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Lady Knights Play Mills Wednesday @ 6 p.m.

Sun, Feb 27, 2011

Lady Knights Play Mills Wednesday @ 6 p.m.

For some, predicting post-season tournament outcomes is a dark art. For others, it's pure math.

Either way, the semifinals of the Section III Class D playoffs have come out the way many -- at least those who don't believe in Cinderella stories and dark horses -- think they ought to shape up: number one seed plays the number four seed and the number three seed plays the second seed.

That's exactly what will happen this week when:

  • one seed Copenhagen plays four seed Sackets Harbor
  • and two seed New York Mills plays four seed Hamilton. That game is Wednesday at6 p.m. at Proctor High School in Utica. In the regular season Hamilton split with New York Mills.

The finals will be next Sunday at the Utica Auditorium.

In only one instance this year did the lower seed beat the higher one. Ninth-seeded Rome Catholic sneaked past the eighth seeded. Poland 50-47. However, Rome Catholic lost to Copenhagen 64-55.

And, all of the Section III Class D games have seen plenty of scoring ... at least by one team. In every game, the winners have scored at least 50 points. Not surprisingly, some of the games have been fairly lopsided. Hamilton beat Cincinnatus by a 41-point margin (65-24) and New York Mills hammered Madison by 54 (62-8). In that game, Mill's Erica Pendrak scored 15 points; Adriana Surprenant had 19 points; and Kaila Wilkinson had 15 points.

The Section III semi-finals round includes some of the top teams in the state. It is the only section with three teams in the state's top 10: Copenhagen is third with a record of 17-0; NY Mills is fifth at 15-3 and Hamilton is seventh, also at 15-3.

Class D
1: 16-2 Coleman Catholic-9
2: 18-0 Batavia Notre Dame-5
3: 17-0 Copenhagen-3
4: 17-1 South Kortright-4
5: 15-3 New York Mills-3
6: 17-2 Hermon-DeKalb-10
7: 15-3 Hamilton-3
8: 15-4 Hammond-10
9: 16-2 Heatly-2
10: 15-3 Elba-5
11: 16-2 Hammondsport-5
12: 16-3 Jasper-Troupsburg-5
13: 15-4 Fort Ann-2
14: 13-4 Livingston Manor/Roscoe-9
15: 16-2 Indian Lake/Long Lake-7
16: 12-4 Pine Valley-6
17: 15-3 Davenport-4
18: 12-3 Sherman-6
19: 12-3 Jefferson-4
20: 14-5 Chateaugay-10

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