Here is the Potter and Perrone Top 10 for the week of March 14….
- Bishop Ludden-Grimes repeated as boys basketball sectional Class AA champions with key defensive stops down the stretch to edge Liverpool 59-55 and set up a regional final against Albany CBA. In Class AA both teams are going into the state tournament but it was Nottingham ending a 21-year sectional title drought avenging a regular-season loss to ESM with a late surge to prevail 57-49…
- More back-to-back sectional titles happened in Class A and B boys basketball. Westhill didn’t play its best game against Syracuse ITC but did enough to stay undefeated and top the Eagles 56-46, while in Class B Marcellus needed an epic performance from Tucker Burnett – 36 points, several big shots down the stretch – to hold off Skaneateles 66-62. Both are heavily favored in their regional games..
- Still undefeated and atop the state Class C rankings, Cooperstown snared the boys basketball sectional championship rolling past Cato-Meridian 74-51 with 18 points and 20 rebounds from Jackson Crisman. And Sackets Harbor returned to the top in Class D beating top seed Oriskany 56-44 with 23 points from Spencer Oliva and 17 points and 14 rebounds from Nick Coco to lead the Patriots…
- Ending a 31-year title drought Baldwinsville girls basketball won the Section III Class AA championship getting away from Rome Free Academy 62-36 led by 20 points from Natalie Hollingshead. Oswego captured the title in Class AA rallying late to upend defending champion Nottingham 42-37 carried by Peyton Bond and her 27 points. Both the Bees and Bucs had regional finals on Friday night….
- Two girls basketball teams atop their respective state rankings rolled to sectional titles. Unbeaten Utica Notre Dame pulled clear of CBA 53-29 with 35 total points from sisters Ella and Erin Trinkaus. Then Marcellus ended a long wait for a sectional title in Class B routing Little Falls 63-22 with a combined 46 points from its dominant duo of Cece Powell and Tenly Baker….
- LaFargeville repeated as girls basketball sectional Class D champions outlasting Copenhagen 49-45 only to see its bid for back-to-back state titles ended in a close 42-37 regional defeat to Chateaugay. West Canada emerged as sectional Class C champions topping Hamilton 51-39 led by 28 points and 18 rebounds from Brooke Reddington. The Nighthawks face Delhi in Saturday’s regional finals…
- C-NS girls indoor track and field star Anna Eells repeated as state champion in the triple jump last weekend on Staten Island going 39 feet 6 ½ inches and also finished fourth in the high jump. Teammate Aaliyah McDonald was runner-up in the 55-meter hurdles and the Northstars were also second in the 4×200 relay, the best finishes of any Section III athletes at the NYSPHSAA meet….
- West Genesee ice hockey needed Matt Schneid’s overtime goal to edge Hilton 3-2 in the Division I regional final and earn a return trip to Buffalo’s HarborCenter for the state ‘Frozen Four’ this weekend meeting Canton in the semifinals on Saturday. Whitesboro was unable to join the Wildcats in Buffalo, stopped in a close Division II regional final 2-1 by Clarence….
- In the boys swimming NYSPHSAA championships at Ithaca College Liverpool swimmer Joe Lisi finished fourth in the 100 backstroke just a year after returning from a torn ACL and MCL, with J-D/CBA’s Lesha Kabunov sixth in the 100 butterfly and Fulton’s Logan Ames sixth in the 50 freestyle. In diving C-NS’s Nate Ornoski had the best finish taking eighth place with 448.95 points…
- This weekend the NYSPHSAA bowling championships are at AMF Syracuse Lanes. Division II team events on Friday have Homer’s boys and West Canada’s girls representing Section III, while on Sunday the Division I tournament has ESM’s boys and Fulton’s girls both back from 2025. Individual state tournaments take place on Saturday, for the first time in large and small-school divisions…
