Shea McDonald ran for 143 yards and a touchdown on eight carries and passed for 68 yards and a score as Brighton defeated Gates Chili 26-15 in a non-league football game on Thursday night.
Johnell Gamble gained 108 rushing yards and a touchdown on 16 carries for the Barons.
Noah Shinaman had five tackles and two interceptions on defense for Brighton.
Hilton varsity football coach Rich Lipani reminded fans of local high school football that Aquinas quarterback Jake Zembiec is more advanced than most quarterbacks his age.
There were people who were impressed with Rush-Henrietta senior quarterback Jared Gerbino, too, last week during the Section V Class AA semifinals.
Zembiec, who committed to play at Penn State University last November, probably is the most accurate passer in Section V. In a twist, the 2013 Class AA state player of the year helped Aquinas defeat Hilton in the Class AA sectional semifinals with 61 rushing yards on 10 carries, including the go-ahead touchdown, a two-yard run, in a 21-14 win for Aquinas.
Gerbino, who sprained both ankles this season and played on despite the injuries, was 9 of 12 passing for 127 yards against defending champion Victor. He ran 55 yards to score Rush-Henrietta’s first touchdown and threw a 36-yard scoring pass to Reggie Robinson in the fourth quarter of R-H’s 20-19 win.
Aquinas (9-0) and Rush-Henrietta (6-3) meet in the Section V Class AA Championship at 4 p.m. Sunday at Sahlen’s Stadium in Rochester.
Zembiec has completed 67.7 percent of his 167 passes, including 26 for touchdowns, versus five interceptions. Gerbino makes good use of his 6 foot-4 inches and 215 pounds as a runner, as he is Rush-Henrietta’s second-leading rusher (643 yards, seven touchdowns). He has 17 touchdown passes and two interceptions among 130 attempts.
Here are four more things to watch during the sectional finals, Nov. 7 and 8 at Sahlen’s:
2. Injuries at Aquinas: The Aquinas offense has to play on without a starting running back versus Rush-Henrietta, and the playing status of the team’s leading scorer is uncertain.
“We’re not going to use this as an excuse,” Aquinas coach Chris Battaglia said. “We have to play.”
Leadng rusher Taylor Riggins (521 yards and seven touchdowns) is sidelined with an torn knee ligament. Riggins was injured last Sunday during the semifinal round while being tackled. It’s a loss for the Aquinas defense also, as Riggins is a senior with a verbal commitment to play linebacker at Syracuse University.
Earnest Edwards, a senior with 22 touchdowns, is dealing with a hip injury after a hard landing at the end of a punt return Sunday. Battaglia said whether Edwards, a cornerback on defense, will try to play in the final probably won’t be decided until game day.
3. Ready to ‘Rocc‘: Let’s talk about another quarterback.
Bishop Kearney senior Todd LaRocca, who threw for 1,936 yards and 24 touchdowns for last season’s sectional finalist, has a chance to make history at his school. The Kings face Clyde-Savannah in the Class D final, noon Saturday.
There are plenty of Bishop Kearney basketball champions, but the last football team at the school to win a title was in 1989.
LaRocca’s passing numbers are similiar this season, 1,858 yards and 19 touchdowns with seven interceptions.
“He’s doing exactly what I want to do, be a good leader and take what teams are giving him,” Bishop Kearney coach Eddie Long said. “He is that captain and leader we need him to be.
“These guys know how important the game is to the school. They are excited to try and change that.”
4. Gain more ground: East Rochester/Gananda has a running back near the 2,000-yard mark this season.
Cameron Cleveland must pick his way through what has traditionally been a rugged Bath defense in the Class C final at 3 p.m. Saturday. Cleveland is 54 yards from 2,000, with 1,946 and 25 touchdowns.
Both the Bombers and Rams are 9-0 this season.
5. Class A rematch: The name of the game is to win, and that’s what the Brockport Blue Devils (8-1) have done, with or without a wow-style.
The Blue Devils, finalists for the first time in team history, will try to top Canandaigua for the second time this season, in the Class A title game at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The Blue Devils defeated Canandaigua, 33-28 at Brockport in Week 2.
Aquinas quarterback Jake Zembiec throws a pass rolling out of the pocket during a regular season game played at McQuaid Jesuit.
Rush-Henrietta quarterback Jared Gerbino has helped the Royal Comets beat two undefeated teams during the Section V Class AA tournament. .
Batavia quarterback Greg Mruczek, right, was selected all-state in Class B last fall.
High school football coaches in Section V nominated players of the week during the season and members of the area’s high school football committee chose those winners and the Players of the Year recipients below. The awards, sponsored by Ontario Honda, will be presented during the sectional finals this weekend at Sahlen’s Stadium in Rochester.
Offense
Class AA: Aquinas quarterback Jake Zembiec, senior.
Class A: Greece Athena quarterback Tavon Granison, junior
Class B: Batavia quarterback Greg Mruczek, senior
Class C: East Rochester/Gananda running back Cameron Cleveland, junior
Class D: Red Jacket running back Sean Sheets, senior
Defense
Class AA: Penfield linebacker Jack Hartnett, senior
Class A: Greece Arcadia linebacker Noah Barnard, senior
Class B: Hornell linebacker Tyler Crouch, senior
Class C: Bath defensive back Michael Rice, senior
Class D: Clyde-Savannah linebacker Jarrod Faniel, senior
Pittsford swimmers celebrate their sectional championship following the 2014 Class A meet at Webster Aquatic Center.
Pittsford relay swimmers Lindsay Stone, left, Emma Corby and Becca Evans celebrate their win in the 2014 finals of the 400 yard freestyle relay during the state meet at Ithaca College.
Lindsay Stone, an All-Greater Rochester swimmer in Pittsford, remembers that Marty Keating declared the 2014 Panthers as the best girls team Keating has coached.
But Keating, who has received national recognition during his 42 years as a swimming coach, changed his mind last August.
“We just won states as a team, we had 14 girls qualify to go to states,” Stone said. “Then we walked through the doors this year and he was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I was mistaken, this is it.’
“You know, I can’t speak on all the way back into the 1980s, when he was coaching, I don’t know what those teams were like, but I definitely have to agree though. We have a pretty killer team this year.”
Call it the best team in Section V.
“It’s weird, but they are the biggest secret in Section V,” Keating said.
Pittsford’s Lindsay Stone during the 500-yard freestyle at the Hilton Invitational in September.
Pittsford is likely to win the sectional Class A team championship for the 14th consecutive year tonight, outside of some massive eligibility issue no one seen coming or a unprecedented collapse in performance at Webster Aquatic Center.
“They are the best in the country, not just the state,” Victor ooach Stephanie Gunesch said. “Pittsford has an amazing team.
“There are some Olympic Trial(-caliber) swimmers on it.”
Back among the leaders of this year’s surge to a sectional title are senior Katie Smith and Stone, who earned six All-America slots between them last year. They have teamed again with sophomore Becca Evans and junior Emma Corby after they won state titles in last year’s 400-. and in record-fashion, the 200-yard freestyle relays.
“I don’t think anyone else in in New York state has a team with six All-Americans,” Keating said. “They set a pool record (in the 200 free relay). Ithaca College has had it’s conference meet at that pool.”
There’s more.
“We’re solid,” Keating said. “This team has four girls under two minutes in the 200 free (Molly Brennan, Annie Birmingham, Kelly Knickerbocker and Stone). This team has four girls under 2:20 in the 200 individual medley (Stephie Riley, Sarah Minnigh, Anna Dawson and Evans). This team has two returning flyers under a minute in the 100. (Anne Marie Mozrall and Corby, plus Megan Deuel).”
Bianca Lopez, a senior, swam the 100 fly in 1:00.04 during the preliminaries of the Section V Class A Championships on Wednesday to also advance.
“One of our goals is for all of us (18) to make states,” Stone said. “So far we’ve got all but two girls going into finals, which is huge, plus three of our divers. It’s really great, everyone is really positive this year, and I think that speaks for itself.
Pittsford swimmers celebrate their sectional championship, the schools’ 13th straight win, following the 2014 Section V Class A meet at the Webster Aquatic Center.
“It really helps everyone get going. We’re all really excited to see finals, and hopefully get all 18 there.”
Pittsford had the fastest medley, 200 and 400 free relays in the state before this week. No one was faster than Stone, a junior who appears to be team captain-material next fall, in the 200 free (1:52.29) and 500 free (4:55.01). Smith, who will sign a letter of intent to swim at University of Notre Dame next week, was No. 2 statewide in the 50 (23.60) and 100 free (51.83).
Brennan and Deuel have put their names among notable performances this fall, as eighth-graders.
“They are great, super hard-working,’’ Smith said. “Coming in as young, they can see our traditions, see that we are a serious, intense team and they have to decide whether or not they are willing to do it, and both have worked super-hard.
“Both made states today, so that’s great.”
The words “hard” and “work” certainly come up in high school swimming. Watch one of your favorite team’s practice sessions, either the morning or the late afternoon workout. Maybe because of the results, “hard” and “work” seem to be a part of the suit uniform when the Pittsford team swims for practice at Mendon High.
“People think kids come out of the womb in Pittsford and swim,” Keating said.
Not true, Keating added, There is the PACK Swim Team of Pittsford, a club team he created and a tool of sorts, swimmers can use to improve. There are the Southeast YMCA Sharks, a group swimmers ranging in age from high-schoolers down to 6-year olds, where kids can get their feet wet in the sport or different levels of competition.
“It’s a whole effort, a community with a culture of excellence,” Keating said. “You see it in the board of education, in support by parents.”
Norm Schueckler, the Section V girls swimming coordinator, met Keating years ago, as a meet official.
“It’s always been top-shelf,” Shueckler said. “The kids excelling, winning state championships. Look at the number of (Section V) Hall of Famers he has up there (at Webster Aquatic Center). He’s just done it over and over.
“You can talk about the two schools and one team (Pittsford’s team includes students at Sutherland and Mendon), but so is Webster. How about Greece? It’s three schools (and one team) in that district. He’s created a system that works.”
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Rush-Henrietta’s Class of 2016 pose for a picture with their hands clasped as hearts in honor of Landon Brice, a classmate who underwent liver transplant surgery on Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Rush-Henrietta seniors signed two banners for classmate Brice Landon, who underwent liver transplant surgery on Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Landon Brice, the Rush-Henrietta senior battling a serious liver disease, underwent successful transplant surgery on Thursday at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
“The kid’s a fighter,” said Rick Gerbino, one of Brice’s former youth coaches who also works at R-H.
Gerbino has been in contact with Pinky Brice, Landon’s mother. The 17-year-old went on the transplant list in April when his condition deteriorated. His family received the call they’d been waiting for on Wednesday and needed to drive to Pittsburgh and be ready by Thursday morning. The procedure, which took about 12 hours, Gerbino said, began at 9:15 a.m. after three hours of preparations. Brice is expected to remain hospitalized for about eight weeks during recovery.
R-H seniors clasped their hands in a heart shape as they posed for a picture to be shared with Landon Brice, a classmate who underwent liver transplant surgery on Thursday.
An honor roll student, he was initially diagnosed four years ago and had to give up contact sports. He was an honorary captain at the football team’s homecoming game this fall and R-H players all wear “LB” stickers on their helmets in his honor. The sixth-seeded Royal Comets (6-3) are writing a comeback story of their own, too. After an up-and-down regular season, coach Joe Montesano’s team upset No. 3 seed Pittsford and No. 2 Victor – both previously unbeaten squads that R-H lost to in the regular season – in the Section V Class AA playoffs.
Next up is Sunday’s 4 p.m. showdown at Sahlen’s Stadium against unbeaten Aquinas (9-0), which is tied for No. 1 in the state large-school rankings.
Brice’s senior classmates at R-H signed two huge banners with well-wishes for him and the Class of 2016 also gathered for a picture, posing with each student forming a heart with their hands. The banners read: “We (HEART) you Landon.”
Rush-Henrietta quarterback Jared Gerbino has helped the Royal Comets beat two undefeated teams during the Section V Class AA tournament. .
Local high school teams are battling it out Saturday in these championship games at Rochester’s Sahlen’s Stadium
Here’s a look at the full schedule:
Noon – Class D final: No. 5 Bishop Kearney (7-2) vs. No. 3 Clyde-Savannah
3 p.m. – Class C final: No. 2 Bath (9-0) vs. No. 1 East Rochester/Gananda (9-0)
6 p.m. – Class A final: No. 2 Canandaigua (7-2) vs. No. 1 Brockport (8-1)
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Sarah Blowers had 13 kills and 12 digs and Andrea Allen added 31 assists as No. 1 Pittsford Sutherland swept No. 3 Brighton to claim the Section V Class A2 girls volleyball championship on Friday.
The match scores were 25-8, 25-8, 25-15.
Aliah Bowllan chipped in 10 digs and four aces in the win.
Allen was named the tournament MVP and Blowers and Bowllan earned all-tournament team honors.
Kat Vernon recorded four kills and five blocks for Brighton (11-11). Vernon also was named to the all-tournament team.
This is the Knights’ fourth consecutive Section V championship.
Pittsford Sutherland moves on to play Victor in the Class A crossover match on Tuesday at Webster Thomas.
Class B championship
No. 1 Honeoye Falls Lima 25-25-25,
No. 2 Aquinas 19-10-12
Gillian Kurtic tallied 12 kills and two aces and Molly Taylor had 20 assists to lift HF-L (14-5) to its third title in three years.
Girls soccer
Class C State quarterfinals
Caledonia-Mumford 1, Allegany-Limestone 0
Maddie Shoemaker scored the game’s lone goal, assisted by Abby Webster, with 10 minutes left in the first half for Cal-Mum.
Boys soccer
Class A State quarterfinals
Grand Island-VI 2, Honeoye Falls-Lima 1 (OT)
Alex Ptucha scored HF-L’s goal off a direct kick 15 minutes into the second half.
James Bonadonnna made eight saves in net for the Cougars (12-7-2).
Class D State quarterfinals at Spencerport
Alfred-Almond 0, Eillicotville-VI 0
A-A advances on a shootout.
Swimming
Class C Championships at Victor
Team: 1. Dansville 322; 2. Marcus Whitman 253; 3. Gananda 225; 4. Wellsville 198; 5. Livonia 193; 6. Wayland-Cohocton 190; 7. Bath 177; 8. Midlakes 165; 9. Palmyra-Macedon 144; 10. Letchworth 140; 11. North Rose-Wolcott/Red Creek 120; 12. Hornell 112; 13. Lima Christian 16.
200 medley relay: 1. Dansville (Cheyenne Markowski, Vanessa Vedger, Haley Bridge, Madelyn Vedger) 1:57.53; 2. Marcus Whitman (Morgan Smithling, Courtney Copper, Hailey Rossi, Aislinn Coleman) 1:58.72; 3. Letchworth (Colette Anikwue, Cori Shearing, Lauren Royce, Rayna Fravel) 1:58.93. 200 freestyle: 1. Darby McNamara (G) 2:02.12; 2. Rachael Mayou (P-M) 2:04.66; 3. Morgan Farman (L) 2:04.97. 200 IM: 1. Courtney Copper (MW) 2:10.92*; 2. Grace Cunningham (G) 2:17.77; 3. Vanessa Vedger (D) 2:18.36. 50 freestyle: 1. Brooke Morrisseau (NR-W) 24.75*; 2. Krista Willard (G) 24.82*; 3. Aubrianna Lantrip (M) 25.91. 100 butterfly: 1. Zeruviah Adams (W) 1:03.07; 2. Bridge (D) 1:03.25; 3. Lauren Johnson (G) 1:06.19. 100 freestyle: 1. Willard (G) 54.37; 2. Rossi (MW) 56.21; 3. Lantrip (M) 57.39. 500 freestyle: 1. Bridge (D) 5:22.62; 2. Mayou (P-M) 5:33.27; 3. McNamara (G) 5:38.75. 200 freestyle: 1. Gananda (Willard, Johnson, Cunningham, McNamara) 1:44.97; 2. Wellsville (Adams, Sarah Stevens, Rebecca Stevens, Isabel Mariotti) 1:47.19; 3. Wayland-Cohocton (Rebekah Wilkinson, Evyn Meldrum, MacKenzie Curtin, Kadeynn McInnis) 1:47.73. 100 backstroke: Farman (L) 1:00.00*; Morrisseau (NR-W) 1:00.43; Markowski (D) 1:04.80; 100 breaststroke: 1. Copper (MW) 1:06.23*@; 2. Mackenzie Travis (B) 1:10.46; 3. Vedger (D) 1:10.52. 400 freestyle: 1. Gananda (Willard, Johnson, Cunningham, McNamara) 3:49.83; 2. Dansville (Ashlyn Schuster, Jesse Gunn, Bridge, Vedger) 3:52.06; 3. Wellsville (Adams, Stevens, Stevens, Mariotti) 3:58.52.
* NYS qualifying time; @ Meet record
Hayleigh Palotti
VICTOR – Senior Meghan Curtin had just finished running side-by-side with an upstart sophomore Saturday, trying gamely to keep up and add to her record 35 team or individual sectional running championships since she was a seventh-grader.
But it wasn’t to be. Not this time.
A converted soccer midfielder who switched sports this year because, as she says, “I just love to run,” Livonia’s Hayleigh Palotti pulled away in the second mile of a double-loop course at Victor High School and raced to the day’s fastest time among the girls to win the Section V Class C cross country title.
Relaxed and smiling afterward, Curtin wasn’t the least bit surprised or disgusted. It was the fifth time she’s duked it out and come up second this season to Palotti. They were about 18 seconds apart Saturday, as Palotti was the only girl to break 19 minutes (18:56.8) among the five classes.
“Hayleigh’s so good,” said Curtin, Wayland-Cohocton’s three-time defending sectional X-C champion and three-time All Greater Rochester first-teamer. “She’s just so young, so fast, so strong. I have nothing but high praise for her. She ran an amazing race.”
“She just keeps getting better and better,” said her coach, David Crabb. “She’s so new to this that she’s still trying to figure it all out.”
Curtin and Palotti will meet again Saturday at the state championships in Section IX, in the lower Catskills, and Palotti will have her whole team there, returning to states for the second straight year.
Curtin said she will announce Wednesday that she’ll be attending Division-I Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut on a full tuition scholarship.
Other highlights:
Clancy Rheude
“We talked a bit to each other, like ‘pick it up, pick it up’ Cobos said. “We weren’t more than 10 seconds apart the whole way.”
Rheude, who runs despite chronic asthma, took a shot of her inhaler before the start and afterward, when she collapsed on a bench in the chute.
“Cold weather does it to me,” she said. “I just have to run through it.”
“Running here earlier helped a whole lot,” she said, referring to the Victor Invitational back on Sept. 26, where she was third in 20:33. She was 13 seconds faster Saturday.
“I had a better idea on how to handle the two big hills,” she said. She said it also helped that coach Dave Briggs was crisscrossing the course, yelling instructions.
“I told her ‘you have to push it’ that last mile,” he said.
“I couldn’t see him but I could hear him coming,” Miller said. “I’m glad I was able to get a lead on him.”
“He (Ely) is a strong sprinter,” Hornell coach Damian DeMarco said. “Austin’s about a 2:10 in the 800. Ely is a sub two.”
But HF-L’s girls, with McDaniel and Reed, stopped Mendon’s three-year state streak, returning for the 17th time under coach Bernie Gardner.
Jim Castor, retired assistant sports editor of the Democrat and Chronicle, has covered running in the Rochester area for more than four decades. He can be reached at jcastor@jimcastor.com
Cross Country
Section V Championships
at Victor High School
5K (3.1-mile) open-loop course. *qualified for state tournament next Saturday at Monroe-Woodbury H.S., Woodbury, Orange County, (Sec. IX).
BOYS
Class A
Teams: 1. McQuaid* 44 points, 2. Fairport 53, 3. Penfield 90, 4. Churchville-Chili 104, 5. Hilton 106, 6. Webster Thomas 124, 7. Rush-Henrietta 188, 8. Victor 188, 9. Webster Schroeder 250, 10. Gates Chili 297, Robert Brown/Rochester Science Academy, East inc.
Individuals (72 finishers): 1. Donny Glavin* (McQ) 15:57, 2. Matt Orcutt* (Fai) 16:51, 3. Majd Rouhana* (Fai) 16:54, 4. Nick Neamtu* (WTh) 17:00, 5. Joe Doerr* (McQ) 16:59, 6. Brad Farnham* (Pen) 17:05, 7. Tyler Senall* (Pen) 17:07, 8. Stephen Loce (WTh) 17:12, 9. Jacob Scheg (Hil) 17:22, 10. Justin Scheg (Hil) 17:22.
Class B
Teams: 1. Pittsford Mendon* 35, 2. Honeoye Falls-Lima 80, 3. Brighton 100, 4. Brockport 144, 5. Pittsford Sutherland 150, 6. Irondequoit 159, 7. Canandaigua 169, 8. Greece Arcadia 220, 9. Spencerport 250, 10. Newark 254, 11. Batavia 257, 12. East Irondequoit Eastridge 365, 13. Aquinas 367, 14. Geneva 399, 15. Wayne 444, 16. Greece Athena 478, 17. Greece Olympia 490. Wilson/E. Coll., School of the Arts, Vanguard Academy inc.
Individuals (124 finishers): 1. Nathan Lawler* (PMe) 16:00, 2. Isaac Goodman* (PMe) 16:21, 3. Paul Dellinger* (Bri) 16:27, 4. Caleb Covell (Eir) 16:33, 5. Jackson Tate* (HF-L) 16:36, 6. Luke Robbins* (PSu) 16:39, 7. Griffin Hess* (PMe) 16:41, 8. Liam Lyle* (HF-L) 16:46, 9. Scott Loforte (Can) 16:53, 10. Jonah Simpson (Bri) 16:58.
Class C
Teams: 1. Bath* 59, 2. Marcus Whitman 71, 3. Wayland-Cohocton 87, 4. Waterloo 108, 5. Hornell 128, 6. Greece Odyssey 218, 7. Mynderse 233, 8. Dansville 236, 9. Palmyra-Macedon 252, 10. Livonia 256, 11. Le Roy 265, 12. Midlakes 288, 13. Penn Yan 309, 14. Attica 392, 15. Holley 405, 16. North Rose-Wolcott 441. Sodus, inc.
Individuals (109 finishers): 1. Austin Miller* (Hor) 17:40, 2. Eddie Ely* (P-Ma) 17:44, 3. Nate Mayton* (MWh) 17:54, 4. Maxin McKenzie* (Le R) 17:57, 5. Gabe Stash* (MWh) 18:00, 6. Aaron Stewart* (Bath) 18:03, 7. Ben Parrow (Wat) 18:09, 8. Tyler Smith* (Bath) 18:17, 9. Jordan Cash-Rawleigh* (Bath) 18:22, 10. Dominic Guarglia (Hor) 18:23.
Class DD
Teams: 1. Addison* 57, 2. Oakfield-Alabama/Elba 79, 3. East Rochester 81, 4. Alexander 156, 5. Red Creek 169, 6. Clyde-Savannah 208, 7. Williamson 215, 8. Byron-Bergen 224, 9. Geneseo 236, 10. Lyons 243, 11. Avon 263, 12. Warsaw 294, 13. Bloomfield 296, 14. Caledonia-Mumford 331, 15. World of Inquiry 339.
Individuals (100 finishers): 1. Dawson Bathgate* (ERo) 16:30, 2. Eric Wright* (War) 17:46, 3. Evan McIlwain* (Add) 17:4, 4. Cole O’Donnell (O-A/E) 17:53, 5. Josh Larmon (O-A/E) 17:53, 6. Joseph Thompson* (Add) 18:05, 7. Breandan Mantz (RCr) 18:10, 8. Ethan Dorow (ERo) 18:11, 9. Aaron Vivlamore (RCr) 18:11, 10. Sam Atwater (C-Sa) 18:12
Class D
Teams: 1. Honeoye 56, 2. Wheatland-Chili 107, 3. Arkport/Canaseraga 112, 4. Keshequa 119, 5. Marion 164, 6. Campbell-Savona 171, 7. Red Jacket 174, 8. Avoca 198, 9. Hammondsport 235, 10. Notre Dame Batavia 237, 11. Lima Christian 258, 12. Jasper-Troupsburg 274, 13. Harley-Allendale Columbia 289, 14. Kendall 368. Bishop Kearney, Cuba-Rushford, Northstar inc.
Individuals (98 finishers): 1. Alex Hogue* 16:48, 2. Hunter Clark* (Ark) 17:24, 3. Nick Harrian* (C-Sa) 17:30, 4. Jake Blanchard (Kes) 17:55, 5. Zach Ericson (Hon) 18:18, 6. Friend Olsen (Hon) 18:32, 7. Ryan Snyder (Kes) 18:33, 8. Daniel Ferreri (Mar) 18:37, 9. Jesse Hallett (Hon) 18:38, 10. Aaron Clark (W-Ch) 18:38.
GIRLS
Class A
Teams: 1. Webster Thomas* 41, 2. Rush-Henrietta 68, 3. Penfield 70, 4. Churchville-Chili 108, 5. Fairport 111, 6. Victor 155, 7. Hilton 161, 8. Webster Schroeder 184, 9. Gates Chili 285.
Individuals (61 finishers): 1. Sammy Watson* (R-He) 19:01, 2. Anna Kostarellis* (C-Ch) 19:13, 3. Amanda Vestri* (WTh) 19:15, 4. Claire Miller* (Pen) 19:25, 5. Ellie Songer* (WTh) 19:33, 6. Claire Ashton* (WTh) 19:44, 7. Bailey Pierce* (R-H) 19:45, 8. Haley Arguien* (C-Ch) 19:45, 9. Haley Riorden (R-H) 20:00, 10. Megan Sedita (Pen) 20:04.
Class B
Teams: 1. Honeoye Falls-Lima* 49, 2. Pittsford Mendon 71, 3. Pittsford Sutherland 98, 4. Canandaigua 116, 5. Mercy 128, 6. Spencerport 178, 7. Geneva 227, 8. Brighton 228, 9. Irondequoit 238, 10. Wayne 287, 11. Aquinas 322, 12. Greece Arcadia 329, 13. East Irondequoit Eastridge 356, 14. Batavia 360, 15. Brockport 368, 16. Greece Athena 466, 17. Newark 515. School of the Arts inc.
Individuals (118 finishers): 1. Clancy Rheude* (Can) 19:15, 2. Katie Cobos* (Can) 19:25, 3. Sydney McDaniel* (HF-L) 19:28, 4. Payton Reed* (HF-L) 19:28, 5. Madeleine Shellard* (Iro) 19:33, 6. Rebekah Preisser* (PSu) 19:49, 7. Megha Singh* (PMe) 19:56, 8. Maddy Hobika (PSu) 20:01, 9. Charlotte Kurzweil (Mer) 20:03, 10. Gabby Wangler* (HF-L) 20:06.
Class C
Teams: 1. Livonia* 49, 2. Waterloo 84, 3. Attica 88, 4. Mynderse 121, 5. Wayland-Cohocton 151, 6. Palmyra-Macedon 158, 7. Midlakes 166, 8. Greece Odyssey 188, 9. Dansville 210, 10. North Rose-Wolcott 281, 11. Holley 308, 12, Marcus Whitman 322. Bath, Hornell, Le Roy, Penn Yan, Sodus inc.
Individuals (94 finishers): 1. Hayleigh Palotti* (Liv) 18:57, 2. Meghan Curtin* (W-Co) 20:16, 3. Clarissa Hensler* (Liv) 20:30, 4. Grace Kibler* (Att) 20:57, 5. Maci Nicholson* (PYa) 21:14, 6. Riley Corey* (Wat) 21:18, 7. Lindsey Allen* (Hol) 21:41, 8. Jordan Hurlbut (P-Ma) 21:48, 9. Samantha Miller (Dan) 21:51, 10. Sennett Turner (Wat) 21:52.
Class DD
Teams: 1. Addison* 30, 2. Red Creek 56, 3. Byron-Bergen 58, 4. Alexander 108, 5. Caledonia-Mumford 148, 6. Williamson 162, 7. World of Inquiry 181. Avon, Bloomfield, Clyde-Savannah, East Rochester, Geneseo, Lyons, Pavilion/York, Pembroke, Warsaw inc.
Individuals (74 finishers): 1. Chloe Weaver* (RCr) 20:21, 2. Cameron Perry* (Pem) 20:34, 3. Veronica Dailey* (Add) 20:37, 4. Sydney Beach* (RCr) 21:03, 5. Isabella Painter* (Add) 21:13, 6. Alivia Arliss (C-Sa) 21:22, 7. Jaime Kurmis (ERo) 21:25, 8. Siomara Caballero (B-Be) 21:32, 9. Emily Gonyea (B-Be) 21:51, 10. Bethany Van Pelt (ERo) 21:54.
Class D
Teams: 1. Harley-Allendale Columbia 43, 2. Honeoye 85, 3. Wheatland-Chili 104, 4. Keshequa 123, 5. Marion 146, 6. Red Jacket 152, 7. Jasper-Troupsburg 172, 8. Oakfield-Alabama 180, 9. Kendall 195, 10. Notre Dame Batavia 214. Arkport/Canaseraga, Avoca, Bishop Kearney, Cuba/Rushford, Hammondsport, Northstar inc.
Individuals (84 finishers): 1. Eileen Reinhardt* (H-AC) 20:29, 2. Mikayla Gallace* (Hon) 21:04, 3. Sylvia Thompson (Kes) 21:46), 4. Josie Litchner (C-Ru) 22:00, 5. Tracy Stutzman (Hon) 22:05, 6. Alyssa Connelie (W-Ch) 22:08, 7. Morgan Evarts (Avo) 22:13, 8. Liza Cotter (H-AC) 22:13, 9. Alysono Vancamp (Mar) 22:19, 10. Nicole Hurlburt (A/Ca) 22:22.
Complete results online at www.yentiming.com
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Hilton will advance to the final four for the first time since 1987 after defeating Williamsville North-VI 3-2 in the Class AA soccer state quarterfinals on Saturday.
Simon Garno scored two goals and Nick Simone added a goal to lead the Cadets.
1987 was also the last time Hilton won a sectional title.
Class B State quarterfinals
East Aurora-VI 2, Livonia 0
Class C State quarterfinals
Geneseo 4, Allegany-Limestone-VI 0
Sean Kelly and Kyle Rollins each had a goal and an assist for Geneseo (19-1-1).
Danny Cannon and Brian Linton each added a goal for the Blue Devils.
Mitchell Walton had four saves for his 12th shutout of the season.
Volleyball
Class A semifinals
No. 2 McQuaid 25-15-25-25, No. 3 Fairport 20-25-17-22
Spencer Wickens had 14 digs and four aces and Joseph Crosby added 11 kills for McQuaid (16-1).
Christian Pawelek had six kills and five blocks for the Knights.
Chad Riordon had 38 assists and 17 digs and Donovan Dey added 15 kills for Fairport (15-4).
Ryan Algier tallied 11 kills and six blocks for the Red Raiders.
This is the seventh consecutive year McQuaid has made it to the sectional finals.
No. 1 Penfield 25-25-25, No. 4 East 12-13-12
Jordan Solomon had nine assists and Trevor Isselhard added three kills and three blocks for Penfield (18-1).
East finishes the season 15-4.
Class BB semifinals
No. 2 Brighton 25-25-23-25 No. 3 Irondequoit 21-18-25-20
Ben Delacruz had 20 kills and two aces and Stefan Mickol had 14 kills 5 aces and 18 assists for Brighton (18-4).
Jesse Lefler had 43 assists and four kills for Irondequoit.
Brighton last won sectionals in 2012.
No. 1 Spencerport 25-25-25, No. 5 Brockport 12-12-10
Trevor Lane and Josh Rabidoux each had 10 kills and Mike Dinh tallied eight aces and 12 digs to lead Spencerport (13-3).
Jared Barnard added 33 assists for the Rangers.
Spencerport has not been to the sectional finals since 2013 and last won sectionals in 2002.
Class B Semifinals
No. 2 Midlakes 25-25-25, No. 3 Pavilion 21-10-18
Seth Welker led Midlakes (17-5) with 11 kills and six digs.
Gavin Record added five kills and three aces and twin brother Kamren had 20 assists for the Screaming Eagles.
No. 1 North Rose-Wolcott 25-25-25 No. 4 Sodus 22-15-8
Luke Gerstner had 24 assists and four blocks and Tyler Norris added 13 kills for NR-W (18-4).
Reese Morris tallied six kills for the Cougars.
This will be NR-W’s third consecutive trip to the sectional final. It defeated Midlakes in 2013 and lost against Midlakes in 2014.
Donny Glavin
VICTOR – Like father, like son.
Two of the most prominent names in Rochester running the last 20 years were dominant at the Section V cross country championships Saturday.
Glavin, this time son Donny of McQuaid, and Bathgate, this time son Dawson of East Rochester, turned in stirring performances to win their classes and make their dads proud.
“I think about him most every step of the way,” Donny said of his late father, Pete, who was a 14:14-minute 5K-er in college at Rutgers and later a race club founder and race director. He died five years ago of brain cancer at age 48.
“Just as I was finishing today,” Donny said, “I looked up to the sky and held up a No. 1 for him. I was in sixth grade when he died, so I don’t remember any race advice he’d give, but I believe he’d say ‘keep working hard and the results will follow.’ ”
Donny’s 15-minute, 57-second finish in Class A led McQuaid to a successful defense of its sectional title and was almost a minute faster than Fairport’s No. 1, Matt Orcutt (16:51) on the redesigned double-loop 3.1-mile course at Victor High School.
“You made it look so easy,” McQuaid coach Todd Stewart said to Donny. Deceptively so.
“It was a tough race,” Donny said. “The team title was really close (44 to Fairport’s 53), so everybody had to push hard.”
He pointed to junior Joe Doerr, who was fifth, as McQuaid’s real MVP of the day, just like he was a year ago.
“I was probably a couple dozen back at the start,” Doerr said. “I made up a lot of ground, especially in the woods in the back section.”
Livonia’s Palotti wins cross country championship
Dawson Bathgate
Dawson won by more than a minute in Class DD (16:30 to 17:45), is undefeated heading to states, but just like a coach and veteran runner, his dad, ER head coach Jim Bathgate, said there’s still room for improvement.
“About a 5:08 first mile,” Jim said. “That’s too slow. But he hasn’t had anybody to race with yet.”
Dawson thought his start was too fast, though he didn’t have any familiarity with the course.
“We didn’t do the invitational here in September,” Dawson said. “But that’s OK. I like being surprised, then I don’t overanalyze things.”
The Pittsford Mendon boys juggernaut was no surprise, with sophomore Nathan Lawler leading all the way to Mendon’s fourth straight title. Lawler had the other sub-16 of the day for the state’s top-ranked B team, a 15:59.2.
Still, he said “I took it out too hard . . . got caught up in the adrenaline . . . and then had to struggle in the third mile. I was just trying to hold on. “
But he finished with a 20-second cushion on teammate Isaac Goodman.
Honeoye Falls-Lima finally caught up with Mendon’s girls, making a return trip to states for the first time in four years, and 17th time overall under coach Bernie Gardner. HF-L’s Sydney McDaniel and Payton Reed went 3-4 as HF-L scored 49 to Mendon’s 71.
Other highlights:
Jim Castor, retired assistant sports editor of the Democrat and Chronicle, has covered running in the Rochester area for more than four decades. He can be reached at jcastor@jimcastor.com
Cross Country
Section V Championships
at Victor High School
5K (3.1-mile) open-loop course. *qualified for state tournament next Saturday at Monroe-Woodbury H.S., Woodbury, Orange County, (Sec. IX).
BOYS
Class A
Teams: 1. McQuaid* 44 points, 2. Fairport 53, 3. Penfield 90, 4. Churchville-Chili 104, 5. Hilton 106, 6. Webster Thomas 124, 7. Rush-Henrietta 188, 8. Victor 188, 9. Webster Schroeder 250, 10. Gates Chili 297, Robert Brown/Rochester Science Academy, East inc.
Individuals (72 finishers): 1. Donny Glavin* (McQ) 15:57, 2. Matt Orcutt* (Fai) 16:51, 3. Majd Rouhana* (Fai) 16:54, 4. Nick Neamtu* (WTh) 17:00, 5. Joe Doerr* (McQ) 16:59, 6. Brad Farnham* (Pen) 17:05, 7. Tyler Senall* (Pen) 17:07, 8. Stephen Loce (WTh) 17:12, 9. Jacob Scheg (Hil) 17:22, 10. Justin Scheg (Hil) 17:22.
Class B
Teams: 1. Pittsford Mendon* 35, 2. Honeoye Falls-Lima 80, 3. Brighton 100, 4. Brockport 144, 5. Pittsford Sutherland 150, 6. Irondequoit 159, 7. Canandaigua 169, 8. Greece Arcadia 220, 9. Spencerport 250, 10. Newark 254, 11. Batavia 257, 12. East Irondequoit Eastridge 365, 13. Aquinas 367, 14. Geneva 399, 15. Wayne 444, 16. Greece Athena 478, 17. Greece Olympia 490. Wilson/E. Coll., School of the Arts, Vanguard Academy inc.
Individuals (124 finishers): 1. Nathan Lawler* (PMe) 16:00, 2. Isaac Goodman* (PMe) 16:21, 3. Paul Dellinger* (Bri) 16:27, 4. Caleb Covell (Eir) 16:33, 5. Jackson Tate* (HF-L) 16:36, 6. Luke Robbins* (PSu) 16:39, 7. Griffin Hess* (PMe) 16:41, 8. Liam Lyle* (HF-L) 16:46, 9. Scott Loforte (Can) 16:53, 10. Jonah Simpson (Bri) 16:58.
Class C
Teams: 1. Bath* 59, 2. Marcus Whitman 71, 3. Wayland-Cohocton 87, 4. Waterloo 108, 5. Hornell 128, 6. Greece Odyssey 218, 7. Mynderse 233, 8. Dansville 236, 9. Palmyra-Macedon 252, 10. Livonia 256, 11. Le Roy 265, 12. Midlakes 288, 13. Penn Yan 309, 14. Attica 392, 15. Holley 405, 16. North Rose-Wolcott 441. Sodus, inc.
Individuals (109 finishers): 1. Austin Miller* (Hor) 17:40, 2. Eddie Ely* (P-Ma) 17:44, 3. Nate Mayton* (MWh) 17:54, 4. Maxin McKenzie* (Le R) 17:57, 5. Gabe Stash* (MWh) 18:00, 6. Aaron Stewart* (Bath) 18:03, 7. Ben Parrow (Wat) 18:09, 8. Tyler Smith* (Bath) 18:17, 9. Jordan Cash-Rawleigh* (Bath) 18:22, 10. Dominic Guarglia (Hor) 18:23.
Class DD
Teams: 1. Addison* 57, 2. Oakfield-Alabama/Elba 79, 3. East Rochester 81, 4. Alexander 156, 5. Red Creek 169, 6. Clyde-Savannah 208, 7. Williamson 215, 8. Byron-Bergen 224, 9. Geneseo 236, 10. Lyons 243, 11. Avon 263, 12. Warsaw 294, 13. Bloomfield 296, 14. Caledonia-Mumford 331, 15. World of Inquiry 339.
Individuals (100 finishers): 1. Dawson Bathgate* (ERo) 16:30, 2. Eric Wright* (War) 17:46, 3. Evan McIlwain* (Add) 17:4, 4. Cole O’Donnell (O-A/E) 17:53, 5. Josh Larmon (O-A/E) 17:53, 6. Joseph Thompson* (Add) 18:05, 7. Breandan Mantz (RCr) 18:10, 8. Ethan Dorow (ERo) 18:11, 9. Aaron Vivlamore (RCr) 18:11, 10. Sam Atwater (C-Sa) 18:12
Class D
Teams: 1. Honeoye 56, 2. Wheatland-Chili 107, 3. Arkport/Canaseraga 112, 4. Keshequa 119, 5. Marion 164, 6. Campbell-Savona 171, 7. Red Jacket 174, 8. Avoca 198, 9. Hammondsport 235, 10. Notre Dame Batavia 237, 11. Lima Christian 258, 12. Jasper-Troupsburg 274, 13. Harley-Allendale Columbia 289, 14. Kendall 368. Bishop Kearney, Cuba-Rushford, Northstar inc.
Individuals (98 finishers): 1. Alex Hogue* 16:48, 2. Hunter Clark* (Ark) 17:24, 3. Nick Harrian* (C-Sa) 17:30, 4. Jake Blanchard (Kes) 17:55, 5. Zach Ericson (Hon) 18:18, 6. Friend Olsen (Hon) 18:32, 7. Ryan Snyder (Kes) 18:33, 8. Daniel Ferreri (Mar) 18:37, 9. Jesse Hallett (Hon) 18:38, 10. Aaron Clark (W-Ch) 18:38.
GIRLS
Class A
Teams: 1. Webster Thomas* 41, 2. Rush-Henrietta 68, 3. Penfield 70, 4. Churchville-Chili 108, 5. Fairport 111, 6. Victor 155, 7. Hilton 161, 8. Webster Schroeder 184, 9. Gates Chili 285.
Individuals (61 finishers): 1. Sammy Watson* (R-He) 19:01, 2. Anna Kostarellis* (C-Ch) 19:13, 3. Amanda Vestri* (WTh) 19:15, 4. Claire Miller* (Pen) 19:25, 5. Ellie Songer* (WTh) 19:33, 6. Claire Ashton* (WTh) 19:44, 7. Bailey Pierce* (R-H) 19:45, 8. Haley Arguien* (C-Ch) 19:45, 9. Haley Riorden (R-H) 20:00, 10. Megan Sedita (Pen) 20:04.
Class B
Teams: 1. Honeoye Falls-Lima* 49, 2. Pittsford Mendon 71, 3. Pittsford Sutherland 98, 4. Canandaigua 116, 5. Mercy 128, 6. Spencerport 178, 7. Geneva 227, 8. Brighton 228, 9. Irondequoit 238, 10. Wayne 287, 11. Aquinas 322, 12. Greece Arcadia 329, 13. East Irondequoit Eastridge 356, 14. Batavia 360, 15. Brockport 368, 16. Greece Athena 466, 17. Newark 515. School of the Arts inc.
Individuals (118 finishers): 1. Clancy Rheude* (Can) 19:15, 2. Katie Cobos* (Can) 19:25, 3. Sydney McDaniel* (HF-L) 19:28, 4. Payton Reed* (HF-L) 19:28, 5. Madeleine Shellard* (Iro) 19:33, 6. Rebekah Preisser* (PSu) 19:49, 7. Megha Singh* (PMe) 19:56, 8. Maddy Hobika (PSu) 20:01, 9. Charlotte Kurzweil (Mer) 20:03, 10. Gabby Wangler* (HF-L) 20:06.
Class C
Teams: 1. Livonia* 49, 2. Waterloo 84, 3. Attica 88, 4. Mynderse 121, 5. Wayland-Cohocton 151, 6. Palmyra-Macedon 158, 7. Midlakes 166, 8. Greece Odyssey 188, 9. Dansville 210, 10. North Rose-Wolcott 281, 11. Holley 308, 12, Marcus Whitman 322. Bath, Hornell, Le Roy, Penn Yan, Sodus inc.
Individuals (94 finishers): 1. Hayleigh Palotti* (Liv) 18:57, 2. Meghan Curtin* (W-Co) 20:16, 3. Clarissa Hensler* (Liv) 20:30, 4. Grace Kibler* (Att) 20:57, 5. Maci Nicholson* (PYa) 21:14, 6. Riley Corey* (Wat) 21:18, 7. Lindsey Allen* (Hol) 21:41, 8. Jordan Hurlbut (P-Ma) 21:48, 9. Samantha Miller (Dan) 21:51, 10. Sennett Turner (Wat) 21:52.
Class DD
Teams: 1. Addison* 30, 2. Red Creek 56, 3. Byron-Bergen 58, 4. Alexander 108, 5. Caledonia-Mumford 148, 6. Williamson 162, 7. World of Inquiry 181. Avon, Bloomfield, Clyde-Savannah, East Rochester, Geneseo, Lyons, Pavilion/York, Pembroke, Warsaw inc.
Individuals (74 finishers): 1. Chloe Weaver* (RCr) 20:21, 2. Cameron Perry* (Pem) 20:34, 3. Veronica Dailey* (Add) 20:37, 4. Sydney Beach* (RCr) 21:03, 5. Isabella Painter* (Add) 21:13, 6. Alivia Arliss (C-Sa) 21:22, 7. Jaime Kurmis (ERo) 21:25, 8. Siomara Caballero (B-Be) 21:32, 9. Emily Gonyea (B-Be) 21:51, 10. Bethany Van Pelt (ERo) 21:54.
Class D
Teams: 1. Harley-Allendale Columbia 43, 2. Honeoye 85, 3. Wheatland-Chili 104, 4. Keshequa 123, 5. Marion 146, 6. Red Jacket 152, 7. Jasper-Troupsburg 172, 8. Oakfield-Alabama 180, 9. Kendall 195, 10. Notre Dame Batavia 214. Arkport/Canaseraga, Avoca, Bishop Kearney, Cuba/Rushford, Hammondsport, Northstar inc.
Individuals (84 finishers): 1. Eileen Reinhardt* (H-AC) 20:29, 2. Mikayla Gallace* (Hon) 21:04, 3. Sylvia Thompson (Kes) 21:46), 4. Josie Litchner (C-Ru) 22:00, 5. Tracy Stutzman (Hon) 22:05, 6. Alyssa Connelie (W-Ch) 22:08, 7. Morgan Evarts (Avo) 22:13, 8. Liza Cotter (H-AC) 22:13, 9. Alysono Vancamp (Mar) 22:19, 10. Nicole Hurlburt (A/Ca) 22:22.
Complete results online at www.yentiming.com
Stock photo.
A look back at the results of the 2015 Section V football playoffs.
Friday, Oct. 23
AA – No. 2 Victor 41, No. 7 Webster Thomas 22
AA – No. 4 Hilton 56, No. 5 East 26
AA – No. 6 Rush-Henrietta 35, No. 3 Pittsford 28
A – No. 1 Brockport 15, No. 8 Wilson 8
B – No. 1 Batavia 61, No. 8 Midlakes 0
B – No. 6 Penn Yan 28, No. 3 Geneva 8
B – No. 4 Hornell 42, No. 5 Newark 20
B – No. 2 Livonia 59, No. 7 Palmyra-Macedon 7
C – No. 1 East Rochester/Gananda def. No. 8 South Seneca via forfeit
C – No. 6 Le Roy 20, No. 3 Attica 19
C – No. 4 Lyons/Sodus 37, No. 5 Elba/Byron-Bergen 14
D – No. 3 Clyde-Savannah 41, No. 6 Notre Dame 20
D – No. 5 Bishop Kearney 38, No. 4 Cuba-Rushford 14
D – No. 2 Avon 33, No. 7 Caledonia-Mumford 6
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Top seeds have tall task in Section V playoffs
Saturday, Oct. 24
AA – No. 1 Aquinas 35, No. 8 Fairport 14
A – No. 2 Canandaigua 41, No. 7 Spencerport 13
A – No. 3 Greece Athena, 35, No. 6 Irondequoit 28
A – No. 4 Greece Arcadia 21, No. 5 Eastridge 14
C – No. 2 Bath 44, No. 7 Letchworth/Warsaw 0
D – No. 1 Red Jacket 60, No. 8 Dundee 13
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Saturday, Oct. 31
A – No. 1 Brockport 16, No. 4 Greece Arcadia 7
A – No. 2 Canandaigua 28, No. 3 Greece Athena 21
B – No. 1 Batavia 43, No. 4 Hornell 7
B – No. 6 Penn Yan 70, No. 2 Livonia 60
C – No. 1 ER Gananda 41, No. 4 Lyons/Sodus 8
C – No. 2 Bath 44, No. 6 Le Roy 0
D – No. 5 Bishop Kearney 44, No. 1 Red Jacket 28
D – No. 3 Clyde-Savannah 35, No. 2 Avon 6
Canandaigua to face first-time finalist Brockport
Sunday, Nov. 1
AA – No. 1 Aquinas 21, No. 4 Hilton 14
AA – No. 6 Rush-Henrietta 20, No. 2 Victor 19
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Saturday, Nov. 7
(Championship games played at Sahlen’s Stadium)
Class D final: No. 5 Bishop Kearney 46, No. 3 Clyde-Savannah 21
Class C final: No. 2 Bath (9-0) 40, No. 1 East Rochester/Gananda 30
Class A final: No. 1 Brockport 28, No. 2 Canandaigua 27
Sunday, Nov. 8
Class B final: No. 1 Batavia 52, No. 2 Livonia 20
Class AA final: No. 1 Aquinas 21, No. 6 Rush-Henrietta 14
Sports
Annie Kase scored with 33 seconds left with an assist from Erin Wool to lift Brighton to a 4-3 win over Amherst on Saturday in the Class B field hockey state quarterfinal.
Kase’s goal capped off a three-goal second half to lead the Barons from behind, trailing 3-1 at halftime.
Ella Charlesworth scored with 6:49 left to tie the game and Wool scored early in the second half for Brighton.
Kase also scored the first goal for the Barons, who will play Lakeland-I in the semifinals .
This is the third straight year Brighton has made the final four, falling in the finals in 2013 and the semifinals in 2014.
Class C state quarterfinals
East Rochester 2, Akron-VI 1
Caitlin Bray scored with an assist from Maddy Walsh with three seconds left in the first half for ER.
Megan D’Angelo had a goal with five minutes left in the first half for the Bombers.
ER will face the defending champions from Whitney Point in the semifinals.
Volleyball
Class D1 final
Byron-Bergen 25-26-25, Avon 11-24-19
Bryanna D’Agostino finished with 13 kills, five digs and four aces and Lauren Burke added 23 assists and five aces for Byron-Bergen (16-3).
Anna Levchuk chipped in with four kills for the Bees, who will play the winner of the Caledonia-Mumford and Honeoye crossover game.
Soccer
Class A state quarterfinals
Williamsville East-VI 2, Brighton 0
Lila Platt had five saves for Brighton.
Pittsford Sutherland libero Aliah Bowllan, named last week as one of 24 first-team All-Americans by Under Armour, is one of the Knights’ veterans.
I’m not sure if I can hype up Tuesday night’s Class A girls volleyball state tournament qualifying match between Pittsford Sutherland (18-1, Class A2 champ) and Victor (17-3, Class A1 champ) more than I have, but I’m going to try. I’m not sure if anyone else called it #GloverGate before I tweeted that out Friday night after Victor and Sutherland each won Section V titles, but they sure could have. It happens at 7:30 p.m. at Webster Thomas, where I expect the gymnasium to be rollicking because it won’t just have Victor and Sutherland fans in it. Fans from all over Monroe County want to see this one.
You know how you sometimes you root for big matchups in sports to happen and they never do? This time it happened. This would be the football equivalent of Aquinas coach Chris Battaglia leaving the Little Irish, going to McQuaid, turning the Knights into a winner and then those schools playing for a spot in the state tournament.
New-look Victor captures Class A1 girls volleyball
Here’s the backstory: Matt Glover, 35, coached Penfield for eight years, led the Patriots to multiple Section V titles. Glover then moved on to Sutherland for four years and led the Knights multiple sectional titles and state championships in 20013 and 2014 with big-time hitters such as Luisa Schirmer (Ohio State) and Santita Ebangwese (Syracuse) and a libero (defensive specialist) named Aliah Bowllan and setter named Andrea Allen, the last two who are seniors right now as a type this. Then sometime earlier this year Glover decided to take his talent to Victor and lo and behold the Blue Devils, who were 7-11 last fall, won the Section V Class A1 title on Friday night, their first since 2009.
Add it all up and Glover has guided three different schools to sectional titles in 10 of the last 13 years. You want to know what’s more impressive than Aquinas football winning 10* straight Section V titles (*when eligible)?
That is.
So on Tuesday night those girls from Sutherland will get their chance to show their former coach he made the wrong call, or at least made it a year too soon. It should be high drama and I’ll be tweeting updates from Webster Thomas. I’m sure there’s more to the story than I know or anyone wants to tell me, but Glover said balancing teaching and coaching was part of it. He currently teaches in the Rochester City School District.
I will be tweeting live updates from tonight's girls volleyball showdown, Sutherland vs. Victor, 7:30 at Web Thomas. No doubt, high drama
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Jeff DiVeronica (@RocDevo) November 10, 2015I think this is maybe Glover’s most impressive coaching job. At Penfield, he developed a program and featured dominant hitters, most prominently Stacey Yohannes. At Sutherland, he sure knew what he had coming up on the team when the took the job with the Schirmer sisters (Kaja and Luisa) and knew he could build around them. Does Victor have talent? Absolutely, senior and A1 tourney MVP Hannah Stewart is a terrific outside hitter, but the Blue Devils are young. They start four sophomores. His career record is 272-44.
So, it’s going to be fun on Tuesday and emotional and dramatic. Isn’t that what high schools these days are still filled with? I’ll date myself here, but Happy Days and Beverly Hillls 90210 weren’t popular just because of The Fonz and all those pretty boys from Cali.
Drama sells. #GloverGate.
The question of whether high school sports teams from private/non-public schools should be allowed to compete for the same championships with public school teams, has been raised over and over for decades.
Thomas Bryant, right, who is now a freshman at Indiana University, helped lead Bishop Kearney to a state Class AA championship in boys basketball in 2013. The Kings have won 11 Section V titles since 1999.
The current arrangement in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association puts private/non-public teams on the same fields, courts and courses during the regular season, sectional and state tournament competition. A group of 18 superintendents of public school districts in NYSPHSAA-affiliated Section V wonder if this should continue.
Usually, this is said privately or at Section V meetings, but the Monroe County Council of School Superintendents placed a proposal on paper with the question “is it fair, is it equal?” and sent it to the NYSPHSAA.
Public schools want private schools out of Section V
Here are five burning questions on the hot-button issue:
Now that the superintendents have sent the letter to the state, what’s next?
Brockport Superintendent Lesli Myers and Michael Pero, her colleague in the Pittsford, said the proposal was not sent out of anger or frustration or with an ultimatum for action.
“This is deserving of conversation,” Pero said more than once.
The letter will be shared with the Section V executive committee and council during a meeting Nov. 17,
Some questions sure to be brought up in the future include: What is the impact on students at public schools in the current playoff and championship formats? Can Section V, where most private/non-public schools are NYSPHSAA members, have a different arrangement for playoffs and championships than nine of the other 11 sections across New York?
How likely is it that the private schools will no longer by allowed to compete against public schools in Section V?
It seems unlikely, without going to court. And who knows how long before there is a resolution, what the resolution would be and how much it would cost everyone involved?
Aquinas President Mike Daley said about possible alternatives: “If there are good suggestions that are a win-win, we would certainly listen to those.”
Daley also pointed out that Aquinas, Bishop Kearney and other private or non-public schools have already seen more stringent rules on transfer students and eligibility for exchange and international students added in recent years.
Schools that have also enjoyed extended success can also be reclassified to play in a sectional bracket that exceeds their enrollment. For example, the Aquinas football team competes in Class AA, the section’s largest classification for schools with 930 or more students in grades 10 through 12, despite having a total enrollment of 472 in those grades this year. The Little Irish moved up to Class AA in 2012 after winning six straight Class A crowns and have won a sectional football title in nine of the last 10 years.
How do other sections in the state handle private schools?
Section VI in the Buffalo region does not allow private schools to participate in the organization’s playoffs and championships. It is the only section out of 11 with this approach. NYSPHSAA executive director Robert Zayas pointed out that Section V is the only region where the debate has reached this point, although there are almost certainly gripes about private/non-public sports teams around the state, too.
High school sports in New York City are sanctioned by other organizations, including one for private schools not a part of the NYSPHSAA. At the end of the basketball season, the NYSPHSAA and all of these other bodies send some of their champions to what are known as Federation Tournaments.
Swimming, track and field, and wrestling are among the sports where the NYSPHSAA state meets and Federation events take place simultaneously and the results are filtered to recognize athletes connected to the different organizations.
Can private schools recruit?
This is where it gets sticky and tricky. Private schools almost certainly have to recruit students to stay open in some cases. Can students who are standouts in sports be steered to private schools? That is a no-no, but is difficult to monitor and enforce.
What sports have the private schools been dominant?
Locally, Aquinas football and, to a lesser degree, Bishop Kearney boys and girls basketball generate the most passion or discussion.
Bishop Kearney’s 13 boys basketball titles, seven since 2005, are the third most in Section V history. The Bishop Kearney girls basketball team was reclassified during the 2013-14 season, into a classification for larger schools.
Success, including state titles, in girls and boys basketball at Batavia Notre Dame does not always make everyone happy, either. McQuaid volleyball’s success seems to generate much less angst, after winning the first three state titles in history. One reason may be because McQuaid competes in the division for the largest schools. The Knights are back in the Section V Class A final on Thursday night at Webster Schroeder.
“It’s not like we have blue-chip athletes walking in here from Henrietta, Webster and Hilton,” Daley said. “We’re not successful because we have the best athletes.
“You need to look at the dedication of not only the kids, but the coaches.”
JAMESJ@DemocratandChronicle.com
Volleyball.
Lydia Barnard had 20 kills, 21 digs and 6 aces and Honeoye rallied from a 24-17 deficit in the fifth set to defeat Byron-Bergen in a girls volleyball Class D state qualifier on Thursday.
The Bulldogs won 19-25, 25-17, 14-25, 25-14, 27-25.
Hailey Cornish added 6 aces, 27 assists, and 17 digs for Honeoye (19-3).
Honeoye will take on Portville-VI at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Pioneer.
Class B State qualifiers
Honeoye Falls-Lima 25-25-25, Iroquois-VI 11-18-11
Gillian Kurtic had 19 kills and three aces and Molly Taylor recorded 35 assists for HF-L (15-5).
Grace Chlebove added 13 kills for the Cougars.
Class C State qualifiers
Eden-VI 25-25-25,
Le Roy 15-11-15
Emily Leone recorded six blocks and Ally Uberty added six kills and two blocks for Le Roy (19-1).
A screen shot from a 20-minute "send-off" video wishing the Wheatland girls soccer team luck in the state tournament.
The Wheatland-Chili girls soccer team got one of those cool send-offs Friday morning, the ones where players walk through a tunnel formed by classmates leading to the bus that took them to Cortland, site of the state tournament final four.
“It feels so amazing knowing the community and all of our schoolmates are just supporting us,” standout senior defender Taylor Clar said.
A lot of teams credit their success to feeling like a family. With Wheatland-Chili, that’s as much about blood as it is team chemistry. Half of the squad is six sets of sisters: Taylor and Lindsey Clar, twins Abbey and Hannah Callaghan, Taylor and Samantha Ghysel, Megan and Julia Nolan, Brianna and Cassie Parker and Taylor and Allyssa Seilheimer.
“We’re all best friends. We have nine seniors who are as close as sisters along with the juniors and the sophomores,” said Taylor Clar, who veteran coach Gary Ward calls the “inspirational leader and organizer” of the Wildcats (15-6-1).
“This team has been playing together for two years now and it doesn’t matter if you’re a starter or not, you’re vital to our success. We’re always pushing each other and I think that goes a long way in the end. That, and having two amazingly talented coaches.”
There’s a family connection there, too. Ward’s assistant is his daughter, Jen, who played for her father in the late 1980s and was a volunteer assistant on the last W-C squad that reached states in 2004.
In his 34th season, Gary Ward is among the state’s all-time wins leaders with 459. His 1988, 1991 and 2004 teams also made states. The 1991 squad won it all in Class D. Ward puts this year’s team with the best he’s ever coached. He said they understand how to play the possession-oriented, strong build-up style he likes.
The Wildcats play their noon semifinal Saturday against Section II’s Oppenheim-Ephratah/St. Johnsville at SUNY Cortland. After going 17-0 until being upset by Keshequa in last year’s Section V tournament, Ward beefed up this year’s schedule. With that came a learning curve of how to deal with adversity and come from behind, which is something W-C didn’t have to do once until failing to come back against Keshequa.
The soccer family for W-C extends beyond this fall, too. Jen’s husband, Brian Quinn, made a 20-minute video this week with 29 former players wishing these Wildcats luck. Players from graduation classes from 1982 to 2013 are seen in it. That includes Kerri Fenton Clar. She was the captain on Ward’s first team in 1982. She’s also the mother of Taylor and Lindsey, an eighth-grader on this year’s team.
Wheatland-Chili Girls Soccer – We Are Family
The attack, which has outscored teams 53-19, is super balanced with sophomore Hannah Callaghan (9 goals/6 assists) and senior Lexi Combs (8/3) leading the way. But the Wildcats are anchored by their defense, which has shut out seven straight foes since losing consecutive matches in early October to Attica and Kendall. Clar is the leader and “probably as good a back as I’ve ever had,” Gary Ward said.
Abbey Callaghan and junior Elise Williamson are outside backs. There is plenty of depth all over the field. Ward goes 20 deep into his roster.
Abbie Berl helped W-C avoid disaster in goal. After returning starter Katherine Vonglis broke her leg over the summer, Ward asked for volunteers to play goalie.
“She was the first kid who shot her hand up,” Ward said of the converted midfielder.
Vonglis received a medical waiver to begin play in sectionals and now the goalies are splitting time in goal, which has mostly been watching W-C dominant in front of them.
“I’ll give you a clue how good they are,” Ward of his back line. “In our six postseason matches, our goalies have five saves.”
They’re instrumental in starting and sustaining the attack, too. “To watch them play is really, really fun,” Ward said. “They’re not just boom-ballers.”
McQuaid’s Joseph Crosby, left, tips the ball up past the block of Penfield’s Yinguang Li during their Class A championship matchup Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 at Webster Schroeder.
Fairport’s Pete Critchlow, right, and Hilton’s Matthew DeFeo challenge for a header.
Aquinas’ Earnest Edwards, right, tries to break the grasp of Rush-Henrietta’s Steven Clark during the Section V Class AA football championship game on Sunday. Aquinas plays Orchard Park in the state quarterfinals on Sunday.
The best of the best are the only Section V fall athletes still competing and this weekend most take aim at continuing their quest to be a state champion. While girls swimming takes the weekend off to get ready for the state meet next weekend, more than 20 area teams are still alive in their respective state tournaments.
Only football’s Far West Regionals, or state quarterfinals, at Sahlen’s Stadium and the boys volleyball quarterfinals at Midlakes High School in Clifton Springs, Ontario County, will take place in our region.
Here are five things to watch:
Can Aquinas keep going? The unbeaten Little Irish football team brings a 10-0 record and a couple of nail-biting wins the past two weeks over Hilton (21-14) and Rush-Henrietta (17-14) into Sunday’s 4 p.m. Class AA matchup with Orchard Park (9-1). Aquinas has reclaimed the Section V championship that it wanted to after being kicked out of last year’s sectionals. The Irish played with spirit and emotion in doing so.
Can coach Chris Battaglia’s banged-up team bring the same type of spirit this week? Was this week’s news that Monroe County superintendents have asked the New York State Public High School Athletic Association to soon discuss how they might remove non-public schools from Section V’s postseason tournaments a distraction or more fuel to AQ’s fire?
Noteworthy: The Little Irish’s six state titles are a state record; Maine-Endwell (Class A) could match AQ if the Section IV champions win and the Irish don’t.
Brockport (Class A), Batavia (B), Bath (C) and Bishop Kearney (D) are also playing at Sahlen’s this weekend.
Aquinas returns to top of Class AA
Aquinas players celebrate following their win in the Section V Class AA Football Championship.
What distraction? Aquinas football always seems central to the public schools versus private schools debate. But what about others? McQuaid volleyball coach Christopher Parks said this week’s news wasn’t a distraction for his boys, who swept Penfield on Thursday to win their fifth sectional title in the last six years.
“No,” he said, “because we’ve been focused on that fact we’re able to spend another day together in the gym getting ready to play more volleyball. “The last few days we were fortunate enough to focus on Penfield and now it’s Orchard Park.”
McQuaid plays at 3 p.m. at Midlakes in the Division I state quarterfinals, right after Brighton faces Williamsville North in Division II at 1 p.m. McQuaid won state titles in 2010-2012 and has lost to the eventual state champion the past two years (Fairport in 2013 and Sachem North in last year’s state finals).
McQuaid beats Penfield to secure Class A title
McQuaid’s Christopher Mahar, left, and Christian Pawelek during their Class A championship match.
Sutherland goes for three-peat: Webster Schroeder (Class AA), Pittsford Sutherland (A) and Honeoye Falls-Lima (B) will all compete in girls volleyball pool-play regional matches Saturday.
The Knights are looking to win a third straight crown and fourth in six years. HF-L has won three straight sectional titles under coach Rene Monks and is trying to reach the state final four for the second time in three years. It plays Westhill at 3 p.m. at Chittenango High. Sutherland and Schroeder’s matches are at Pioneer High near Buffalo.
Webster Schroeder tops Mercy for volleyball crown
Sutherland’s Mary Bayer (1) celebrates with teammates after beating Victor in the Class A State Qualifier.
Blast from the past? The Hilton boys and Wheatland-Chili girls are among the five area soccer teams still alive. They’ve also won states before, but not in a very long time.
Hilton (11-9-1), an improbable sectional champion as a No. 8 seed, last won states in 1987; W-C won in 1991. The Cadets hadn’t even won a sectional title since then until knocking off two-time defending Section V champion Fairport, 1-0, in the sectional final. First-year coach Mike Ellicott’s opportunistic squad plays Long Island’s Walt Whitman (18-1-1) at 4:15 p.m. Saturday in the Class AA semifinals at Middletown High School in Orange County. If Hilton wins it plays 3 p.m. Sunday.
The state cross country championships, by the way, also take place downstate in Orange County on Saturday morning at Monroe-Woodbury High.
Wheatland-Chili plays Section II champion Oppenheim-Ephratah-St. Johnsville at noon Saturday at SUNY Cortland. The Caledonia-Mumford girls (Class C) and Geneseo boys (Class C) and Alfred-Almond boys (Class D) are also in action on Saturday in the semis.
Hilton’s captains raise the championship trophy following the Section V Class AA Championship.
Hilton boys soccer enjoying special run
Soccer success for Wheatland-Chili all in the family
Sticks up:Brighton (Class B) and East Rochester (Class C) play state semifinal field hockey games at Maine-Endwell near Binghamton on Saturday and both have the tall task of facing defending state champions.
The Barons are making their third straight trip to the semis, but their opponent, Lakeland, is the six-time reigning champion. They play at 5:30 p.m. Coach Nicole Caruso’s ER squad plays Whitney Point of Section IV at 9:30 a.m.
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Class C football State quarterfinals – Bath’s Noah Hockaday breaks up a pass intended for Maple Grove’s Pat Nelson to keep the score at 8-8 for the end of the second quarter at Sahlen’s Stadium.
Bath advanced to the state semifinals for the first time since 2008 after defeating Maple Grove/Chautauqua Lake of Section VI 16-8 in the Class C Regional game on Saturday.
The Rams (11-0) will go on to face Chenango Valley-IV next at noon on Nov. 21 in the state semifinals at Cicero-North Syracuse.
“It’s amazing,” offensive MVP and Rams quarterback Michael Rice said “It’s the best experience you could have.”
Bath opened up scoring when Tyler Finch ran it in from 11 yards out with 8:42 remaining in the first quarter. Connor DiDomineck ran in the two-point conversion.
Rams running back Patrick Brewer was missing from the backfield after he suffered a twisted knee in the last play of the sectional final against East Rochester/Gananda, so three sophomores shared the carries in his place.
With 8:21 remaining in the second, Maple Grove/Chautauqua Lake’s (9-2) Michel Padilla caught a 15-yard touchdown from Michael Welsh. Welsh completed a pass to Trevor Micek for the two-point conversion.
Bath coach Wayne Carroll stressed the importance of defense to his team.
“I told the defense if we could hold them to 14 points, we have a shot because they’re allowing 13 points a game,” Carroll said. “I really thought we would score more points.”
Class C football State quarterfinals – Bath’s Stefan Ordway runs the ball and pushes away Maple Grove’s Bradley Benson and Mitch Sandberg reaches for him from bellow in the first quarter at Sahlen’s Stadium.
The Rams game-winning touchdown would be scored with 3:11 left in the third after Stefan Ordway punched it in from 1-yard out. Finch ran in the two-point conversion for the final 16-8 score.
The two teams both had to punt with less than five minutes remaining, and on Maple Grove/Chautauqua Lake’s last chance on offense, Jeremiah Kinner broke up a fourth down pass for Bath and the Rams ran out the clock.
Bath rushed for 210 yards and finished with 246 yards of total offense.
“We were hoping to score more points but they were shutting down our offense,” Rice said. “We’re just trying to be best Bath team (ever).”
Bath also made state semifinals in 2001 and 2002.
Bath 16, Maple Grove/Chautauqua Lake-VI 8
Bath 8-0-8-0—16
MG/CL 0-8-0-0—8
B–Tyler Finch 11 run (Connor DiDomineck run)
MG/CL–Michel Padilla 15 pass from Michael Welsh (Trevor Micek pass from Welsh)
B–Stefan Ordway 1 run (Finch run)
Offensive MVP: Michael Rice (Bath). Defensive MVP:Trevor Micek (Maple Grove/Chautauqua Lake)
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Cassie Parker and Hannah Callaghan each scored a goal in overtime to lift Wheatland-Chili to a 3-1 win over Oppenheim-Ephratah-St. Johnsville of Section II to advance to the Class D state soccer finals on Saturday.
Abbey Callaghan also scored a goal for the Wildcats.
Abbie Berl and Katherine Vonglis each made a save in goal for Wheatland-Chili.
The Wildcats will play against Copenhagen-III at 12:15 p.m. Sunday at Cortland for the Class D title.
Class C State semifinals at Cortland
Port Jefferson-XI 4, Caledonia-Mumford 1
Jessica Garland scored with 23 minutes remaining in the second half for the Red Raiders (19-3-1).
“To get this far and to be one of the last four teams in the state is a great accomplishment,” Cal-Mum coach Chad Schalk said. “Many girls have been on the team for three or four years and gave a lot to the program. To see them to Cortland is pretty gratifying”.
Volleyball
Class AA state regionals at Pioneer
Clarence-IV 18-25-25-18-25, Webster Schroeder 25-13-21-25-22
Ally Smith had 21 kills and 10 digs and her twin sister Amber Smith added 14 kills and 17 digs for Webster Schroeder (14-3).
Amanda Mosack tallied 47 assists for the Warriors, who rallied with 10 straight points in the fifth set but couldn’t finish the match.
“We just shouldn’t have given them so many points but the kids fought really hard and it’s been a fun year,” Schroeder coach Shawn Strege said. “This team was such a great team to coach and they worked so hard every day to get better.”
Class A State regionals at Pioneer
Williamsville East-VI 25-25-17-19-25, Pittsford Sutherland 20-18-25-25-20
Sarah Blowers had 19 kills and 32 digs and Aliah Bowllan added 64 digs for Sutherland (19-2).
Andrea Allen tallied 56 assists and 19 digs and Andrea Green chipped in 12 kills for the Knights.
“They have got the biggest hearts of any girls I’ve ever coached,” Sutherland coach Jon Eckler said. “They know how to fight and their heart brought it back for a shot to win it at the end.”
Sutherland is the reigning state champion.
Class B State regionals at Chittenango
Westhill-VI 24-26-25-22-25 Honeoye Falls-Lima 26-24-22-25-23
Class D State semifinals at Pioneer
Portville-VI 25-25-25, Honeoye 11-23-19
Margaret Slocum tallied 12 digs and Hailey Cornish had 13 assists and 10 digs for Honeoye (19-4).
Lydia Barnard had three aces and seven kills for the Bulldogs.
“Our season was fantastic,” first-year coach Alana Graziano said. “The fact that we were the No. 1 seed, won sectionals and made school history by making it to states was amazing.
“It was a phenomenal season and it was great to see our small town come together and support the girls.”
Field Hockey
Class B State semifinals at Maine-Endwell
Lakeland 7, Brighton 0
Lakeland (20-0) will attempt to go for a seventh straight state title on Sunday.
Brighton finishes 11-6.
Class C State semifinals at Maine-Endwell
Whitney Point 4, East Rochester 0
Whitney Point is the defending state champion in Class C.
Alex Hogue (left) and Dawson Bathgate moments after going 1-2 in the Class D race at states.
WOODBURY, N.Y. – His runner dad was beaming, his runner mom was jokingly jealous, and Dawson Bathgate was living it up as the one with the fastest wheels in the family Saturday morning in the windy foothills of Orange County.
“I never did this in high school,” said Christina Bathgate, who as Christina Rolleri starred at Skaneateles High School in the early ‘90s with her future husband. “Never came close.”
“Neither did I,” said Jim Bathgate, who’d just coached his son to East Rochester’s first state championship since Drew Whitbeck raced to a two-peat in 2002. “Seventeen years of coaching for me, and we finally have one. He’s blown away all the top times in the family now, for both of us.”
Along with a Pittsford Mendon boys three-peat in Class B, the two eastside schools kept alive a Section V streak of individual and/or state titles dating back to 1998 – 18 years and counting.
“Loving it. It’s awesome,” Bathgate said, after he led most of the way in the Class D race at the state cross country championships on the sprawling Monroe-Woodbury High School campus.
“And it’s so awesome to have Alex right behind me.”
Wheatland-Chili’s Alex Hogue was 11 seconds back, and when he crossed the line in 16 minutes, 40 seconds, the two rushed into a crushing embrace.
“I told him at the start,” Bathgate said, “we’re going to finish 1-2.”
Hogue laughed at that, agreeing, but admitting that “I’m thinking it would be ME one and Dawson two! I was racing to win. The last bit I was holding on for dear life.
“I really didn’t know Dawson until this weekend, but we’ve gotten to be really good friends. I’m so happy for him.”
Both agreed that the hilly 3.1-mile course was the most challenging they’d ever faced. It took the measure of many top runners, both boys and girls, with tightly grouped and steep inclines.
“So hilly. So hard,” Bathgate said. “I train on some decent hills in my neighborhood, but nothing like this.” He says he does figure-eights in his Sherwood neighborhood just across Fairport Road from his high school.
Dawson Bathgate
Section IV’s Maine-Endwell threw a solid punch at Mendon, but coach Chris Compson’s Vikings turned back the challenge 43-54 to become only the 15th team in state history to win three or more titles, and just third in Section V, with Greece Arcadia and McQuaid.
Once again, sophomore Nathan Lawler led the way, in second (16:03.3) but he was trailed this week by Henry Burton, 14th; Isaac Goodman, 16th, Luke Robbins, 22nd and Griffin Hess, 25th.
“This course delivers a lot of body blows,” Compson said. “The hills just keep right on coming. It plays right into our team strength–our depth.
“At the end of the day, it’s an accurate reflection of the best teams and best individuals.
“Nathan was in the top five at the three-quarter mile mark. That was the plan. We figured to defeat the dragon, chop off his head. He had plenty for the hills.”
Cross country excellence runs in the family
Other highlights:
•Donny Glavin was one of nine boys to break the two-year-old course’s 16:10.5 record, with a 16:01.7 for third in Class A, but his teammates faltered and the Knights were eighth of nine teams. Fairport sophomore Majd Rouhana was a solid 30th.
•Junior Sammy Watson of Rush-Henrietta struggled with the hills and was Section V’s top finisher in girls A at 34th, while the latest Fayetteville-Manlius phenom, Claire Walters, upset nationally-ranked Jessica Lawson of Corning and became the first 8th-grader in history to win the top girls class. Girls began competing at the state level in 1977.
•Canandaigua freshman Clancy Rheude was 14th to lead area runners in girls B. Honeoye Falls-Lima’s Sydney McDaniel also earned all-state honors (top 20) at 17th as her team, which was sixth, was making its 17th appearance since 1995.
•Livonia sophomore Hayleigh Palotti was third in class C, and almost caught East Aurora’s No. 2 Fiona Danieu at the finish.
Jim Castor, retired assistant sports editor of the Democrat and Chronicle, has covered running in the Rochester area for more than five decades. He can be reached at jcastor@jimcastor.com
Cross Country
NYS Public H.S. Ath. Assn. championships
at Monroe-Woodbury H.S., Woodbury, Orange County
5K (3.1-mile) open-loop course.
*selected for state Federation tournament next Saturday at Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County. ** course record.
BOYS
Class A
Teams (9): 1. Liverpool-III 61 points. 8. McQuaid-V 144.
Individuals (106 finishers): 1. Ben Petrella (Liverpool) 15 minutes, 43.0 seconds**. Section V finishers: 3. Donny Glavin (McQ) 16:01.7, 30. Majd Rouhana (Fairport) 16:55.7, 37. Joe Doerr (McQ) 17:02.7, 54. Matt Orcutt (Fairport) 17:16.9, 58. Nick Neamtu (Webster Thomas) 17:19.9, 66. Tyler Senall* (Penfield) 17:28.4, 72. Aidan Blake (McQ) 17:30.6, 75. Mark Dipasquale (McQ) 17:36.1, 88. Brad Farnham* (Penfield) 17:51.7, 90. Nick Caterisano (McQ) 17:53.8, 99. Tommy Alvermann (McQ) 18:19.2, 103. Zach Anderson (McQ) 18:56.6.
Class B
Teams (11): 1. Pittsford Mendon-V 43, 2. Maine-Endwell-IV 54.
Individuals (122): 1. Noah Affolder (Carthage-III) 15:57.2. Sec. V: 2. Nathan Lawler (PMe) 16:03.3, 5. Paul Dellinger (Brighton) 16:10.3, 9. Jackson Tate (Honeoye Falls-Lima) 16:33.5, 14. Henry Burton (PMe) 16:51.9, 15. Caleb Covell (East Irondequoit Eastridge) 16:52.0, 16. Isaac Goodman (PMe) 16:43.7, 22. Luke Robbins (Pittsford Sutherland) 16:58.3, 24. Liam Lyle (Honeoye Falls-Lima) 17:05.3, 25. Griffin Hess (PMe) 17:07.9, 44. Sam Trawick (PMe) 17:27.8, 53. Casey Woodward (PMe) 17:39.3, 105. Conor Fitzgerald (PMe) 18:37.4.
Class C
Teams (11): 1. East Aurora-VI 36; 10. Bath-V 231.
Individuals (130 finishers): 1. Kenny Vasbinder (EAu) 15:52.2. Sec. V: 39. Austin Miller (Hornell) 17:39.8, 67. Jordan Cash-Rawleigh (Bath) 18:11.7, 78. Gabe Stash (Marcus Whitman) 18:26.2, 81. Nate Mayton (Marcus Whitman) 18:29.6, , 85. Corey Sprague (Bath) 18:37.0, 88. Aaron Stewart (Bath) 18:43.1, 90. Eddie Ely (Palmyra-Macedon) 18:45.3, 93. Tyler Smith (Bath) 18:46.4, 97. Maxin McKenzie (Le Roy) 18:53.3, 106. Lucas Eggleston (Bath) 19:14.8, 113. Torrin Lisi (Bath) 19:57.8, 127. Maxwell Gottshall (Bath) 21:00.0.
Class D
Teams (10): 1. Lake Placid-VII 37; 6. Addison-V 150.
Individuals (120 finishers): 1. Dawson Bathgate* (East Rochester) 16:29.0, 2. Alex Hogue (Wheatland-Chili) 16:40.5, Other Sec. V: 25. Hunter Clark (Arkport-Canaseraga) 17:46.8, 28. Eric Wright (Warsaw) 17:50.8, 33. Nick Harrian (Clyde-Savannah) 18:05.3, 41. Evan McIlwain (Add) 18:12.5, 52.Ryan English (Add) 18:33.0, 63. Stephen Thompson (Add) 18:51.1, 66. Joseph Thompson (Add) 19:06.0, 75. Jonah Burton (Add), 19:32.3, 77. Nathan Hough (Add) 19:36.6, 90. Will Beckhorn (Add) 20:09.8.
GIRLS
Class A
Teams (9): 1. Fayetteville-Manlius-III 28; 6. Webster Thomas-V 154.
Individuals (107 finishers): 1. Claire Walters (F-M) 17:53.3**. Sec. V: 34. Sammy Watson* (Rush-Henrietta) 19:32.9, 38. Ellie Songer (WTh) 19:35.5, 40. Claire Miller* (Penfield) 19:44.0, 46. Claire Ashton (WTh) 20:03.2, 54. Amanda Vestri (WTh) 20:08.5, 56. Anna Kostarellis (Churchville-Chili) 20:11.6, 58. Bailey Pierce (Rush-Henrietta) 20:12.8, 72. Kate Welch (WTh) 20:28.9, 75. Haley Arguien (Churchville-Chili) 20:33.1, 86. Taylor Zeigler (WTh) 20:51.1, 92. Natalie Neamtu (WTh) 21:00.0, 105. Alex Carpenter (WTh) 21:54.2.
Class B
Teams (11): 1. John Jay Cross River-I 55; 6. Honeoye Falls-Lima-V 117.
Individuals (119 finishers): 1. Diana Vizza (North Shore-VIII) 18:15.6. Sec. V: 14. Clancy Rheude (Canandaigua) 19:23.5, 17. Sydney McDaniel (HF-L) 19:36.4, 27. Madeleine Shellard (Irondequoit) 19:58.1, 30. Megha Singh (Pittsford Mendon) 20:04.6, 33. Katie Cobos (Canandaigua) 20:09.9, 44. Rebekah Preisser (Pittsford Sutherland) 20:18.8, 47. Payton Reed (HF-L) 20:20.8, 56. Gabby Wangler (HF-L) 20:35.5, 61. Chloe Carlson (HF-L) 20:46.0, 71. Sarah Bond (HF-L) 21:04.4, 89. Bailey Reed(HF-L) 21:50.6, 97. Maria Villanti (HF-L) 22:30.9.
Class C
Teams (10): 1. East Aurora-VI 35; 8. Livonia-V 163.
Individuals (129 finishers): 1. Sophia Tasselmyer (EAu) 18:42.3. Sec. V: 3. Hayleigh Palotti* (Liv) 19:13, 27. Clarissa Hensler (Liv) 20:28.1, 40. Meghan Curtin (Wayland-Cohocton) 21:01.2, 41. Grace Kibler (Attica) 21:02.3, 70. Riley Corey (Waterloo) 22:04.2, 79. Lindsey Allen (Holley) 22:18.3, 89. Molly Stewart (Liv) 2:33.6, 95. Audrey Weber (Liv) 22:51.0, 96. Maci Nicholson (Penn Yan) 22:52.7, 101. Rachel Hoh (Liv) 23:01.4, 109. Maddie Pope (Liv) 23:21.7, 110. Isabel Thelen (Liv) 23:22.7.
Class D
Teams (10): 1. Greenwich-II 53; 4. Addison-V 140.
Individuals (115 finishers): 1. Sage Hurta (Hamilton-III) 18:33.8. Sec. V: 12. Chloe Weaver (Red Creek) 20:17.6, 18. Eileen Reinhardt (Harley-Allendale Columbia) 20:30.6, 23. Sydney Beach (Red Creek) 20:47.8, 27. Isabella Painter (Add) 21:03.7, 37. Mikayla Gallace (Honeoye) 21:12.6, 44. Veronica Dailey (Add) 21:27.7, 56. Cameron Perry (Pembroke) 21:52.8, 63. Sadie Morse (Add) 22:26.8, 64. Megan Long (Add) 22:28.0, 74. Corrine Crooker (Add) 23:05.4, 77. Lacie Long (Add) 23:11.0.
· Honeoye Falls-Lima’s boys team also selected for Federation meet.
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