Section Five Wins Six From Section Six

April 13, 2019 - Saturday: DAY IN REVIEW: Section Five teams dominated against Section Six today, winning six of the eight games played. Winning were McQuaid Jesuit, Penfield, Thomas, Pittsford, Greece and Penn Yan. Brighton lost to St. Joseph (13-11) and Aquinas lost to Canisius (10-4).In a Section Five matchup Wayne defeated Marcus Whitman.

Penfield delivered Orchard Park their first loss of the season with a comeback win over the Quakers. The Patriots won 10-8 after scoring the final four goals of the game and holding Orchard Park scoreless for the final six minutes of the game. Michael Mitchell scored two of the final four goals and finished with 4g on the game. Overall, Travis Wagner’s performance in the cage was the lynchpin for the Patriots. He finished with 21 saves (72%) including multiple point blank-saves. John Richiusa finished 10/15 at the draw and won four straight draws to keep the ball in the Patriot half for the four goal stretch. (Story Continues) 

Thomas scored four of the last five goals to pull ahead in their 10-8 win over Hamburg. The game was only outside of a one goal game twice. Throughout the contest, the score was tied each time up to 7-7 with both teams leading at different points in the game. After Thomas scored their 8-7 lead, the game never tied again and Thomas held out the win. Their 10th goal was scored with 0:12 remaining. The Bulldogs fall to 6-2 with the loss, with both losses coming from Section Five teams (Canandaigua on 4/6) (Story Continues)

McQuaid Jesuit (5-1) exploded with seven straight goals after trailing 8-6 in the third quarter to defeat St Francis (Buffalo) 13-8. Ryan McEvily Led the Knights With 7 Goals and Max Ettinghausen tallied 4 goals and 1 assist. Also scoring for McQuaid, Alex Klimowski (1g-2a) and Nick Opett (1g- 2a. The Knights won 21 of 25 faceoffs.

Penn Yan took control quickly scoring the first three goals and then coasted to a 9-2 win over visiting Nichols. Colton Smith (3g-1a) led the Mustang offensive book that included seven players. Connor Finger helped give Penn Yan a great deal of ball time winning many faceoffs in the first half. Goalie Jeff Kinyoun made seven saves (78%) including several taken right on the crease.