Pittsford, Fairport, Penfield and Thomas Top Class A

Pittsford comes out on top of the pre-season poll with two exceptional athletes. Defenseman Nick Panara (Fairfield) was recently named to the Northeast Region Top Players Watch List by Lacrosse magazine. Full Story

Penn Yan, Geneva, Pal-Mac and Geneva Top Class C

Penn Yan returns this season a favorite for their nineteenth Section Five Championship.  The Mustangs return eighteen players from their 2013 roster.  Bradley Voigt (Syracuse) returns as the leading goals and points scorer for 2013.  He finished the season with 57g-40a (179g-112a in his career).  Full Story

Players of the Week - April 1, 2014

The first Player of the Week awards are Penfield's senior defenseman Jacob O`Connor and Victor's sophomore attackman Ryan Maloney. The players were selected from over thirty worthy nominations submitted last week. Full Story

2014 Preview of Section Five

Last year was a big year for Section Five as we hosted New York State Tournament games from the quarter finals right through the Championships. Section Five Boys Lacrosse Coordinator, Mike Simon led his committee in the most professional manner and the games hosted at St. John Fisher College were exciting and proved to be a great experience for players and fans. Full Story

Wednesday: Three More Runaways

Continuing from yesterday`s lopsided scores, three more games were played on Wednesday. Haverling beat the new program at Watkins Glen (Section 4), St. Joseph`s beat Aquinas and Midlakes beat Batavia-Attica. Full Story

Livonia Beats Eastridge

After trailing 3-0 after the first quarter, Livonia fought back to defeated Eastridge 9-7. The Bulldogs scored four unanswered goals to start the fourth quarter and then moved into the lead. The Lancers started off strong, but couldn`t keep up the pressure in the second half. Full Story

McQuaid Beats Avon

McQuaid Jesuit scored the first three goals and never trailed in their 14-6 win over visiting Avon. The Knights had ten different players make their offensive scorebook and twenty-seven players with at least one statistic. Midfielder Jarrett Cook led his team with 7 ground balls. Defenseman Ryan Nelson finished with four ground balls.  Full Story

Schroeder 7 - Irondequoit 6 in Double Overtime

Irondequoit dominated the first half of play before Webster Schroeder scored five unanswered goals to take the lead in the fourth quarter. The Eagles\\' Andrew Knope scored to send the game into overtime. Mike Trass scored for the Warriors with 2:51 remaining in the second overtime period to defeat Irondequoit for the first time since 2007. Trass scored three goals for Webster. Full Story

Wayne Over Waterloo

Although Waterloo scored the first goal, Wayne fought back and led the entire second half in their 8-3 victory. The turning point for the Eagles came in the last 2:20 of the second quarter. They scored three goals in less than two minutes to take the game from a close 3-2 to a controlling 6-2 going into the half. Nic Martin, Jack Camp and on Ecker each added a goal for Wayne.  Full Story

Pats Beat Cadets

The Patriots scored the first seven goals and held the Cadets scoreless until the second quarter in their 14-7 win. Penfield had eleven different players make their offensive scorebook. Attackman Max Spaan finished with 6g-1a, leading his team.  Full Story

Midlakes Over the Pride By One

Midlakes used a strong second quarter to secure a 11-10 win over Bloomfield-Honeoye. The Screaming Eagles held off a late push by the Pride hold on to their victory. The Pride scored the first two goals of the game.  Full Story

Brighton Takes Livonia 9-6

Brighton controlled their game with Livonia and finished with a 9-6 win. The Bulldogs had a late push (with three of the last four goals) but the Barons led for the rest of the game after taking the lead in the second quarter.  Full Story

Churchville-Chili 7 - Canandaigua 6 in Overtime

This was the first win for the Saints against the Braves. Full Story

McQuaid Jesuit 9 - Irondequoit 7

This was the first win for McQuaid against Irondequoit. Full Story

Fairport Over Thomas

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Pittsford Over Duxbury By One

Pittsford scored the first three goals and three of the last four goals in their 6-5 win over Duxbury (Massachusetts) in a game held at Hamilton College. Duxbury scored four straight unanswered goals spanning the 2nd and 3rd quarters and held the Panthers scoreless for 26 minutes.  Full Story

Schroeder 10 - Spencerport 6

Although Spencerport scored the first two goals of the game, Webster Schroeder scored nine of the next eleven goals to go from trailing by two to leading by five. Schroeder took over the lead with 9:26 in the second quarter on a goal from Jared Griffin and they never trailed again.  Full Story

Monday: Canandaigua and Geneva Win Today

Canandaigua played a night game in the cold rain, but went home with a win over Brighton. Geneva played Newark at Waterloo today and also came home with a win. Full Story

Players of the Week - April 8, 2014

This week`s Player of the Week awards are Pittsford senior defenseman Nick Panara and Churchville Chili senior attackman Aaron Buck. The players were selected from nominations submitted last week. Full Story

Pittsford Over Thomas

Pittsford`s heralded defense held up to their hype in their 7-4 win over Webster Thomas. The Titans kept the game close and even took the lead for a short time in the third quarter before the Panthers scored the final four goals in the game. Pittsford's defense held the Titans scoreless for the first 14:16 and the last 13:32. Full Story

Mynderse 14 - Midlakes 13 in Overtime

Mynderse came out swinging and scored eight of the first nine goals in their 13-12 overtime win over Midlakes. The Blue Devils led in the first quarter 6-1 before adding two goals more in the top of the second quarter to lead 8-1 within the first two minutes.  Full Story

Penfield 11 - Fairport 9

Penfield defeated Fairport 11-9. The Patriots fought back the in the fourth quarter and scored four unanswered goals spanning 13:26 to defeat Fairport 11-9. The Patriots went from being down 7-8 to leading 11-8 with only 4:55 remaining in regulation. The Red Raiders could not fight back to overtime. The game was tied seven times with the largest lead going to an 11-8 Penfield lead. Fairport led four different times throughout the game. Full Story

Gates Chili 7 - Ath/Ody 5

Gates Chili scored four of the last five goals to defeat Greece Athena/Odyssey 7-5. The Thunder led 4-3 going into halftime before the Spartans held them scoreless for 28:43 spanning the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters. The Spartans were led in scoring by Joseph O`Hare with 3g. Midfielder Brian May (2g-1a) and Brett Kirkpatrick (1g-1a) also added to the scoring.  Full Story

Victor 7 - Irondequoit 6

Hours before the game Craig Whipple stepped down as Head Coach of the Eagles after posting an 81-24 record and winning four Section V titles since 2007. Junior Varsity Coach Mark Lovett was appointed by Athletic Director Anthony Lipani to finish out the season. The Eagles scored the first two goals of their game with Victor and then proceeded to play a very close game right down to the last minute but was unable to force overtime with the Blue Devils (5-1). Full Story

McQuaid Jesuit 11 - Livonia 7

McQuaid Jesuit scored five of the first six goals in their 11-7 win over Livonia. The Knights scored the first goal of the game on an unassisted goal by Jarrett Cook and they never trailed. Their largest lead was six goals in the third quarter after Cook scored his fourth goal with 0:10 remaining in the third quarter. Full Story

Nick Panara and Aaron Buck Are Week 2 Winners

This week`s Player of the Week awards are Pittsford senior defenseman Nick Panara and Churchville Chili senior attackman Aaron Buck. The players were selected from nominations submitted last week. Full Story

Wednesday: Haverling and Churchville Both win 19-4

Both Haverling (2-5) and Churchville-Chili (2-0) won their games today with a score of 19-4. Next up for Haverling is Aquinas in two weeks. Churchville-Chili will take on Schroeder tomorrow. Full Story

Thomas 12 - Aquinas 9

Thomas scored the first eight goals of the game and led 11-1 in the third quarter in their 12-9 win over Aquinas. The Little Irish scored eight of the last nine goals, including the last five goals of the game. Thomas had eight different players make their scorebook with attackman Mitch Hutteman leading the charge at 1g-3a.  Full Story

Rush-Henrietta 9 - Arc/Oly 6

After breaking a 3-3 tie at the half, Rush-Henrietta (4-0) took the lead to finish with a 9-6 win over the Greece Lightning. Full Story

Geneva Beats Waterloo

Although the game was close for the first half, Geneva scored seven unanswered goals to start the third quarter in their 12-5 win over Waterloo. The game was 5-4 going into halftime but then the Panthers held the Indians scoreless for over twenty minutes.  Full Story

Schroeder 5 - Churchville-Chili 4

In the closest game of the night, Webster Schroeder held off a late advance and defeated Churchville-Chili with a 5-4 score. The Warriors led 5-1 with six minutes remaining before the Saints attempted a late comeback with the last three goals. The Saints scored with 0:37 remaining to bring the game within a single goal. Full Story

Victor Over Gates Chili

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Cadets Take Lightning

Hilton scored the final six goals in their 9-6 win over Greece Arcadia/Olympia. Hilton held the Lightning scoreless for the final 13:28. The Cadets started off the scoring 0:39 into the contest with Zeus Doser assisting Tyler Farrell. The next two goals came from Greece.  Full Story

Penfield Over Orchard Park

Penfield scored the first five goals and held off a late push to defeat Orchard Park (Section 6), 9-6. The Patriots controlled the game for its entirety, holding their five goal lead until the fourth quarter. The Patriots were led in scoring by three players with 2g-1a each: Attackman Ryan Fulton, attackman James Stoler and midfielder Mitch Standera. In the cage for Penfield, Liam Guiton finished with 10 saves. Full Story

Pal-Mac 18 - Geneva 10

Geneva took advantage of Pal-Mac penalty trouble in the second and third quarters, scoring six man-up goals. Full Story

Fairport Takes Down West Genny

Dan McAvoy was involved in sixty percent of the scoring (5g-1a) and senior midfielder Shane Cronkwright won nine of ten face offs as the Red Raiders scored the five five goals on the way to their 10-1 victory over West Genesee of Section III. Full Story

Penn Yan Over Carthage

Penn Yan controlled the tempo and ball en route to a 16-0 lead at the half resulting in running time in the second half. Rion Davison paced offense with an eight point performance (7g,1a) while Austin Fingar led with eight ground balls.  Full Story

West Islip 8 - Penfield 5

Chris Reese, West Islip FO midfielder, went 14/16 and controlled possessions of the game. Despite a huge advantage in possession time, Penfield's defense played well and Liam Guiton had a career performance in the cage with 18 saves. Full Story

Fairport 10 - Aquinas 7

Senior face off middie, Shane Cronkwright won nine of thirteen and Nick Foley won four of six face offs for Fairport in their 10-7 victory over Aquinas. Full Story

Players of the Week - April 15, 2014

This week`s Player of the Week award winner are Marcus Whitman senior goalie Merritt Bailey and Spencerport sophomore attackman Colin McElligot. The players were selected from nominations submitted last week. Full Story

Tuesday: Lakeland/Panas Takes Penn Yan by One

Section Five lost two out of Section games today as Penn Yan lost a close one to Lakeland/Panas (11-10) and Irondequoit lost to Ithaca. Full Story

Penfield 10 - Eastport/So Manor 6

The Penfield defense played well again and Liam Guiton had another outstanding performance with 15 saves. Brian Wall led the Patriots in ground balls with seven. Full Story

Churchville-Chili 12 - Thomas 11 in Overtime

In one of the most excited games this season, Churchville-Chili scored the last three goals in regulation to force overtime before defeating Webster Thomas. Ryan Cosgrove scored his first goal of the game unassisted with 1:42 remaining in the first overtime period. Full Story

Schroeder Late Goal Gives Win Over HF-L

Webster Schroeder scored the lone goal of the fourth quarter in order to defeat HF-L 9-8. The Warriors trailed at the start of the second quarter but scored four unanswered goals spanning into the third quarter to keep the game close. During the second half, the teams traded goals four times in a row. Full Story

Mustangs Take Braves in Overtime

It truly was another classic Canandaigua-Penn Yan contest under the Mustang lights and with a large crowd on hand. After trading goals resulting in a 5-5 tie at halftime, Penn Yan took a 9-7 lead, but let the Braves back in as they scored three in the last quarter to force overtime. Full Story

Irondequoit Beats Geneva

Irondequoit overcame seventeen minutes in penalties, including a two minute, six on three disadvantage, to beat Geneva this afternoon 15-7. Irondequoit had the edge at the face off with 19-6 (76%) led by Mitch Culver, John Lombardi, and Trevor Carney. Full Story

Corning 10 - Churchville-Chili 9

Corning scored five goals in the fourth quarter, including the winning goal with 0:21 left in regulation. Churchville-Chili face off specialist Mike Caternolo won 16/23 today and added a goal. In the third quarter he registered his 200th career face off win. Full Story

Saturday: Pal-Mac over Wayne

On the last game day of the spring break there were only two games played/ Pal-Mac traveled to Wayne, where they struggled in the first half, but took control in the second to secure a 10-6 win. Full Story

Pittsford 11 - Corning 10 in Overtime

It was a very close game throughout. Senior attackman Billy cooper scored an unassisted goal with 1:57 left in regulation to send the game into overtime. Junior defenseman Mike Perotto had a key face off possession in overtime and later, his brother Jonathan scored the game winner (assisted by Stephen Quinzi) for Pittsford.  Full Story

Wayne 8 - Gates Chili 7 in Double Overtime

Senior attackman Tim Oddi won the game for Wayne in the second overtime period as the Eagles posted an 8-7 win over visiting Gates Chili. The Spartans open the game outscoring Wayne 4-2 in the first quarter, although the Eagles scored the first goal of the game when Andrew Jenkins took a pass from Tim Oddi at 10:57. Full Story

Thunder Takes Avon

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Hilton 12 - Rush-Henrietta 7

Hilton scored eight out of nine straight goals to defeat Rush-Henrietta 12-7. The Cadets scored six goals in the second quarter in their victory and were in control of the contest for the majority of the final three quarters.  Full Story

Gananda Takes Pal-Mac 10-9

Pal-Mac scored three goals to tie the game with 1:13 remaining before Colin Brillian scored with 0:32 remaining to give Gananda the 10-9 win and hold off the late advance by the Red Raiders. Nearly half of the scoring from both teams came in the fourth quarter with Pal-Mac scoring five and Gananda scoring four. Full Story

Churchville-Chili 11 - Spencerport 6

Churchville-Chili senior Trevor Hodgins scored his 200th Varsity point tonight. He has been a key part of the Saint`s program since eighth grade. Full Story

Braves Beat Titans

Canandaigua scored five unanswered goals spanning the end of the second and beginning of the third quarters in their 10-8 win over Webster Thomas. The Titans briefly held the lead in the first quarter, but the Braves tied the game for the last time with 8:58 remaining in the second quarter with the first of their five goals. Full Story

Aquinas Wins in GRALL Match up

Aquinas scored ten unanswered goals and held Haverling scoreless for over 39 minutes. The Little Irish had five different players make their offensive scorebook with attackman Alex Bianchi leading with 4g-2a.  Full Story

Rivalry Day at Haverling for HEADStrong Foundation

April 24, 2014 The Livonia and Haverling-Haverling teams (K-Varsity) are celebrating a full day of lacrosseon Saturday in an effort to raise money and awareness of blood cancer through the HEADSTrong Foundation. Full Story

Saints Beat Lancers

Churchville-Chili had two players with their first career goals in their 18-2 win over Eastridge. Senior Ian McGarry and junior Ian Standinger both scored their first goals as Saints. Attackmen Aaron Buck and Ryan Cosgrove led in scoring with 4g-2a each. Full Story

Gates Chili 10 - Arc/Oly 8

Gates Chili scored the final four goals of the contest to defeat Greece Arcadia/Olympia 10-8. The Spartans kept the game close for three quarters before holding the Lightning scoreless for the final thirteen minutes. Greece started off strong, scoring four of the first five goals to take the early lead.  Full Story

Pittsford 11 - Rush-Henrietta 3

Junior face off middie, Ryan Fairbrother has fourteen face offs (82%). He picked up ten ground balls and freshman defensive middie Colby Barker added nine more to lead the Panthers. The Panthers will play Orchard Park (Section 6) on Saturday. Full Story

Marcus Whitman Takes Newark

Although the game was close for a half, Marcus Whitman outscored Newark 8-2 in the second half in their 11-3 victory. The Wildcats were led in scoring by Tyler Wolfe with 3g-4a. Attackman Matt Hall added three goals. Face off midfielder Lane Brown finished at 58% at the face-off draw and with a team leading six ground balls. Goalie Merritt Bailey and defenseman Pat Hall added five ground balls each. Full Story

Pal-Mac Over B-H

Pal-Mac freshman Goalie Jared Hurlbutt had 7 saves / 0 goals against in his first varsity start. Full Story

Fairport Over Canandaigua By One

Tied at the half, Fairport scored the only goal in the third quarter and that made the difference. Full Story

HFL 9 - Wayne 8 in Overtime

Freshman attackman Evan Kelly scored the game winning goal with 1:16 remaining in the first overtime period to give HF-L their 9-8 win over Wayne. The Cougars held off a late push by the Eagles with senior midfielder Ryan Kelly scoring the tying goal to send the game into overtime. The game was back and forth with both teams leading during the contest. Wayne scored the opening goal during man-up with Andrew Jenkins assisting Tim Oddi. Six minutes later HF-L scored their opening goal (also during man-up). Ryan Kelly scored with an assist from Tim Breau. Each team added another goal in the opening quarter and the first quarter ended with the score tied at 2-2. Full Story

Golf Tournament in Honor of Bruce Teague Sr.

Friends of former official and player,Bruce Teague Sr have established an annual golf tournament in his honor. Full Story

Friday: Victor Takes Aquinas 14-10

Victor took a one goal lead in the first quarter and never trailed in the 14-10 win at Aquinas. Sophomore face off midfielder TD Ierlan won seventeen of twenty-five for the Blue Devils. Full Story

Ath/Ody 9 - Batavia-Attica 5

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Pittsford 12 - Orchard Park 6

The Pittsford offense came alive today nearly overshadowing the often hyped defense in their 12-6 win over the Section 6 perennial standout Class A team from Orchard Park. Eight different Panthers scored goals and Ryan Fairbrother won eleven of seventeen face offs.  Full Story

Pal-Mac Takes Out Eagles

Pal-Mac freshman goalie Jared Hurlbutt made a great one-on-one save while man down and then found Ben Reeves breaking out. Reeves then drove to the cage scoring the winning goal with 48.7 seconds remaining in the game. Winning the final face off Pal-Mac was able to run the clock out. Full Story

Wayne 10 - Geneva 7

Wayne scored three of their last four goals in their 10-7 win over Geneva. The Eagles started the game off strong with a four goal run spanning the end of the first and beginning of the second quarters. Wayne scored four straight goals, including two during a non-releasable man-up, to take at 4-1 lead halfway through the second quarter.  Full Story

Avon 11 - Batavia-Attica 9

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Victor Beats Rush-Henrietta

Victor face-off specialist T.D. Ierlan finished 17/21 (81%) with three of his four losses coming on technical fouls. Of his 16 non-technical wins, he picked up his own ground ball 14 times. Ierlan led the team in ground balls with defenseman Brandon Kunick adding an additional 6 and defenseman Jack Callahan adding four. R-H goalie,  Full Story

Players of the Week - April 28, 2014

This week there are multiple Players of the Week award winners. Their talents are diverse as two players are honored for the specialties. Remmy Glod is a face off specialist for Gananda and Colby Barker is a short stick defensive midfielder for Pittsford. Full Story

Canandaigua 8 - Penfield 7

In their fourth one goal game of the season, Canandaigua finally felt the winning side of the equation with an 8-7 win at Penfield. Canandaigua had previously lost in overtime to Churchville-Chili and Penn Yan with a single goal loss to Fairport in regulation. Overall, the 7-4 Braves have had 7 of 11 games decided by two points or less. Full Story

Fairport 11 - Penn Yan 7

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Churchville Over Brockport

A number of personal highlights for the Saints: Ryan Cosgrove scored his 100th career point. Aaron Buck scored his 100th career point and Dan Bonafede scored his first career goal. Full Story

Ath/Ody 14 - Arc/Oly 13

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Aquinas 10 - McQuaid Jesuit 9 in Overtime

Aquinas scored the last three goals of regulation to force overtime and then scored the game winning goal 2:08 into the first overtime period as they defeated McQuaid Jesuit 10-9. The Little Irish trailed by three goals with 5:12 remaining in regulation. Jonathan Olbrich scored the last three goals for Aquinas (the final two in regulation and the game winner in overtime). The overtime goal was scored during a man-up play with an assist from Alex Bianchi. Full Story

Thomas 12 - Hamburg 8

Webster Thomas scored two runs of three goals in the second half to guarantee their win against Hamburg (Section 6). Christian Nairy led the scoring with 4g while defenseman Ryan Nugent led the ground ball effort with seven. Full Story

Brockport Over Newark By One

Brockport overcame a 4-1 first quarter deficit today and won their first game of the season when they defeated visiting Newark 8-7. Full Story

Schroeder Hosts Clinic for a CURE Saturday

Webster Schroeder is hosting a lacrosse clinic for student athletes in grades 2-8 to help raise money for CURE. Ryan Powell & the Rochester Rattlers will be running the clinic with the help of the high school players. The clinic will take place on Saturday, May 3 from 9:30-12 on the Webster Schroeder Turf.  Full Story

Wednesday: Haverling Wins on the Road

Haverling (4-7) traveled to Batavia today and came away with a 15-1 win against the Blue Devils Full Story