Friday: Top Seeds Advance to play Penfield, CA, Livonia

May 25, 2012 -

All three top seeds will wear the home whites on Tuesday when they play for their Section Five titles. Fairport beat Hilton tonight and will play Penfield for beat Pittsford. Irondequoit beat Victor tonight and will play Canandaigua who beat Churchville-Chili and Penn Yan was the winner over HF-L which puts them up against Livonia who defeated Aquinas tonight. Championship Day is Tuesday at St. John Fisher College.

 

  --   Fairport scored the first 13 goals and started the second half in running time in their 16-4 win over Hilton. The Red Raiders had 13 players make their offensive scorebook. Leading the scoring were Pat VanBortle with 4g and Kyle Sterzin with 4a. Shane Stickle finished 9/12 at the face off draw. Midfielder Jack Sanna finished with a team leading five ground balls. Max Gerling, Marc Sweeney and Stickle finished with four ground balls each.

In the cage, Fairport played three different goalies. Jake Newkirk, Blaze Riorden and Pete Gropp all split time between the pipes. Newkirk finished with two saves, Riorden with one save and Gropp with four saves.

Hilton attackman Derek Richards finished the game with 1g-1a. Those two points were enough to get him over the 100 career point mark. Richards finished the season with 21g-39a. After this season, his junior year, he has accumulated 42g-58a. Harald Juergens finished 8/16 at the face off draw. He also led his team with five ground balls. In the cage, Jarod Kimble and Mark Detroia split halves. Kimble finished with nine saves and Detroia finished with two saves.  

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  --   Second seeded Penfield never trailed in their 11-6 win over third seeded Pittsford. The Patriots scored the first three goals of the game before Pittsford scored the next three to tie the game at 3-3. Penfield then added the next four goals to give them a significant lead. The two teams traded goals in the fourth quarter, but Pittsford never scored more than one goal in a row. Each team added a goal in the final 11 seconds.

The first goal of the game came after a lot of back and forth. Matt Condon fed the crease and gave Jacob Aldrich the opening goal with 5:51 remaining. Three minutes later Condon assisted the Patriots second goal. This time he fed Dan Maring. The final Penfield goal of the quarter was scored with 0:51 remaining. Both teams had a penalty, so they were playing 5-on-5. Andrew Schoeneck waited for the release and within two seconds he put the ball into the upper corner. Pittsford scored with 0:10 remaining in the quarter when Steven Ricci drove at the cage. He was forced back, however, he rolled to the outside and found Nino DiPasquale open for the goal. Penfield led 3-1 going into the second quarter.

Pittsford continued their comeback in the second quarter by adding two goals in less than two minutes. The first goal was scored by Jack Lauroesch. He received a pass from behind the cage and then dodged his defenseman to bring the game within a single goal. At the ensuing face off Pittsford called a time out to get possession. Senior All American Corey Parke started with the ball and went straight to the goal to tie the game at 3-3. The remaining three goals of the quarter were all scored by Penfield. The first was scored during man-up with Matt Bilak scoring on an assist from Aldrich. The next goal was scored by Maring with a drive from behind the cage. The shot initially looked like it was saved by Kyle Lake; however, it dribbled into the cage. Lake finished the game with seven saves. The final goal of the first half was scored at 1:08. Face off man Connor Russell won the face off and brought the ball down towards the goal. He attempted to get a shot off but was checked at the last minute. Schoeneck grabbed the ball out of the air and finished into the back of the net with Lake out of position. Penfield led 6-3 at the half. There were no goals in the third quarter.

Between the two teams there were 8 goals in the final quarter. The first two goals were traded between the two teams. Pittsford scored first with Ricci scoring unassisted. 0:13 later Russell scored after another face off win. Russell finished 9/19. He lost eight face offs to technical fouls. Ricci scored again one minute later after he picked up a ground ball near the crease. The final four goals of the game were scored during man-up, Penfield added three goals and Pittsford added one goal.

Penfield was led in ground balls by Russell with eight. Andrew Huntington and Justin Rehm finished with five ground balls each. In the cage, Keith Keehn finished with nine saves. For Pittsford, Matt Barbaccia finished with an impressive 11/19 (58%). He won eight of his face offs on technical fouls. Midfielder Tyler Aycock finished with a team leading five ground balls.  

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  --   Irondequoit scored six goals in the first quarter and led 10-4 at halftime on their way to a 20-11 win over Victor. The top seeded Eagles were led in scoring by All American Nick Doktor with 3g-4a. Attackman Jake Schmidt finished with five goals for Irondequoit. In the cage, Academic All American Eric Fischer finished at 50% with nine saves. Alex Shoemaker played the final four minutes of play and recorded two saves.

For Victor, Mitch Rupp and John Maloney each scored 2g-2a. Sophomore midfielder Luke Bartkoski finished with three goals for the Blue Devils. In the cage, Chris Saar played the majority of the game and recorded seven saves. Troy Dowdle played the final four minutes and recorded one save.    

  

  --   Canandaigua outscored Churchville-Chili in every quarter and won 10-5. The sixth seeded Braves were led in scoring by attackman Dan LaCrosse with 2g-2a. Midfielder Matt Scharr (1g-2a) and attackman Taylor Spike (3g) also contributed for the Braves. Liam McGuey scored the opening goal of the game with an unassisted drive at 7:45. Only 0:22 later and Churchville-Chili tied the game with an unassisted goal from Kevin O'Donnell. The Braves finished out the quarter on top with a goal with 0:04 remaining. Spike scored with an assist from LaCrosse.

Churchville-Chili tied the game in the second quarter with an unassisted goal from Nick Gray. CA scored the next two goals to end the quarter with a 4-2 lead. The latter goal was scored with 0:09 remaining by Connor Moore. The Braves kept up the scoring in the second half and the Saints never got within three goals.

Canandaigua's face off man Nick Como finished 15/18 (83%). He also led in the ground ball count with five. Midfielder DJ Goldstein finished with four ground balls. In the cage, Michael Cuciti finished with nine saves (64%). For Churchville-Chili, Jack Corcoran finished with four saves.  

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  --   Penn Yan scored the first three goals of the game and led 7-1 at the end of the first quarter in their 15-5 win over HF-L. The top seeded Mustangs also scored six of the last seven goals. Of those seven, four were scored by Dylan Yonts. Yonts finished with five goals for Penn Yan.

Leading the Penn Yan scoring was attackman Bradley Voigt with 3g-5a. Attackman Rion Davison finished with a team leading four ground balls. Defenseman Dan Guererri and midfielder Brandon Grace each finished with three ground balls. In the cage, Brandon Maciejewski finished with 17 saves.

HF-L was led in scoring by midfielder Nick Weston and attackman Connor Flaherty with two goals each. Midfielder Jake Boice finished 11/18 (61%) at the face off draw. Flaherty led the team in ground balls with five. Defenseman Cassidy Kuhn and Weston both finished with four ground balls. In the cage, Nick Beniamino finished with eight saves. 

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  --     After a slow start that has Aquinas ahead 2-1 after the first quarter, the Bulldogs picked up four goals in the second quarter and three more in the third to enter the last stanza up 8-5. Aquinas put in two unanswered goals but came up short. Alex Bianchi scored five of the seven Aquinas goals.

Cody Cisco (3g-1a) and Mitchell Kinney (3g-1a) led the offense for Livonia who will meet Penn Yan in the Class C finals on Tuesday.  

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