{"id":421779,"date":"2026-01-22T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421779\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:59:19","slug":"latest-state-boys-hockey-rankings-section-iii-champ-cracks-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421779\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest state boys hockey rankings: Section III champ cracks top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/highschoolsports\/\" title=\"Navigate to High School Sports News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High School Sports News<\/a>Published: Jan. 22, 2026, 9:00 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"High School Hockey: Cicero-North Syracuse vs West Genesee\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NQYNXX6JKRCFLD4NF3RB2A4QDY.jpg\"  \/>Greg Wood and the West Genesee hockey team are looking at a spot at No. 10 in Division I in this week&#8217;s New York State Sportswriters Association poll.dennis nett | dnett@syracuse.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KRHSJ3FKQRFGZIPJGR7BHWME4E\">Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 Perennial Section III hockey powerhouse West Genesee is causing ripples across the state again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O4BONGG4ORD4ZEQJHI6IJEFGHM\">The Wildcats (11-4-1), defending sectional Division I champ, soared five spots to No. 10 in this week\u2019s New York State Sportswriters Association poll. Section III\u2019s other two representatives, Rome Free Academy (12-1) and Baldwinsville (7-2-3), remain locked at No. 5 and No. 11, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YHAMV2MTUNEHHP4BQAHCNKFVGQ\">They fall behind Division I\u2019s new No. 1, Canisius. That squad replaces previous leader of the pack Orchard Park, out of Section VI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V6IPEH3WLZBT5LVXIAL5SCOI74\">In Division II, Whitesboro (9-5) remained at No. 12 and Skaneateles (11-3) held firm at 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LAUWQZJDBFCDVFRLDJJKXFH3SE\">There was turnover at the top of Division II as well, with Section IV\u2019s Hamburg taking over for Section I\u2019s Pelham.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Kramer is a general assignment sportswriter for Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. He has covered CNY colleges, the Syracuse Chiefs\/Mets and the Syracuse Crunch. He currently covers high school sports&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High School Sports NewsPublished: Jan. 22, 2026, 9:00 a.m.Greg Wood and the West Genesee hockey team are looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[52549,5,52550,52551],"class_list":{"0":"post-421779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-2026-dennis-nettdnettsyracuse-com","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-january-6","11":"tag-the-west-genesee-hockey-team-travel-to-cicero-to-take-on-cicero"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115939349031102406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}