Records hardly matter when the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse football teams gather each fall to renew their neighborhood feud and decide who gets to carry the “Star Wars” trophy home for another year. Yet when the Warriors and Northstars meet next Friday on Liverpool’s brand-new turf field, they will both carry 1-3 records and some real urgency to win and improve their Class AA playoff hopes. Liverpool, in fact, was winless prior to Friday night’s game with Central Square, where a big third-quarter outburst led to a 38-19 victory over the Red Hawks. CNS, meanwhile, went east to Rome Free Academy and again saw its offense struggle in a 21-7 loss to the Black Knights. Central Square, like Liverpool, had an 0-3 mark entering Friday’s action, and for a while it looked like it could break through at the Warriors’ expense. After Josh Withrow gave Liverpool a 7-0 lead on a 27-yard touchdown run, the Red Hawks answered with back-to-back scores as Scott Davies threw TD passes of five yards to Tyler Myers and 16 yards to Dylan Ransom. When Davies hit Joey Battaglia on a six-yard TD pass in the second quarter, Liverpool trailed 19-7 and was, perhaps, seeing its season slip away. But just before the half, Luigi Barletta threw a 32-yard TD pass to Bobby Broddus, cutting the deficit to 19-14, and that momentum would carry over into the second half. Liverpool went ahead for good when Central Square fumbled deep in its own territory and Connor Rogers returned it 12 yards for a TD, then added the extra point. Before the quarter was done, Liverpool added two more touchdowns on short runs by Tyland Thompson (two yards) and Withrow (four yards), and Rogers tacked on a late field goal. Thompson had 115 yards on the ground, while Withrow contributed 82 yards on the ground. CNS could only wish for such production at RFA Stadium, where it could not prevent the Black Knights from staying tied with Baldwinsville and CBA for first place in the Class AA-1 division. At first, the lack of offense didn’t matter, as the Northstars and Black Knights struggled through a 0-0 first half. But RFA broke through in the third period, moving to CNS’s one-yard line before Kyle Hash scored. Richard Stapleton then put things away in the fourth quarter, scoring on runs of 12 and 24 yards, before CNS finally got on the board in the late going with Corey Scanlon’s 19-yard TD pass to Emanuel Henderson.