Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of February 14….
- Now the Section III boys basketball playoffs have arrived. Westhill brings a perfect 20-0 record and no. 1 state ranking to the top spot in Class A with ITC, New Hartford and Central Valley Academy seeded behind them. Class AAA has Liverpool and Bishop Ludden-Grimes as the top two seeds while Nottingham carries the top seed in Class AA ahead of co-favorites ESM and West Genesee..
- Cooperstown boys basketball is also 20-0 and also atop the state rankings, leading a tough sectional Class C bracket ahead of challengers like Cato-Meridian and Frankfort-Schuyler. Marcellus won nine of its last 10 games to climb to the top seed in Class B for its sectional and state title defense as Oriskany earned the no. 1 seed in Class D ahead of the next two seeds, Sackets Harbor and DeRuyter…
- All eyes in girls basketball will be on the sectional Class A bracket where unbeaten, state no. 1-ranked Utica Notre Dame chases a second state title in three years as CBA is the no. 2 seed. In Class AAA the top two seeds, Bishop Ludden-Grimes and Baldwinsville, have byes straight to the semifinals, while Nottingham defends its sectional title holding the no. 1 seed in Class A….
- Marcellus girls basketball has seen Cece Powell and Tenly Baker combine for more than 4,000 career points. Now the Mustangs are the top seeds and heavy favorites for the Class B sectional playoffs just as defending state champion LaFargeville is in Class D. Class C has a deep pool of contenders including Frankfort-Schuyler, West Canada, Weedsport, Hamilton and Tully….
- In the girls volleyball winter sectional finals last Saturday New Hartford dethroned Rome Free Academy in Class A and Mount Markham topped Beaver River in Class C to complete undefeated seasons. Meanwhile in Class B Holland Patents defeated South Jefferson in the sectional final and Tully returned to the top in Class D defeating first-time finalist Owen D. Young for the title..
- In boys ice hockey early-round sectional Division I playoff games had two road wins by Cazenovia at Syracuse 5-1 and by Baldwinsville at C-NS 5-0. Those wins set up semifinal games next week where the Bees face top seed West Genesee having beat the Wildcats earlier this season and the Lakers meet no. 2 seed Rome Free Academy having blanked the Black Knights a couple of weeks ago..
- In the Division II ice hockey sectional playoffs form held a bit more. Top seeds Whitesboro and Skaneateles rolled to victories while New Hartford had to rally to beat Auburn in overtime and Clinton won at CBA/J-D. So next week’s semifinals have the Comets challenging Whitesboro and the Spartans against the Lakers with those two teams having split their regular-season meetings….
- In girls ice hockey no local team could match Skaneateles, who repeated as sectional champions with a 3-1 finals win over Oswego where two goals less than 30 seconds apart by Makayla Barron made the difference. Now in the state regional playoffs Friday at Nexus Center in Utica the Lakers met Adirondack United, who stopped Skaneateles in this same round the last two years…
- Last weekend’s Section III wrestling tournaments had, on the team side, Carthage win the Division I crown and Marcellus prevail in Division II just as they did at their respective sectional Dual Meets in January. Carthage’s Ryan Munn at 144 pounds was the Most Outstanding Wrestler in Division I and that same honor in Division II went to Holland Patent’s Andrew Juliano who won at 118 pounds….
- And in the girls wrestling Section III wrestling championships which were also held at SRC Arena Fulton rolled to the team title with 233 points well clear of runner-up Homer’s 154.5 points. Mount Markham’s Samantha Massey was Most Outstanding Wrestler taking the 107-pound title as Nadia Rose at 145 pounds and Graciela Vasquez at 185 pounds were victorious for the Red Dragons….
