By PAUL GOTHAM
This week’s rankings from the New York State Sportswriters Association include 17 Section V squads. Of those, 11 will take the court this weekend including one head-to-head matchup and an inter-sectional tilt featuring teams numbered among the best in the state.
Le Roy (No. 22 NYSSWA Class B) welcomes Livingston County Athletic Association (LCAA) rival Avon for a rematch, Friday. The Oatkan Knights (12-2), winners of eight straight, will look to avenge a 42-34 loss when the two teams met in early December. Avon (14-1/No. 6 NYSSWA Class B) has taken back-to-back decisions since falling to Lyons, 51-45.
Le Roy is coming off a four-point win (62-58) over Dansville earlier in the week and a 78-73 victory at York (No. 18 NYSSWA Class C) last week.
Avon won at Rochester Prep (52-48) this past Tuesday.
Le Roy scores 64.2 points per game and allows 50.2. Avon accounts for 61.7 points and limits opponents to 46.9.
Avon is 4-0 in LCAA Division II and a win gives the Braves a two-game advantage over Le Roy (3-1).
The game features a pair of 1,000-point career scorers in Avon’s Michael Rowland (1,019) and Le Roy’s Merritt Holly, Jr. (1,554 points).
Rowland finished with a double-double and scored a game-high 17 points when the two teams met earlier. Holly, who has topped the 40-point mark in three separate games this season, was held to 13 points on 4-of-11 shooting in Avon’s victory.
A 7 PM tipoff is scheduled.
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York (11-3) will look to end the third-longest active winning streak (per NewYorkStateHighSchoolBasketball.com) in the state when the Golden Knights host reigning NYS Class C champion Randolph (No. 1 NYSSWA Class C) on Saturday. Randolph has won 17 straight games dating back to last February when the Cardinals lost to Section VI foe Salamanca, 59-48.
All three of York’s losses have come to teams currently ranked in the state: Avon (62-47), Le Roy (78-73) and Wheatland-Chili (No. 17 Class C/49-46). The Golden Knights score 73.6 points per game and allows 51.1.
Randolph scores 58.3 and allows 40.9. Drew Hind scores 22.2 points per game to lead the Cardinals.
A 2:30 PM tip-off is scheduled at York.
Other ranked teams in action this weekend:
No. 2 Greece Athena (14-0) vs. UPrep (7-6) Saturday 12:45 PM
No. 29 Penfield (10-3) vs. Northeast (4-11) Friday 7:15 PM
No. 20 Wayne (12-2) at Mynderse (9-4) Friday 7:30 PM
No. 9 Hornell (11-3) at Livonia (7-8) Friday 7:00 PM
No. 8 Lyons (12-2) at Sodus (8-3) Friday 7:00 PM
No. 17 Wheatland-Chili (9-3) at Caledonia-Mumford (4-10) Saturday 2:30 PM
No. 5 Avoca-Prattsburgh (8-6) at Campbell-Savona (1-14) Friday 7:15 PM
State-ranked squads not in action this weekend:
Class AA
No. 18 Aquinas (15-1)
Class A
No. 2 East (11-1)
No. 10 Monroe (9-2)
No. 29 Pittsford Sutherland (10-4)
Class B
No. 10 Canisteo-Greenwood (12-1)
Class C
No. 19 Byron-Bergen (10-3)
No. 22 Pembroke (7-3)
REST OF THE WEEKEND SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
Eugenio Maria DeHostos at Rochester Academy 6:00 PM
Greece Odyssey at Rochester Prep 6:00 PM
Greece Olympia at Early College 6:15 PM
Lyons at Sodus 7:00 PM
Hornell at Livonia 7:00 PM
Avon at Le Roy 7:00 PM
Caledonia-Mumford at Mount Morris 7:00 PM
Perry at Letchworth 7:00 PM
Keshequa at Pavilion 7:00 PM
Irondequoit at Eastridge 7:00 PM
Addison at Hammondsport 7:15 PM
Avoca-Prattsburgh at Campbell-Savona 7:15 PM
Dansville at Wayland-Cohocton 7:15 PM
Webster Thomas at Pittsford Mendon 7:15 PM
Northeast at Penfield 7:15 PM
Churchville-Chili at Greece Arcadia 7:15 PM
Hilton at Fairport 7:30 PM
Cuba-Rushford at Friendship-Scio 7:30 PM
Andover-Whitesville at Bolivar-Richburg 7:30 PM
Genesee Valley-Belfast at Houghton 7:30 PM
Wayne at Mynderse 7:30 PM
Midlakes at Palmyra-Macedon 7:30 PM
Newark at Waterloo 7:30 PM
Marcus Whitman at Geneva 7:30 PM
Geneseo at Fillmore 7:30 PM
SATURDAY
Bishop Kearney at Horseheads (IV) TBD
Bloomfield at Harley-Allendale-Columbia 11:30 AM
UPrep at Greece Athena 12:45 PM
Elba at Jasper-Troupsburg 2:00 PM
Early College at Palmyra-Macedon 2:00 PM
Spencerport at Albion (VI) 2:00 PM
Wheatland-Chili at Caledonia-Mumford 2:30 PM
Randolph (VI) at York 2:30 PM
Waterloo at Northstar Christian 5:00 PM
Liverpool (III) at Victor 5:30 PM
Rush-Henrietta at McQuaid 6:30 PM
School of the Arts at East Rochester 7:00 PM
Notre Dame-Batavia vs. Batavia at Genesee CC 8:00 PM
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