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

  1. Four football teams from Section III are still alive for state championships led by CBA, who rolled past Elmira 63-12 in the Class AA regional final. This sets up a classic battle in the state semifinal at Vestal HS near Binghamton between the Brothers and Aquinas, winner of eight previous state titles now trying to stop CBA’s 24-game win streak with the winner going to the Dec. 7 title game…
  2. Whitesboro has made it to the state Class A semifinals. In a tense regional final against Horseheads Whitesboro had to make a stop near its own goal line in the final minutes to hold on for a 28-21 victory, its closest call this season. In Friday’s state semifinal at Vestal it’s Whitesboro against Brighton, from Section V, battling for a trip to the Dome for the state final against Somers or Cornwall…
  3. After years of getting stopped in regional play by Tioga, Dolgeville finally got past the Class D football regional final against a different opponent, Delhi, getting a 16-0 lead by halftime and prevailing 28-16. In its first state semifinal since 2002, the Blue Devils will take on Clymer/Sherman/Panama Friday night looking for a berth in the state final Dec. 6 against Greenwich or Burke Catholic….
  4. Seeking the first state eight-man football title for Section III, Frankfort-Schuyler is meeting Pembroke in the state semifinals at Vestal after Lionell Coulthurst ran for 354 yards on just 14 carries and earned five touchdowns to lead the Maroon Knights past Holley 52-14 in the regional final. The other state semifinal pits Moravia against Trumansburg, with the final on Dec. 7 at Moravia…
  5. Only two of the Section III football champions lost in regional finals but both came to long-time powerhouses. Indian River, in Class B, ran into Maine-Endwell and the Wolves took a 48-22 defeat, while General Brown, returning to the state Class C tournament, was overwhelmed by Chenango Forks, who again thwarted a Section III state title bid as Forks prevailed 42-7…
  6. F-M’s girls volleyball team got painfully close to its first-ever state title. At Glens Falls the Hornets found itself at match point up 14-13 in the fifth set of the title match against Long Island’s Half Hollow Hills West, only to have the Colts fight off that point and score twice more to win it 16-14, this after F-M won both the first and third sets, owning two different leads…..
  7. Also at Glens Falls, Westhill’s girls volleyball team returned to the state Class B final, where it lost to Lansing a year ago. Here, facing Blind Brook from Section I after winning all three round-robin matches, Westhill won the opening set, but the Trojans took the last three, the last two of them close 26-24 decisions as Westhill was not quite able to equal the state titles it won both in 2018 and 2019..
  8. J-D boys volleyball’s 51-match win streak and its quest for a third consecutive state Division II championship was turned back in Albany last weekend at the Capital Center. Long Island’s Eastport South Manor swept the Red Rams in round robin play, something no team has done against J-D since October 2022, and Clarence split two sets to advance to the final….
  9. During the NYSPHSAA girls swimming championships at Webster Aquatic Center no swimmer from Section III was able to medal, but two did in diving as J-D’s Kayla McQuaid claimed eighth place, improving from her 13th-place showing in 2023, and Liverpool’s June Piorkowski got 11th place. J-D did register a top-20 finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay….
  10. In the cross country state Federation championships at Bowdoin Park strong finishes were recorded by the Liverpool and Auburn girls, with Liverpool fourth and Auburn sixth as the Maroons’ Kyleen Brady sixth in the individual race and Taylor Page 15th to lead Liverpool. Auburn’s boys finished 10th with Austin Ferrin grabbing 12th place in the individual standings…