NYSSWA State Rankings 2019 - Week 2

 

The second state rankings for the 2019 the season have been released by the NYSSWA.  Below are the WNY teams that made the cut:

 

Class AA

Niagara Falls #14

Honorable Mention:  Williamsville North & Frontier

 

Class A 

Park #1

St. Francis #8

Canisius #11

Lew-Port #20

Honorable Mention:  Health Sciences, South Park, West Seneca West, Williamsville South, Timon

 

Class B

Olean #2

Cardinal O'Hara #4

Nichols #14

Allegany-Limestone #23

Honorable Mention:  Southwestern, City Honors, Medina, MST Seneca

 

Class C 

Middle College #2

Randolph #4

Tapestry #10

Honorable Mention:  East, Maple Grove, Silver Creek, Chautauqua Lake, & BASCS

 

Class D

No teams ranked ( But we sure had the D's in 2018 ! )

Honorable Mention:  Forestville, Brocton, & Sherman

 

******** According to the rankings above........

 

- McQuaid's loss to Canisius caused them to slip a few spots back in NYS Class AA.  A few days later, Niagara Falls made the same road trip to McQuaid and came up short in overtime, so the Wolverines now sit at #14 in NYS Class AA.

 

 

- The state rankings do not honor results after noon on Sundays.  My guess is St. Francis stays ahead of Canisius for that reason.  Frannies lost on the road against Holy Trinity, who is unranked in NYS Class A, over the weekend.

 

 

- The Crusaders jump up seven spots in NYS Class A to #11 thanks to their road win at McQuaid. 

 

 

- Lew-Port moved up one spot in NYS Class A to #20, the only ranked public school from Section VI in their classification.  Not bad for a school starting an eighth grader and a freshman. 

 

 

- Olean and Cardinal O'Hara both climb one spot in NYS Class B, to #2 and #4 respectively.  On Wednesday night, there's a big NYS game played in Tonawanda when Canisius visits O'Hara. 

 

 

- O'Hara's main competition for the Class B Manhattan Cup, the Nichols Vikings, are now up for spots in NYS Class B to #14. 

 

 

- Allegany-Limestone is the only local team from Class B2 in the state rankings. The Gators moved up two spots to #23.

 

 

- In NYS Class C, even though Randolph sits out #4,  the loss at Tapestry (#10) last night will certainly change that by next week.   

 

 

- Middle College remains ranked #2 in the state in NYS Class C.  Another big game in NYS is coming this Friday night when the Kats host O'Hara. 

 

 

- My how the mighty have fallen.  We no longer have any teams ranked in NYS Class D, but man last year was sure fun.  The top ranked team is Harrisville, who East annihilated in the state semifinal last year.  Following that game their coach had a bitter quote about East, so I doubt the universe allows them to break through and want to state championship this year.

 

 

- Last thing, why do the state rankings refer to every team in the vicinity of the city as "Buffalo"??  Like Buffalo Health Sciences for example?  Or Buffalo South Park? Buffalo Timon?  Buffalo City Honors? Buffalo Park School?  Buffalo Canisius?    This is a serious question - could there be that many Health Sciences & City Honors in the state?  I don't notice another area or section that has a city dropped in front of every school name for distinction.  I'm not down with it.  Trust me, the rest of the state knows Park & Canisius hail from Buffalo!

 

 

Click HERE for complete NYSSWA State Rankings

 

-centercourt

Comments

[robertrhett]

Maybe the Harrisville coach was correct about last year. Your buddies at NYS sportswriters thought so. Of course I didn't see any of those quotes ,but anyway. I did think the "deep-woods moonshine distillers " comment was kinda clever. But on to this year .....

[robertrhett]

By the way ,in Section VI, what school's grade wasn't counted this year so they could be in a class that they didn't belong in?

[TML1000]

Would he have had the same comments if they had drawn Moriah in the semis and got blown out just as bad?

Would he have had the same comments if East happened to be a suburban or rural team of the same talent level rather than an inner-city school?

Lastly, was there an uproar over all of the times private schools from section V made the state finals in class D and C(Finney, Batavia-ND)?

[centercourt]

Harrisville coach Brian Coloney following the loss to East:

"Maybe I shouldn't be saying this, but the state ought to rethink how they do classifications," he told 7 News sports anchor Rob Krone.. "I mean, we basically played against an "A" champion or at least a "B" champion."

As far as which grade Section VI won't be counting this year for classifications, I believe they will once again not count the senior class and base BEDS numbers on enrollment in grades 9 through 11 like they do every year. If I told you every Section does the same, it would poke holes in the conspiracy theory that both the state and Section VI wanted to see East hoist the plaque, so I won't mention that.

[robertrhett]

I ,for one, have always been against the private schools in Section V competing in the public school sectionals and state tournaments . In fact one coach is still griping about being placed in what he saw as a class too high. Of course his team is undefeated, so that kind of blew his argument out of the water. And as for Harrisville, he may not win this year because of other schools that won't have a grade missing .Also TML 1000, the point was never about East being an inner city school.

[robertrhett]

By the way , I finished my chores earlier today so I could comment and the weekly square dance starts early tonight