- Hamburg has been playing very good as of late, winning 8 of their last 9 games, with the only loss during that stretch coming against Amherst.
- Less than a week after Silver Creek defeated Falconer by two points, the Golden Falcons avenged that loss with a 32 point victory in the rematch.
- When I was at Orchard Park last week, Arya showed me where the music control was in the event that I wanted to get any requests in prior to tip.
- As I stood in Burgard watching the Bulldogs defeat Olmsted on Friday night, I thought about what it must’ve been like in the late 80's during the Marcus Whitfield and Ritchie Campbell era. That must’ve been a scene.
- History is coming your way this week... Timon's Jaiden Harrison will break the all-time scoring record in WNY set by Dom Welch in 2017. He is now just 54 points away from owning the record with three games coming this week.
- Friday night was a big one in league play:
Undefeated ECIC I leader Jamestown was dished its first league loss of the season when Orchard Park used an 18–4 3rd quarter to take a double figure lead against Jamestown in an eventual win. In CCAA I West, it was Fredonia who bounced back from a 28-point defeat at Salamanca earlier in the season to earn a 16-point victory in the rematch. The Hillbillies connected on 10/11 from 3-point land in the first half, building a 47–15 lead at the break. At St. Francis, Nolan Edwards' 3-pointer as regulation expired forced overtime against Nichols, where the Red Raiders earned the victory over the visiting Vikings, to pull even with them in the MMA standings at 5–5.
- Fredonia's Mike Hahn made 7 of his 9 attempts from downtown in Fredonia’s win over Salamanca. He now has 63 makes on the season from long-distance, second in WNY only to Jakye Rainey, who leads with 66 bombs.
- With sectionals just over a week away, it’s time to start looking ahead at what's to come. The most fascinating bracket appears in Class B1, where 6 of the Top 10 small schools hail.
- The most important race for the top seed is indisputably in Class AAA. If Niagara Falls were to lose their final two games, Lancaster could overtake them for the top seed in that classification. vThere doesn’t appear to be another bracket where gaining the top seed could possibly be more important...
- West Valley and Tonawanda are the only two teams in WNY that remain winless. v I think they should have to play each other in a one-game playoff.
- The CHSAA state playoffs could not be more stacked against the team WNY sends after winning the Manhattan Cup. The winner of the Manhattan Cup will face a team in the semifinals at Fordham on Friday, March 8th. If they win, the state championship game would be played the following afternoon at Hofstra, tipping at 1 pm. The kicker to all of us is, the team they would face if they made the championship game, would come in fresh off a bye straight to that game against a team that barely slept the night prior.
-centercourt
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