The Section Five Championships are set and will be played over two nights at the higher seeded team`s field on Monday and Tuesday.

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Monday: Pal-Mac at Penn Yan 5:00 PM

First up is the Class D where third seeded Palmyra-Macedon will face top seeded Penn Yan at 5:00.

Pal-Mac is currently 13-4 after their upset of Marcus Whitman (#2) on Friday. The score was 11-9 but there was no report from Pal-Mac.

Pal-Mac enters the championship round with a record of 13-4 with their only losses to Penn Yan, Marcus Whitman (in OT), Haverling and Geneva. Logan Babcock is their leading scorer with 46g-21a, Quinn Nolan leads in assists with 36g-26a, Riley Lich has 32g-15a, and Mike Halsey has 12g-31a. Nolan also is their faceoff specialist who has won 199 draws (87%). He will be expected to give the Red Raiders some extra ball-time. In the goal, Will Nichols has made 113 saves (64%). The Red Raiders average just under 13 goals per game and have, on average, allowed only a little over four.

Pal-Mac has been to the championship game three times and won in Class C in 2017. In 2019 they lost to Penn Yan in overtime. The teams have played each other fourteen times and the Red Raiders have won once.

Penn Yan has won twenty-four Section V Championships. They are currently 15-1 having lost to only Canandaigua. Ayden Mowry leads the team in goals and points with 68g-17a, but there is also Devon Gerhardt with 31g-50a, Max Brodmann with 43g-14a and three others with over twenty points each. The Mustangs have scored 235 goals this season (14.6 average) in their mostly Finger Lakes schedule. The stingy long sticks keep the ball away from their goalie, allowing only 108 shots to reach the goalies. Junior Griffin Emerson is the starter and has made 77 saves (64%) and has had six 100% games. The backup goalie is Wil Thompson, an eighth grader with 142 mins in the cage. He has 12s (63%) and has had five 100% games in his time in the goal. The opponents have averaged 3.1 goals per game.

Pal-Mac is the strongest competition to challenge Penn Yan and Nolan will be a problem to solve for the Mustangs, but the offensive power of the Mustangs will be hard to control.

Monday: HF-L vs Livonia-Avon 7:00 PM

In the 7:00 matchup third seeded HF-L will play top seeded Livonia-Avon for the Class C Championship.

HF-L won an exciting game on Friday when they scored with less than twenty seconds left in the game to defeat Geneva (#2). The Cougars are 12-5 having lost to Thomas, Pal-Mac, Brighton, McQuaid, and Spencerport. They defeated Livonia-Avon 12-7 on May 3rd. As a Monroe County team, they have not played many of the Class C teams that mostly play in the Finger Lakes League.

Matt Blythe leads the team in goals, assists and points with 49g-27a. Braydn Trybuskiewicz is a freshman with 30g-19a, Chase Perryman has 25g-22a, Colt Green has 25g-17a and two others have over twenty points. The Cougars have scored 195 goals (11.7 average), while allowing 7.8 goals by opponents. Drew Angelo has won 234 draws (65%) for HF-L. The Cougars have been to the finals twice. in 2005 they lost to Penn Yan and advanced to the NYS tournament as the Class B representative. In 2017 they lost to Pal-Mac.

Livonia-Avon enters the championship game with a record of 13-4 having lost to Penn Yan, HF-L, Aquinas early in the season. After May 4th there are 11-1, having lost only to Pal-Mac on May 25th.

Jackson McEnerney leads the team in goals, assists and points at the moment with 56g-30a. There is lots of other offensive power with Justin Skelly scoring 49g-26a, Derrick Wigley with 27g-28a, and Matthew Connor with 23g-30a. Two others are over twenty points. The Lakers have had big scores in their mostly Finger Lakes schedule, scoring 225 goals (13.2 average) while allowing 6.9 goals by their opponents. A.J. Miller is their long stick take-away specialist with 21 takes this season.

This is the first trip to finals for the Lakers as a combined team, The previous Livonia team played Penn Yan three times between 2008 and 2012.

Livonia is used to scoring many goals, but they have had only a few games that were non-mismatches this year, whereas HF-L has had some very tough games with top Class B teams and they had that one big game with the Lakers on May 3rd. This game could go either way.

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