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Bishop Kearney Back with Civalier at Helm
After a brief absence, the Kings return to play lacrosse with Aaron Civalier become the eighth head coach since the late 1970s. The Kings last played in 2013.
Full Story →Class C Looks Like Geneva-Wayne-HF-L
Class C 2021 Preview Team Stories
Full Story →Penn Yan Looks for Number 25
There is no doubt the Penn Yan will be looking to win their twenty-fifth Section V title this spring. The Mustangs have won every year except one since 1998. Head Coach Brian Hobart will be playing fo…
Full Story →Rush-Henrietta in a Tough Class A
The Royal Comets had fifteen seniors last year who did not get their senior year and almost all of their scoring left with them. The 2019 season was their best year for R-H since 2015 ending in the qu…
Full Story →Canandaigua Dedicating to 2020 Seniors
Canandaigua is one of the top teams in Class B, but there are a lot of them, as the class is the most competitive that the section as seen and quite a while. The Canandaigua schedule is full of good g…
Full Story →Wayne Excited to be Back on the Field
Wayne is a respected program in the Finger Lakes and in Class C as they have seen continual growth in the program in the last few years. Although they were finalist in the Sectional tournament in 2018…
Full Story →Newark Excited to Get Back to Playing
Newark has a mixture of returning and new players on the varsity this year. Brandon McNeil had 9g-3a as a sophomore midfielder and plans to play at D`youville next year. His classmate, Jayden Shepherd…
Full Story →McQuaid With Three Strong Returners
Quite a number of coaches feel that McQuaid Jesuit will be a top contender among Class A teams this year which makes sense with three players who made first-team All-League honors as sophomores return…
Full Story →Hilton Wants to Continue Momentum
Hilton has a good mix of games they should win and those that be more challenging. 2019 was a great year for the Cadets with a 14-3 record that took them all the way to the Class A championship game w…
Full Story →Haverling and Young Team and New Schedule
There are lots of changes in Haverling this season. The Rams will play a Finger Lakes League schedule this year, although they will not be in contention for their league honors, they will count on you…
Full Story →Brockport Looks for Help from Beardsley and Parker
Head Coach Josh Laskowski is excited: "This season is dedicated to all of our seniors from 2020 that didn’t get a chance to play their final season. Sixteen games in a five-week span will be a g…
Full Story →Gananda Looks to Returners
Gananda had a tough year in 2019, posting their first losing season since 2011 at 6-11. They had a large number of underclassmen on that team and some are now juniors and seniors.Junior midfielder, Br…
Full Story →Penfield has Thirty-Three Weapons
Penfield has been playing in the Class A tournaments until this year when they dropped to Class B where there will be huge competition at tournament time. The Patriots will see a bunch of Class B team…
Full Story →Geneva Wants another Block
After his arrival during the 2018 tournament, Head Coach Jeff Dunham won his first sectional title. Many coaches in the Section think that Head Coach Jeff Dunham could end up with his third sectional…
Full Story →Livonia-Avon Looks to Experienced Coach
Livonia-Avon Head Coach John Sciera was hired last season and has yet to coach his first game for the Lakers but he certainly knows the area and the Finger Lakes. Sciera started the Livonia program in…
Full Story →Marcus Whitman Wants Big Things
In 2019 Greg O' Connor came on as the Head Coach and Marcus Whitman had their first winning season since 2012 and only the second time since they started in 2009. They also made the tournament final f…
Full Story →Schroeder Excited to Play
Schroeder had few underclassmen on the 2019 roster and so most of this year's team will be new to the varsity. Junior midfielder Nick Hauman returns after scoring 31g-20a as a freshman and has committ…
Full Story →Greece Storm Looks to Leonardi
Head Coach Shane Cole was hired last year taking over for Andy Hilton and although he had big plans, there were no games, so he, like his players are looking forward to this season. "The Greece boys a…
Full Story →Gates Chili Looks to Rebuild
Gates Chili had eight sophomores on their 3-14 2019 record and three are back in leadership roles for their senior year. In the attack are Brady and Ethan Knauf. Michael DiMarco returns for his senior…
Full Story →Brighton Young but on the Move
Brighton will have a young and inexperienced team this year. There are only two players returning from 2019, but they are quality players. Senior attackman Olin Stanat will start the season with 42g-2…
Full Story →For Fairport Teamwork is Priority
In their last time out, the Red Raiders had a 17-3 record and went all the way to the NYS finals behind the efforts of Klay Stuver, Colin Peers and Gavin Ingalls among others on the offensive end and…
Full Story →Spencerport Excited with New Coach
Spencerport had a rough start the last time out, dropping its first five games, but then they found themselves and won five games at the end of the season, losing to Canandaigua in the quarter finals.…
Full Story →Irondequoit look to New Coach and Returning Players
Irondequoit has one of the most stories histories in scholastic lacrosse. Their eighth Head Coach, Aaron Bottazzo, was hired in 2020 and is an Irondequoit alumnus who played for John Pratt. He will be…
Full Story →The 2021 Season is Underway
The first week of practice is nearly done and there is a great deal of excitement as players and coaches take to the field in preparation for the first scholastic games since June of 2019. We have pos…
Full Story →Churchville-Chili Has Big Ideas
In Churchville-Chili's short history, they have had six head coaches and the latest, Cubby Chalmers has worked to bring the program back to the 2016 season when they went 17-1. This year's schedule is…
Full Story →Thomas Returns Many with Experience
Unlike most teams in the section, Thomas only lost two seniors to 2020 graduations and so they have many players who were successful as underclassmen. Although all that youth was tough in 2019, leavin…
Full Story →Victor Starts with New Coach
Victor was ready in 2020 to seek it's seventh straight Section V championship and had the players to help make that happen, but gone are Camden Hay (Albany), Shea Newell (Mercyhurst), Joey Pezzimenti…
Full Story →Mynderse Has Lots of Youth
Head Coach Scott Sciera is back for his eighth season at Mynderse with a full sixteen game schedule and a very young roster.
Full Story →Aquinas Has Lots of Multisport Athletes
Aquinas stuggled in 2019 and ended with their first loosing season since 2001 and so they were ramped up to play last year. Coach Pat Olbrich has some athletic multi-sport athletes as the core of his…
Full Story →Waterloo has Lots of New Faces
Like many teams this year, there are not many players returning from the 2019 roster, but Coach Matt Morrin will start his seventh year with three players at midfield who have been there before.
Full Story →Fairport, Canandaigua, Geneva and Penn Yan Top Poll
Head coaches from all thirty-five Section V teams were invited to participate in a preseason poll, asking the question, which teams will be in the finals and which team will win.
Full Story →Opening Day 2021
Thursday: DAY IN REVIEW: It was opening day after a year without lacrosse and all four games today were mismatches. Bloomfield-Honeoye scored first in their opener at Waterloo and never lost the lead…
Full Story →Hilton wins a Thriller at Brighton
Hilton stayed close the entire game and didn' t take their first lead until 4:02 left in the game as they won a 12-11 at Brighton. Their strong win was on the backs of Cole Loweke (2g-2a) and Matthew…
Full Story →Day two: Hilton and Gates Win Openers
Friday: DAY IN REVIEW: There were two games played on a cold night with some rain, and in Brighton, some snow flakes. Hilton stayed close the entire game and didn' t take their first lead until 4:02 l…
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