Even with a defeat on its ledger, the West Genesee football team is sitting atop the Class AA-1 division, and events both inside and outside of its control would drastically alter the league race. As to the task at hand, the Wildcats were more than up to it on Friday night, venturing to Nottingham and rolling to a 42-12 victory over the Bulldogs. That left WG tied atop the league lead with Liverpool, 3-0 following a win over Rome Free Academy – but not defending sectional champion CBA, who was stunned at home by Corcoran 50-23 just down the road from where the Wildcats were going to work. Nottingham, boasting a 1-1 mark in its return to AA competition after a stretch in Class A, would quickly find out that WG was in a bad mood following its 36-6 defeat to Baldwinsville on Sept. 12, and was determined to find its winning form again. A special-teams play provided the spark, as the Wildcats blocked a punt early in the first quarter that led to Collin BeVard’s 26-yard field goal. Before the period ended, it was 10-0, and again BeVard was in the middle of it, having scored on a 56-yard pass from Dashon Turner. For most of the second period, the Bulldogs held WG back, but an interception late in the quarter got the Wildcats into scoring position again, and with 1:47 left in the half Turner, from Nottingham’s 29, threw his second touchdown pass of the game, to Will Northrop, who scored for the first time this season. Yet even with a 17-0 halftime lead, WG was far from content. Turner again burned the Bulldogs’ secondary in the third quarter with a 35-yard scoring pass to BeVard, and minutes later Joey Vetter joined in the fun, scoring from 24 yards out. Then Turner threw his fourth TD pass of the night to Vetter, a 20-yard screen pass that made it 36-0, and James Kerr closed out WG’s scoring with a six-yard run with 9:31 to play. Corcoran’s big win at CBA means that the Wildcats’ home game against the Cougars next Friday at 6 p.m. carries much more meaning. The winner will stay right with Liverpool (who plays a non-league game against Cicero-North Syracuse) atop the league standings.