{"id":451555,"date":"2026-02-08T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/451555\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:10:21","slug":"section-iii-d-i-boys-hockey-playoff-field-set-games-start-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/451555\/","title":{"rendered":"Section III D-I boys hockey playoff field set; Games start Wednesday"},"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>Updated: Feb. 08, 2026, 3:53 p.m.|Published: Feb. 08, 2026, 3:41 p.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\/02\/IYCPS5VLYBG25DC7C42U3FW3YY.jpg\"  \/> Matthew Schneid and his West Genesee hockey teammates will be trying to celebrate their fifth-straight Section III Division I title. dennis nett | dnett@syracuse.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZHRMGKINE5AGBHHYAM353AUN2Y\">Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 Four-time defending champion West Genesee was slotted as the No. 1 seed in Division I at the Section III boys hockey playoff meeting on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LH6RAN7BGJDLFJNSB5GI3AIEIU\">The Wildcats (15-4-1) are trailed by No. 2 RFA (16-3-1) and No. 3 Syracuse (12-7), No. 4 Cicero-North Syracuse (10-10) and No. 5 Baldwinsville (13-4-3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OUFHKNVDCBFNBMJ6P5SSIE2ORQ\">West Genesee, RFA and Syracuse won\u2019t know their quarterfinal opponents until play-in games this week are finished. The Northstars and the Bees square off in a quarterfinal Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YYLYJE3RDRFYRLDFKD74PKLK6I\"> The play-in games are: No. 7 Fayetteville-Manlius (9-9-2) vs. No. 10 Mohawk Valley (3-17) on Wednesday; No. 6 Cazenovia (12-5-2) vs. No. 11 Ontario Bay (4-13-1) on Thursday; and No. 8 Watertown IHC (10-9-1) vs. No. 9 CNY Fusion (4-15) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MJWK5KFGDBHPXHTBK6MEPVCCEY\">The Division II pairings won\u2019t be set until later this week because some teams still have makeup games. Skaneateles is the three-time defending state champ in Division II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VKTO2TLLFBDFBEPUKLSHRL6NXM\"> The finals for both divisions will be held March 2 at Upstate Medical Arena at the Oncenter War Memorial. <\/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 NewsUpdated: Feb. 08, 2026, 3:53 p.m.|Published: Feb. 08, 2026, 3:41 p.m. Matthew Schneid and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[52549,5,52550,52551],"class_list":{"0":"post-451555","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\/116037067721534374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451555","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=451555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}