Leading off today: At first glance, the seeding process for the Section 2 Class C football tournament doesn't seem to make much sense. It doesn't look any prettier after second, third or fourth glances, though the unwieldy system may ultimately have gotten things right.

   Granville ended up being the odd team out in a three-way tie for third place in Class C North. Mechanicville and Tamarac were awarded the No. 3 and 4 slots, respectively, to advance to the Section 2 playoffs.

   The problem began many months ago. With newbie program Ichabod Crane playing an independent schedule, the section's 17 other Class C teams were broken into two divisions rather than three. With only seven available scheduling blocks, the football committee devised a Big Ten-like scheduling format in which North Division teams would not play all of the other teams in the division.

   Further complicating the issue, they also decided that not everyone would play the same number of games and created a rule that ended up treating Granville (4-2 in the North, 4-3 overall), Mechanicville (4-2, 4-3) and Tamarac (4-2, 5-2) as essentially tied in the North Division.

   (Editor's note: Feel free to move onto the next blog topic, because it gets a lot more gruesome from here.)

   Section 2 did have the foresight to make head-to-head results the first tiebreaker to settle problems.

   Unfortunately, they applied head-to-head criteria in a way in which no reasonable person would ever do it. Mechanicville beat Tamarac 28-27 on Friday in OT, and Tamarac beat Granville 24-22 on Sept. 18. But Granville and Mechanicville did not play each other this season, so there was no way of making an equitable ruling based on the available data.

   But the football committee did it anyway.

   "I told the kids last week, ‘Win and you’re in,’” Granville coach Mario Torres told The Post-Star. “I don’t want to look into my 35 kids’ faces and tell them despite all your hard work, you got voted out by an interpretation of the rules.”

   Torres rightly points out that his kids never had a chance to play Mechanicville to potentially leave everyone 1-1 head-to-head. He said Class C coaches met Wednesday night and voted to go with "quarter points" -- next on the tiebreaker list -- to sort out a three-way tie, but sectional football chairman Gary VanDerzee brushed that aside.

   “The Class C coaches can have a meeting, they come in with their recommendations, but they’re not the governing body," he told the paper. "Section 2 is.”

   The quarter points tie-breaker probably would have gone against Granville anyway, but that's not the point. The football committee needs to spend less time railing at the NYSPHSAA over budget-inspired schedule cuts and more time creating sensible schedules and procedures.

   Boys soccer: Bronxville, ranked 16th in Class B by the NYSSWA, traveled to No. 7 Center Moriches on Saturday

and came away with a 5-1 victory. Ilya Dubinski had three goals and John Timoney added two goals and two assists to help the Broncos beat the reigning NYSPHSAA champs. Goalie Jack Conners stopped six shots.

   CTK PG to GMU: Christ The King point guard Corey Edwards committed to George Mason University

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following a weekend recruiting visit.

   Edwards was a hot prospect before dislocating an ankle early in the CHSAA playoffs last March. Coupled with the shoulder injury that curtailed his freshman season, that scared off some schools -- but not George Mason.

   "I definitely think schools were saying that I was damaged goods or injury prone, but George Mason was there no matter what, since my freshman year," Edwards told The New York Daily News.

   Showing their support: In a show of support for former varsity head coach Ralph Novi, now an assistant, players and coaches on the Newark Valley varsity and JV football teams shaved their heads at a benefit pancake breakfast Saturday.

   That night, Novi was on hand as the Cardinals posted a 20-13 victory over Trumansburg to capture the Section 4 Division VI championship.

   "It was pretty emotional, especially after the game with all the kids seeing Ralph," coach Jack Short told The Press & Sun-Bulletin. "They really wanted to win it for him. He's a hero to a lot of kids on the team."

   Troy Schiess's 1-yard TD run late in the third quarter to cap a nine-play drive was the winning margin.

   Short told the paper Novi's cancer is not terminal and that he is wrapping up treatment.

   Hottest harriers: The outstanding TullyRunners.com site ranks Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake senior Otis Ubriaco as the state's No. 1 male runner heading into the final month of the cross country season.

   Ubriaco grades out slightly ahead of Sam Place of Saratoga and Edward Owens of Packer Collegiate in the extensive listings.

   The girls list is topped by No. 1 Aisling Cuffe of Cornwall, followed by Fayetteville-Manlius soph Jillian Fanning and Pittsford Mendon's Shaylyn Tuite.

   Extra points: Phoenix backup quarterback Mariah Provost scored her first career touchdown on a four-yard run in a 33-19 loss to Homer over the weekend.