Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of October 24…..
- We have reached the sectional playoffs in girls soccer. C-NS is the top seed in Class AAA heavily favored to take it again, while in Class AA West Genesee is another defending champion with a top seed. New Hartford lost to St. Mary’s last week to deny a perfect regular season but the state no. 2-ranked Spartans still expect to blitz the field in Class A as its no. 1 seed…
- Two defending state champions sit as top seeds in small-school girls soccer sectional playoffs with undefeated, state no. 1-ranked Cincinnatus claiming that top spot in Class D and Marcellus the same in Class B while sitting at no. 2 in the state rankings. A more wide-open sectional battle in Class C started with Frankfort-Schuyler as the top seed and Tully the no. 2 seed…..
- In the boys soccer sectional playoffs Baldwinsville is a perfect 16-0 and already in the Class AAA semifinals as the top seed and no. 1 in the state rankings. Despite its own 16-0 mark and no. 1 state ranking Watertown is just the no. 2 seed in Class AA behind top seed West Genesee, while defending champion New Hartford starts out as the no. 1 seed in Class A with J-D as the no. 2 seed….
- Elsewhere in the boys soccer sectional playoffs two-time defending state champion Hamilton started out as the no. 2 seed in Class D because unbeaten McGraw grabbed the top seed. In Class C it’s Cooperstown and Westmoreland-Oriskany as the top seeds and in Class B Skaneateles claimed the top seed attempting to dethrone no. 2 seed and defending state champion Westhill…
- The field hockey sectional playoffs are starting, too. Liverpool and C-NS grabbed the top two seeds in Class A ahead of defending champion Rome Free Academy, while New Hartford heads a four-team field in Class B. Holland Patent is the top seed in Class C and in Class D 15-1 Little Falls and 14-1 Port Byron could collide in the finals as they are the top two seeds….
- Class C football began a 16-team sectional playoff this week. Lowville held the top seed, while unbeaten Bishop Ludden-Grimes/SAS was the no. 3 seed in the same half of the bracket as no. 2 seed and defending champion General Brown. Dolgeville in Class D and Waterville in eight-man football are both atop the state rankings but Dolgeville had to face 7-0 Cato-Meridian on Friday night…
- Large-school football teams are in the last week of the regular season. The big game in Class A on Friday pits a pair of 6-1 teams, F-M and Auburn, in a possible sectional finals preview. CBA’s comeback from an 0-3 start continued last weekend with an impressive 31-7 win at Canisius in Buffalo as it awaits the challenge of undefeated Liverpool and C-NS in the sectional playoffs….
- In girls tennis they held the sectional state qualifying tournaments this week at Drumlins. As expected Baldwinsville’s sister tandem of Mira and Sonia Nadzan dominated the tournament and both will go to the state tournament next week in New York City joined by doubles champions Lindsey Chong and Sadie Toole from F-M plus doubles teams from J-D and Oneida, too…
- It’s getting toward the post-season in cross country, too, with the Tri-Valley League Invitational on Saturday in Oneida followed next Wednesday by multiple league championships ranging from the SCAC teams meeting in Baldwinsville to the OHSL Liberty teams competing at Jordan-Elbridge and the OHSL Patriot teams having their championship meet at Tully…
- In this last week of the girls volleyball regular season Westhill sits at no. 2 in the state in Class B heading toward the defense of its state title. West Genesee continues its undefeated run while at Cazenovia they honored this week retiring head coach Brian Ellithorpe who spent three decades at the school winning a handful of sectional and regional titles plus more than 400 matches…
