Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of June 13….

  1. On Sunday at Hobart College three Section III boys lacrosse teams will play for state championships. All of them won their state semifinals at SUNY-Cortland with ease, West Genesee in Class A pulling away from Shaker as J-D built up a big lead on Burnt Hills before a weather delay then cruised to victory and in Class D Marcellus scored 14 first-half goals to quickly dust off Schuylerville…
  2. In those state boys lacrosse championship games on Sunday it begins with Class C as J-D takes on Rye trying to atone for defeats in each of the last three state finals. Marcellus in Class D is against Cold Spring Harbor who beat the Mustangs in the 2023 and 2024 state finals. Finally in Class A West Genesee has to defeat Massapequa in order to earn its 16th state title but first in nearly two decades…
  3. J-D girls lacrosse was the only team left from Section III going into the state final four at SUNY-Cortland. In Friday’s state semifinal the Red Rams relied on terrific defense and seven different goal-scorers to defeat Burnt Hills 8-2. Now J-D can win the program’s first-ever state title if it can win this afternoon against Sayville, from Long Islands, who sits atop the state rankings…
  4. Liverpool baseball has carried its improbable post-season run all the way to the state Class AAA championship game, the Legends defeating Niagara Falls 8-3 in Friday’s semifinal to earn a date in the title game against Monroe-Woodbury. West Genesee in Class AA won its state semifinal 5-1 over Horseheads and will go after its first-ever state title on Saturday against Cornwall or Bellmore Merrick JFK.
  5. Two other Section III baseball teams saw their state championship dreams dashed in the semifinal round. Oriskany, undefeated and attempting to defend its 2025 state title, could not quite get back to the final falling 4-3 to Fillmore. An unlikely post-season journey by Utica Notre Dame in Class B was halted in that same round by Section VI’s Medina in a 9-0 defeat…
  6. F-M softball is one victory away from its first-ever state championship. The Hornets followed up its dramatic sectional and regional final victories with a far more comfortable 6-1 victory over Orchard Park in Friday’s state semifinal earning a place in today’s championship game against Calhoun from Long Island. Cincinnatus lost its state Class D semifinal 9-0 to Oakfield-Alabama..
  7. This weekend brings us the NYSPHSAA track and field championships. On the girls side C-NS’s Anna Eells is top-seeded in both the long jump and triple jump in Class A with F-M’s Nik Domashenko top-seeded in the boys 200-meter dash also in Class A. Keep an eye on the girls pentathlon where Westmoreland’s Emma Szarek and Cazenovia’s Alyssa Wardell at the top of the Class C field…
  8. In an impressive performance the F-M flag football team made it all the way to the state Class B championship game. The Hornets came from behind to defeat Clarence 24-14 in last Saturday’s state semifinal and led at halftime of the title game against Yorktown only to get overwhelmed in the second half of a 30-14 defeat which was still one step further than F-M went a season ago..
  9. Liverpool boys tennis player Justin Barrett went one round further than in 2025 at the NYSPHSAA singles tournament in New York City with three straight-set wins to get to the semifinals before taking a defeat to eventual champion Justin Reis. J-D made it to the state Division II semifinals at the National Tennis Center only to take a 3-1 defeat to Bayport-Blue Point…..
  10. At the NYSPHSAA golf championships on the girls side Rome Free Academy star Rachel O’Rourke led after one round and finished second among individuals with Sauquoit Valley’s Kamryn Yerman in sixth place as F-M was fifth in the team event. In the boys tournament the best individual finish was shared By J-D’s Brayden Thomas and CBA’s Patrick O’Connor who tied for seventh……