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Baldwinsville coach hoped to be proven wrong. A perfect record and section crown did it (43 photos)

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Baldwinsville’s Cole Szlosek celebrates a goal past Cicero-North Syracuse’s Carter Pallotta in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse Cayden Pallotta (18) battles for a 50/50 ball with Baldwinsville’s Brayden Mooney (13) in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Baldwinsville celebrates defeating Cicero-North Syracuse in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse Cayden Pallotta (18) battles for a 50/50 ball with Baldwinsville’s Brayden Mooney (13) in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Baldwinsville celebrates defeating Cicero-North Syracuse in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Baldwinsville celebrates defeating Cicero-North Syracuse in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Baldwinsville celebrates defeating Cicero-North Syracuse in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse Cayden Pallotta (18) battles for a 50/50 ball with Baldwinsville’s Brayden Mooney (13) in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Cicero-North Syracuse vs. Baldwinsville in the Class AAA Boy’s soccer sectional finals at Fulton High School Thursday, October 29, 2026, in Fulton, N.Y. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com

Fulton, N.Y. — It’s not often a coach opens his championship postgame speech by admitting he was wrong — and being thrilled about it. But that’s exactly what Baldwinsville boys soccer coach Nate Bourdeau did Thursday.

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