Thirty-one days have passed since perhaps the most riveting game in all of Section 5 this season — Canandaigua Academy versus Victor — have passed. It’s one of the fiercest rivalries in high school football, and it’s on tap for renewal this weekend for the opening round of the Class A sectionals.
Victor, the third-seeded team in Class A, will host their foe, Canandaigua Academy, the No. 6-seeded team, this weekend. The Blue Devils (49-13 in the last seven seasons) are 6-1, and the Braves are 4-3 and riding a two-game win streak after losing three-straight earlier in the year. In their Week 3 match up when both squads stood at 2-0, Victor crafted a 42-35 triumph on the legs of Tommy Wagner and his 39 carries for 301 yards and six touchdowns. This weekend’s meeting at Corbit Field is surely to tell a different tale.
Canandaigua Academy and Victor, both programs chalked-full of gridiron laurels, reside in Section 5’s toughest classification. Class A is the only with two undefeated teams — Brockport (7-0) and Eastridge (7-0) — and the top four seeded schools combine for a 26-2 record. Overall, their top-8 qualifiers combine for a better record than any of the six classifications. Both Brockport and Eastridge finished the regular season with 7-0 records for the second-straight year. Eastridge has won their last 17 regular season games, and Brockport their last 14.
Eastridge and Brockport join Rush-Henrietta, Hornell, Geneva and Red Jacket as the only unbeaten teams that remain. Hornell, now in Class C, have won 46-straight — three shy of Caledonia-Mumford’s record of 49 that ended in 1981 — and last lost to a Section 5 team more than four years ago. Rush-Henrietta is 37-3 in the last four years and Geneva finished unbeaten in the regular season for the first-time in program history.
Geneva, 69-20 in the last eight seasons, face what is arguably the second-best team in Class B in the opening round at Loman Field this weekend. Their last of three sectional titles coming 2007, the No. 1-seeded Panthers host No. 8-seeded HF-L, whose 2-5 record is of no indication to their talent level. The Cougars have lost to Brockport and Eastridge, Victor, Canandaigua Academy, and a 1-point loss to Churchville-Chili. The winner of this contest will win the Class B title. Also in the bracket, East Rochester/Gananda (6-1) carries the No. 2 seed and will host seventh-seeded Batavia (3-4) at Don Quinn Field. Third-seeded Newark (5-2) will host No. 6-seeded Waterloo in a Week 3 rematch that the Reds won, 28-0. Newark is 1-10 in sectionals since 1999. Palmyra-Macedon (3-4), as the No. 5 seed, will trek to Livonia to take on the fourth-seeded Bulldogs (5-2) in a revenge game. The Red Raiders were the No. 1-seeded team in 2009 and were upset by the eighth-seeded Bulldogs, 13-6, in the Class B opener.
In Class DD, Red Jacket is the No. 1-seeded team, and in Class D, Clyde-Savannah is seeded second and Dundee is fourth.
Not participating in sectionals this season is Wellsville, who finished the year with a 2-5 record after winning their first-ever sectional title last season. Geneseo will also not be in sectionals, as they finished 0-7 this year after winning their first-ever sectional title last season. Geneseo joins Irondequoit, Greece Olympia, Midlakes, South Seneca/Romulus, Pembroke and first-year program University Prep as the only schools that failed to win a regular season game.
Thirty-one days have passed since perhaps the most riveting game in all of Section 5 this season — Canandaigua Academy versus Victor — have passed. It’s one of the fiercest rivalries in high school football, and it’s on tap for renewal this weekend for the opening round of the Class A sectionals.
Victor, the third-seeded team in Class A, will host their foe, Canandaigua Academy, the No. 6-seeded team, this weekend. The Blue Devils (49-13 in the last seven seasons) are 6-1, and the Braves are 4-3 and riding a two-game win streak after losing three-straight earlier in the year. In their Week 3 match up when both squads stood at 2-0, Victor crafted a 42-35 triumph on the legs of Tommy Wagner and his 39 carries for 301 yards and six touchdowns. This weekend’s meeting at Corbit Field is surely to tell a different tale.
Canandaigua Academy and Victor, both programs chalked-full of gridiron laurels, reside in Section 5’s toughest classification. Class A is the only with two undefeated teams — Brockport (7-0) and Eastridge (7-0) — and the top four seeded schools combine for a 26-2 record. Overall, their top-8 qualifiers combine for a better record than any of the six classifications. Both Brockport and Eastridge finished the regular season with 7-0 records for the second-straight year. Eastridge has won their last 17 regular season games, and Brockport their last 14.
Eastridge and Brockport join Rush-Henrietta, Hornell, Geneva and Red Jacket as the only unbeaten teams that remain. Hornell, now in Class C, have won 46-straight — three shy of Caledonia-Mumford’s record of 49 that ended in 1981 — and last lost to a Section 5 team more than four years ago. Rush-Henrietta is 37-3 in the last four years and Geneva finished unbeaten in the regular season for the first-time in program history.
Geneva, 69-20 in the last eight seasons, face what is arguably the second-best team in Class B in the opening round at Loman Field this weekend. Their last of three sectional titles coming 2007, the No. 1-seeded Panthers host No. 8-seeded HF-L, whose 2-5 record is of no indication to their talent level. The Cougars have lost to Brockport and Eastridge, Victor, Canandaigua Academy, and a 1-point loss to Churchville-Chili. The winner of this contest will win the Class B title. Also in the bracket, East Rochester/Gananda (6-1) carries the No. 2 seed and will host seventh-seeded Batavia (3-4) at Don Quinn Field. Third-seeded Newark (5-2) will host No. 6-seeded Waterloo in a Week 3 rematch that the Reds won, 28-0. Newark is 1-10 in sectionals since 1999. Palmyra-Macedon (3-4), as the No. 5 seed, will trek to Livonia to take on the fourth-seeded Bulldogs (5-2) in a revenge game. The Red Raiders were the No. 1-seeded team in 2009 and were upset by the eighth-seeded Bulldogs, 13-6, in the Class B opener.
In Class DD, Red Jacket is the No. 1-seeded team, and in Class D, Clyde-Savannah is seeded second and Dundee is fourth.
Not participating in sectionals this season is Wellsville, who finished the year with a 2-5 record after winning their first-ever sectional title last season. Geneseo will also not be in sectionals, as they finished 0-7 this year after winning their first-ever sectional title last season. Geneseo joins Irondequoit, Greece Olympia, Midlakes, South Seneca/Romulus, Pembroke and first-year program University Prep as the only schools that failed to win a regular season game.
