All three games could have gone either way, and the teams from Section Five played well, but all three fell to the team from Section Three in the semi final round. Fairport, in Class A lost 10-9 in overtime to Fayetteville-Manlius. Victor scored eight goals in the second quarter and led 10-5 at the half, but fell to Jamesville-Dewitt 17-13 in the Class B game. Penn Yan lost to Cazenovia for the second time in two years. Last year it was by one goal, and this year by two. Cazenovia, who now has a thirty-three game winning streak will once again defend their Championship when they play Bronxville on Saturday. F-M will play Massepeaqua and J-D will play Yorktown. The Championships will be at Hofstra University. The NYS brackets are available for Class A, Class B and Class C.

Fayetteville-Manlius 10 - Fairport 9 in Overtime

Wed - Jun 4, 2014 - 3:30 PM

NYS-Semi   at CNS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Final  Fayetteville-Manlius      Record: 18-3 1 2 4 2 1 10   Fairport      Record: 18-3 3 1 3 2   9

The book for Fayetteville-Manlius: Erik Badger (2g), Luke Krizman (2a), Alex Leuse (1g), Dylan Taylor-Wolford (1g), Jack Wilson (6). Goaltending: Brian Charlamb (7s/9ga 51 minutes). The book for Fairport: Shane Cronkwright (1g), Ryan Crater (1a), Justin Kesselring (1g-1a), Dan McAvoy (3g-1a), Nick Orsini (2g), Kacin Welch (2g), Goaltending: Joey Scalise 12s/10ga = 55% (51 mins).

--  The Red Raiders traveled to Cicero-North Syracuse High School in Syracuse for the first of the three Upstate semi finals games today. It has been a long time for the Fayetteville-Manlius Hornets to get this far, having to battle the tough Class A schedule in Section Three.

Dan McAvoy scored the first goal of the game for Fairport. Working from the left wing, he sharply turned back and shot underhand to give the Red Raiders a 1-0 lead at 8:57. F-M took the ensuing face off but lost control of the ball to the Red Raiders who then took some time off the clock. Senior attackman Ryan Crater, working from the top center quickly passed the ball to Justin Kesselring for a Fairport goal at 7:59. On the third trip to their end, Nick Orsini ran a sweep left and scored an unassisted goal at 4:05. After missing a one-one-one, Section Three`s leading scorer, Jack Wilson chased down his own shot and quickly moved it to Dylan Taylor-Wolford, out front, who scored on a bounced shot past Fairport`s Joey Scalise. Fairport had the ball after the face off and after a couple of missed shots, the first quarter ended with the Red Raiders up 3-1.

Both goalies made saves before Wilson scored after breaking past two Fairport defensemen and taking the scored to 3-2 with 7:12 left in the half. Fairport took time off the clock each time they had offensive sets. The Hornets tied the game at 3-3 when Wilson scored on a feed from senior middie Luke Krizman who threw the ball from top center top to the right wing. Head Coach Mike Torrelli called a time out with just under a minute in the half. After three missed shots and with time running down, McAvoy ran hard from behind the goal and after jumping up in the air, scored with less than one second left. The Red Raider took the half-time lead 4-3.

Key in the first half was turnovers, where F-M had nine and Fairport had three. The extra ball time allowed the Red Raiders to take time in their offensive end and set up the looks they wanted. A significant number of shots hit the pipes at both end of the field.

Fairport won the first possession on a technical face off and after setting up, Shane Cronkwright drove hard from the left and bounced one past F-M goalie Brian Charlamb. After the next face off Orsini struck again with a shot from out front that bounced off Charlamb`s stick and went in, giving Fairport a 6-3 lead. Less than a minute later, Fairport scored again, as Kacin Welch put one in on a switchback. Thirty-four seconds later, F-M found the nets as Erik Badger had a change of direction dodge and took the score to 7-4. After a couple of saves by Scalise that bounced back out, Alex Lenze picked up a ground ball and quickly scored to take the game to 7-5. Badger scored again at 4:00 with an outside shot from top center, scoring the third in a row. F-M tied the game again at 7-7 with Wilson running it in from a clear. The Hornets had scored four in a row and owned the third quarter.

Wilson, scoring less than a minute into the last quarter gave the Hornets their first lead of the game (8-7). At 4:50, Fairport tied that game with McAvoy`s outside low shot from the front. The Hornets picked up the face off and had the first offensive try. Scalise made a nice save, but the ball was lost on the clear. Scalise made a second save and barely cleared the ball, before a Fairport time out with 3:21 left in regulation. After the short break, Welch took the ball way out front and bounced it in for a 9-8 lead, but F-M won the next face off on a technical foul and worked the ball around looking for Wilson. Fairport knocked the ball down but Fairport lost possession and F-M took a time out with 1:21 left. Wilson dodged his man and for the fifth time, tied the game at 9-9 with 0:50. Fairport won a critical face off and Coach Torrelli called for a time out with 0:40 left. The Red Raiders got an outside shot just at the end of the quarter, but the teams remained tied after four quarters.

The Hornets won the face off and had first chance to score. They called time out at 3:32. After a couple of drives by Wilson, senior defenseman Sam Dovan got control of the ball the Riders took the ball up field and called a Fairport time out with 2:55 left in the first overtime period. Orsini had a shot (wide), but Fairport maintained the possession. McAvoy shot but it was saved by Charlamb. The ball moved to the other end where Scalise made his own save. Wilson then took a shot (wide) from top center. Wilson got the ball from behind the net and ran a tight cut to the goal, scoring the game-winning goal with an underhand shot. Wilson was in on all but four goals in the game. The Hornets will play at Hofstra on Saturday against Massapequa for the State Championship (11:00 am start).

JD 17 - Victor 13

Wed - Jun 4, 2014 - 5:30 PM

NYS-Semi   at CNS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Final  JD      Record: 19-2 4 1 6 6   17   Victor      Record: 17-4 2 8 1 2   13

The book for JD: Griffen Johnson (3g-5a), Grayson Burns (5g), Ryan Durkin (2g-2a), Ryan McKee (2g), Griffin Feiner (2g-1a), Brad Carr (1g), Matt Murad (1g), Ben Wipper (1g). Goaltending: Joe Morgan (11s/13ga 48 mins). The book for Victor: Jack Callahan (1a), David Cardillo (1g), Jamie Trimboli (3g-1a), Luke Bartkoski (3g-1a), Mike DeMarco (1g-1a), Dan Barrow (3g-1a), Max Lambert (1g), Ryan Maloney (1g-2a), Goaltending: Justin Young 6s/17ga (48 mins).

--  TD Ierlan took the first face off right to the goal, but was unsuccessful and after a quick trip up and back, sophomore defenseman Jack Callahan gave the ball to sophomore attackman Max Lambert for the first goal of the game. After a number of saves at both ends of the field, senior attackman Griffin Johnson picked up a loose ball near the crease and popped it in past Justin Young to tie the game at 1-1. J-D won the possession after the face off and defenseman Conal Brady took the ball inside and dumped it to Griffin Feiner at 3:50 for the go-ahead goal for the Red Rams. After one trip up and down, the Rams took the ball behind the cage and as Johnson drove the right cut from the left he passed the ball to Bucknell bound Grayson Burns, cutting to the crease for another J-D goal. After save by junior goalie Joe Morgan, a quick pitch and a fast break gave the Rams another goal. Johnson, on the outside, hit Burns at 2:07 giving JD a 4-1 lead. Ierlan lost his first face off of the day (after winning the first four), but the Blue Devils took the ball away and at the other end of the field Jamie Trimboli ran from right to left over the top and scored on a right handled sidearm at 1:03 and the quarter ended with J-D up 4-2.

At the start of the second, Ierlan, who finished the game winning 24 of 28, picked up a technical face off win and the Blue Devils got a goal from Luke Bartkoski who set up from behind and drove past his defender on the right side. After another face off win, Trimboli had a nice face dodge and bounced one past Morgan to tie the game at 4-4 at 10:23. After a tenth face off win, sophomore midfielder Mike DeMarco scored from way out front to give the Blue Devils a 5-4 lead at 9:25. DeMarco then broke up a Rams clear and created an inside fast break for Barrow to Maloney, giving the Blue Devils a 6-4 lead. Another broken clear by the Blue Devils resulted in an open net goal by David Cardillo with a pass from Bartkoski, who stripped the ball from Joe Morgan. Ryan McKee broke Victor`s six goal streak with an outside shot from transition at 5:01. Another broken clear game the Blue Devils another goal at 2:44. A Maloney pass to Bartkoski hit a defensive stick and went into the goal. Ierlan won another face off but he was tripped and Victor, in man up, saw Maloney feed Trimboli for a 9-5 lead with 2:20. Bartkoski scored the next Blue Devil goal with a drive from behind the net and a shot between the legs of Morgan. After outscoring the Rams 8-1, the Blue Devils went into the halftime break up 10-5.

Ryan Durkin scored in the first minute of the third quarter on an outside bounce shot, to start a J-D comeback. Victor came back on the ensuing face off with a drive and shot from the top front by Dan Barrow to regain a five goal lead. After a long possession, Feiner brought the ball in from the left wing and fed the ball to Burns on the crease at 9:35 to take the score to 11-7. After a failure to advance call the left the ball on the Ram`s offensive end, Feiner quickly put the ball into play and threw it to Johnson who fed Burns near the crease. He faked low and shot high to take the score to 11-8. Victor won the face off and had two point blank shots on Morgan who stuffed them both. Two minutes later Johnson scored on a drive from behind as the Rams scored their fourth unanswered goal at 6:14. With just six seconds left in the quarter, the Red Rams took the score to within one with a top to crease feed from Ryan Durkin to Brad Carr. A technical face off win gave J-D the ball and with time winding down, Ryan McKee took a shot from nearly midfield that hug the ground and got past Young. The game was tied at 11-11 at the end of three quarters.

After a hard fought face off was won by J-D, Durkin scored on an outside bounce shot to give the Red Rams their first lead since the first quarter. Victor tied the game at 12-12 after the next face off when Trimboli moved the ball to Dan Barrow who scored with a hard side arm shot from the top right. J-D came right back with a quick goal from Johnson who picked up the ball at midfield and took it right to the goal. After winning another face off, the Red Rams went right to the fast break goal and found Johnson to Burns for a 14-12 lead at 10:17. At this point J-D had scored eight of the last nine goals. After a couple of trips back and forth J-D scored another goal with pinpoint passing to the crease. Johnson found Ben Wipper open on the crease for the Red Rams` fifteenth goal at 7:46. Dan Barrow scored his third goal of the game in man up after getting the ball from DeMarco and it was a two goal game. But that would be the last goal for the Blue Devils as the Rams scored two more unanswered goals. The first at 3:25 was by Feiner who took the ball from Young on a clear and scored on the open net. The second was by Matthew Murad on a drive from the left at 2:01. After a J-D timeout the Rams ran out the clock. They will face Yorktown on Saturday.

Cazenovia 8 - Penn Yan 6

Wed - Jun 4, 2014 - 8:00 PM

NYS-Semi   at CNS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Final  Cazenovia      Record: 22-0 1 3 2 2   8   Penn Yan      Record: 16-4 2 2 1 1   6

The book for Cazenovia: PJ Brown (3g-1a), Alex Hunt (1g), Jake Lewis (1g-1a), Henry Man (1g-1a), Derek White (1g), Cole Willard (1g). Goaltending: Trevor Cross (1gs/6ga 48 mins) The book for Penn Yan: Rion Davison (1g-2a), Sean Emerson (1a), Austin Fingar (1g-2a), Andrew Perl (3g), Bradley Voigt (1g), Goaltending: Brandon Maciejewski 11s/8ga = 58% (48 mins).

--  Bradley Voigt scored the first goal at 9:35 with an outside sidearm shot to give the Mustangs a 1-0 start in this Class C semi final game. After both goalies made a couple of saves, Penn Yan scored their second goal at 6:27 as Rion Davison hit a sidearm shot with a feed from Austin Fingar. After senior goalie Brandon Maciejewski traveled up field for a shot (missed), the Lakers gained possession on a TJ Cannellan steal and moved the ball up quickly for goal by sophomore attackman Cole Willard. The first quarter ended with Penn Yan up 2-1.

Penn Yan returned on the first face off, scoring on an inside break as Andrew Perl scored on the feed from Sean Emerson at 11:51. The Lakers came back with a transition goal from an outside shot by PJ Brown at 11:20 and less than a minute later, Derek White scored on a draw and dump from Brown to tie the game at 3-3. After a couple trips up and down the field Jake Lewis came from behind the cage, beating his man to give the Lakers their first lead in the game at 7:14. The Mustangs, playing a 3-3 zone defense, kept the Lakers shooting outside but gave them lots of ball time. The Mustangs took over the offense with about three minutes left and after moving the ball around the net a while, Davison found Perl who scored on an outside sidearm shot from the left to tie the game at 4-4 with 2:12 left in the half. Both teams took a couple of shots, but the game remained tied at 4-4 at the half.

Laker goalie Trevor Cross made two big, point blank saves at the top of the third quarter. Henry Mann then took the ball and broke through the Mustang defense to give Cazenovia a 5-4 lead at 9:37. Penn Yan tied the game for the third time with a goal by Andrew Perl on a feed from Davison at 5:54. Cazenovia took their third lead of the game when Jake Lewis sent the ball to Alec Hunt who scored at a little over four minutes. The Lakers controlled possession and had a number of shots, mostly missing but some bouncing out of "Mace`s" stick. The quarter ended with Cazenovia up 6-5.

Brown dodged two from behind the cage and took a wrist shot to give the Lakers their greatest lead of the game at 7-5 with 9:01 left in regulation. Cazenovia won the face off and after settling the ball down, Brown scored his third goal of the night at 7:49 to give the Lakers an 8-5 lead. Penn Yan called a time out. Man won another face off for Cazenovia and they settled the play, taking time off the clock. The Mustangs were hit with a penalty that gave the Lakers more fourth quarter ball time. The Lakers held the ball for almost five minutes before the Mustang took the ball down field where a quick shot was saved by Cross who moved the ball back up field and Cazenovia took a time out at 2:39. Penn Yan went man up and quickly scored a goal by Austin Fingar, who won the ensuing face off after which Coach Hobart called a time out. The Mustangs missed the cage a couple of times before a pass was picked off and the ball went to the other end of the field where Jim Longo called a time out with 0:39 left in regulation. The Lakers held on, took they winning streak to 33-0 and will get to repeat their championship game from last year as they play Bronxville again on Saturday.