Class A

[AllDayEveryDay]

Who has the edge this year in class A?
Also what teams are going to have the "bye" in sectionals this year, what matches are you looking forward to seeing in the frist round?

[soccerball]

My 2 cents...

Sutherland has done very well this year and looks to be the favorite.

Aquinas seems to have a good team. They play a strong schedule, but at times hasn't been very consistent offensively.

HFL has a good record, but play mainly Class B teams. A good test for them will be against Webster Thomas tomorrow.

Victor, Wayne and East Irondequiot could turn it on in sectionals and be a spoiler.

[whistleblower]

Sutherland is now a lock for the number 1 seed even after losing 2 games this week. They play Batavia and Odyseey which should be no contest and a number 1 seed.

The real issue is the 4 and 5 seed, if it holds to form it will be AQ and Mendon. I hate to say it but the winner of this game is my pick to upset Sutherland and win the Class A title. This will be a great opening round game.

HFL has a good draw if they stay in the 2 seed and will give any trouble. They just do not have enough big game experience to win just yet.

[soccerball]

Actually, the 2nd , 3rd and 4th places are still undecided. HFL, Victor or AQ could mathematically end up in either of those spots depending on how they finish their last couple games.

[Soccerpater]

I seem to recall reading that HFL had one of its best players quit the team after the Bath game. Any further details/confirmation?

[Rams15]

I believe it has been confirmed that he is finished for the season. I also am told it was a school decision based on his actions.

[soccerball]

I don't think his absence will necessarily hurt the team.

[whistleblower]

Any Predictions?

Sutherland and Mendon in Semis - I like Medon on turf

AQ and HFL in Semis - agin like AQ on turf

Final AQ over Mendon - turf helps way to much

bad draw for Eastridge, only sleeper could be Victor

[soccerball]

The semi-finals are played at West Irondequoit. Do they have a natural grass field or man-made turf ?

I feel that the semis will be exciting games to watch.

[AllDayEveryDay]

Geneva over Mendon in the opener. then takes out victor. Cinderella keeps rolling as they take out the favorite Sutherland, but the clocks strikes midnight when they run into HFL

[Rochester14]

Can't say I like the odds of Geneva beating Mendon, considering they forfeited the game... And West Irondequoit is turf...

[Soccerpater]

So Geneva declined to show up for the game scheduled for today?

[AllDayEveryDay]

Why would they forfeit? Are they scared? or not enough players?

[TalkMoneyTakeMoney3]

If Geneva forfeits this game that team will be forever known as chicken****

[Rochester14]

I heard that they barely had enough guys to play the last few games of the season, and their JV team had folded weeks ago, so there was no one they could bring up..

[AllDayEveryDay]

Let Batavia Play!!!!!!!

[Rochester14]

Good idea, I think Valenti and those boys should play, but if it happens after the seeding meeting, there are no changes allowed..

[TalkMoneyTakeMoney3]

Valenti is the man

[AllDayEveryDay]

The seeding meeting happened right? They should allow batavia to have the necessary time to prepare then play mendon. Thats crap geneva forfeits a sectional game!

[TalkMoneyTakeMoney3]

Batavia played Mendon to a 3-0 game and they have a new system working, anything can happen

[Rochester14]

It sucks, but it's to late now...According to rules no changes can be made after the seeding meeting is completed. And that meeting was this past Saturday..

[TalkMoneyTakeMoney3]

Someone find a loophole dammit!

[AllDayEveryDay]

Thats garbage! Geneva is garbage! How do you forfeit a sectional game? I know damn well batavia would be ready!!!!

[DrewVT6]

Thats garbage! Geneva is garbage! How do you forfeit a sectional game?

I wonder if the committee can suspend them from participating next season.

[Rochester14]

Hard to play when you don't even have 11 guys..It sucks, but that also really sucks for their future program...

[AllDayEveryDay]

Screw next season! The committee should let the next seed play. Which is Batavia, why allow mendon a free pass?

[soccerball]

The girls team also forfeited their first round game against HFL. Why didn't Geneva back out before the brackets were made?

[AllDayEveryDay]

That's just ridiculous! Very sad to hear a team would back out of a sectional game for any reason. Unfortunate that batavia the next seed was not allowed to play that game instead

[Rochester14]

Well I left the Palmac game with about 10 to go and they were up 3-0. Looks like they'll be playing Sutherland on saturday..

[soccerball]

I know Eastridge beat Sutherland in the regular season and they have some very good players. Does anyone think that they stand a good chance to beat Aquinas in the next round?

[AllDayEveryDay]

Eastridge will get beat bad by AQ. Too much talent on the AQ side for eastridge to handle.

[Rochester14]

I think this game could end up being really close actually. I agree that AQ is the much better soccer team, and has many more skilled players. On the other hand Eastridge is a dirty, scrappy, aggressive team, which I think could cause AQ some problems. Their physical play could definitely take AQ out of their game, but if AQ can keep their heads together after being hit with a few cheap shots from time to time, then yes I think they'll beat up on Eastridge. I can see this game going either way, should be a good one..

[TalkMoneyTakeMoney3]

I don't think it will be very close because even though the eastridge team is dirty and scrappy, the can't handle to take it themselves. A cheap foul may or may not get called by the refs but they sure will hear about it either way like they got their leg broken. This is especially true with the martello brothers, talented yet competitive. This good prove to be a downfall with Eastridge this year in sectionals

[TalkMoneyTakeMoney3]

Could Prove **

[AllDayEveryDay]

Who is this guy? He cant even type correctly. But I totally agree with him. Eastridge will give up a foul that will lead to an AQ goal and then complain about it and just get out of their game and the downfall will begin.

[whistleblower]

Again I like AQ, they have a great draw. I do not see Eastridge getting over on AQ, they can't play Monroe again.

[AllDayEveryDay]

My point exactly. They can blow out teams like monroe, btw who is monore? But when they play the "big boys" they cant hang. I know they beat sutherland but they put like 10 guys on D. My prediction 5-0 AQ

[Soccerpater]

"I know they beat sutherland but they put like 10 guys on D."

Plus they had a little favorable refereeing to assist them ;).

[AllDayEveryDay]

The whole system is a joke!! Mendon gets a free pass, eastridge got assisted in beating sutherland in the regular season. Its all a joke!

[soccerball]

It will all play out now as we are getting down to the quarter-finals. It is kind of neat that Class A has 3 or 4 strong teams that I could see winning sectionals. It has been all practice up to now. Good luck to all.

[Rochester14]

Sutherland wins 6-1 and moves on to play Victor who beat Mendon 5-3. Should be a great match..

[whistleblower]

Why was this game moved to Monday from Saturday?

[CState90]

"I know they beat sutherland but they put like 10 guys on D."

Plus they had a little favorable refereeing to assist them ;).

If Soccer "Father" had a clue, he would realize that if putting 10 guys on Dan would leave an awful lot of free players. Sutherland should then have been able to score. So, speak or quote others when you actually understand anything. Also, in reference to favorable officiating; on a free kick, when a player is on the opponents goal line next to the keeper when the ball is played, that is what is called offside! And yes, that can happen twice. Perhaps, the 8 or so free kicks that were awarded to Pitts. in the 1st half from about 20 yards out (and not converted) were lost in your memory.

[Soccerpater]

"Sutherland should then have been able to score."

They did, twice. And twice the goals were waved off. That's pretty unusual in ANY soccer game. Once is unusual. Twice is virtually unheard of. I'd say the team that benefited from such unusual events benefited from the refereeing, regardless of the number of free kicks.

And repeated fouling attempting to disrupt another team's offense is usually by rule penalized by yellow and ultimately red cards. So once again the absence of cards being issued to one team, versus the other, is a benefit of refereeing going to one team and not the other.

Thus I think my original comment stands that one team benefited enormously from the decisions made by the referees, such as disallowing multiple goals from one team and allowing excessively physical play without issuing cards for repeated fouls. It may be within the referees' prerogatives, but it certainly benefited one team in this particular game.

I doubt E. Irondequoit will be the recipient of such remarkable refereeing when they play the perennial favorite Aquinas tonight. Good luck and may the best team win.

As far as your condescending and rude tone, that speaks volumes for your sportsmanship (none), civility (even less) and bias (notable).

[soccerball]

Victor vs Sutherland and HFL vs Aquinas

Any predictions????

Sutherland and HFL are the higher seeds and are ranked higher in local polls as opposed to their opponents. With that said, I think both of these games are a toss up....especially if it is rainy weather Thursday.

Should be real fun games to watch.

[Soccerpater]

I agree that bad weather can equalize games. Of the teams, Sutherland and Aquinas are the more skilled, but both Victor and HFL are very athletic, fast and physically strong, and not without high level skills either. The refereeing can also play a role. If the referees allow intensely physical play, outside the rules (tackles from behind, lots of pushing, pulling and such), Victor and HFL will have a better chance of victory, based upon my observations of these teams, particularly the Victor/Sutherland game earlier this year won by Sutherland 2-1. Refereeing that enforces the rules literally will favor Sutherland and Aquinas, as speed, skill and finesse teams. Not that they cannot play physical and tough, but this plays away from their strengths and areas of superiority (passing, organization). Sutherland and Aquinas should win, but at this point in sectionals, especially in bad weather, the teams are close enough in ability that it can easily go either way. If HFL or Victor or both win, it will likely be because on Thursday they were the better team(s). But my guess is that if these teams played ten times each, Sutherland and Aquinas would win seven or eight times out of ten.

[Rochester14]

I'm predicting Sutherland/Aquinas final. Although your def. right if it rains on thursday, it's going to make things interesting...

[AllDayEveryDay]

HFL and Sutherland, I said it from the start. Too much fire power on both sides

[soccerball]

Just my opinion.... I think Sutherland will win in the first game, but I think Aquinas will win the second game.

HFL will probably try to mark-up Aquinas' high scorers and play very aggressive, but I don't think that will keep Aquinas from scoring. I have a feeling HFL will be playing defense for most of the game.

We all know that anything can happen, but unless it is raining hard, I think Aquinas will win here (4-1).

[whistleblower]

Aq is just to much for HFL. They know how to play on the Turf

I like Sutherland as well, they seem to be back on track