Final Four Set in Class B and D
May 23, 2018 - Wednesday: DAY IN REVIEW: Both B and D brackets were broken today, but the final four are now set for the semi finals on Saturday. In the Class D bracket, #5 Bath defeated #4 Midlakes 14-9 and #6 Aquinas had upset #3 Pal-Mac 17-5. #2 Gananda beat #10 Bloomfield-Honeoye and #1 Penn Yan beat #9 Waterloo in the other quarters.
On Saturday, Penn Yan will play Bath at 11:00 and Gananda will play Aquinas at 1:30. Both games will be at Honeoye Falls-Lima.
In the Class B bracket #5 Schroeder defeated $4 Irondequoit 10-7. # 1 Victor beat #9 Churchville-Chili, #2 Thomas beat #7 Brighton and #3 McQuaid Jesuit beat #6 Canandaigua.
On Saturday, Victor will play Schroeder at 11:00 and Thomas will play McQuaid at 1:30. Both games will be at Fairport High School.
NOTES: In the McQuaid vs Canandaigua game, the Vierhile brothers played against each other and their parents had to cheer for both teams. At the end of the game, senior attackman Brian Vierhile with McQuaid was the happy one and his brother Matt finished his season with Canandaigua. The win was the first for the Knights against the Braves in sixteen meetings.
Players of the Week - Group 6
May 23, 2018 - 
We are catching up this week with three players who, over the last two weeks, are worthy of note.
Defensive Player of the Week
Erik Jakobsze
Senior defenseman Erik Jakobsze was an important player when the Warriors won their big game against cross-town rival, Webster Thomas 11-10 and then again in the 11-9 HF-L win and then the 8-6 Hilton win. In the three games he combined for six take-aways and six ground balls and gave Schroeder significant ball time.
Schroeder Head Coach says "Erik is terrific player who has worked extremely hard to be in the position he is today. He is a great leader for not only our defense, but our entire team the past three seasons. He pushes himself and his teammates on a daily basis. He is a huge part of so many facets in our team strategies, and his ability to run the field in transition is second to none this season."
Offensive Player of the Week
John Mozrall
Senior attackman John Mozrall is being honored for his performances in the Brighton, Hilton and Orchard Park wins, but, in fact, he has been a very important cog in many of the Pittsford wins this season. In the 10-9 win over Brighton, Mozrall scored 5g-1a including the game winner in overtime. He leads his team in goals, assists and points and has 107 career points in his three years on the varsity.
Head Coach Andrew Whipple says: "John has done everything we have asked of him this year from playing Attack to midfield and has even taking some face offs for us. He has been a great leader for our team on and off the field."
Offensive Player of the Week
Kyle Fingar
Junior midfielder Kyle Fingar is being honored for his stellar performance in the Spartan victory over Eastridge where he scored 4g-4a including the game winner in overtime. Fingar also leads his team in goals.
Head Coach Jake Johnson says: "Kyle has been a steady contributor all year, coming up with big goals when needed. As a junior, Kyle has been named team captain and has had to take the leadership role of our young team with very little experience at the varsity level. Kyle has a great work ethic and wants to improve his game every day in practice as well as during the offseason. He is a great player for some of our younger players at the lower levels to look up to. He gets the job done in the classroom as well as on the field."
This is the sixth award group for 2018. Group five honored Klya Stuver (Fairport) and Chayse Ierlan (Victor). Group four honored Gavin Lathrop (Midlakes) and Joe Wegman (Greece Storm). Group three honored Quinn Simonson (Irondequoit) and Joe Camp (Wayne). Group two honored Brett Cunningham (Gananda) and Caleb Green (Brighton). Group one honored Jack Billitier (McQuaid), Trevor Ford (Thomas), William Fell (Penfield_ and Aiden Kenyon (Canandaigua).
Class A and C See Higher Seeds Win
May 22, 2018 - Tuesday: DAY IN REVIEW: The quarter final rounds in Classes A and C held with the higher seeded teams winning their games. Pittsford had a 6-3 win over Hilton, Penfield won their game with East United and Greece Storm had a 9-6 win over Rush-Henrietta. In Class C, Newark defeated Eastridge, Wayne ended Batavia's season and HF-L beat Livonia-Avon.
Fourth seeded Pittsford scored the first three goals and never led by less than two in their 6-3 win over fifth seeded Hilton. The Panthers and Cadets faced two weeks ago with Pittsford winning 5-3 and today was a similarly low scoring contest. Pittsford’s opening goal came from Ben DiGiovanni (2) and Ryan Dumont. DiGiovanni finished with a team leading 3g. Hilton scored their first goal 22 minutes into the game with Jordan DePetres assisting Matthew Mojsej with 2:15 remaining in the first half. Pittsford added another two goals before Hilton scored their second. The Panther’s largest lead came at 5-1 after an unassisted goal from Sonny Imburgia. The Cadets scored two of the last three goals.
On a goal in the third quarter Newark senior attackman Parker Casselman had an assist to Taylor Clements. On this play Casselman set the school record for career assists and Clements set the career record for goals. Clements also set the record for goals in a season and tied the school record for goals in a game with Casselman with eight.
In the semi final Class A round on Friday, #4 Pittsford will face #1 Fairport (5:00 PM) and #3 Greece Storm will face #2 Penfield (7:30 PM) at Webster Thomas High School. The Class C semi finals will also play on Friday at Penn Yan Academy. #4 Newark will play #1 Geneva at 5:00 PM and #3 HF-L will play #2 Wayne at 7:30 PM.
Penfield Helps East United Celebrate
May 22, 2018 - The entire Penfield team joined with the East United team to take a picture to celebrate the first time a City team played in the Section Five tournaments.
Tournaments Open with Three Upsets
May 21, 2018 - Monday: DAY IN REVIEW: As it happens in the out bracket round, upsets make for excitement and the 2018 edition saw three out of five games won by the lower seeded team. In Class B, Churchville-Chili avenged an earlier loss by beating Spencerport 7-5. Brighton and Canandaigua had no difficulty with their lower seeds by beating Brockport and Gates Chili. In Class D both out bracket games were won by the lower seeds as Waterloo defeated Marcus Whitman 9-7 and Bloomfield-Honeoye beat Mynderse 12-9.
After an 17-4 loss during the regular season, Churchville-Chili came to win during Sectionals and defeated Spencerport 7-5 to advance to the quarter final round. The Saints scored six unanswered goals and held Spencerport scoreless for over 25 minutes. The Rangers were dominated at the faceoff with Owen VanWie finishing 12/16 at the draw and a team leading eight groundballs. Jacob Buck scored the first goal of the third quarter with an unassisted goal at 11:11 to take a 6-0 lead. Spencerport finished out the game with 5 of the last six, but it was not enough to makeup for the first half. Churchville-Chili grabbed possession with two minutes remaining in the game and were able to run out the clock. The Saints move on to the next round and will face top seeded Victor on Wednesday.
After falling 11-13 earlier in the season, Waterloo defeated Marcus Whitman 9-7 in an out bracket sectional game. The game was back and forth for the first half with the scored tied at each step through 5-5. Marcus Whitman scored the game opener with an unassisted goal by Ryan Herod. He finished with 2g-1a for the Wildcats. Dylan DeLucia responded for the Indians to tie the game for the first time. Waterloo’s first lead came at 3-2 off an unassisted goal from Andre Pinkard. Halftime found the score tied 5-5. Waterloo came out of halftime and scored the only two goals of the third quarter to take the first two point lead of the game. DeLucia ad Pinkard each added one goal. The Indians kept up the pressure into the fourth with another goal from DeLucia. The Wildcats were held scoreless for 11 minutes spanning three quarters. After taking the lead, the Indians never gave it up and held the two point lead for the remainder of the game.
Advancing to Wednesday's round after todays wins are, in Class B, #9 Churchville-Chili who will travel to #1 Victor (7PM), #7 Brighton who will go to #2 Thomas (7PM) and #6 Canandaigua who will travel to #3 McQuaid Jesuit (7 PM). In Class D, advancing teams are #9 Waterloo who will travel to #1 Penn Yan (5 PM) and #10 Bloomfield-Honeoye who will travel to #2 Gananda (7PM).
| Game Results |
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| Report | 7 | Churchville-Chili | 5 | Spencerport |
| Report | 12 | Bloomfield-Honeoye | 9 | Mynderse |
| Report | 0 | Gates Chili | 14 | Canandaigua |
| Report | 2 | Brockport | 15 | Brighton |
| Report | 9 | Waterloo | 7 | Marcus Whitman |
Week in Review: Week 8
May 21, 2018 - The regular season ended on Friday with four of the five games played having an impact of the tournament seeding. Fairport, for example, played Corning and earned a 75% season with their win. Everyone team that played Fairport this year earned additional points toward seeding with that win. The Tournament seeding was released on Friday night and the games will begin on May 21st. Three hundred and eight games have been played thus far. Seventy out of Section games have been played. Section five teams have won forty-nine (70%). Victor, Thomas, HF-L, Gananda and McQuaid Jesuit ended the season at the top of their leagues.
| Games played last week: 33 |
Games played this season: 308 |
| Leagues games played last week: 10 |
Out of Section games last week: 6 |
| Undefeated teams: None |
Games scheduled for this week: 27 |
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Looking Back
As the regular season winded down on Monday, Fairport had a strong 8-3 win against Penfield, a game that could be repeated on Championship day as Fairport earned the #1 seed and Penfield earned the #2 spot. Sophomore midfielder Klay Stuver scored four goals for the Red Raiders and to date, he had 40g-12a.
A dozen games were played on Tuesday. With a 13-9 win over Aquinas, McQuaid Jesuit (12-3) won the GRALL Championship. Ryan McEvily led with 4g-1a and Jack Billitier added 3g. Jon Gaglio made 12 saves for McQuaid Jesuit including seven in the second Quarter. Canandaigua defeated Hilton 5-4 after scoring the game winning goal with 0:54 remaining in the third quarter. The game winning goal was scored by York with a feed from Tyler Goode. A strong second quarter, with five goals gave Penn Yan their 7-4 victory at Geneva this afternoon. Six Mustangs made the offensive book and scoring was spread out with Austin Blumbergs turning in 2g-1a and Colt Smith added 3g. Jeff Kinyoun recorded eight saves (67%) for the Mustangs.
On Wednesday, Brighton (8-7) beat HF-L (11-5) in a Monroe County Cross-Over game at Brighton. Brady McDermott scored 6g-1a and Owen Ronchetti added 3g for the Barons while goalie Caleb Green made 13 saves (59%). Fairport took off in the third quarter after a 3-1 half and coasted to a 10-4 win over Orchard Park (9-6) of section 6. Spencer Bell scored 3g-1a and Klay Stuver added 3g for the Red Raiders.
On Thursday there were eight games played. Canandaigua had eight players on the offensive book as they defeated Pal-Mac. Mark Belles had 2g-2a for the Braves. Geneva was a 12-5 winner over visiting Greece. Dugan Doeblin scored five goals and senior goalie Jacob Drennen finished with 11 saves (73%) for the Panthers. After a close half which saw Thomas ahead 4-3, the Titans took control in their 11-9 victory over Pittsford. Irondequoit led 6-5 at the half and was tied at 7-7 entering the last quarter but fell to Ithaca 11-10. Jack Brennan had 2g-3a and Kessel Stefano added 4g for the Eagles. Churchville-Chili finished their regular season with a great deal of excitement and a 14-8 win over Gananda. Jacob Buck scored 5 goals to lead the Saints in scoring. Ryan Terhaar tied Churchville-Chili's school record for most takes in a season with twenty-five.
On Friday the regular season ended with five games played and most of them had an impact of the tournament seeding. Gates Chili played their game of the season as they scored 15 goals and held Eastridge to 14 with Kyle Krystan leading the scoring with 4g-3a. Brighton finished their season at 8-8 with a loss to St. Joseph's (Section 6). With strong defensive play by the Red Raiders and a couple of goals from the offense, Fairport took the 6-4 victory over Corning. Gates Chili scored the last three goals of the game to defeat Eastridge 15-14 in overtime. The Spartans trailed by two with six minutes left in regulation. Dante Giunta and Kyle Krystan scored the final two regulation goals to force overtime. With 1:56 left in the first overtime period, Kyle Fingar scored the game winning goal off a feed from Blake Palozzi.
Looking Ahead
The 2018 edition of the Section Five tournaments start today with out bracket ("play-in games") in Classes B and D.
On Monday, #8 Spencerport (9-7) will host #9 Churchville-Chili (5-11), #7 Brighton (8-8) will host #10 Brockport (3-12) and #6 Canandaigua (9-7) will host #11 Gates Chili (4-12) in Class B. The winners will move on to the quarter final round on Wednesday. In Class D, #8 Marcus Whitman (6-10) will host #9 Waterloo (2-14) and #7 Mynderse (8-8) will host #10 Bloomfield-Honeoye (2-14). The winners will move on to the quarters on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, in Class A, #4 Pittsford (8-8) hosts #5 Hilton (6-10), #2 Penfield (11-5)) hosts #7 East United (2-7) and #3 Greece Storm (12-4) will host #6 Rush-Henrietta (3-13). In Class C, #4 Newark (8-8) hosts #5 Eastridge (7-9), #2 Wayne (10-6) hosts #7 Batavia (0-12) and #3 HF-L (11-5) will host #6 Livonia-Avon (6-10). The winners will move on the to semi final round on Friday.
On Wednesday we will see the quarter final rounds for Classes B and D. #1 Victor (15-1) plays (Spencerport /Churchville-Chili). #4 Irondequoit (14-2) plays #5 Schroeder (11-5), #2 Thomas (14-2) plays Brighton/Brockport and #3 McQuaid Jesuit (12-3) plays Canandaigua/Gates Chili. In Class D, #1 Penn Yan (10-5) will host Whitman/Waterloo, #4 Midlakes (11-5) will host #5 Bath (10-6), #2 Gananda (13-3) will host Mynderse/B-H and #3 Pal-Mac (10-6) will host #6 Aquinas (9-7).
The semifinals are on Friday and Saturday. On Friday, the Class A games are at Webster Thomas and the Class C games are at Penn Yan. Games at both sites are at 5:00 for the higher seed and 7:30 for the lower seed. On Saturday, the Class B games are at Fairport and the Class D games are at HF-L. Games at both sites are at 11:00 for the higher seed and 1:30 for the lower seed.
It looks like there were will be some mismatches early in the tournament and some very exciting games as the tournaments progress. Of course, there are all sorts of possible seed-breaks and surprise victories.
2018 Tournament Brackets Posted
May 18, 2018 - The Brackets for the 2018 are now available on the brackets page.
In Class A, Fairport takes the top seed, with Penfield second. The Greece Storm is third and Pittsford takes the fourth place.
In Class B, Victor takes the top position with Thomas second, McQuaid Jesuit third and Irondequoit fourth.
In Class C, Geneva is first, Wayne is second, HF-L is third and Newark is fourth.
In Class D, Penn Yan takes top honors, with Gananda in second, Pal-Mac in third and Midlakes in fourth.
There is lot more information on the Tournament Page. How close are the teams in each class? Take a look at the "Seeding list".
Regular Season Ends with Five Games
May 18, 2018 - Friday: DAY IN REVIEW: The regular season ended today with five games played and most of them had an impact of the tournament seeding. Gates Chili played the game of the season as they scored 15 goals and held Eastridge to 14 with Kyle Krystan leading the scoring with 4g-3a. Brighton finished their season at 8-8 with a loss to St. Joseph's (Section 6). Gananda and Penfield both had big wins to finish their season.
Fairport played a close game with Corning (14-2), whose only loss this season was to Victor. After taking a 4-1 lead early in the game, the Hawks came back to tie the game at 4-4 to start the last quarter. With strong defensive play by the Red Raiders and a couple of goals from the offense, Fairport took the 6-4 victory to improve their record to 12-4.
Gates Chili scored the last three goals of the game to defeat Eastridge 15-14 in overtime. The Spartans trailed by two with six minutes left in regulation. Dante Giunta and Kyle Krystan scored the final two regulation goals to force overtime. With 1:56 left in the first overtime period, Kyle Fingar scored the game winning goal off a feed from Blake Palozzi. The game was a story of runs. Eastridge started off strong with the first three goals. Anthony Kimber scored the first two and assisted the third for the Lancers. Gates Chili slowly fought back to a 4-4 tie after the first twelve minutes.
In the second quarter, Eastridge pull ahead again. The Lancers started off the quarter with five unanswered goals (Clay Johnson (2), Trevor Schmidt (2) and Justyn Hiscock). Once again, the Spartans fought back. This time it was much slower. Although they pulled within a single goal four times, it wasn’t until the final tie at 14-14 that they evened up the scored for the second time. In the cage for Eastridge, Ashton Stidd recorded 13 saves. For Gates-Chili, Samuel Servati finished at 50% with 14 saves.
Geneva over Greece, Thomas Takes Pittsford
May 17, 2018 - Thursday: DAY IN REVIEW: With only a few games left in the regular season eight games were played today. Canandaigua (9-7) had eight players on the offensive book as they defeated Pal-Mac (10-6). Mark Belles had 2g-2a for the Braves. Geneva (10-6) was a 12-5 victor over visiting Greece Dugan Doeblin scored five goals and senior goalie Jacob Drennen finished with 11 saves (73%) for the Panthers. After a close half which saw Thomas (14-2) ahead 4-3, the Titans took control in their 11-5 victory over Pittsford (8-8).
Irondequoit led 6-5 at the half and was tied at 7-7 entering the last quarter, but fell to Ithaca 11-10. Jack Brennan had 2g-3a and Kessel Stefano added 4g for the Eagles who finished their regular season at 10-6.
Although Gananda(12-3) started off scoring in the game, after a tie at 2-2, Churchville-Chili (5-11) finished their regular season with a great deal of excitement and a 14-8 win. Jacob Buck scored 5 goals to lead the Saints in scoring. Ryan Terhaar tied Churchville-Chili's school record for most takes in a season with 25.
Also winning games today were Midlakes who finish at 11-5, Newark who finishes at 8-8, Wayne (10-6) who defeated Aquinas who finished at 9-7 and Livonia-Avon who defeated Waterloo.
Brighton, Fairport and Penn Yan Win
May 16, 2018 - Wednesday: DAY IN REVIEW: With three games on the last Wednesday, Brighton (8-7) beat HF-L (11-5) in a Monroe County Cross-Over game at Brighton. Brady McDermott scored 6g-1a and Owen Ronchetti added 3g for the Barons while goalie Caleb Green made 13 saves (59%).
Penn Yan used six goals in the first quarter on their way to a victory over Marcus Whitman. Conner Fingar led the Mustang offense with 5g-3a and Austin Blumbergs added 3g-3a.
Fairport (11-4) took off in the third quarter after a 3-1 half and coasted to a 10-4 win over Orchard Park (9-6) of section 6. Spencer Bell scored 3g-1a and Klay Stuver added 3g for the Red Raiders who will finish their season on Friday when they play Corning. Tim Defendis made 9 saves for the Fairport (82%).
| Game Results |
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| Report | 6 | Marcus Whitman | 18 | Penn Yan |
| Report | 10 | Fairport | 4 | Orchard Park |
| Report | 9 | HFL | 16 | Brighton |
More Than 70 Alumni Make NCAA Tournaments
May 9, 2018 -
Updated: With the start of the NCCA tournament this week, we thought it might be interesting to see how many alumni of Section Five were on teams that made the three divisions in the 2018 tournament.
We were certainly surprised to see that seventy-three players made the list. There are sixteen players on Division I teams, twenty-seven on Division II teams and thirty on Division III teams. There are an additional seven playing in the JUCO tournament. Nineteen college teams have Section Five alumni playing and the players come from twenty-three of our thirty-five Section Five teams. STORY CONTINUES
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