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Section V football previews: Who will emerge from loaded Class A field?

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Section V football previews: Who will emerge from loaded Class A field?
Class A may be the most competitive class in Section V this season, with 16 teams vying for the eight playoff spots in sectional playoffs. Last year, the Wilson Wildcats stunned the section by becoming the first Rochester City Athletic Conference team to win a sectional title in nearly a dozen years. With the high school football season officially beginning... more

Line, backfield among strengths for Watkins Glen/Odessa-Montour

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Line, backfield among strengths for Watkins Glen/Odessa-Montour
Year four of Watkins Glen/Odessa-Montour combined football holds promise thanks to the returns of several key seniors from last year’s team. The Seneca Indians finished 2017 with a 2-7 record, dropping their final seven games after impressive victories against Greene and Spencer-Van Etten/Candor to open the season. Trevor Holland, in his third season as head coach, said the goals for... more

HIGH SCHOOLS: Lyons sweeps Falcons in volleyball opener

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HIGH SCHOOLS: Lyons sweeps Falcons in volleyball opener
A matchup of perennially strong girls volleyball programs went to the Wayne County league visitors Wednesday night. Lyons downed South Seneca 25-19, 25-17, 25-15 in a non-league matchup at Guinan Gym. https://twitter.com/FLTimes/status/1035166365689278465 FL Times: Read More Congratulations to our Volleyball teams on their victory against South Seneca last night. Go Lady Lions 🏐 — Lyons Central School District (@LyonsSchools) August... more

Victor kicks off Section V football season with Teddi Bowl victory

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Victor begins Section V football with Teddi Bowl victory over Pittsford
There was only one high school game on Thursday to begin the local football season, but it was for a good cause. The Teddi Bowl, after all, raises money for Camp Good Days. Victor and Pittsford played in this year’s game. The lights were on for this year’s version, which took place at St. John Fisher College. Victor shuts out... more

Lyons boys basketball coach is new Weedsport AD

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Lyons boys basketball coach is new Weedsport AD
Lyons boys varsity basketball head coach Zac Young has coached the historic Section V program to three Sectional Championships and a trip to the NYS Final Four. This year’s Lyons team is expected to be the best since Damon Hunter led the Lions to Glen Falls in 2015. For the first time in nine seasons, however, Young won’t be on... more

Ruling on Red Creek basketball parent’s appeal against Section V expected 6/22

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Ruling on Red Creek basketball parent’s appeal against Section V expected 6/22
No decision was made Thursday regarding the case brought by a Red Creek parent challenging Section V’s lack of an appeals process for athletes who are ejected from games. But state Supreme Court Justice J. Scott Odorisi made it very clear he thinks the Hall of Justice is no place for high school sports. Odorisi said he will issue a... more

Big Blue wrecking crew: Victor athletic program becomes dominant force

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Big Blue wrecking crew: Victor athletic program becomes dominant force
Ron Whitcomb received some advice back in 1991 when he was deciding whether to leave his alma mater, East Rochester, to become the new athletic director at Victor Central Schools. “Take the job,” outgoing AD Jeffrey Crane told Whitcomb. “Victor is a sleeping giant.” Crane, West Irondequoit’s superintendent since 2003, couldn’t have been more right, and Whitcomb, now 63, plans... more

Pal-Mac girls fall in state Class D semifinal

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Pal-Mac girls fall in state Class D semifinal
Victoria Ruffo scored five goals and Allie Berkery and Fiona Jones each netted a hat trick as Bronxville-I got its year-long wish to get another shot at a state championship. The Broncos, now 18-4, defeated Palmyra-Macedon 14-5 Friday in the Class D state semifinals at SUNY-Cortland. The Broncos, who fell in double-overtime in last year’s state championship, jumped out to... more

Avon tops Lansing in state semis despite pitching gem from Bell

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Avon tops Lansing in state semis despite pitching gem from Bell
Garrett Bell delivered his usual excellence on the mound Friday, but it wasn’t enough as Lansing’s season ended with a 1-0 loss to Avon in a New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class C baseball semifinal at Binghamton’s Conlon Field. Bell, a junior right-hander, pitched a three-hitter for the Bobcats after tossing a five-hitter in a 3-1 win... more

Penn Yan over-matched in Class D state title lacrosse game

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Penn Yan over-matched in Class D state title lacrosse game
With a roster filled with underclassmen, several of which were freshmen and sophomores, there were whispers that perhaps this would be just the second time in 22 years that Penn Yan would fail to win a Section V championship and advance to the state tournament. Turned out, the kids from Penn Yan, no matter how young they are, just know... more

Late goal stuns Victor in Class B boys lacrosse state title game

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Late goal stuns Victor in Class B boys lacrosse state title game
The Victor boys’ lacrosse dynasty has been temporarily derailed. Saturday afternoon in the Class B game at St. John Fisher College, the Blue Devils’ quest to become just the second program in New York State boys’ lacrosse history to win four straight state championships came to a stunning end when Garden City’s James Basile scored the winning goal with 1.2... more

Victor softball captures Class AA State Championship

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Victor softball captures Class AA State Championship
Victor became the first Section V girls softball team to capture the Class AA NYSPHSAA softball championship on Saturday afternoon with a 7-1 victory over Ballston Spa. Victor’s Chloe Whittier opened up the game in the top of the sixth inning with this Grand Slam… Grand slam in the top of the sixth from Chloe Whittier to help Victor to... more

Bloomfield freshman Alex Kenyon named All-American diver

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Bloomfield freshman Alex Kenyon named All-American diver
Alex Kenyon, a Bloomfield Freshman, has been named a 2017-2018 NISCA/Speedo Boys One Meter Diving All-American.  Alex is the 2018 Section V Class D Champion and 9th place finisher at the 2018 NYSPHSAA State Championships.  He is one of 9 Freshman in the entire United States to be named All American and one of only 5 New York Student Athletes... more

Auburn’s Lindsay May sets high standard with record-breaking career

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Auburn’s Lindsay May sets high standard with record-breaking career
Lindsay May wrapped up her varsity career with a sixth place finish at states. A commendable accomplishment by most standards, but when you’re a record-setting golfer who has won the state championship three times, the expectations are raised to an almost unachievable high. So when the Auburn senior returned to school, she faced questions about how she did. Read More:... more

Marcus Whitman to play 8-man football this fall

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Marcus Whitman to play 8-man football this fall
And now there are three area teams going to eight-man high school football, with more sure to follow. Marcus Whitman has informed Section V football coordinator Scott Barker that its varsity football team will join the group of eight-man teams around the state. The Wildcats had planned to play a Finger Lakes West league schedule while attempting to qualify for... more

Judge tosses Red Creek parent’s lawsuit over basketball player’s ejection

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Judge tosses Red Creek parent’s lawsuit over basketball player’s ejection
State Supreme Court Justice J. Scott Odorisi dismissed the case brought by a Red Creek parent that challenged Section V and state rules over player suspensions after an ejection, saying courts shouldn’t get involved with settling a “sporting squabble.” “Courts are valuable tools to resolve disputes,” Odorisi wrote in his decision, which was released Thursday, “but they should not be... more
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