Here is the Holbrook Heating & Air Conditioning Top 10 for the week of September 7….

  1. Fall sports is well underway, and football got going this weekend with reigning state Class AA champion CBA visiting East Rochester with several stars, including SU recruit Damien Williams, back from last season. Elsewhere among the larger schools C-NS debuted new coach Jim Ryan against Victor in the JMA Dome and a key early-season clash had Liverpool facing Rome Free Academy….
  2. Defending the Class A sectional football title, Whitesboro opens Saturday at Utica Proctor as ESM, whom Whitesboro beat in the sectional final, hosts Clarkstown North. Indian River, renamed the Wolves after edging New Hartford in the 2023 sectional Class B final, begins its season against Beekmantown as the Spartans host the reigning Class C sectional champions, Adirondack…
  3. Among the Class C football teams getting underway is Holland Patent, a 2023 sectional finalist who travels north to face St. Lawrence. General Brown plays Malone and Bishop Ludden/SAS moves up a class to take on Chittenango. Most of the Class D and eight-man football teams do not open until next weekend, though Utica Notre Dame, new to the division, does play against New York Mills…
  4. Girls soccer began with many Section III teams going to the Hall of Fame Tournament in Niskayuna with Marcellus coach Laurie Updike honored by the NYS Girls Soccer Hall of Fame in a week where the Mustangs started with an impressive 6-0 win over Westhill. Baldwinsville also hosts a high-profile event when it welcomes Fulton, Auburn and CBA to the Ava Wood Tournament..
  5. In a boys soccer rematch of the 2023 sectional Class AAA final, Liverpool this time won the 1-0 decision over Baldwinsville, while reigning Class AA champion CBA was drawn 1-1 by Rome Free Academy in its opener. C-NS hosted its Optimist Tournament this weekend with Marcelus in it as Skaneateles, determined to get back on top, netted a whopping 20 goals in its first two games…
  6. Field hockey teams returned and two reigning sectional champions, Rome Free Academy and Camden, got off to tremendous starts with road wins, the Black Knights winning 3-0 at Baldwinsville and the Blue Devils winning 4-0 at Cazenovia. C-NS, who lost last year’s sectional Class A final to RFA, started strong, too, beating reigning Class C champion Clinton 2-0….
  7. A lot has already happened in volleyball, too, where on the boys side J-D is trying for a third consecutive state Division II title after 10 seniors graduated but did sweep Living Word for its 31st straight win. On the girls side, Baldwinsville got an impressive three-set sweep of 2023 state Class B finalist Westhill before testing itself at this weekend’s Penfield Tournament…..
  8. For the first cross country event of the season, many Section III teams are going to Saturday’s Mustang Invitational at Mount Markham, for the obvious reason that this will be the same venue where the Section III championships will take place in early November, a big change since VVS had served as the host venue for both the sectional and state championship meets the last two years…
  9. A heavy schedule of boys golf matches took place before and after Labor Day weekend amid close to perfect weather. The best starts went to West Genesee’s pair of teams that went a combined 5-0 and F-M Green prevailing twice in the SCAC Metro division. Among Onondaga High School League teams, everyone is already chasing CBA after the Brothers have started 3-0….
  10. They’ve already started girls swimming, too, with some big league meets that included Liverpool winning at Baldwinsville and CBA, off a strong 2023 season, getting a victory at Skaneateles. Tennis matches have started, too, with everyone again bound to chase F-M, who opened Friday against Central Square and has already seen Liverpool win a pair of matches over West Genesee and Fulton..