Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of October 31…..
- Before anything else we must celebrate a local product who made it all the way to the top. Pat Murphy grew up in Syracuse and went to Christian Brothers Academy. Now he’s managed the Milwaukee Brewers to its first-ever World Series title clinched this week with many of Murphy’s Syracuse friends and colleagues in attendance at Tampa Bay when the Brewers won it all….
- Boys soccer sectional championships were at stake late this week starting Thursday when unbeaten, state no. 1-ranked Watertown edged West Genesee 1-0 to win the Class AA title before unbeaten, state no. 1-ranked Baldwinsville held off a challenge from C-NS 4-0 to win a third straight sectional title. In Class A New Hartford was dethroned by J-D who won 2-1 in double overtime…
- More boys soccer sectional finals were on Friday with defending state champion Westhill challenged by Skaneateles in the Class B title game, Cooperstown facing Westmoreland/Oriskany in the Class C final and in Class D Copenhagen facing Fabius-Pompey after semifinal upsets where the Gold Knights topped unbeaten McGraw and the Falcons stunned two-time defending state champion Hamilton….
- Form mostly held to set up girls soccer sectional finals Sunday at SUNY-Cortland. Class B has the showdown between two-time state champion Marcellus and Westhill, while in Class C it’s Tully against Frankfort-Schuyler after both of them won narrow semifinal games. Cincinnatus, also defending its state title, puts its perfect 17-0 record on the line in the Class D final against Hamilton
- Elsewhere in girls soccer C-NS is challenged by Baldwinsville in the Class AAA sectional final, while in Class AA it’s F-M against ESM after the Hornets knocked off defending champion West Genesee in the semifinals. In Class A another well-decorated dynasty from New Hartford with its tremendous attack faces a J-D side who will try with its great defense to stop the Spartans..
- At the start of the Class A football sectional playoffs Central Square rallied from a 20-0 deficit to stun West Genesee 21-20. That followed last Friday’s epic battle where Auburn scored two touchdowns in the last three minutes to beat F-M 42-40. CBA has a bye in the Class AA playoffs instead of unbeaten Liverpool while another 8-0 team, VVS, has the top seed in the Class B playoffs…
- The Class C sectional football playoffs has top seed Lowville in the semifinals after a rout of Skaneateles with other quarterfinal games on Friday night. In a battle of 7-0 teams Dolgeville shut down Cato-Meridian last week and went into the Class D playoffs still atop the state rankings while Waterville is the undefeated, state no. 1-ranked favorite for the eight-man football sectional tournament…
- The field hockey sectional playoffs got underway this week. Liverpool and C-NS had the top two seeds in Class A ahead of defending champion Rome Free Academy. New Hartford held the top seed in Class B, with Holland Patent holding the same spot in Class C and Little Falls in Class D. Semifinals will be followed by championship games early next week at Baldwinsville….
- Many league championship cross country meets took place in the last week. Clinton swept both titles in the Center State Conference while F-M’s boys and Baldwinsville’s girls were first in the SCAC championships. In the OHSL meets the Mexico boys and Skaneateles girls finished first overall, and the Patriot division meet was won by Tully’s boys and Pulaski’s girls…..
- Girls volleyball sectional playoffs started this week with Baldwinsville, West Genesee, Fulton, Westhill, Bishop Ludden-Grimes and Hamilton the top seeds in the six classes. And in the girls tennis NYSPHSAA championships Cazenovia has earned a spot in the team state final four next weekend as F-M’s Sadie Toole and Lindsey Chong reached the doubles state quarterfinals this week….
