Here is the Holbrook Heating & Air Conditioning Top 10 for the week of November 9…

  1. Drama everywhere in girls soccer sectional finals. Marcellus needed an overtime goal from Lexie Fragnito to turn back CBA in Class B, while ESM’s long quest for a title finally ended with Leah Rehm’s second-half goal against West Genesee in the Class AA final and C-NS rode an early goal by Katalina Lawrence to edge Baldwinsville and repeat as Clas AAA champions. All of these games ended 1-0..
  2. Meanwhile New Hartford rolled to the sectional Class A championship routing upstart Mexico and making it to the regional finals against Schalmont. Cincinnatus is still unbeaten after topping Bishop Ludden 4-1 to take the sectional Class C championship, while Copenhagen and Hamilton shared the Class D title but the Gold Knights topped the Emerald Knights in penalty kicks to advance…
  3. Nottingham’s dream season in boys soccer continued when, it beat ESM 3-1 to claim the sectional Class AA title, its first since 1987, and move to 21-0 ahead of a regional final against Bethlehem. Baldwinsville and Liverpool shared Class AAA honors but the Bees survived penalty kicks to advance, while New Hartford dominated South Jefferson 4-0 for the Class A championship…
  4. Still atop the boys soccer state Class B rankings, Westhill held off Skaneateles 2-1 for the sectional title and edged Canton 1-0 in the regional opener to get to a regional final against Mechanicville. Tully avenged last year’s defeat to Fabius-Pompey in a big way, 5-0, to earn the Class C sectional crown and Hamilton edged Faith Heritage 3-2 to emerge as Class D sectional champions…
  5. This weekend’s football sectional semifinals got sidetracked when ITC, set to face New Hartford in Class B, had to forfeit its first-round win over VVS for using an ineligible player, a decision it took to court to try and switch. Some big games include Carthage clashing with Indian River, Cazenovia challenging General Brown and red-hot Bishop Ludden/SAS meeting Skaneateles..
  6. Up in large school football all eyes on Friday night will be on the Class AA sectional semifinal where rivals Liverpool and C-NS meet, the Warriors having won 6-0 back in September. The winner likely gets CBA, who takes its 21-game win streak into a semifinal against Utica Proctor. South Jefferson, in Class B-2, and Phoenix, in Class C/D-2, won their respective sectional finals….
  7. Three different field hockey teams are still alive for state championships after regional wins. Rome Free Academy (Class A) beat Orchard Park 2-1 and by that same margin Clinton (Class C) topped Akron, while VVS (Class B) edged Starpoint 1-0. All have to win regional finals on Saturday in order to advance to next weekend’s state final four on Long Island….
  8. The girls volleyball sectional finals take place Friday and Saturday at Phoenix. Class AAA has Baldwinsville defending against Liverpool, Class AA has West Genesee against F-M again, Class A sees J-D go up against Indian River, Class B features Westhill against Marcellus, Class C has Jordan-Elbridge against Weedsport and in Class D Bishop Grimes faces LaFayette…
  9. We had the girls swimming Section III championships at Nottingham. For the first time since 2007 Liverpool won the Class A team title, beating out F-M for the top spot after it lost to the Hornets head-to-head in the regular season. J-D pulled away from CBA and New Hartford in Class B and Skaneateles again took Class C honors holding off Beaver River’s challenge….
  10. Each of the four Section III cross country championships take place Saturday at Mount Markham on the boys and girls sides. There’s also boys volleyball sectional finals where ESM, on its home court, plays its first-ever final trying to break two-time state champion J-D’s 48-match win streak while, in Division I, the top two seeds, Liverpool and F-M, battle for the title….