Kicking off: Shane Smith engineered a 13-play, 86-yard touchdown drive late in the fourth quarter to lift Fredonia over two-time defending state champion Southwestern in the Section 6 Class C final last night at Ralph Wilson Stadium.

   It snapped the Trojans' 38-game winning streak, the third-longest active run in the country.

   Trailing by 10-6 midway through the fourth quarter after a 24-yard field goal by Southwestern's Jimmy Rauh, Alex Ippolito (five carries, 86 yards) began the winning drive with a 29-yard run. The Hillbillies moved to the Southwestern 20 with less than a minute left, and a 13-yard pass from Smith to Ippolito got the ball to the 7-yard line with :29 left. After a timeout, Smith threw from the shot gun and hit Tyler Buckley in the end zone.

   "This means a lot because we have so much respect for that program," Fredonia coach Bob Ball told The Buffalo News. "I can't say enough good things about Southwestern over the years, so to be able to come up and make plays to beat them, we feel very good."

   Smith ran 19 times for 73 yards to go along with his 75 yards passing for eighth-ranked Fredonia. He also led the defense with 11 tackles.

   First down: The Section 6 tripleheader in Orchard Park ended after midnight and in dramatic fashion.

   Junior Stephen Hughes kicked a 37-yard field goal as time expired to give No. 5 Clarence a 31-28 victory over No. 21 Orchard Park for the Class AA championship. It was Hughes' first varsity attempt at a field goal.

   "Stephen Hughes -- unbelievable," Clarence QB Zach Lauricella said. "His first attempt at a field goal and he drains it for the Section VI championship. Unbelievable."

   Clarence built a 28-14 lead but the Quakers rallied behind junior running back Okoya Anderson (38 carries, 173 yards, three touchdowns) to tie it at 28. Kyle Witkowski hit senior Connor Hicks with a 25-yard TD pass with 7:47 left to make it 28-28.

   AFter the teams traded missed opportunities, Lauricella (18-for-39, 325 yards) hit Nickolay Mohan on a 45-yard pass play down the left side to get Clarence to the Orchard Park 20 with :20 left. The Red Devils ran the clock down to :05, then Orchard Park used a timeout to ice the kicker.

   "I looked (Hughes) in the eye and I said, 'Can you make it?' " coach Tom Goddard told The Buffalo News. "And he said, 'Yeah I can.' He got in and you saw what he did."

   Clarence moves into the NYSPHSAA quarterfinals vs. Rush-Henrietta, which dominated Irondequoit 46-7.

   QB Ashton Broyld ran for four touchdowns in the first half and threw a scoring pass. Broyld rolled up 225 yards on 20 carries for No. 6 Rush-Henrietta (10-0) in Section 5's state qualifier game.

   The Royal Comets finished with 516 yards of offense.

   Second down: A trio of Section 2 unbeatens advanced to the state tournament. Troy, Hoosick Falls and Cambridge won in classes AA, C and D respectively.

   No. 7 Troy rolled up a whopping 374-18 margin in rushing yards to dominate Shenendehowa 38-0. Jordan Canzeri ran for 173 yards and four touchdowns as the Flying Horses earned their seventh Section 2 title for and first since 2000.

   No. 4 Hoosick Falls piled up the game's final 40 points to thrash No. 7 Chatham 61-28. Sophomore Brad Burns (five TDs) and junior Tanner Williams combined for 449 and six touchdowns.

   No. 7 Cambridge topped No. 14 Rensselaer, a two-time defending champ, 25-0 for its record 11th Section 2 crown. Senior Matt Best rushed for 146 yards and a touchdown, and Will Bromirski intercepted two passes.

   Halftime: Fullback Nick Gilbo ran for two touchdowns, including the game-winner in overtime, and Zack DeSimone picked off a pass to seal Moriah's 14-7 win over Ticonderoga in the Section 7/10 Class D championship game.

   The Vikings closed the third quarter with a 59-yard scoring drive during which Gilbo carried the ball on nine of the 12 plays. His 1-yard TD run tied the score.

   The Vikings got the ball first in OT and stayed alive with a personal-foul penalty on a fourth-down incompletion. Gilbo (30 carries, 88 yards) scored from the 1 for the lead.

   On its possession, Ticonderoga got to the 2 before DeSimone intercepted Miles Austin's third-down pass in the end zone.

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   Third down: Corning scored two TDs in the final 10 seconds before halftime to take command en route to a 32-13 victory over Binghamton in the Section 4 Class AA championship game.

   The No. 8 Hawks scored on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Jason Smith to Zach Moore with :09.4 left in the second quarter to cap a 10-play, 59-yard drive. Following the kickoff, the Patriots threw deep only to have the ball picked off by Johns Hopkins lacrosse recruit Jordan Frysinger, who returned the ball 70 yards for a touchdown as time expired in the half.

   "I couldn’t have predicted this when we went out Day 1 of double sessions,” Corning coach Tim Hughes told The Leader. “Give credit to the kids, they worked hard for this. They had this goal set in their minds and they went out and they did it. I’m so proud of them.”

   Frysinger had 148 rushing yards.

   Fourth down: Wallkill got a 10-yard TD run by Eric Wellmon with 2:05 remaining for a 24-15 and held off Cornwall by a 24-22 final score in the Section 9 Class A final.

   Wallkill stopped Cornwall on downs at the 4 before Wellmon's TD broke open a 17-15 game. Defender Jahsiem Davis stopped Syracuse-bound running back Tyree Smallwood for a 2-yard loss on fourth down.

   “Jahsiem is just a tremendous athlete on the edge,” Wallkill coach Brian Vegliando told The Times Herald-Record. “He refuses to be blocked, he just continues to make plays. He has a motor and he never stops until he gets there.”

   It was Wallkill's second win of 2010 vs. Cornwall. Before this fall, the Green Dragons hadn't lost to a Section 9 Class A opponent in six years.

   In a Class A game not nearly as close, Whitesboro captured the Section 3 championship by dominating Watertown 55-14 at the Carrier Dome. Tailback Steve Almond had 18 carries for 204 yards and four touchdowns.

   “I had a little anger in me,” he told The Post-Standard. “I had to show them how Whitesboro football is really played.”

   QB Bradee Holtslag started the game with nine straight completions and finished 10-for-12 for 202 yards and two TDs.

   Quick kicks: Chester got it done.

   A year after the Hambletonians were steamrolled by Eldred 45-6 in the title game, Chester pulled off a 34-10 triumph over Livingston Manor/Roscoe in the Section 9 Class D final.

   Running back Travis Mann rushed for 209 yards on 29 carries and scored touchdowns on runs of 8, 23 and 1 yards to lead the way. With Chester leading 14-8, Mann carried 10 times for 71 yards on a 12-play, 75-yard scoring drive. He capped it with an 8-yard run for the first of his three TDs.

   “This is my senior year,” Mann told The Times Herald-Record. “It's a great feeling to know we're going farther into the playoffs. It's just not the Section 9 title anymore. We're going farther than that.”

   The stat sheet: Abraham Lincoln completed its first perfect PSAL regular season in 10 years by beating New Dorp 38-0. The last time the Railsplitters went 9-0 was in 2000, they were upset by Port Richmond in the quarterfinals.

   On the night Lincoln honored former player Emmanuel Williams, the younger brother of star defensive end/tight end Ishaq Williams who was murdered last year at the age of 15, Ishaq caught a 20-yard touchdown pass and had a pair of sacks.