleyball matches this week was a battle of unbeaten teams where F-M beat West Genesee in four sets after the Hornets survived five sets with C-NS earlier in the week. J-D topped Fulton in five sets and, among the top Class B schools, Westhill turned back Skaneateles in four sets. Many of those same teams will take part Saturday in Baldwinsville’s Fall Fling Tournament…
  7. C-NS was unbeaten in field hockey until a 2-0 defeat Friday to Pittsford. The Northstars’ 2-0 win over Rome Free Academy last week is the Black Knights’ lone blemish, while Camden may be emerging as the Class B favorites after a week where it beat Holland Patent and halted Cazenovia’s six-game win streak, after which Class D front-runner Port Byron/Union Springs played the Lakers to a 0-0 draw..
  8. South Jefferson’s girls and Mexico’s boys won small-school team titles in the cross country Baldwinsville Invitational, while Auburn’s boys won the large-school division and the girls Maroons finished second. Many of these same teams, not to mention powers like F-M, would run this weekend in the McQuaid Invitational in Rochester as others went to the Herrmann Invitational in Utica.
  9. Section III girls tennis team tournaments are underway. Unbeaten F-M is the top seed in Class A, while Oneida is the top seed in Class B and Lowville the top seed in Class C, all of them undefeated, too. In girls swimming, two undefeated teams met on Wednesday night and F-M, led by Elise Wratney and Georgia Langan, defeated Liverpool to go to the top of the standings…
  10. In boys golf, as they go to the sectional fall tournaments next week the Class AA tournament is wide open with every team having lost twice, Baldwinsville and West Genesee atop the standings but C-NS Blue, Liverpool and F-M Green right behind. Skaneateles beat CBA in a clash of unbeaten teams on Thursday but the two will have a rematch at the Pompey Club in sectional play…