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# 2472 FCA set for Regional Tryouts on Dec 2nd The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is ready for their 2013 team tryouts which will be held on Sunday December 2nd. The tryouts will be held at the Total Sports Experience in Rochester from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. |
# 2417 2011 Post-Season Wrap Up Section V lacrosse added another team (Gananda) to its roster which now totals thirty-six teams and 1,076 players. |
# 2403 2011 All-Section Five List Released For the first time, Section Five Lacrosse has selected first and second team All-Section players. The 2011 first team lists nineteen players and includes the ten All-Americans previously announced. |
# 2398 GRALL Awards - 2011 The All Star list is out recognizing the GRALL players for the 2011 season. Senior attackman, Zach Reed from Haverling and senior Defenseman Jake Bailey from McQuaid Jesuit were selected as GRALL "Players of the Year". The GRALL coaches gave the Sportsmanship award to McQuaid Jesuit. |
# 2390 Monday: The Tournaments Begin with Out bracket Games The 2011 Section Five Tournaments are now underway with twelve out bracket games played today. There were two upsets in the seeding as, in Class A, #9 Greece Thunder beat #8 Greece Lightning 11-9. In Class C, #9 Mynderse won a 15-13 victory over #8 Marcus Whitman. |
# 2386 2011 Section Five All-Americans Announced he Head Coaches of Section Five met on Sunday afternoon to listen to the presentations on twenty-four players who had been nominated for All-America Team honors. The awards, sponsored by US Lacrosse, identify some of the best players from each area of the country. |
# 2382 Tuesday: Two Overtime Games and One Last Second Win There were sixteen games played in the Section today and a number of very exciting ones including a 7-6 win for Fairport over Penfield with no time left on the clock. Haverling took Aquinas in double overtime and Marcus Whitman beat Mynderse in the first overtime period. |
# 2381 Monday: B-H, BK and Whitman Win Marcus Whitman was an 18-7 winner over Mynderse, Bishop Kearney took a 12-8 victory from Batavia and Bloomfield-Honeoye won an 8-5 game against visiting Midlakes. Clarence of Section 6 held on to their undefeated season with a 9-5 win over Aquinas. |
# 2380 Saturday: Spencerport has OT win over Brockport With only one week left in the regular season, there were ten games played today in Section Five. In out of Section contest, Rush-Henrietta beat Lancaster (Section 6), Schroeder lost to Clarence (17-5). |
# 2370 Tuesday: Pittsford Remains Undefeated It was a long awaited match up and at the last moment, moved from Pittsford Mendon to St. John Fisher College, where the stands were nearly full. The Panthers scored five unanswered goals in the fourth quarter for secure a 9-4 win over Fairport. |
# 2362 Tuesday: Penfield beats Irondequoit, Brighton in OT Irondequoit was beaten tonight in a close and exciting game. Mike Larkin scored the game winning goal with 2:25 remaining. Although another large number of games were canceled due to weather/field conditions, seven other games were played. |
# 2360 Saturday: Sunshine and Surprises n the nicest game day of the season , thus far, There were lots of games and a few surprises in the Section. Haverling won a 13-10 victory over Aquinas, Brighton scored five goals in the fourth quarter to take a 12-10 win from Rush-Henrietta. |
# 2349 Thursday: It is Cold out There and AQ beats Thomas Aquinas and Webster Thomas played a close game, with the Little Irish winning 8-7 at McAvoy Park. Pittsford beat Penfield 12-2, Geneva beat Marcus Whitman (13-3) and East Rochester was a 21-3 winner over Bishop Kearney. |
# 2347 Tuesday: Eagles Fall, Canandaigua over Geneva in OT Duxbury used a third quarter flurry of goals to nail down a 10-7 victory over Irondequoit this morning. Geneva posted five goals late in the game but lost in overtime to Canandaigua (11-10) and Penn Yan defeated Lakeland/Panas 8-5 this afternoon. |
# 2346 Sectional Ranking - Week 3 There sure were a number of surprise game results last week which leads to some changes in the ranking this week. |
# 2344 Saturday: Rainy Saturday wo games were canceled due to field conditions or weather but a number of the five games that were played were interesting and exciting. |
# 2331 The 2011 Section Five Lacrosse Preview Last year we acknowledged that the "world" didn't revolve around Class A any more, and in the end, Irondequoit gave Section Five anexciting finish as they ran from the fifth seed and finished in the the State Final Four. |
# 2317 2010 Preview: Aquinas Aquinas finished their league season with a perfect 7-0 record (15-3 overall) including a win over McQuaid Jesuit during the GRALL Championship game. |
# 2278 D&C Announces 2011 All-Greater Rochester Team he Rochester Democrat and Chronicle announced their 2011 All-Greater Rochester Lacrosse team today. The list features the top sixteen players and another seventy-three honorable mentions were led by Pittsford senior midfielder and face off man, James Burke who was named "Player of the Year". |
# 2267 The Players - 2010 Team selection is always a difficult process and the second-guessing and Monday morning quarterbacks come out of the woodwork after the teams have been selected. |
# 2266 2010 Empire State Games Wrap up After a one year absence, the Empire State Games were back and Buffalo, where they had not hosted the games since 2003 put on a great show, starting with opening ceremonies with Third Eye Blind and terrific fireworks and ending with the not so unusual crowning of Long Island as Lacrosse Champs. The Central Region took the Silver medals and Western earned the bronze in 2010. |
# 2265 Sunday - Long Island - Five in a Row Adirondack looked stronger today than yesterday in their game against Western who stepped up the challenge of playing ADK back-to-back and defeated them for the second time in 24 hours, 13-7. |
# 2264 Saturday - A Shorter Day - Setting up For the Medals With the Medal Games already decided, the games on Saturday were necessary to ensure that each team played all of their competition, but they were unnecessary in determining who would play on Sunday. |
# 2263 Friday - Central over Long Island in OT The second day of the 2010 Empire State Games closed with Central holding the top Spot. Central (4-0) is the only remaining undefeated team after four games in round robin play. |
# 2260 Thursday - Long Island and Central Top Day One The first day of the 2010 Empire State Games closed with Central and Long Island holding the top spots. Central (2-0) and Long Island (2-0) were both undefeated in the first two rounds of round robin play. |
# 2258 ESG Western Team Released The 2010 Western Lacrosse team has now been announced by Head Coach Jerry Severino. |
# 2254 D&C Announces 2010 All-Greater Rochester Team The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle announced their 2010 All-Greater Rochester Lacrosse team today. The list features the top sixteen players and another sixty-four honorable mentions were led by Fairport senior attackman, Brendan Saylor who was named "Player of the Year". |
# 2252 Friday: Championship Day Only one team beat the seeding this year and that was Irondequoit, who as #5 beat McQuaid (#4), then Canandaigua (#1) and finally Thomas (#2) to take their first Class B championship since 2007. |
# 2238 2010 GRALL Awards Announced The All Star list is out recognizing the GRALL players for the 2010 season. Senior midfielder, Jeff Wester from Livonia was selected as GRALL "Player of the Year" and GRALL "All American". |
# 2237 2010 All Tournament Teams All Tournament Teams for 2010 were announced on Championship Friday. |
# 2233 Friday: Class A and Class C Quarter Finals The Class A seeds fell as predicted, with Fairport, R-H, Penfield and Pittsford all winning and the Class C did the same with Aquinas, Bloomfield-Honeoye, Penn Yan and Geneva all winning as well. R-H played a close game with Webster Schroeder and had a five goal streak in the last nine minutes for the 12-9 win. |
# 2218 Wednesday: Whitman wins on Senior Night - AQ over Timon There were two game played on Wednesday. Marcus Whitman celebrated senior night with a 10-5 victory over visiting Newark. Aquinas traveled to Buffalo and beat Bishop Timon 11-7. |
# 2216 Monday: Four Monday Games Batavia won in overtime was they defeated Eastridge 12-11. Other winners were Haverling over Mynderse, Aquinas over Canisius and Livonia over Marcus Whitman. |
# 2209 Tuesday: Penfield and Aquinas both win one goal games The 'Lil Irish came back, late in the fourth quarter to force overtime where they defeated Haverling-Haverling in overtime this afternoon at Aquinas. Penfield held off a fired-up Rush-Henrietta and won their game 13-12 in regulation. |
# 2202 Thursday: The Streak Ends, Thomas over CA After 30 straight wins, Canandaigua lost in a close game to Webster Thomas, 11-10 this afternoon. The Titans overcame a 5-4 halftime score with a strong third quarter and determination in the last quarter with the winning goal by TJ Hauck with twenty-five second left the regulation. |
# 2199 Tuesday: Eastridge wins in Double Overtime There were fifteen games played today in Section Five, a couple of close ones but mostly mismatches. Eastridge won their first game of the season using double overtime to defeat the Thunder 11-10. East Rochester beat Newark 8-7. All the other games were won by six goals. |
# 2193 Thursday: Penn Yan over Aquinas 14-6 Penn Yan, currently ranked first in the SportsFive Class C list and Aquinas, currently ranked second played tonight at Aquinas with the Mustangs winning 14-6. Of the other thirteen games played today all were won by five or more and seven were won by ten or more. |
# 2192 Tuesday: McQuaid over Penn Yan 8-7 A strong fourth quarter gave McQuaid Jesuit an 8-7 win over Penn Yan. James Sturnick dodged across the middle for the winning goal. In other action HFL defeated Churchville-Chili 9-8, Spencerport beat the Thunder 9-7, Pal-Mac won a 9-8 game with Midlakes. |
# 2190 Saturday: Fairport falls to JD 13-11 Previously unbeaten, Fairport lost its's first game of the season to Jamesville-DeWitt (Section III) this afternoon at Onondaga Community College. In other action today, Aquinas beat Webster Thomas, Pittsford beat HFL, Hilton beat Frontier, B-H beat BK and Pal-Mac beat East Rochester. Livonia, Penfield and McQuaid Jesuit has easy wins |
# 2184 Tuesday: CA over Schroeder, R-H over C-C Canandaigua continues it's winning streak (27 games) with it's 9-4 win over Schroeder. Rush-Henrietta scored six goals in the first quarter and eight in the last for their 17-9 win over Churchville-Chili. |
# 2180 Saturday: Canandaigua over Corning East Exactly one year ago, the Trojan of Corning East beat Canandaigua, but that was the last game the Braves lost all season and their winning streak, now at 26 has been preserved with their 11-9 win at Evans Field. Penn Yan won a close one with Schroeder (6-5) and Aquinas beat Irondequoit 8-4. |
# 2179 Thursday: Three Games in Double Overtime Sixteen games but three went to double overtime. HF-L beat Schroeder 8-7, Pittsford beat Thomas 13-12 and McQuaid Jesuit beat Livonia 7-6, each in the second overtime period. |
# 2178 Tuesday: Pittsford over Irondequoit, Fairport over Thomas Thirteen games were played in Section Five today. Fairport was a 15-6 winner over visiting Thomas and Pittsford defeated visiting Irondequoit 11-5. In other action Livonia won their game with Haverling in overtime, McQuaid Jesuit beat Aquinas 13-8 and Churchville-Chili beat Hilton in a close one (9-7). |
# 2174 Sunday: Aquinas 19 - St. Joseph 5 It was Aquinas over visiting St. Joseph (Buffalo, Section VI) 19-5 in a rare Sunday game. |
# 2165 Saturday: Most Games Out of Section On day number two of the 2010 season, there were six games played, and four of them were with out-of-section teams. Pal-Mac used the second half to beat East Rochester 7-3 and McQuaid Jesuit also came back with a strong second half effort as they defeated host Corning West 14-10. |
# 2163 The 2010 Team Previews For many years the focus of lacrosse at the end of the year would be mostly about the Class A teams. This year that changes, as there will be first-rate games in all three classes when it becomes tournament time. |
# 2149 Rochester Team Wins Adidas National For the second year in a row, the Rochester team won the Adidas National Tournament, sponsored by Adidas. The second year tournament was held, this year in Maryland and featured twenty teams. |
# 2134 2009 GRALL Awards Announced The All Star list is out recognizing the GRALL players for the 2009 season. Junior attaackman, Austin Gorman from Aquinas was selected as "Player of the Year". |
# 2128 Tuesday: Six Semi Final Games Livonia (#3) upset Aquinas (#2) 10-9 in a Class C game. All other games were won by the first and second seeds. Fairport beat Schroeder 9-8, Thomas beat Pittsford 10-8, Canandaigua beat Brighton 15-7 and Irondequoit was a 12-5 winner over McQuaid Jesuit. In the other Class C game, Penn Yan defeated Geneva 9-7. |
# 2122 Friday: Quarter Final Games for A and C The top four seeded teams prevailed tonight in each class as Penn Yan, Geneva, Aquinas and Livonia advanced in the Class C tournament and Fairport, SChroeder, Thomas and Pittsford advanced in the Class A tournament. The semi final round is on Tuesday. |
# 2109 Saturday: Schroeder takes Amherst 9-3 Webster Schroeder beat visiting Amherst of Section 6 (Buffalo), 9-3 in an early afternoon game in Webster. Amherst (10-3) is currently ranked 9th on the NYS Class B poll. Midlakes won their game with Pal-Mac. |
# 2108 Friday: Aquinas Claims GRALL Championship Aquinas took their second "solo" win of the GRALL Championship with a 13-7 win over McQuaid Jesuit and Livonia took third with a 10-6 win over Haverling. Canandaigua beat Newark 20-3 in Finger Lakes action. |
# 2105 Tuesday: CA, AQ and R-H all Winners in Overtime. Canandaigua beat Penn Yan 12-11, Aquinas beat Livonia 9-8 and Rush-Henrietta beat Churchville-Chili 9-8 and each game was won in overtime. The others winning games today were Penfield, Geneva, Thunder, Batavia, Thomas, Irondequoit, Schroeder, Brockport, Mynderse, Hilton, Bloomfield-Honeoye, McQuaid Jesuit and Brighton. |
# 2092 Thursday: 16 Games on the Last Day of April It was a busy night for SportsFive as there were 16 games held under mostly rainy skies today in Section Five. Fairport was able to beat Irondequoit 10-6 at home. |
# 2087 Sunday: Aquinas over St. Joe's Aquinas traveled to Section VI to take on St. Joe's and ended up with a 13-3 win. After taking a 3-0 led in the first quarter, the Little Irish was 6-1 at the half and 11-1 after three quarters. |
# 2082 Thursday: Many One Goal Games Ithaca (Section IV) used overtime to defeat Irondequoit 7-6 this afternoon. Other close games included Penfield 8-7 over Hilton, Pal-Mac 6-5 over Midlakes, Pittsford 8-6 over McQuaid Jesuit and Gates Chili 6-4 over Spencerport. Other winners included Aquinas, Mynderse, Penn Yan and Canandaigua. |
# 2077 Saturday: Penn Yan 6 - Fairport 5 - Down to the Wire In a game that was close right to the end, Penn Yan won a 6-5 victory over visiting Fairport. McQuaid Jesuit beat visiting Loyola Academy (IL), 12-5. Schroeder was a 10-5 winner over Geneva. Other winners include HFL, Brighton, Pal-Mac, Binghamton (over Penfield 13-12) and Aquinas. |
# 2066 Aquinas: 2009 Preview Aquinas ended their league season second in GRALL with a 4-3 record (13-5 overall). Seeded second in the Class B tournament the Fighting Irish lost to Geneva in the Section Five finals 13-12 and finished as seeded. Aquinas led by three goals with 1:37 remaining but Geneva scored four goals in the last 1:16, with the winning goal at 0:08, to defeat the Little Irish. |
# 2035 Saturday: Thomas, Penfield, Gates and Churchville Win There were only four games scheduled for the holiday weekend. Webster Thomas continued their winning streak (4-0) while ending Aquinas' (5-1). Penfield was a 9-4 winner over Victor, Gates Chili beat the Greece Thunder and Churchville-Chili beat Brockport. |
# 2026 Thursday: Churchville and Aquinas win in overtime Although a number of games resulted in blowouts today, two were settled in overtime and two others were very close. Churchville-Chili was a 9-8 ot winner against Gates Chili, and Aquinas was a 10-9 ot winner against McQuaid Jesuit in GRALL Play. |
# 2023 Class/Division Changes Make Things Interesting With a major change in the NYS Class alignments, Canandaigua and Irondequoit move to Class B, making that class much more challenging, while maintaining that exciting rivalry. Geneva and Aquinas, who have, in the past, elected to move up from Class C, now like the idea of taking on Penn Yan instead of CA and IQ. |
# 2022 Eleven Games - Only One Close One There were eleven games on an unusually beautiful March game day. Pittsford won a 6-5 game against Churchville-Chili, and Irondequoit won an 11-6 victory over Penfield, but the rest of the games were lopsided victories and six went into running time. |
# 1962 Champions - CA, Geneva and Penn Yan Although wins by both Penn Yan and Canandaigua were surprising mismatches, a four goal streak with just over a minute gave Geneva a 14-13 win in the Class B Championships at St. John Fisher College on Friday. |
# 1961 Semis: Class A Really Close Fans who chose to go to Aquinas tonight to see the Class A semi finals were treated to two of the best games of the season. Canandaigua held on to their undefeated season by one goal as the defeated a fired up Thomas team. |
# 1957 Class B Quarter Finals Eastridge (#6) won a stunning victory over Victor (#3) in the first round of the Class B tournament this afternoon. The Lancers scored 9 goals in the first half and ended the game up 15-9. Aquinas (#2) had a 12-5 win against Brighton (#7) and HFL beat Newark 18-2. |
# 1948 Still Two Undefeated Both Canandaigua won their games today to remain undefeated. Canandaigua beat previously undefeated Hamburg (Section 6) 17-9 in a night game at CA, while Penfield beat Fairport 10-2 earlier in the day. |
# 1943 Thomas, Geneva Win Thomas was an 8-7 winner over Fairport, Geneva was a 9-8 winner over HFL and McQuaid Jesuit was an 9-8 overtime winner over Livonia. Other winners on Tuesday include Victor, Churchville-Chili, Irondequoit, Canandaigua, Aquinas, Pal-Mac, Bloomfield-Honeoye and Hamilton (over Mynderse). |
# 1941 4 and 2 in Out of Area Games Section Five teams won four games and lost two to out of Section games today. Winning were McQuaid Jesuit (10-9 OT) over St. Francis, Penfield (15-6) over Binghamton, Geneva (12-4) over Marcellus, and Pittsford (7-3 unconfirmed) over Frontier. |
# 1939 CA and Penfield still Undefeated Both Penfield and Canandaigua remain undefeated with games that were easily won today. Canandaigua beat Mynderse 21-4 and Penfield beat Rush-Henrietta 20-7. Other winners included Brockport, HFL, Churchville, Thomas, Canandaigua and Penn Yan. |
# 1937 Penfield Undefeated Penfield remains undefeated with an 11-5 win over Fairport. In other contests Ath/Ody was the winner over Batavia, Thomas over Brighton, Gates over Brockport, Hilton over Eastridge and Schroeder over Pittsford. Also winning were Irondequoit over Rush, Livonia over Haverling, Geneva over Victor and BH over Midlakes. |
# 1933 Thirteen Games on Thursday Most games were predictable but there were a few unexpected scores as thirteen games were played on Thursday. Greece Athena/Odyssey beat Brighton 5-4, Geneva beat Penn Yan 8-6, Newark took Midlakes 9-7 and HFL was the winner over Rush-Henrietta 14-12. |
# 1930 Churchville in Overtime over R-H McQuaid Jesuit was able to start the game with Corning West, but it was stopped due to lightning. |
# 1927 Fourteen Games on Tuesday Nearly everyone was playing on Tuesday as fourteen games were played by Section Five teams. Batavia won their first ever Varsity games (15-10 over the Lightning), Brockport beat C-C (9-5) and Canandaigua beat Penn Yan in a close 5-4 game. McQuaid Jesuit, and Aquinas were GRALL winners and Pittsford, Gates Chili, Fairport, Penfield, R-H and Geneva had easy wins. Newark beat Pal-Mac 11-8, Mynderse took BH (11-9) and Waterloo was the 9-8 winner over Midlakes. |
# 1909 Blowouts and Close Ones The fan without a home team had to pick carefully today as there were both close games and blowouts among the games on a bright and beautiful afternoon (and evening). |
# 404 Mike Messina signs with Syracuse College coaches often suggest that they are happy when they find lacrosse players who excel in more than one sport. Two of the top players in Section Five this year have made their future college coaches smile. Mike Messina from Aquinas, who was named MVP at the NYS football champion-ships last fall will honor his verbal commitment to Syracuse. Zach Reed, from Haverling-Haverling, who was named MVP in his fall Sectional tournament in soccer last fall has honored his verbal commitment and will attend Hobart next year. |
# 403 Zack Reed signs with Hobart College coaches often suggest that they are happy when they find lacrosse players who excel in more than one sport. Two of the top players in Section Five this year have made their future college coaches smile. Mike Messina from Aquinas, who was named MVP at the NYS football champion-ships last fall will honor his verbal commitment to Syracuse. Zach Reed, from Haverling-Haverling, who was named MVP in his fall Sectional tournament in soccer last fall has honored his verbal commitment and will attend Hobart next year. |
# 402 Two Multi-Sport Athletes Choose Lacrosse College coaches often suggest that they are happy when they find lacrosse players who excel in more than one sport. Two of the top players in Section Five this year have made their future college coaches smile. Mike Messina from Aquinas, who was named MVP at the NYS football champion-ships last fall will honor his verbal commitment to Syracuse. Zach Reed, from Haverling-Haverling, who was named MVP in his fall Sectional tournament in soccer last fall has honored his verbal commitment and will attend Hobart next year. |
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