The eighth state rankings for the 2016 the season have been released by the NYSSWA.  Below are the WNY teams that made the cut:

 

Class AA

No teams ranked

 

Class A 

Canisius #3

Park #4

Amherst #8

Williamsville South #14

McKinley #20

 

 Class B

Olean #1

Walsh #11

St. Mary's #16

Health Sciences #22

 

 Class C 

Middle College #9

Tapestry #16

 

 Class D

Panama #13

Franklinville #14

 

** According to the rankings… 

 

– Canisius beats #1 (Park) the week prior and moves up one spot from #3 to #2.  This week, they lost to #6 Greece Athena and slipped back to #3, as Athena took over the #2 spot.  

 

– Park slips to #4 in NYS Class A to make room for Greece Athena to get to #2 and continue to have Canisius (#3) ahead of Park as well.

 

I will make this rant very short…

 

 -Health Sciences falls three spots in NYS Class B for getting hammered at unranked Class A Timon by 35.  I guess I'm alright with that, but read below what happened to Walsh for losing to a ranked team in Class A by 15…

 

– Walsh loses on the road to NYS Class A #2 Canisius. The only other team in the state to beat the Eagles is Park.  Yet they drop Walsh FOUR spots in NYS Class B from #7 to #11.  What???  Do they put ANY thought into this stuff?  I feel like I'm on a hidden camera show as I'm typing this, and Neil Kerr, who heads these rankings, is about to come around the corner in his Mount Vernon T-Shirt and say "Gotcha!  You should have seen the look on your face when I said we dropped Walsh farther than Health Sciences for losing at Canisius!"

 

– Niagara Falls fell out of the rankings this after falling big at Bishop Kearney, also unranked in Class AA.

 

– Last week, Middle College hammered South Park by 20+ and completed the sweep of East, but lost to a team from PA, so they fell two spots in NYS Class C to #10.  This week, they move up to #9 after being idle all week.

 

For complete NYSSWA State Rankings, click here.

 

-centercourt