Here is the Holbrook Heating & Air Conditioning Top 10 for the week of December 2…..
- Two Section III football teams will play for state championships at the JMA Dome. CBA, in Class AA, handled Elmira 49-20 in the regional finals at Vestal, then knocked off defending state champion Buffalo Bennett 21-8 in the state semifinal at Bragman Stadium. CBA will, on Sunday at the Dome, who won the 2021 state Class AA title when the Brothers won it all in Class A…..
- Whitesboro will go for its first-ever state Class A championship when it meets defending champion Somers on Saturday. Whitesboro routed Vestal 31-7 on the Golden Bears’ home field in the regional final and then won big in the state semifinals, too, overpowering Rochester East 43-20 as Kyle Meier scored four touchdowns, one of them an 80-yard run….
- Back on November 18 at Albany’s Capital Center, Jamesville-DeWitt repeated as state Division II volleyball champions. After dropping the first set of round-robin play, the Red Rams swept Spencerport to reach the championship round and then needed just three sets to defeat Long Island’s Westhampton Beach to add another title to the one it earned in 2022….
- Two Section III girls volleyball teams sought state titles in Glens Falls. Westhill rallied from an early defeat to beat Center Moriches in four sets in the semifinals, only to get denied a third state Class B title by Lansing in a three-set sweep in the finals. West Genesee, appearing in the state Class AA final four for the first time, lost its semifinal match to Long Island’s Long Beach in three sets…
- In other state tournament action, Baldwinsville’s Liz Smith finished eighth in the 100 backstroke in the NYSPHSAA girls swimming championships in Webster, best of any Section III individual. Auburn’s boys cross country team gained third place in the State Federation meet at Bowdoin Park, while F-M’s Nolan McGinn won the Nike Cross Regional to advance to the national finals in Oregon…
- Now we have started winter sports. Boys basketball now has six classes statewide, with Liverpool moving up to AAA having seen its three best players leave due to graduation or transferring to prep schools, maybe opening it up for C-NS and CBA. West Genesee and Liverpool meet each other in one of the featured games of the Peppino’s Invitational this Friday and Saturday…
- Girls basketball, like boys basketball, will have six classes for 2023-24. Liverpool moves up to Class AAA with C-NS and Bishop Ludden, leaving Class AA wide open. New Hartford made a big early statement in Class A by going to Baldwinsville and beating the Bees at the Middleton Tip-Off Tournament, but here is where powers like Westhill and South Jefferson will reside too…
- Ice hockey has two defending state champions – West Genesee in Division I and Skaneateles in Division II – and they meet each other Wednesday at Shove Park in the Wildcats’ season-opening tournament where Baldwinsville will play, too. Skaneateles already got a 2-1 win over F-M last weekend with many top scorers back but having to replace goaltender Chad Lowe…
- High school wrestling also gets underway this week with a larger girls presence at several schools but the traditional powers like Central Valley Academy and Fulton still holding a lot of sway. As always, every Saturday will be full of tournament action, whether it’s the Andersen Tournament at North Syracuse Junior HS or duals at Morrisville-Eaton and the Bailey Tournament at Adirondack…
- Not to be left behind, most of the area’s high school boys swim teams get underway, as do indoor track and field teams, most of whom will make their headquarters at SRC Arena, starting with the two-day Jack Morse Kickoff Meet. Then there is winter girls volleyball for small-school OHSL sides along with most of the Frontier League, Tri-Valley League and Center State Conference…
