Thursday: The Season Opener Newark Wins Big

Thursday: DAY IN REVIEW: The 2023 season started today with one game. Newark hosted Watkins Glen, and after a 10-0 first quarter took the 20-0 win, giving sophomore goalie Carter Bumpus a shutout with four saves.

There were lots of noteworthy platers in the lopsided game as freshman midfielder Kaiden Carr, senior midfielder Jayden Ortiz, freshman attackman Blake Steve each scored their first Varsity goal in the game. Senior attackman Preston Steve reached the fifty-assist mark (now with 53a) with his team-leading 4g-5a. Freshman faceoff specialist Sam Underhill had six wins today and reached the 100 win mark. Eight different players made the offensive score book for the Reds.

Leading the scoring for Newark were Preston Steve (4g-5a),  Blake Steve (3g-4a), and Sam Underhill (4g-1a). There was no information available from Watkins Glen at post-time.

Next up for Newark is Livonia-Avon who come to town on April 11th. [BOX SCORE] - - More images in the photo gallery

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The 2023 Season is underway

Varsity lacrosse teams throughout New York State had their first practice of the 2023 season today and thousands of players have high hopes for a fantastic year, full of wins and championships. In the end, however, there will only be two teams left in each class who will compete for the New York State Championships.

NYSPHSAA rules require preparation and conditioning before games came be played. The first game currently scheduled in Section V will be on Thursday, March 23^rd when Newark hosts Watkins Glen from Section IV (see NOTE 1).

By rule, each team is allowed to play up to sixteen regular season games. To see your favorite team schedule, you can go to their team page. There, you can see not only their schedule but team history, honors and more. If you are interested in every game scheduled, you can find it on the "GAMES" tab (see NOTE 2).

There is a great deal of information about players which can be seen from the "PLAYERS" tab. Every Varsity player has an individual page with his personal stats, college decisions and awards won. As the season progresses you can check out "The Leader Boards" to see top offensive players.

On game days, look to the front page to see the latest reported scores, and game reports.

And... Here we go. Please enjoy our coverage over the next thirteen weeks!

USING BLAXFIVE.NET:

NOTE 1: You can see a list of “Games This Week”, by selecting the “GAMES” tab and choosing “Games This Week”. You can also look at lists of games by date and you can see a list of games against out of county opponents. You can also see a list of all games scheduled for this season. On Sundays starting in week three, you can check out the conference standings by clicking “County Standings”.

NOTE 2:  For teams go to the “TEAMS TAB” and select from the list. To see EVERY game scheduled, go to the “GAMES TAB” and select “All Games”. Games that have been played are at the top of the page and unplayed games follow.

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Welcome to BLaxFive.NET

Welcome to the home of Section Five V Lacrosse. For more than twenty-three years we have provided information about games, players and events. It is fun to think that this site has been around longer than the seniors playing this season. It is also fun to find a good number of current Head Coaches who still have player pages on this web site. In the last few seasons we have served, each year, almost a million and a half pages to more than seventy-thousand viewers from all over the country and many parts of the world. 

Well over 700 student-athletes will be competing throughout the season which will culminate in the crowning of championships in each of the four classes at the end of May. The champions will then move on to the New York State tournaments which take place SJFFU, Cortland and finish up at Hofstra University on June 10th.

There are all kinds of information in the 2022 Wrap Up article. Also of interest are the Player Pages, the Games this Week Page,  Team Stats Page and the Tournament Page.

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Section V posts Sportsmanship Video

NYS Section V has posted their first sportsmanship video, a 90 second spot that makes the point with humor and fun.

Communications and Marketing Director, Shaun Jeffers is the driver and Marcus Whitman Athletic Director, Paul LaHue are featured in spot that reminds us the "backseat drivers" are not needed at athletic contests.

Prompted, in a great part by the (national) problem of the loss of younger officials who stop working because of behaviors at games, it is becoming more difficult to find enough officials for games.

Check out the spot, and share it with those who love to go to games.

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2022 Season Wrap Up

Bishop Kearney scheduled twelve games but dropped out just before the tournaments at the end of the season. There were 870 players on the final rosters, down five players from 2021. Rush-Henrietta and Victor carried the largest roster with thirty-seven players and Batavia-Notre Dame had the smallest with thirteen. 

There were four classes for the sectional tournaments. Pal-Mac was the only top seed to win their championship, but the seeding system picked the final four in all four tournaments. Fairport (#3) beat Pittsford (#1) 8-3 in Class A, Canandaigua (#4) beat Irondequoit (#2) 7-3 in Class B, Pal-Mac (#1) defeated HF-L (#3) 8-5 in Class C, and Penn Yan (#2) won their 36th title when they beat Livonia-Avon (#1) 8-6.

It was back to "normal" after no season in 2020 and a short season in 2021. The first game was played on March 24th when HF-L beat Haverling 10-9. The last regular season game was played when East United-Eastridge beat Batavia-Notre Dame on April 21st.

The 300 regular season games were played and the 129 league games determined the league championships. In Monroe County-D-1 it was Fairport (4-0). In MC-2, Victor (6-0) took the championship and in MC-3 Irondequoit (10-0) was on top. Pal-Mac (10-0) won the Finger Lakes title and in the GRALL, Livonia-Avon (6-0) was the Champion.

At the end of the year, the Section V Head Coaches selected the post-season award winners including  their All-League players. Then, after reviews of over twenty-nine nominations, they selected six USA Lacrosse All-Americans and six All-Academics. Named All-Americans were Eli Adams (Thomas), Noah Gibson (Irondequoit), Thomas Gravino (Victor), Nick Hauman (Schroeder), Quinn Nolan (Pal-Mac), and Eric Platten (Canandaigua) who won for the second time.

Named All-Academics were Brady Comella (Canandaigua), Curtis Denison (Geneva), Griffin Emerson (Penn Yan), Louie Germain (Victor), Hunter Smith (McQuaid Jesuit), and Mike Valent (Rush-Henrietta).

Wayne Head Coach Eric Carlsen was named Coach of the Year from Section V and the Bob Scott Award winner was Noah Gibson from Irondequoit.

The Monroe County Division 1 Player of the Year was Charlie DeBiase (Pittsford). Eric Platten (Canandaigua) was the Division 2 Player of the Year and Noah Gibson (Irondequoit) was Division 3 Player of the Year. Nominees for the Bob Scott Award were Sean Smith (Penfield) and Kyle Gould (Fairport) and the Section V and USA Lacrosse Bob Scott Award winner was Noah Gibson (Irondequoit).

The Monroe County Coaches of the Year were Tom MacMillan (Rush-Henrietta - MC1), Dan Stone (Victor) in MC2, and Aaron Bottazzo (Irondequoit).

Assistant Coaches of the Years were Sean Doyle and Tim Byrnes from Hilton (d-1), Eric Fisher from Irondequoit (d-3), and Jerry Dawes from Penfield (d-2).

John Isaac (Shootout for Soldiers) was named MC-d2 Man of the Year and Kenneth Edwards (East United-Eastridge) was named MC-d3 Man of the Year.

The Finger Lakes Players of the Year were faceoff specialist and midfielder Quinn Nolan (Pal-Mac), attackman Curtis Denison (Geneva), defenseman Robert Kinslow (Pal-Mac) and goalie Griffin Emerson (Penn Yan).

Among the awards from the Greater Rochester Area Lacrosse League (GRALL), was Player of the Year senior attackman Jamie O`Neil.

Their Coach of the Year was John Sciera (Livonia-Avon), the Assistant Coach of the Year was Mark Rumfola (Livonia-Avon) and the Man of the Year was Ken DiDomineck (Haverling).

Fairport (Class A), Gates Chili (Class B), Honeoye Falls-Lima (Class C) and Gananda (Class D) were awarded the Steve Morgan Sportsmanship Awards by the Genesee Valley Lacrosse Officials Association.

After the regular season, the Section V tournaments were conducted. Fairport (Class A), Canandaigua (Class B), Pal-Mac (Class C) and Penn Yan (Class D) were the Sectional Champions in 2022.

There were All-Tournament Teams this year (after a one-year absence) and there were MVPs for each class. Selected as MVPs for classes A, B, C and D were Joey Giggie (Fairport), Jaxon Grant (Canandaigua), Will Nichols (Pal-Mac) and Teagen Fingar (Penn Yan).

The SportsFive/Section V Players of the Year were faceoff specialist Quinn Nolan (Pal-Mac) in offense and Eric Platten (Canandaigua) in defense. The Sportsman of the Year was Curtis Denison (Geneva).

After a two-year absence, the New York State Tournaments were back and sectional champions went on to play Section VI champions in the Western Regionals (quarter finals). In Class A, Fairport beat Clarence and then lost to Baldwinsville in the semifinals. In Class B, Canandaigua Beat Hamburg, and then West Genesee to reach the finals where they fell to Garden City. In Class C, Pal-Mac lost to Lake Shore in Buffalo and Class D, Penn Yan lost to Akron.

At the end of the season at least forty-nine seniors have made college commitments. They will become part of over three hundred players from Section V who are currently playing at all college levels.

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