CENTRAL NEW YORK – Three consecutive weeks of high-level football will determine the ultimate course of the Section III Class AA regular-season and its post-season structure, too.
It begins next Saturday at Alibrandi Stadium when Liverpool visits Christian Brothers Academy. It continues Oct. 6 when Cicero-North Syracuse hosts the Brothers at Bragman Stadium and concludes Oct. 13 with the Northstars and Warriors resuming their crosstown rivalry.
All three of these teams are undefeated after last weekend’s games. As state no. 8-ranked CBA was blanking Fayetteville-Manlius 59-0 on Friday night, C-NS, no. 10 in those same state rankings, was at Pelcher-Arcaro Stadium, able to get away from Baldwinsville in the second half on the way to a 45-21 victory.
The Northstars actually trailed the 0-3 Bees 7-0 after one period before cutting loose for three touchdowns in the second quarter, ultimately taking a 21-14 lead to the break.
Then, in three possessions in the third quarter, C-NS found the end zone every time, putting the game well out of B’ville’s reach.
Jaxon Razmovski accounted for four TD passes as Nate Williams and Miy’jon McDowell Reid both scored twice. Attempting seven kicks, Jakob Purdy made all of them, including a 37-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and six extra points.
C-NS then watched on Saturday as Liverpool traveled to Utica Proctor and, impressive from start to finish, put away the Raiders 36-6.
Netting the only points of the first quarter, the Warriors went up 7-0 on John Sindoni’s four-yard TD pass to Jordan Grandinetti and Tyler Vivacqua’s PAT, but much more was to follow.
Answering Proctor’s lone score on Jerquell Henderson’s two-yard run, Liverpool put together a pair of second-quarter drives, each resulting in four-yard scoring passes from Sindoni – one finding Antonio Rivera, the other to Tai’yari Sholtz.
Instead of nursing it 22-6 halftime lead, the Warriors pieced together two more scoring drives in the third quarter. Sholtz added a second TD on a two-yard run and Owen Brown caught Sindoni’s fourth scoring pass from seven yards out.
