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| Manhasset - 16 | LaFayette - 11 | |
| West Islip - 10 | Orchard Park - 5 | |
| Niskayuna - 5 | Canandaigua - 10 | |
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| LaFayette - 10 | Penn Yan - 6 | |
| Ithaca - 7 | Orchard Park - 8 | |
| JD - 6 | Canandaigua - 12 | |
| Tue-06-09 | ||
| Silver Creek - 6 | Penn Yan - 17 | |
| Orchard Park - 22 | Thomas - 10 | |
| Hamburg - 3 | Canandaigua - 17 | |
| Fri-06-05 | ||
| Livonia - 7 | Penn Yan - 10 | |
| Irondequoit - 6 | Canandaigua - 17 | |
| Thomas - 12 | Fairport - 11 |
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-- Section Five and NYS Tournaments
(Season 2009) After playing 299 regular season games, and league champions were determined, the post-season awards were announced. Kyle Van Thof, Drew Coholan, Brendan Saylor, Jack Hinderland, Marshall Johnson and John Linnan were selected for the USLacrosse All America Team.
-- Player Profile Keeps Track of Data
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The "College Lists" are an effort to keep track of graduates who are continuing to play lacrosse at the college level. Understanding that information is constantly changing we are happy to have Coaches, parents and players request updates or changes. Check out the Player Profile Section.
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(Season 2009) - Polls and rankings are available throughout the season. The SportsFive.NET rankings are released on Sunday each week. Rankings are based on each of the three classes (A, B and C). The New York State Sportswriters Association NYSSWA poll is released on Thursday each week and ranks teams from throughout all of New York State. National polls can be found at Laxpower.com
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Section Five Player Database Now Available
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(August 29, 2009) - SportsFive has announced the addition of a new feature on Sportsfive.NET. The "Player Profile" area contains individual pages for each of the more than 2,300 Section Five lacrosse players in the database. Information includes the player's team, class, scorebook data (starting in 2007), sectional awards won and a comment area, where team awards, club team membership and other lacrosse information may be found.
The "College Lists" are an effort to keep track of graduates who are continuing to play lacrosse at the college level.
Understanding that information is constantly changing we are happy to have Coaches, parents and players request updates or changes.
Check out the Player Profile Section.
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Classifications to change again in 2010-2011
(January 31, 2010) - The State Lacrosse Committee recently announced that the classifications will change again for the 2011 season. Class A schools will have 1,050 students or more (currently 1,100). Class B schools will have between 650 and 1,049 (currently 650 to 1,099). Class C schools will have 649 or less (currently the same).
Based on the 2010-2011 (BEDS) student population figures, Thomas will move from Class B to Class A while Hilton and Churchville-Chili will move from Class A to Class B in 2011. There will be nine teams in Class A, eleven in Class B and fifteen in Class C under the new plan.
This is the second adjustment since the 2008 season.
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Spencerport, Brighton Need Modified Coaches
(January 31, 2010) - Spencerport is in need for a coach for their boys' modified team. If interested conc act Head Coach Matt Nentarz at Spencerport schools. Brighton is looking for a Head Modified Coach. Contact Fritz Killian, AD at Brighton if interested.
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Two from Section Five in Dicks Sporting Goods Nationals
(January 31, 2010) - Fourteen year old Alex Ballatori (Brighton midfielder) and fifteen year old Anthony Merola (Greece attackman) represented the Western New York region for FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) and were joined by team members from several states, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, New York and California. Their team was undefeated in the qualifying rounds, was seeded third, and won each of the championship round games to claim the Dicks Sporting Goods National Tournament of Champions title.
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(January 14, 2009) - The American team from Rochester won the Adidas Brogden Cup, winning two games
to one at Winter Springs High School in Orlando, Florida. The Rochester team was coached by Craig and Andrew Whipple along with Matt Knope.
Rochester won the first game 14-9 with Deven Alves (3g) and Ryan Yunker (3g-2a) leading the scoring. The Canadian team (Ontario) took the second game 14-8 with Mark Cockerton scoring 5g for the winners.
In the third game Jack Hinderland (4g)led in goals and Torin Var (2g), Hakeem Lecky (2g-2a) and Kenny Tomeno (2g) were joined by six others in the scorebook. Rochester won 14-7 behind great face off work by Tomeno who won 40 face off over the three game and added 17gbs and 3g as well. He was named the US MVP for the tournament.
The Rochester team took control in the first quarter and never looked back. Goalie Tyler White had 21s/7ga.
Eric Gurnsey filed the full report which is available here.
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Section Five Looking for Game Officials
(December 29, 2009) -The Genesee Valley Lacrosse Officials Association (GVLOA) is currently recruiting officials for the upcoming spring season. The association is responsible for officiating boys` Section V high school lacrosse. As the sport continues to grow there is a great demand for officials.
"If you ever played or are a lacrosse player why not consider giving something back to the game. If you are a parent who wants to develop a better understanding of the game, the association can help you make a significant contribution to the sport."
GVLOA has an excellent training program that will assist new officials with learning the rules, mechanics, judgment and on field communications.
The Association has planning meetings for new officials for January 18th and 25th.
To find out more about lacrosse officiating and the Genesee Valley Lacrosse Officials Association please visit their web site, www.gvloa.org.
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2009 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Held
(November 6, 2009) - The Greater Rochester Chapter of USLacrosse held their 2009 Hall of Fame dinner tonight at the Burgundy Basin Inn in Pittsford.
Rich Curtis was introduced by long-time Bright AD, Rich Kaplan Tom Hannan started the introduction of Arthur Johnson, whose daughter, Sue Hannan finished the introduction. Paul Wilson introduced Section Five Lacrosse Chairman, Mike Simon. Pat Cougevan spoke about long time friend, Regy Thorpe who, along with his family was home with the flu and Tony Levin introduced Gene Peluso, who regaled the crowd with his well known wit and one-liners. Full story continues here.
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NFHS Rule Changes for 2010
(September 12, 2009) - The National Federation of State High School Association has released their rule changes for Boys' lacrosse for the 2010 season. New York State teams use NFHS rules which are, from time to time, modified by the NYSPHSAA Lacrosse Committee.
Changes are divided into three reporting areas which include Major Rules Changes, Editorial Changes and Points of Emphasis.
Major Rule Changes:
Five major rule changes were announced in the September release.
- Rule 2-1-1 defines the procedure and the penalty to be assessed if a goalkeeper is not properly equipped at the start of the game.
- Rule 4-3-4 defines how players at the face off must grip their sticks in a way that wraps their fingers around their stick at the start of the draw.
- Rule 4-16 states that a player who is in the act of receiving a pass cannot be checked unless the ball is within five yards of him.
- Rule 6-3-2f makes it clear that a player cannot "lock down" with his arm or any other part of his body an opponent's stick.
- Rule 6-5-2t states that it is illegal for a team to fail to have a properly equipped goalkeeper on the field during the game and also explains the procedure for goalie-penalty events.
Major Editorial Changes
- In rule 4-3-1 the procedure is simplified and there is a better explanation for what happens when a period ends and a team has a man advantage.
- There is a revision in rule 4-6-3a which better explains the location for a restart if a loose ball goes out of bounds down field.
- There is a revision in rules 4-9-2k that clarifies the procedure when a player who scores a goal is found to have an illegal stick, or for a player who adjusts the strings before the official requests a stick check.
- In rule 7-3 there is a revision that clarifies the location for a restart when the ball crosses the end line prior to a penalty taking place.
Points of Emphasis for 2010
Officials will be looking more carefully at five areas of rules during the 1010 season.
- Pre-Game Management: Teams are expected to stay on their half of the field and not circle of the whole field or interfere with their opponent's warm ups. In addition, officials will be watching to insure that players are wearing safety equipment during warm ups, that there are no drills directly behind a goal that is being used and that there are no feeders working from directly behind the goal during warm ups.
- Officials will be watching for illegal body checks, particularly when they to the head or ride up the shoulder into the head. They will be assessing two or three minute penalties for such illegal body checks.
- Emphasis will be given to offensive stalling with warnings given when it is apparent that the offensive team is not attempting to score.
- Although there are not new stick specifications, there are sticks on the market that do not been NFHS specifications and cannot be used.
- Officials will be looking for "cap-plugs" on the end of sticks. A metal shaft must have a plug or be "adequately taped", "A single strip of tape is not considered adequate."
Releases, new "situations" and new approved rules are available on the NFHS web site.
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Kevin Curley selected for World Games
(June 23, 2009) - USLacrosse recently announced the list of officials that will be working the 2010 World Games. Section Five official, Kevin Curley was among those selected for the prestigious honor. Curley was also selected to officiate games at the US team tryouts earlier this month.
The 2010 FIL World Lacrosse Championships will be held at Manchester University in England next year from July 14th to July 24th. Thirty-one teams are expected to participate.
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After playing 299 regular season games, and league champions were determined, the post-season awards were announced. Kyle Van Thof, Drew Coholan, Brendan Saylor, Jack Hinderland, Marshall Johnson and John Linnan were selected for the USLacrosse All America Team.
Chris Topping, Tyler Burgasser, Evan Burley and Matt Girolmo were selected as USLacrosse Academic All Americans from Section Five.
After the regular season, there are several championship opportunities for teams that qualify. Webster Thomas, Canandaigua and Penn Yan were Sectional Champions in 2009.
All Tournament teams were selected for each Class. The MVPs for A, B and C were Kenny Tomeno (Thomas), Deven Alves (Canandaigua) and, for the second year in a row, Matt Osgood (Penn Yan).
Thomas lost to Orchard Park in the Western Regionals and Penn Yan Yan made the "Final Four", where they lost to LaFayette.
Canandaigua won the Class B State Tournament, beating Niskayuna of Section II 10-5 in the finals, held in Rochester. It was the first Class B Championship for Section Five and only the second time a Section Five team won a State Title. (The first was Penn Yan in Class C).
Canandaigua goalie Nick King was named the Defensive Player of the game and Marshall Johnson was named the game's Offensive Player of the game.
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Canandaigua, West Islip and Manhasset win State Titles
(June 13, 2009) - Rochester's first Lacrosse Championship games were a great success, and the icing on the cake was a 10-5 win by Canandaigua over Niskayuna (Section 2). The Braves defeated the Silver Warriors of Niskayuna 10-5 in today’s match-up and won every quarter in the process. In the Class A game, West Islip (Section 11) defeated Orchard Park (Section 6) 10-5. In the Class C game, Manhasset (Section 8) beat LaFayette (Section 3), 16-11. It was the third State Championship for Manhasset and the third win for West Islip who last won in 2006.
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New York State Poll Out - Number 11 - Final
(June 18, 2009) - The final State poll is out today and the nine Section Five teams made the list sponsored by the New York State Sportswriters Association.
In Class A, Webster Thomas finished in the number 6 spot while Fairport finished in number 10 and Pittsford received an honorable mention.
In Class B, Canandaigua took the top spot after winning the State Tournament. Irondequoit finished in number 11 and Brighton received an honorable mention.
In Class C, Penn Yan finishes in the number 3 position, while Livonia ends up in number 11 and Aquinas in number 13.
The top spots in the final poll go to the Champions, West Islip (Section 11) in Class A, Canandaigua (Section 5) in Class B and Manhasset (Section 8) in Class C.
The complete list is available here.
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Canandaigua Signs Seven NLIs Seven Canandaigua lacrosse players signed National Letters of Intent this fall. Brandon Thomson and Kyle Stanney will attend Mercyhurst College (D-2), Adam Fingar has selected Hartford (D-1) and Deven Alves will be off to UMBC (University Maryland Baltimore County) (D-1). Goalie Nick King and Tom LaCrosse signed letters to attend Penn State (D-1) and Gannon Osborn will attend Marist (D-1). Full Report |
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Pittsford Signs Three NLIs (December 3, 2009) - Three Pittsford Varsity lacrosse players have signed National Letters of Intent to play lacrosse at college next fall. Pittsford Sutherland seniors Justin McLiverty and James Purpura and Mendon senior Joe Dupra each signed their Letters of Intent at a ceremony held at Speigel Community Center and attended by their coach, parents and friends. Full Report |
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2009 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Held (November 6, 2009) - The Greater Rochester Chapter of USLacrosse held their 2009 Hall of Fame dinner tonight at the Burgundy Basin Inn in Pittsford. Rich Curtis was introduced by long-time Bright AD, Rich Kaplan Tom Hannan started the introduction of Arthur Johnson, whose daughter, Sue Hannan finished the introduction. Paul Wilson introduced Section Five Lacrosse Chairman, Mike Simon. Pat Cougevan spoke about long time friend, Regy Thorpe who, along with his family was home with the flu and Tony Levin introduced Gene Peluso, who regaled the crowd with his well known wit and one-liners. Full Report |