Penn Yan won a decisive 8-1 victory over Canton (Section 10) and will be the only Section Five team to advance to the NYS semifinal round at Syracuse on Thursday. Geneva lost 11-5 to Amherst (Section 6) and Penfield lost 12-11 in the last minute of the game to Orchard Park (Section 6).
  
The Mustangs of Penn Yan extended their winning streak to 21 with their 8-1 Western Regional Championship win over Canton Central (Section 10). The Golden Bears, who beat Silver Creek (Section 6) in the out bracket game on Saturday, won the right to play the game closer to home as the game was played a Liverpool High School (Section 3), rounghly halfway between the Penn Yan and Canton.
  
The game saw a typically great defensive effort by the Mustang defensive unit that included Tristan Keas, Mike Manley, Preston Christensen, Dana Wilber, Donnie Benedict, Chris Carlson and Mitch Kicher and RJ Wickham who made 18 saves.
  
Scoring for Penn Yan were All Americans Dan Mesler (3g), Steven Carlson and Dan McGuffie (2a). Ryan Cook added (2g), Josh Perrault scored (1g) and Dan Wolfe added (1a) for the Mustangs (21-1).
  
Next up, for the Mustangs is the semi final game with Christian Brothers Academy, who beat Chenango Forks (Section 4) 14-11 Tuesday. The Brothers (18-3) won their first Section 3 Championship on Saturday after beating Skaneateles 11-9. The game will be played on Thursday at Cicero-North Syracuse High School at 3:30.
  
In the Class B quarter finals, Amherst (Section 6) was the 11-5 winner over Geneva. The Tigers took a 5-2 first quarter lead. The Panthers scored first in the second quarter with a goal by RJ Gringeri, but Amherst came back with three more before the halftime break. Amherst advances to play Corning East (Section 4) at 8:00 pm on Thursday at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.

Many Section Five lacrosse fans were anticipating the possibility of a Class A team reaching the finals this year, but a powerful Penfield team, fell just a bit short as Orchard Park (Section 6) won a 12-11 game with a goal by Tom Mitchell with 0:43 left in the game.
  
It was an unusal game for the Patriots, who, with All American face off specialist, Kelly McKenna winning many face offs throughout the season, faced the Quakers' Nick Brink who with the rest of the OP face off team, won more than three quarters of the draws in the game.
  
The Quakers came right out in the first quarter, controlling most of the ball time and used five different players to take a 5-1 lead after twelve minutes.
  
The Patriots scored five straight goals in the second quarter, also using five different players to take a 6-5 lead before OP scored the last two goals of the half. Each team added two goals in the third quarter which ended with the Quakers up 9-7.
  
Penfield came back in the last quarter tying the game at 11 with a goal by McKenna with 0:56 left in the game. Brink then won the next faceoff when the ball was popped out to Mictchell on the wing. Mitchell ran the ball to the goal and scored at 0:43. Although Penfield gained control of the ball after the next face off, they were unable send the game into overtime.
  
Orchard Park (21-1) will play West Genesee (Section 3) at 5:30 on Thursday at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.
  
NYS Brackets are available here