Saturday: Victor, Thomas,Penn Yan and Aquinas Win Semis
May 23, 2015 -
The Class B semi finals were close, as both Victor and Thomas struggled, at times, but won their shot to play each other in the Championships. In the Class C semis, Penn Yan and Aquinas had no trouble winning their tickets to the Championships.
The pairings are now set for next Wednesday at St. John Fisher College. Penn Yan will play Aquinas in the first game, Pittsford will play Penfield in the second game and Victor will play Thomas in the third game. The Class A, Class B and Class C brackets have been updated.
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Victor 12 - Canandaigua 9 |
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-- NOTES: Top seeded Victor scored the opening three goals and led 7-1 in the first quarter on their way to a 12-9 win over fourth seeded Canandaigua. The Blue Devils dominated the opening half before slowing down in the second half and allowing Canandaigua to get back in the game. The Braves held Victor scoreless for the first 21 minutes of the second half with the lone Blue Devil coming with 3:14 left in the game. The Braves scored eight of their nine goals in two four goal spans. The first came to finish the first and start the second quarter and the second spanned the end of the third and beginning of the fourth.
Both teams had strong offensive efforts. Leading the scoring for Canandaigua was attackmen Connor Hulme (2g-1a), Ben Smith-Wilcox (3g), Tim Bay (3a) and Devin Andrews (3g). The final Braves goal was scored by midfielder Mitchell Schaeffer in man-up. Victor's scoring was more spread out with seven different players scoring goals. Leading the Blue Devils was attackman Drew Collins (3g-1a). All-American face off midfielder TD Ierlan finished at 64% (14/25). He also led his team in ground balls with 10.
Victor scored seven of the first eight goals. Five of the seven goals were scored unassisted with straight dodges to the cage. The Blue Devils scored three goals in 12 seconds with Jamie Trimboli scoring with an outside shot followed by back to back face-off fast-break goals from Ierlan (both unassisted goals where he went right from the face-off ground ball to the cage). Victor led 7-2 after the first quarter.
The Braves came into the second quarter and scored three unanswered goals to bring the game within two. Andrews scored two unassisted goals and Hulme scored on face-off fast break with an assist across the crease from Tim Bay. Victor turned the game around in the final six minutes and scored four unanswered goals to take back the six goal lead. Trimboli scored an unassisted goal with 6:03 remaining with an impressive inside dodge for the Blue Devils.
As in the second quarter, the Braves came out of halftime and scored four unanswered goals. Smith-Wilcox scored the opening goal on man-up with a feed from Bay. Then the Braves scored two unassisted goals from Andrews and Hulme. The fourth goal was a face off fast break by Smith-Wilcox from Bay. The final goal of the game was a man-up goal by Collins (assisted by Ryan Maloney).
Between the pipes, Chayse Ierlan finished with seven saves for Victor. Defenseman Brandon Kunick had a strong game with 4 ground balls and 5 takes. For the Braves, Luke MacNeil finished with five saves. Face off midfielder Nick Johnson led his team with seven ground balls. Defenseman Michel McClain and midfielder Joe Como finished with three ground balls each.
Victor continues on to play Thomas on Wednesday at St. John Fisher.
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Penn Yan 17 - Wayne 3 |
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-- NOTES: Penn Yan will play Aquinas on Wednesday at St. John Fisher College. The game is scheduled for 3:30 and the admission, charged by Section V, will be $5.00.
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Aquinas 14 - Newark 5 |
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-- NOTES: Third seeded Aquinas defeated tenth seeded Newark 15-5. The Reds, who were previously the lowest seed currently in the tournament, kept the game close the first half before the Little Irish scored eight unanswered goals in the third and fourth quarters. Newark scored the final goal of the contest. In the cage for Aquinas, Tony Deleo finished with four saves. Defensemen Tyler Olbrich and Jack Owens each finished with nine ground balls to lead the Little Irish. Midfielder Elliot Clemmons and attackman Jonathan Parrinello added five each. The Reds, Conor Tickner finished with 11 saves.
Aquinas, who now becomes the lowest seed left in the tournament, will face top seeded Penn Yan on Wednesday at St. John Fisher.
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Thomas 14 - Irondequoit 12 |
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-- NOTES: In a game that was plagued by penalties, second seeded Webster Thomas defeated sixth seeded Irondequoit 14-12. The first half was relatively tame with two personal penalties and one technical. However, in the second half there were nine personals and seven technical. Although Irondequoit scored the opening goal, the Titans tied or led the game for 47:52 of the 48:00 contest. The game was only tied once at 1-1 before the Titans took the 2-1 lead and although the Eagles kept the game close and appeared to be ready to take the game, they never were tied again.
Daniel Doktor scored the opening goal of the game with a dodge from the left side of the cage. Doktor finished with a team leading 4 goals. Three other Eagles scored 2g-1a (Andrew Knope, John Lombardi and Trevor Carney). Thomas scored three goals straight. Eight seconds after Doktor`s goal, face off midfielder Cam Isaac won the draw himself and found Christian Nairy open for the goal. Isaac finished at 53% (8/15). He also led the Titans in ground balls with six. Isaac scored the second goal with an outside shot and Nairy scored the third goal off and inside feed from Kevin Hill. Hill was the leading scorer for the Titans with 6g-2a. He finished with 16 shots (10 on cage) and was responsible for 40% of the shots for the Thomas. Irondequoit scored the final goal of the quarter with a drive from behind the cage by Doktor. Thomas led 3-2 after the first quarter.
The Titans increased their lead to three goals after the second quarter, outscoring the Eagles 4-2 in the second quarter. The opening goal of the quarter was an impressive inside dodge from Matt Fiore. The teams alternated goals until Thomas scored two back to back with a 5-4 goal from Hill (assisted by Isaac) and an unassisted goal from Hill. The latter Hill goal was scored after he stripped the ball off a defenseman and scored. Thomas led 7-4 at the halftime.
Irondequoit came back in the third quarter and cut the Thomas lead to one. Lombardi scored his first goal of the game with a dodge to the crease at 11:15 remaining. Both teams scored of face-off fast-breaks to have 3 more goals scored in 26 seconds. Thomas scored two back to back goals with Isaac scoring unassisted at 11:09 and 11:00. Doktor scored an unassisted goal with an inside dodge at 10:49. The Eagles kept up their pressure and scored four out of five straight goals. When the penalties began to pile up in the third and fourth quarter, four goals were scored in man-up situations (three for IQ and one for RLT). The next three goals were all scored man-up: Carney for Irondequoit, Hill for Thomas, and Carney for Irondequoit. The final goal of the quarter was another goal from Knope with a drive along the left side. Thomas led 10-9 after three.
Thomas scored back to back goals to start off the fourth quarter and basically secure their win. Hill scored on fast-break and then less than one minute later Fiore scored on another fast-break. Scoring continued to alternate for the remainder of the contest. Titan goalie Davis Bird had an outstanding game between the pipes and accrued 15 saves (56%). Bird was a major factor in holding off a late Eagle advance. For Irondequoit, Max Eismann finished with 10 saves. John Lombardi led in ground balls with 10. Carney added four and defenseman Sean Keefe added three.
Thomas continues on to play top seeded Victor on Wednesday at St. John Fisher.
