Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of October 17…..
- Just as in 2025 Liverpool football is in the best position to dethrone three-time state Class AA champion CBA. The Legends scored on the second play from scrimmage against rival C-NS and went on to win this clash of two unbeaten teams by a 41-14 margin. The win means Liverpool won’t have to face CBA until a possible sectional final which would be a rematch of a year ago..
- Tides have changed in Class A football, F-M moving up to the sectional favorite’s role after it beat Whitesboro 48-26 last week then topped a West Genesee side which had won four in a row until Friday night. In Class B VVS sailed along undefeated at 6-0 until getting a serious scare Thursday night from Syracuse ITC though the Red Devils did edge the Eagles 23-22….
- Lowville is 6-1 with its lone defeat to state Class D no. 1-ranked Dolgeville but is still in front of both 6-0 Holland Patent and 6-0 Bishop Ludden-Grimes/SAS in the state rankings. HP’s 36-7 romp of previously unbeaten Solvay last week was followed by a loss to General Brown on Friday. In an eight-man showdown last weekend state no. 1-ranked Waterville claimed a 24-7 win over Cooperstown..
- Plenty of respect remains for area girls soccer teams. New Hartford tops the state Class A rankings and undefeated Cincinnatus enjoys the same status in Class D with Marcellus at no. 2 in Class B and C-NS at no. 5 in Class AAA. The Lions have already completed an undefeated and untied regular season while the Spartans could not do falling 2-0 to St. Mary’s from the Buffalo area on Friday…
- Still undefeated and still atop the state Class AAA boys soccer rankings, Baldwinsville got scares from ESM last weekend and West Genesee on Thursday but won them both 1-0. In between the Bees then handled Utica Proctor 4-0 after the Raiders climbed to no. 4 in the state rankings, with the likes of Proctor, C-NS and Rome Free Academy all ready to take aim at B’ville in the playoffs..
- Also Watertown has made its way to the top of the state Class AA boys soccer rankings, the Cyclones having gone 15-0 allowing just three goals all season with 12 shutouts as it faces Massena to try and complete its own perfect regular season. Hamilton, in search of a third straight state Class D title, will take a 15-1 record to the sectional playoffs with its only loss coming to Cooperstown earlier this month.
- In the girls tennis sectional singles and doubles tournaments this week two teams, F-M in Division 2 and Cazenovia in Division 4, swept both divisions. They also are going to the state team tournament as F-M defeated CBA 4-1 in the Division I final and Cazenovia avenged defeats to Oneida each of the last two years with a 3-2 victory keyed by Leah Bell’s three-set win in second singles..
- The first bit of post-season action in cross country took place earlier this week with the Frontier League championships where a thrilling boys race had South Lewis edge Beaver River by a single point 43-44 despite Rowan Zehr’s individual title for the Beavers. On the girls side it was South Jefferson seven points ahead of South Lewis and the Spartans’ Ellie Roberts easily winning the individual race..
- The boys volleyball showdown last Friday did indeed see reigning state Division II champion J-D get even for its only loss of the season by sweeping ESM. In girls volleyball West Genesee maintains the lone unbeaten mark among fall teams and hosted an invitational last weekend while in field hockey Port Byron got to 12-0 scoring 10 goals against rival Weedsport, six of them by Gianna Nevidomsky…
- And on Friday night the Section III gymnastics championships took place at Valley Gymnastics in Utica. The big story was the end of New Hartford’s 13-year reign as team champions with J-D/F-M dethroning the Spartans led by Morgan Devine and Mia Arvidson, with Baldwinsville’s Miley Basilio taking the all-around individual title with a score of 37.4 winning two of four apparatus.
