Hall of Fame Dinner on November 8th

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

A chance to help one of our own

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

2024 All-Section Five List Released

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

McQuaid Wins State Title

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

Next Up State Championships at Hofstra

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

2024 Rochester Chapter Senior Games

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

GVLOA Honors Team Sportsmanship

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

McQuaid and Victor Are In the Championships

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

USA Lacrosse All-Americans and All-Academics

*+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

Next Up State Semifinals at SUNY Cortland

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

Welcome to BLaxFive.NET

Welcome to the home of Section Five V Lacrosse. For more than twenty-five 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. Full Story

Monroe County Awards for 2024

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

Finger Lakes Awards for 2024

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

100 Years of Scholastic Lacrosse Here

This year, BLaxFive.NET is celebrating the start of scholastic lacrosse in 1922 when Geneva High School was the first team in the "area" to sponsor a scholastic team. During the preseason we have published stories about some of the noteworthy events of those early years and some more modern accomplishments. A list of the twenty-two stories is available here. Full Story

List of 100th Year Celebration Stories

We expect that there will be a large number of stories about players, coaches and events and will post links to each of them as we celebrate 100 years. Full Story