Fairport 10 - Penn Yan 7

  After a tough loss on Tuesday to Canandaigua, Fairport looked forward to battling Penn Yan today and ended up with a 10-7 win at home.
  
Coach Brian Hobart told the team in the pre-game huddle, "The next 48 minutes. That's all you've got to worry about....the next 48 minutes," and the Mustangs took the first face off and controlled the first offensive set. A very patient Raider defense waited, and allowed Penn Yan to move the ball around the outside, while being very stingy with inside looks. Their patience was rewarded and they took the ball down field, where, after setting up their own offense, Eric Hislop scored with an outside shot from the right side of the cage.
    
Penn Yan Returned 0:44 seconds later when Adam Trombley beat his defender behind the net and cut around the crease for the unassisted goal. Sophomore attackman, Martin Manilla made a quick pass to classmate, Brendan Saylor, alone on the crease. Three minutes later Saylor struck again with an inside crease cut and help from Connor Lowe. With just over two minutes left, David Foley received a pass from Manilla and scored with a hard side arm shot that hit the net in the top left corner. Manilla scored by himself with just 0:03 left in the quarter from a fast break clear and the Red Raiders led after twelve minutes, 5-1.
  
Hobart challenged his young charges, "You're going to make mistakes, but when you make mistakes do all out." The Mustangs rallied in the second quarter, scoring the first three in a row, bringing the score to within one goal before Fairport ended the half with a Manila from Aaron Jones cross-crease pass at 0:36. Penn Yan's first goal (at 10:48) came as Mustang goalie, Ethan Kamholtz ran the ball down the middle of the field and when one-one-one with Fairport goalie Kris Sterzin passed the ball to Cole Castle for the open net score. Matt Osgood scored on an outside shot and a pass from John Linnan who also assisted on a goal by Castle who took two fake shots before scoring. Fairport was the leader at the half, 6-4.
  
The break seemed to lift the Fairport spirit as their defense, which included key assignments for Kyle DeRosa, Theodore Knowles and Dorian Wolff, continued an aggressive "in your face" man-to-man defense which made it difficult for Penn Yan's Trombley, Osgood and Castle to get volume or quality shots on Sterzin. Manilla scored a man up goal after picking up a ground ball on the crease. The Penn Yan defense, by comparison, and with the exception of Kamholtz and Tim Dyer, seemed passive and often neglected the poke checks that are a Penn Yan hallmark. The Mustangs scored at 3:20 when Osgood worked Knowles with several rollbacks before beating him outside and getting the shot off before the Fairport slide arrived. The Raiders scored two more before the end of the quarter, starting with another by Manilla who, after three Fairport passes dodged his defender for a one-on-one on the crease. Paul Dancy scored with 0:17 left in the third when he cut to the inside and received the pass from Connor Lowe, took two steps, and fired the ball just past the Kamholtz's shoulder. The quarter ended with Fairport up 9-5.
  
Penn Yan took the score to 9-6 with a drive a ditch feed from Trombley to Castle, but the Raiders returned with a goal by Jones who was alone on the crease when he received the ball from Manilla. Penn Yan ended the scoring with a man up goal by Linnan scored with a bounce shot and a feed from Trombley.
  
This was a difficult game for the Mustangs, who play a very difficult schedule against the best they can find. On this day, the offense found it difficult to move the ball and nearly impossible to win one-on-one. Shots were either hard and off the cage or soft and in the goalie's stick. Sterzin made 14 saves, and half of them were easy for him. The Mustang defense watched too much of the game and the ball instead of their assignments and allowed too much inside movement by Fairport. That being said, the good news is that this was not normal behavior for Penn Yan and they will undoubtedly learn from this one. For Fairport, it was a big win against a top team which will probably give them extra
seeding points for Sectionals.
  
Scoring for Fairport were Eric Hislop (1g), Brendan Saylor (2g), Martin Manilla (4g-3a), Connor Lowe (2a), David Foley (1g), Aaron Jones (1g-1a), Paul Dancy (1g). Kris Sterzin had 14s/7ga for Fairport who improves to 4-1.
  
Scoring for Penn Yan were Adam Trombley (1g-2a), Cole Castle (3g), Matt Osgood (2g) and John Linnan (1g-2a). Ethan Kamholtz had an assist and 11s/10ga for the Mustangs (5-2).
  

Hilton 15 - Spencerport 7

 Hilton was the victor over Spencerport 15-7 today. Although the first half was close, 5-4 Hilton, the second half was all Hilton as they outscored Spencerport 10-3.
  
Both teams played two goalies; Hilton's Brad Speer finished with 6s/6ga in 42 minutes, while Seth Kohler finished with 5s/1ga in six minutes; Spencerport's Mike Palvino finished with 13s/13ga in 41 minutes, while Tyler Lariviere finished with 2s/2ga in seven minutes.
  
Scoring for Hilton were Jay Clifford (3g-1a), Jimmy Gaffney (3g-1a), Colin Walker (3g), Mike Crumlish (2g), Matt Fracassi (2g), Steve Bernsten (2a), Troy Johnson (1g) and Matt Davidson (1g).
  
Scoring for Spencerport were Kyle Mark (1g-3a), Jon Robinson (3g), Justin Putt (2a), Sean DeMers (1g), Steve Hogan (1g), Nick Fischer (1g), Steve Brasil (1a) and Kyle Breach (1a).
     

Gates Chili 10 - Victor 6

 Gates Chili defeated Victor 10-6 in today's match up. Victor led in ground balls 43-22 and face-off's 11/20, while Gates Chili led in shots 28-23.

In the cage, Victor's Kevin Donnelly finished with 11s/10ga, while, Gates Chili's Jason Baetzhold finished with 12s/6ga.

Scoring for Gates Chili were Brad Weber (1g-4a), Tom Sudek (2g-1a), Mike Green (2g), Tom Elkins (1g-1a), Jeff Fichtner (1g-1a), Grant Ferguson (1g), Pat Sposato (1g), Adam Wacenske (1g) and Brian Eckam (1a).

Scoring for Victor were Alex Rogemoser (1g-2a), Ethan Payne (2g), Frank Valenti (1g), Vince Pettrone (1g) and Trevor O' Shea (1g).
    

Geneva 14 - Aquinas 5

  The Geneva v. Aquinas game was a story of two halves; Geneva's second half domination led them to a 14-5 victory over the Little Irish.

Geneva opened up the scoring with a goal only 0:13 seconds into the game. Alex Love looked cross crease to Eric Legott. This became a pattern for the Panthers as seven of their fourteen goals were scored in this manner. Additionally, Love became a major factor in Geneva's win; Love finished the game with 6 goals and 5 assists. At this point, Aquinas was playing at the same level as Geneva. Both teams were fighting for ground balls and were shooting hard tough shots. In the first half the two goalies were 28% (Geneva) and 40% (Aquinas).
  
Aquinas' Casey Vogl scored the first Little Irish goal with a ground ball behind the cage and a straight drive to the cage. Geneva scored again with Jim Warner shooting an outside bounce shot. Aquinas scored the next two goals to take a one goal lead. The first was a sweep by Mike Gray and the second was a fast-break by Austin Gorman (assisted by Anthony Bianchi). Aquinas led 3-2 with 3:55 remaining. Geneva scored the final goal of the quarter with Legott returning the favor and finding Love on the crease during a fast-break opportunity. The first quarter ended 3-3.

The second quarter was much like the first; Aquinas scored the first goal to retake the lead. Jasen Torres drove from behind at 10:21 to give the Little Irish as 4-3 lead. The Panthers took much of the second quarter to tie the score back up. At 4:50 another Love goal tied the score, followed by a second Warner goal at 3:21. Aquinas once again tied up the game with Gorman's second goal. Gorman took the ball behind and drove towards the cage, as if by force of will, as he was falling he took a hard shot that sneaked past Kyle Brimm. With 1:40 remaining Geneva took the one goal lead yet again with Love finding Kyle Boncaro across the crease. Geneva took a 6-5 lead into halftime.
  
The second half saw Aquinas fall apart all over the board. Offensively, the Little Irish took six shots in the third (one on cage) and three in the fourth (two on cage). For another team this might be normal that this time of the year, but the Little Irish have demonstrated in prior games that volume is a key component of their offense. After expecting close to 40 or 50 shots the Little Irish only produced 24 (Geneva finished with 37 shots). Defensively, Kraig Heston played better in the second half with 10s/8ga. Heston finished the game with 14s/14ga (50%). Another problem for Aquinas showed up as they began to go down by a couple goals, the Little Irish kept getting more and more penalties. Two unsportsmanlike conduct calls, as well as eight of their nine penalties occurred in the second half.

Geneva scored the last eight goals of the game, four in each quarter, while keeping the Little Irish scoreless. In the second quarter, Love took the ball behind the cage, drove straight in, turned to shoot and scored a total of three times. Late in the fourth, the Panthers had a triple extra-man situation as Alex Gray was out with a Slash, Sam Torchia was out with an Illegal body check and Casey Vogl was out with an Unsportsmanlike Conduct call. Geneva demonstrated why they are the defending Sectional Champions as they played four solid quarters. Although the Little Irish showed that they could keep with the Panthers over the first half, if they want to challenge Geneva in the tournament they know they will need to play all four quarters.
  
Kyle Brimm played 47 minutes for the Panthers with 4s/5ga and Billy Craft played the final minute accruing one save. Heston finished with 14s/14ga. Alex Love took 12 shots with 7 on cage and six goals. Removing his six goals (and one save), Heston would have finished with 13s/8ga (62%); This more then demonstrates the major impact that Love had for the Panthers.
  
Scoring for Geneva were Love (6g-5a), Legott (3g-1a), Boncaro (2g-2a), Warner (2g) and Sean Bennett (1g).
  
Scoring for Aquinas were Gorman (2g), Torres (1g), Vogl (1g), Gray (1g) and Bianchi (1a).
  
For a more complete look at the numbers, check out the full statistics.
  

Rush-Henrietta 18 - Livonia 9

  Although it took them a little while to warm up the Royal Comets ended with a 18-9 victory over visiting Livonia. It was back and forth in the first quarter. RH scored the first two goals starting with a crease feed from Justin Gmeinweiser to Aaron Bethmann who finished with a wrist shot. Nate Delone scored the first of his 6g-3a with a crease cut from behind the cage.The Bulldogs got on the scoreboard with a goal from Chris Bausch and a cross crease feed from Mike Donals. Rush scored with 0:35 on a garbage ground ball in front of the goal and a score by Bobby Pattridge but Livonia ended the scoring with 0:08 on another crease feed by Bausch (from Jeff Wester). Rush led 3-2.
  
The Royal Comets started the second quarter with three in a row. Gmeinweiser scored an unassisted goal at 9:11, Delone added a run-'n-gun goal at 7:15 and Aaron Bethmann had a drive and dump feed from Delone at 6:39. Livonia returned with an unassisted goal at 6:14 from a standing shot from outside. RH came right back with another drive by Delone and Livonia finished the half (at 0:03) with a goal by Bausch (from Wester). The Royal Comets went into the break with a 7-4 lead.
  
Rush started the third quarter with four unanswered goals taking the score to 11-4 before the Dawgs scored on a drive from the front by Wester at 4:14. Rush goals came from Delone (via Ryan Leonard), Colin Cornaire who ran coast-to-coast for his unassisted goal and Mark Mattiacio (unassisted) at 6:29. The last of the four started with a steal by Pattridge during a Livonia clear and a dish to Delone for the goal.
    
With the score at 11-5, RH scored two more (Brad Sauln from Jake Alvarez and Chris Aycock from Bethmann). Livonia saw the next two starting with an outside shot by Bausch (from Tyler Russell) and Mike Donals from Wester who scored on a clearing inside fast break. Delone ended the scoring in the third after receiving the ball from Mattiacio which gave the Royal Comets a 14-7 lead after three quarters.
  
The Bulldogs scored the first two goals of the last quarter, both by Russell with the second, in man up, with an assist by Donals on a play called during a time out by Coach Brett Wood. After that it was all Rush, scoring four more including goals by Cornaire, Joe Perkins, Pattridge (in man up) and Dan Barreca who swept a ground ball on the crease into the goal with 0:11 left in the game.
  
Scoring for Rush-Henrietta were Delone (6g-3a), Leonard (4a), Aaron Bethmann (2g), Pattridge (2g), Cornaire (2g), Gmeinweiser (1g-1a),
  
Mattiacio (1g-1a), Sauln (1g), Aycock (1g), Perkins (1g), Barreca (1g) and Alvarez (1a). Josh O' Shea had 9s/4ga until Matt Gladstone finished the game part-way through the third quarter and recorded 2s/5ga for RH (1-2).
  
Scoring for Livonia were Chris Bausch (4g), Tyler Russell (3g-1a), Jeff Wester (1g-3a) and Mike Donals (1g-2a). Justin Becker had 14s/18ga for the Bulldogs (4-1).