Date and time: Friday, noon, at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse.

   Teams: Tuckahoe Tigers (Sec. 1) vs. Caledonia-Mumford Red Raiders (Sec. 5).

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   Records: Tuckahoe is 9-1, Cal-Mum is 11-1.

   Rankings: Cal-Mum is ranked No. 1 and Tuckahoe No. 2 by the New York State Sportswriters Association.

   Coaches: John D'Arco (Tuckahoe) and Mike Monacelli (Cal-Mum).

   Digging inside the schedules: Class D, my foot. Tuckahoe played almost exclusively against Class C competition since Haldane is the only other Class D squad in the section and ran up a 398-76 scoring margin. The lone blemish was a 33-19 loss to Bronxville, which is merely 11-0 and playing for the state Class C crown this weekend, and no one else tacked up more than 13 points vs. the Tigers.

   Cal-Mum's loss came in Week 2 by a 13-0 margin to Letchworth, which easily could have been the other Class C finalist this weekend. The Red Raiders outscored their opponents by 443-89 and rattled off five straight shutouts beginning in midseason.

   With the exception of the games against Letchworth and LeRoy, which had a down year, all of Cal-Mum's games were vs. Class D opponents.

   About Tuckahoe: Jarret Sommer has rolled up a gaudy 1,017 yards on just 101 carries and scored 13 TDs on the ground in his fourth season on the varsity. He stands at 3,503 yards for his career. Behind him are three 500-yard rushers (Luis Esquilin, Kevin Garabitos and Gary Jennings). Garabitos is 25-for-47 for 478 yards and seven TDs through the air, including 13-for-15 for 236 yards over the first five weeks of the season.

   Sommer is coming off a 128-yard effort vs. Moriah in the state semifinals as the senior-heavy (19 of them) Tigers avenged their loss in the 2008 playoffs. The offense averages 334.2 rushing yards per game.

   Junior end Gary Moss has paced the defense with four tackles per game and 10 sacks this season. Two-way senior linemen Kevin Chen and John Jubilee are the keys to controlling the line of scrimmage.

   Here's a quote to keep in mind: "We could have more talent on this team than when we won the state” (in 2008), D’Arco told The Journal News. The significance is that he

said that more than a month before the opener, and we all know coaches tend to be very reluctant to go that far out on a limb that early.

   About Cal-Mum: Sophomore Madison Suhr is 7-for-7 for 133 yards and a TD in two state playoff games. He replaced junior Matt Hartford (arm injury) at the beginning of the month and is 3-0, though Hartford has been able to stay on the field as the starting safety.

   Despite the arial efficiency, Cal-Mum has always been about running the ball. The Red Raiders do that

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quite well, having chewed up Avon for 445 yards and Dundee for 254 to qualify for states, but the attack slowed down considerably against Silver Creek (53 carries, 163 yards) and Walton (43 for 181). That should send up warning flares, though 5-foot-5 junior Jon Cappotelli is averaging 9 yards a game in the state tournament. Tyler Lauffer is the other threat in the backfield, though his workload has diminished the past two weeks.

   Cal-Mum bent but didn't break against Walton in the semifinals, forcing two turnovers on fumbles inside the Red Raiders 5 to set up a 24-10 victory despite allowing 195 yards on the ground for the afternoon.

   Cal-Mum literally doesn't have a kicking game, opting to go for two-point conversions after all its TDs and squibbing its kickoffs.

   Past championships: The Tigers won their state championship in 2006 after having lost in 1993 and 2004.

   Cal-Mum, 19-4 in state tourney games under Monacelli, is playing on Thanksgiving weekend in Syracuse for the sixth time, have won three in a row beginning in 1993 and also triumphing in 2003.

   Making a pick: Any fan of small-school, smash-mouth football has to love the Cal-Mum tradition and style, but the Red Raiders have already slightly overachieved this season. Tuckahoe is speedy, talented and experienced, and the steady diet of Class C competition is bound to help.

   The pick is Tuckahoe 21, Cal-Mum 12.