Unlike may of the game days of late, there were some very exciting games and scores today as 15 games were played. Mynderse beat Wayne 5-4, Fairport overcame a 3-1 deficit to beat Penn Yan 7-5 and Midlakes defeated Marcus Whitman 9-8. Irondequoit held off a 4th quarter charge by R-H and won 17-14. Livonia had a close won and beat Aquinas 11-9 in GRALL action. The Greece Lightning defeated HF-L, 9-6 tonight. Other winners were Penfield, Pal-Mac, Eastridge, Brockport, Canandaigua, Hilton and Geneva.

-- In one of the biggest match ups of the season, the Red Raiders traveled to Penn Yan for a showdown with two of the top team in the Section. Although the Mustangs started out in the driver's seat, Fairport came back with five unanswered goals to grab a 7-5 win.

The Mustangs struck first with senior attackman Ryan Maciejewski scoring from top center after receiving a ball from junior attackman Bradley Voigt who was behind the net at the 9:15 mark. Fairport returned, at 7:48, with an unassisted goal by senior middie Kevin Vaughn driving in from the right side, placing the setting sun right in the eyes of Penn Yan goalie Brandon Maciejewski. Penn Yan scored two minutes later on a play similar to the first. This time junior midfielder Andrew Perl started with a drive from behind and finished with an overpass to the top center. Voigt finished with a sidearm shot past Fairport senior goalie Jake Newkirk. The Mustangs ended the scoring in the first quarter with a goal by Ryan Maciejewski assisted, this time, by junior attackman Rion Davison. The Mustang defensive unit quickly moved the ball up field and found a fast break after passing the ball to Davison. Penn Yan led at the end of the first quarter 3-1.

The second quarter belonged to the Red Raiders as they scored three unanswered goals to tie and then go up by a goal before the half. Senior attackman CT Bove started things off for Fairport, scoring at 8:34 on a crossing pass from senior midfielder Max Gerling. Almost six minutes later freshman attackman Cameron Gebhardt took the ball from Dan McAvoy and scored from the right wing. McAvoy assisted again on the next goal, sending the ball to Justin Kesselring, again on the right wing and the Red Raiders took a 4-3 lead into the halftime break.

The defensive units on both ends of the field were strong throughout the contest. There was only one goal scored in the third quarter. Kesselring lifted the Red Raider lead to 5-3 when he lined himself with his back to the sun and scored on a bounced shot at 2:37.

Fairport increased their lead to 6-3 at the top of the last quarter when Vaughn scored his second goal on a drive from the right side. Pen Yan started a comeback at 6:05 when Voigt scored on a touch pass from Davison. Fairport cut the Mustang momentum when, after a time out, senior midfielder Jake Vakiener brought the ball in from the far sideline, dodged his man and avoided the slide to pop a bounce shot past "Mace" in the goal. Voigt scored the last goal of the game in transition with thirty-eight seconds left the game. Fairport took control after the next face off and held the ball from the Mustangs to secure the win. 

 

--  Game NOTE:  Defense was on top for both teams. Mynderse defense kept them in the game and helped to secure a 5-4 win over visiting Wayne. The Wayne defensive unit held Mynderse scoreless during a three minute stick penalty at the top of the last quarter of play with Tim Trickler making excellent one-on-one stops in the cage. 

-- The Bulldogs came out quickly and in strong fashion as they defeated Aquinas 11-9 in GRALL action tonight. Junior offensiveman Jack Simpson, who ended the game with 5g started off the Livonia effort with the first three goals in less than two and a half minutes. Senior Mitchell Kinney (3g-1a) scored on a feed from Josh Wester (2g-2a) to give the Bulldogs a 4-0 lead before Aquinas junior middie, Jamison Whitfield scored an unassisted goal with 0:34 left in the quarter.

Livonia senior Derek Bishopp added another for the bulldogs to start the second quarter, but on the ensuing face off AQ junior attackman Alex Bianchi (2g-2a) scored. After Whitfield scored another unassisted goal at 7:41, Livonia returned with three in a row to finish the half up 8-3.

After the first face off of the third quarter, junior attackman Jonathan Olbrich scored with a feed from Bianchi. There was no scoring for the next seven minutes before a flurry of activity took place. Billy Lombardi took the ball from Jonathan Perotto to bring Aquinas to within three. The teams then traded goals in the last three minutes of the quarter. Kinney scored an unassisted goal and Bianchi scored for AQ and one minute later Wester's unassisted goal gave Livonia a 10-6 lead.

Aquinas won the last quarter, scoring three to Livonia's one goal. Olbrich scored on a Whitfield pass in man up, Perotto scored unassisted) and Greer Leva scored on a feed from Bianchi. In between, the Bulldogs saw their last goal by Kinney (from Wester).