Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of November 14…

  1. As the girls soccer sectional finals played out C-NS had to rally and go to double overtime to defend it Class AAA title and defeat Baldwinsville, while F-M topped ESM for the Class AA title, New Hartford again won Class A edging J-D in overtime, Marcellus blanked Westhill in Class B, Tully outlasted Frankfort-Schuyler in Class C and Cincinnatus won Class D again topping Hamilton…
  2. In the girls soccer regional finals that followed New Hartford, Marcellus and Cincinnatus all earned return trips to this weekend’s state final four in Cortland. But the Mustangs lost 57-goal scorer Lexie Fragnito to a torn ACL as it tries to get a third consecutive state title in what long-time coach Laurie Updike announced would be her last season having already won four state titles at Marcellus…
  3. In boys soccer unbeaten Baldwinsville turned back C-NS for the sectional Class AAA championship as Watertown beat West Genesee in overtime to take the Class AA title and OT was also needed for J-D to dethrone New Hartford in Class A. Westhill survived penalty kicks with Skaneateles in Class B, Cooperstown won Class C and Copenhagen outlasted Fabius-Pompey for Class D honors…
  4. Four of the six sectional boys soccer champions are headed to Middletown for the state final four. Westhill looks to repeat its Class B title from 2025 and Baldwinsville seeks its first-ever state title in Class AAA with a perfect record and a no. 1 state ranking going into it, while J-D is still in the mix for Class A honors and Cooperstown goes for the Class C state title…
  5. Football’s sectional finals start Friday at the JMA Dome. Eight-man football has Morrisville-Eaton against South Lewis after the Falcons upset Waterville in the semifinals. Class D has state no. 1-ranked Dolgeville challenged by Cato-Meridian and Class A pits F-M against Auburn just three weeks after an epic 42-40 win by the Maroons where it scored twice in the last four minutes to pull it out…
  6. All eyes Saturday night will be on the Class AA football sectional final at the JMA Dome where three-time state champion CBA is challenged by unbeaten Liverpool in a rematch of 2025. Before that there’s the Class C final between Lowville and Bishop Ludden-Grimes/SAS and Class B where unbeaten VVS puts that 10-0 mark on the line against defending champion New Hartford…
  7. In the sectional cross country championships at Mount Markham F-M’s girls and Baldwinsville’s boys won in Class A, with the Mexico boys and Fulton girls taking Class B, the Class C titles going to the VVS boys and South Jefferson girls and in Class the Beaver River boys and South Lewis girls victorious. All of them go to Queensbury this Saturday for the NYSPHSAA championship meet..
  8. Liverpool girls volleyball broke a 31-year championship drought when it beat Baldwinsville in the sectional Class AAA final. Unbeaten West Genesee needed five sets to edge F-M for the Class AA title and Fulton took five sets to fend off J-D and win in Class A. Westhill in Class B, Bishop Ludden-Grimes in Class C and Hamilton in Class D all won their sectional titles in three-set sweeps….
  9. In the field hockey sectional finals Rome Free Academy maintained the Class A title beating Liverpool 3-1. New Hartford edged Camden 2-1 for the Class B title as Holland Patent topped VVS 2-1 in Class C and Little Falls handled Port Byron 4-2 in Class D. However, RFA, New Hartford and Little Falls all were beaten in regional finals leaving Section III shut out of the state final four…
  10. And in the girls swimming Section III championships Baldwinsville won both the Division I team title edging F-M and then the George Falwell Cup holding off defending champion J-D who had rolled to the Division II team title. Liverpool diver June Piorkowski remained unbeaten in both the sectional and qualifying events as Marcellus/Skaneateles swimmer Vivian Pilon won two events…