Week 4 of the Section 4 high school football season will feature a Chemung County rivalry, a meeting of New York state football royalty, and the renewal of a semi-regular matchup between top programs from neighboring Central New York sections.
A look at those matchups and the rest of this week's schedule.
Chenango Forks (4-0) at Maine-Endwell (4-0), 7 p.m. Friday : Both programs have won seven New York state championships. Only Rochester Aquinas with eight has more.
This is the second serious test in a row for Maine-Endwell, which last week beat defending Class C state champion Waverly , 42-41, in overtime in a meeting of teams ranked first in their respective classes by the New York State Sports Writer Association. Class B No. 1 Maine-Endwell averages 48.5 points per game.
Chenango Forks is ranked third in New York in Class C. The Blue Devils already own one win this season over a top-ranked New York team, handling Tioga Central 25-0 in Week 2. Last week the Blue Devils rolled to a 40-3 win against Newark Valley, the third game in a row Forks held an opponent without a touchdown.
Maine-Endwell beat Forks, 42-7, last season .
Horseheads (2-2) at Elmira (2-1), 6 p.m. Friday : This clash of Chemung County's biggest schools will also be the homecoming game for the Express.
The teams enter with opposing streaks. Elmira has wins over Vestal and Ithaca since a 16-8 season-opening loss to St. Peter's. Horseheads is coming off losses to Waverly and Owego Free Academy, both state-ranked teams.
Elmira beat Horseheads, 8-3, last year . Including playoff games, the Express has won 16 of the 18 games in the series.
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Cicero-North Syracuse (2-2) at Corning (3-0), 7 p.m. Friday : Corning gets another crack at perennial Section 3 power C-NS, which last season downed the Hawks 48-8 at the start of the season. That followed three wins by C-NS in state quarterfinals: 24-22 in 2019, 20-16 in 2021, and 36-0 in 2022.
C-NS comes off a 20-13 victory over West Genesee after falling 27-0 to defending Class AA state champion Syracuse CBA and 6-0 to Liverpool.
Corning rolled to a 73-6 win over Binghamton last week and cracked the state rankings at No. 30 in Class AA.
"We’ve just got to keep getting better," Corning coach Mike Johnston Jr. said afterward. "C-NS is a really good ballclub and traditionally big, fast and strong. They’re coming into Corning and we’re going to have to be really prepared, so our game plan is going to have to be on point."
October 3
Walton (1-3) at Oxford (0-4), 6 p.m.
October 4
Horseheads (2-2) at Elmira (2-1), 6 p.m.
Groton (3-1) at Unatego/Franklin/Unadilla Valley (3-1), 6 p.m.
Maine-Endwell (4-0) at Chenango Forks (4-0), 7 p.m.
Cicero-North Syracuse (2-2) at Corning (3-0), 7 p.m.
Bainbridge-Guilford (4-0) at Sidney (2-2), 7 p.m.
Cairo-Durham (0-3) at Greene (1-2), 7 p.m.
Chenango Valley (2-2) at Johnson City (1-2), 7 p.m.
Delhi (2-2) at Tioga (3-1), 7 p.m.
Watkins Glen/Odessa-Montour (1-2) at Waverly (3-1), 7 p.m.
Union-Endicott (0-4) at Norwich (2-2), 7 p.m.
Vestal (2-2) at Windsor (3-1), 7 p.m.
Whitney Point (2-2) at Dryden (2-2), 7 p.m.
October 5
Newfield (1-3) at Thomas A. Edison (1-2), 1:30 p.m.
Spencer-Van Etten/Candor (1-3) at Harpursville/Afton (0-4), 1:30 p.m.
Susquehanna Valley (1-2) at Newark Valley (1-3), 1:30 p.m.
Oneonta (2-2) at Owego Free Academy (3-0), 2 p.m.
Deposit-Hancock (4-0) at Lansing (3-1), 7 p.m.
Moravia (1-1) at Trumansburg (2-0), 7 p.m.
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