Sportsfive Media has been the leading scholastic website for Section V lacrosse for over twenty-four years. With over one million page views in 2024, there are over 3,500 stories on the boys site, and over 8,900 player profiles.

In 2024 there were 1,005,146 page views by 70,747 visitors,
and a total of 46 donations.

Our donations represent far less than one tenth of one percent of visitors! We certainly could us help from others.

Through our arrangement with PayPal we can accept donations on-line. If you have a PayPal account, donations are secure and easy. If you don't have a PayPal account you can create an account, OR simply and safely use your credit card. Of course, you can also send a check.

It certainly was a great season..... Help us keep it going for another year. Full Story

*+The Greater Rochester Chapter of USA Lacrosse held their thirtith Hall of Fame dinner Friday night at the Harro East Ballroom in Rochester.

Teammates, friends and family along with many members of the Hall of Fame, gathered to induct five individuals, and one team into the Greater Rochester Lacrosse Hall of Fame Class of 2024. They were welcomed by Chapter Past President Scott Schwind. Full Story

Gananda is looking for a boys Varsity Head lacrosse coach. If interested please email Athletic Director John Tichacek at JTichacek@gananda.org Full Story

On Friday, November 8th, the Rochester Chapter of USA Lacrosse will install the 2024 class. The event will take place at the Harro East Ballroom (155 N Chestnut St, Rochester, NY 14604) with a social hour beginning at 6:00 pm and dinner at 7:00pm. The class includes Courteny Gibbons, Peter Milliman, Brice Queener, Steve Trombley and the 1996 Nazareth mens team. Full Story

Last week, former Head Coach Randy Garrett lost their family home to fire. A long-time coach at Fairport, Randy, who coached from 1980-2003 and is second on the all-time wins with 371. He still helps the Red Raiders, compiling stats on the sideline. A Go-Fund-Me account has been established to help with expenses not covered by insurance. Full Story

The Section V Lacrosse leadership has selected first, second and honorable mention lists of All-Section players.The 2024 first team lists fifteen players and includes the six All-Americans previously announced. "The first six athletes on the first team are easy" said Section Five Assistant Coordinator, Paul Wilson. "after that, it becomes more difficult as we have so many excellent players." Full Story

*+ [UPDATED] There were thirty-four teams playing in Section V. Bishop Kearney scheduled eight games but elected to forgo the tournament at the end of the season. There were 1,149 players on the final rosters, up 256 players from 2023. Penfield and Victor carried the largest roster with thirty-eight players and Haverling and Pal-Mac with the smallest with nineteen.  Full Story

The Monroe County Division 1 Player of the Year was Jonathan Bucciarelli (Greece Storm). Jonah Carrier (Irondequoit) was the Division 2 Player of the Year and Chase Perryman (HFL) was Division 3 Player of the Year. Nominees for the Bob Scott Award were Ben Cook (HFL), Anthony DeRosa (Schroeder) and Adam Schembri (Penfield). Full Story

The Head Coaches from the Finger Lakes met at the end of the season and determined their awards for 2024. Full Story

DAY IN REVIEW: SATURDAY - There were two games played on the last game of the season and at stake were NYS Championships. McQuaid Jesuit was an 8-7 overtime winner over Farmingdale (Section VIII). South Side (Section VIII) defeated Victor, also in overtime by a score of 12-11.  Full Story

The next step for McQuaid Jesuit and Victor on Saturday, are the NYS Championships. Full Story

The Rochester Chapter of USA Lacrosse recently announced the14th Annual Herb Fitch and Chris Barnes Lacrosse All Star Game player selections. This year's contest, featuring some of the best of the graduating seniors will be held on Thursday, June 15th at Victor High School.  Full Story

The Genesee Valley Lacrosse Officials Association (GVLOA) provides officials for all of the the boys lacrosse teams in Section V and recently handed out their annual Steven R. Morgan Sportsmanship Awards to one team in each Class. The award is given to a team that exemplifies sportsmanship at the coaches’ level, the players level, and the fans level.  Officials vote after every game by the officials at the game. Peter McCabe, newly elected President, made presentations for GVLOA. Full Story

DAY IN REVIEW: WEDNESDAY - Section V went two for four in the Western Semifinals as McQuaid beat Liverpool 10-5 and Victor beat Vestal 17-6. Aquinas lost to a strong team from Marcellus and Jamesville-DeWitt defeated HFL. Full Story

*+The Head Coaches of Section V considered players who had been nominated for All-American and All-Academic awards. The awards identify some of the best players from each area around the country. Each of the head coaches in the Section is allowed to vote on each of the awards. The selections from our area were then submitted to the USA Lacrosse for final approval. Full Story

The next step for all four Section V teams on Wednesday, are the NYS semifinals. Full Story

McQuaid defeats Orchard Park 13-6 in quarterfinals. Full Story

DAY IN REVIEW: SATURDAY - There were quarterfinal games played today in the NYSPHSAA Lacrosse Tournaments and Section V teams won each game. Full Story

The next step for classes our sectional champions on Saturday, are the NYS quarterfinals, sometimes called the "Western Regionals". Full Story

DAY IN REVIEW: WEDNESDAY - The two out-bracket games were played in Section VI at Williamsville East High School today and Section V won both the Class C (HFL) and Class D (Aquinas) games. The teams will now move to Maine Endwell High School on Saturday for the quarterfinal round of the NYSPHSAA tournaments. Full Story

The next step for classes C and D champions is an out-bracket , play-in game against Section VI for the right to play in the NYS quarterfinals. Full Story

*+McQuaid Jesuit scored the final four goals of the game spanning the entire second half to secure their first ever Section Five Title.  The Black Knights have been to the Finals three times in program history (including last year's 9-5 loss vs. Pittsford), but this was their first time taking home the Title. Full Story

*+Victor defeated Irondequoit 9-6 tonight in the Class B Championship to win their tenth Title and second in a row.  The game was close for the first half, before the Blue Devils pulled ahead in the second half and held off a small push by Irondequoit in the middle of the fourth. Full Story

AQUINAS-14 at PENN YAN-11 -Aquinas defeated Penn Yan to gain their second Section V Title in program history with a 14-11 win over the Mustangs. The last time that the Li`l Irish won the title was also against Penn Yan back in 2010; in that game they snapped a 12 year winning streak for the Mustangs. This year they broke another 12 year winning streak. Full Story

*+DAY IN REVIEW: SATURDAY - Both the Class C and D Championships were planned for Finger Lakes Community College today, but thunder and lightning storms caused great delays and in the in although the Class C game was won by Honeoye Falls-Lima, the Class D championship was moved to Sunday at 10:30 AM at FLCC. Full Story