WNYGVIH February 10-15, 2025
by Janet Schultz
Exhausting to imagine that it’s playoff time already and the season involves an finish in one other week. As at all times, nobody can predict what staff will advance to the Regionals. That query gained’t be answered till after Monday night time after which off to Part V to play for the State place.
Monday night time’s Quarterfinals pitted #7 Williamsville in opposition to #2 Franklinville/Frontier/LakeShore/Orchard Park; #7 Niagara County vs #3 Lancaster/Iroquois/Depew/Alden and #5 Clarence/Amherst/SweetHome in opposition to #4 Hamburg/Holland/Eden/West Seneca. #1 Kenmore/Grand Island/Lockport had the Bye.
FFLOP opened the scoring 4 minutes into the sport after which struck 5 extra instances with Williamsville’s Gen Illos getting their single objective at 3:50 of the primary interval, assisted by Scarlet Canna and Jaylee Kochan. First interval ended 6-1 FFLOP and stayed that means by the second interval. FFLOP added three extra within the third, together with one with 47.4 seconds left within the recreation and ended with a 9-1 victory. Rachael Repair took the “W” stopping 13 of 14 SOG and for Williamsville Anna Bacon stopped 7 of 12 and Olivia Lookman got here in to cease 20/24. FFLOP strikes on to the semi-finals.
Scoring for FFLOP had been Gabby Sojda (2), Hannah Favata (2 together with the game-winner), Chloe Gearhart, Maya Griffin (2 together with an unassisted), Kayli Tefft and Olivia Waterman. Aiding had been Griffin, Lilah Cudney, Jocelyn Smaczniak, Gearhart, Waterman, Campbell Rutz, Susanna Hollander, Sophia Quinn, and Peyton Forcucci.
With a 4 level night time, Maya Griffin moved to eighth total in Scoring for the WNYGVIH Federation with 52 factors.
NICO confronted LIDA in recreation two with LIDA victorious. Emily Lysiak opened the scoring for LIDA with simply 39.5 seconds left within the first interval. Simply over 2 minutes into the second Caitlin Sinclair dropped one in and that stayed with LIDA main 2-0 after two. NICO’s Molly Martin scored the primary objective on a powerplay, assisted by Abbey Zimmerman, within the third interval to cease a attainable shutout. LIDA’s Leah Dowling answered again with an unassisted objective with 1:18 left after which scored an empty-netter with 19 seconds left to seal the victory 4-1. Iris Schimenti stopped 16/17 SOG for the “W” and Lilia Jones stopped 10/13 for NiCo. LIDA strikes on.
The third Cashew Bowl (CASH vs HEWS) of the season and it was a HEWS victory. HEWS Sophia Phillips, assisted by Brynn Holland, scored the one objective of the night time at 5:33 of the primary interval. It was up and down the ice for the remainder of the night time with the result 1-0 HEWS. Ella Buczynski stopped 11 of 11 for her fifth shutout of the season. In objective for CASH, Ella Celej stopped 26 of 27.
After a time without work, the Semi’s had HEWS going through KenGiPort and LIDA going through off with FFLOP.
Holland opened scoring for HEWS, assisted by Morgan Cooper and the primary involves a 1-0 finish in favor of HEWS. Alexa Denning scored for KenGiPort minutes into the second interval, with Phillips answering again with an unassisted objective two minutes later. Second interval ends 2-1 HEWS. As soon as once more Phillips discovered the again of the web after which added two extra within the third, one an empty-netter, for a 5-2 win and a 4 level night time for herself. KenGiPort’s Isabella Burt scored, assisted by Isabella Jayme and Isabella Bourgeault. Buczynski stopped 25 of 27 for the W and for KenGiPort, Ella Johnston stopped 17 of 21. HEWS strikes to the Championship spherical.
Subsequent up LIDA faces FFLOP with that recreation ending in a 5-1 victory for FFLOP.
First interval discovered FFLOP’s Waterman, P. Forcucci and Gearhart scoring, assists by Smaczniak, Gearhart, Sojda and Favata. P. Forcucci’s being the game-winner. Within the second interval, FFLOP’s Cudney scored, assisted by Sojda and Rutz. LIDA answered that objective with one by Leah Dowling, assisted by Lucia Lawrence. Second interval ends 4-1. The ultimate objective of the night time was scored by Kayli Tefft, assisted by Brooklyn Forcucci and Smaczniak. In objective Repair stops 17 of 18 and for LIDA Schimenti stops 21 of 26. Sport ends 5-1 FFLOP they usually transfer to the Champions spherical.
On to the Championships. Sure, two.
First up on Monday, February 17 is the Non-public College Championship pitting St. Mary’s of Lancaster in opposition to Monsignor Martin. St. Mary’s led to sixth place within the League with a 6-6-3-1-0 document (Wins, loss, ties, additional time win, additional time loss) and Monsignor Martin was within the basement with 14 losses and a couple of ties.
The highest scoring for St. Mary’s got here from Avery Szczesek (16g/3a), Meghan Donnelly (5/11) and Lauren Gilano (6/7). With two goaltenders St. Mary’s has stopping energy within the internet with Betsy Accurso and Avery Corridor. Accurso performed 608.43 minutes stopping 314 of 351 photographs. Corridor performed simply 172.23 minutes however stopped 104 of 114.
For Monsignor Martin their energy is in Goaltender Kate Kelley who has confronted 439 SOG and stopped 389 in 730 minutes of play. Their scoring comes from Addison Cherry, Ellie Black and Gabby Kazmark.
The Part VI Championship will discover HHEWS going through FFLOP.
HEWS has hearth energy in Sophia Phillips with 18 targets and 13 assists this season adopted by Brynn Holland, 11/9 and Clare Sokolowski, 6/5. Ella Buczynski has protected the web for the complete season, enjoying 823 minutes and stopping 395 of 426 photographs on objective. They do have a again up in Madelyn Wojcik, however she has performed in no video games this season.
FFLOP is not any stranger to the championship spherical and has additionally gained a State Title. They’ve objective scoring in Maya Griffin, who has had 26 targets and 26 assists placing her in second place in All-Time Scoring within the League. Including extra targets to their document are Gabby Sojda with 23/26, Peyton Forcucci 12/17 and Jocelyn Smaczniak with 4 targets however 23 assists. Their goaltender has additionally been a key of their victories. Rachael Repair has performed 862.12 minutes and stopped 330 of 359. FFLOP additionally has a back-up goalie in Keira Keaton, however she has not performed in a single recreation this season. This recreation shall be a nail-biter.
Tickets are wanted for these video games, which shall be performed at Buffalo State’s Ice Enviornment at 6 p.m. for Non-public and eight p.m. for Part VI. There’s a payment of $7 Presale and $10 on the Gate. Your ticket shall be in your cellphone! You may keep for all video games.
Be aware that this isn’t the end-all for a State Seed. The winner of the HEWS/FFLOP recreation should play Webster in Part V to find out who goes on to signify Part V and VI on the States. The Far West Regional shall be performed Wednesday, February 19 at 7 p.m. on the Webster Enviornment.
The Winner of that recreation will transfer to the NYSPHSAA Championships in Utica on February 21 and 22.
The semi’s are Friday at 4 p.m. with the winner of Part 5 enjoying winner of Part 6 and at 6 p.m. its Part 2 Adirondack enjoying winner of Part 7 and Part 10.
The Championship is scheduled for Midday on Saturday, February 22.
Tickets are additionally required for the States on the Utica Nexus Heart. Go to NYSPHSAA Ticketing FAQ web page or contact [email protected].
