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Oakfield-Alabama (4-0) at Attica (3-1)

7 p.m. Friday

It doesn't get much bigger than this one as Attica must win to have a shot at a tie for the Genesee Region League title and the Hornets need a win to make next week's game against Pembroke basically give the winner a shot at being an individual champion.

The battle on the line is going to determine the winner as both teams have had big years running the football, with O-A's line being led by Craig Campbell and Chris Williams.

The game is Attica's homecoming so the Blue Devils will have some extra motivation.

Andy Ruddock is going to get the ball a bunch of times for Attica - and why not - he's been one of the top performers in the league thus far.

The senior has gained 608 yards with eight touchdowns on 62 carries and works as a featured back in coach  Jeff Cusmano's offense.

The Blue Devils will pound the ball with Ruddock, hoping he can pop off a couple of big runs.

If O-A's defense can manage to hold him in check, Brandon Rollins is going to put the ball in the air.

He's gone 22-of-37 for 385 yards and six touchdowns this season.

The top target in the passing offense is Shawn Dupuis, who has hauled in 12 balls for 214 yards and four scores.

Williams and Brad Riner lead the defense with 20 tackles and their unit will be trying to force Rollins to beat them. Both Derek Hicks and Evan Kotarski have 19 tackles apiece with Noah Seward pitching in 18 tackles with four sacks.

Oakfield-Alabama's offense is going to continue to pound the football and Attica knows what is coming - like every other team - but will have to work to stop it.

Smith won Class C Offensive Player of the Week this week after a huge performance and now has 489 rushing yards with seven touchdowns.

He got the bulk of the carries last week, but coach John Dowd will give the ball to Riner (301), Jason Stanley (199) and Joe Natalizia (221) as well.

Attica's defense will be led by Luke Pariso and his 28 tackles. Dave Jennings has 22.

O=A moved up to 11th in the state.

 Alexander (1-3) at Elba/Byron-Bergen (1-3)

7 p.m. Saturday

Alexander is young and Elba/Byron-Bergen is learning the game.

These two teams have had some early season struggles and are looking to make a late season charge to build on for next year.

The Trojans have a squad filled with juniors and started the season with games against the "big three". The team picked up its first win of the season last week with a 9-8 victory over Holley.

The star of that game wound up being kicker Lucas Czechowski, who booted a 30-yard field goal to win the game.

Czechowski is having a big year as the team's punter as well.

The Trojans have have actually made some difficult starting points for opposing offenses because Czechowski is averaging 47 yards per punt.

Alexander's defense has been led by Ryan Piechowski, who has 36 solo tackles with six assists.

Ryan Wilson has 21 tackles and two sacks with Jordan Leitten leading the secondary with two interceptions. Mike Woodrow has picked off one pass.

Jay Schaefer gained 127 yards rushing last week and now has 327 yards and two touchdowns on 41 carries this season. Piechowski has 79 rushing yards and two scores.

Elba/Byron-Bergen has been playing its starters throughout the game to help the B-B players get experience, and they have been very competitive against the second teams of Oakfield-Alabama and Pembroke.

The Lancers got two touchdowns from Zach Green in the fourth quarter last week and both he and Brandon Spurling are solid runners.

 Pembroke (4-0) at Barker (1-3)

1:30 p.m. Saturday

This is one of those games that the Pembroke football team has to worry about.

With the Genesee Region League title possibly on the line next week against Oakfield-Alabama, the Dragons have to make the longest trip to play in the GR and are facing a Barker squad that has the potential to play with any team in the league.

The victories have come easy so far for Chip Foster's squad and his players are putting up some crazy numbers. But the Raiders are physical and a team on the rise, always looking for the upset at home.

Pembroke's offensive line deserves a lot of the credit for the numbers the team has been putting up. The telling stat is what quarterback David Kleckler has done this season.

Kleckler has completed 16-of-28 attempts for 415 yards with six touchdowns and three interceptions. But he has only been sacked ONCE all season long.

That is unbelievable.

Andrew Wright and Ken Babcock have both had receiving numbers that are pretty close. 

Wright has caught seven passes for 217 yards and two touchdowns while Babcock has hauled in nine balls for 198 yards and three scores.

And the running game has been just as good.

Wright has gained 426 yards on just 31 carries (13.74 yards per attempt) with six touchdowns, Mike Dibble has 332 yards with six scores, Josh Phillips has 216 yards and four TDs and Kleckler has gained 185 yards with two touchdowns.

Barker is a physical team that traditionally likes to run the ball, but has done some passing this year.

Anthony Porter (9-of-17 for 63 yards) and Ethan Dewart (9-of-16 for 122 yards) are putting up about the same amount of passes per game.

But the Raiders will run.

Greg Brown has 348 yards and three touchdowns on 81 carries and Ray Paul has 175 yards and two TDs on 39 attempts.

For the 2nd time this year Alexander slipped by Attica 1-0, this time at Attica.  The 1st half saw neither team put a shot on goal and the score was 0-0.  In the 2nd half an Alexander player was fouled on the left sideline about 30 yards from goal.  Senior Midfielder Rachel Pettys sent the direct kick into the center of the box and an Attica defender attempted to head it clear, however her clearance went into the top left corner of the net giving Alexander the 1-0 lead.  Alexander had two players directly behind the defender so she had no choice but to try to clear it, it was just a bad bounce.

Alexander had a chance to go on top 2-0 when Freshman forward Julia Pettys got through the defense on a breakway with around 10 minutes left but the Attica keeper came up with the save.  Alexander had another chance to go up 2-0 with around 5 minutes left when Sophmore Savannah VanSon sent a corner kick in and Sophmore Morgan Mattice ripped a header that went about a foot wide of the left post.

Attica had a chance tie the game with under 2 minutes left when Chrissy Rennard had header from 8 yards but put it right at the Hannah Wilson who made the save.  Wilson also came charging out of the goal midway through the 2nd half and broke up a potential breakway 20 yards from goal by clearing an errant pass from a defender.

Alexander improves to 7-4-2 overall and 7-2-1 in the league.  Alexander was lead in the back by Sophmore central defender Savannah VanSon who did a solid job keeping Attica away from goal and Sophmore keeper Hannah Wilson who only need to make 5 saves in goal picking up her 7th win and 4th shutout of the season.

Holley knocked off Byron-Bergen 2-1 last night as well meaning that Alexander, Pembroke, Byron-Bergen, and Holley all have 2 losses and 1 tie in the league making all 4 teams virtually tied atop the Division 1 standings with 2 and a half weeks left in the GR season.

The Batavia girls volleyball team is finding its way and is almost back to .500 after picking up a solid win over Churchville-Chili Monday night.

The Blue Devils improved to 3-4 with the 25-16, 25-14, 25-14 thumping.

Junior outside hitter Sarah Reynolds came up huge with 12 kills and five digs in the match, with senior outside hitter Jaycee Shirk pitching in eight kills and six digs.

Batavia will host Greece Olympia on Wednesday.

 Genesee Region League

Standings

Team                        Record                          PF                             PA

Pembroke                  4-0                               187                           55

Oakfield-Alabama     4-0                               181                          47

Attica                            3-1                               157                          61

Notre Dame                2-2                               91                             94

Alexander                   1-3                               42                           174

Elba/Byron-Bergen   1-3                               78                            153

Barker                          1-3                               58                           143

Holley                           0-4                              39                               99

Former Elba student Casey Hoover is in his freshman year at Keuka College, where he is playing on the baseball team.

The Storm are currently playing fall scrimmages and there are a couple of videos on YouTube of him getting his first hit and scoring his first run playing college ball.

The Notre Dame Boys Cross Country Team turned in impressive performances at this past weekends’ 44^th annual McQuaid Invitational at Genesee Valley Park in Rochester .  The team raced in the prestigious seeded race going against the State Champions from Pennsylvania and state ranked teams from New York , Ohio and Canada and placed 11^th out of the 20 teams.  Quin O’Connor (16:17) clocked the fastest time for any freshman in all races posting a 21^st place finish with Kevin Pawlak (16:49) following in 43^rd.  Matt Jackson (17:16) finished 66^th, Eric Shormann (17:33) 81^st, Taylor Alexander(18:23) 105^th, Marshall Argenta (18:57) 118^th, and Andrew Fischer (19:00) 120^th for the Irish.  In the Varisty B race, Matt Sausner (20:25) placed 112th and Vince Stadler (20:26) 114th.  Conlan Edwards made the two mark in 17:45.  

The Girls Cross Country Team also turned in some fast performances this past weekend at the McQuaid Inviational.  Ashley Calarco (19:48) came across the line in 7^th place to lead the Irish to a 16^th place finish.  Jill Marshall (21:58) was 59^th, Meghan Zickl (23:16) 102^nd, Rachel Berggren (24:18) 138^th, and Teresa Jackson (26:19) 187^th.  Tia Arnold (19:33) raced to the two mile mark along with Kate Spadaccia (22:25). 

Updated GR Girls Soccer Standings.  Things are starting to play out.  I organized them this week by the loss and tie column, fewer losses and ties get you a higher spot because that is what will matter in the end.  Games this week are in parenthesis

Division I:

1 - Pembroke 5-1-1 (Elba, @ Ken, @ WC, @ OA)

2 - Bergen 4-1-1 (OA, @ Holley, Elba, @ WC)

3 - Alexander - 6-2-1 (@ Attica, @ ND)

4 - Holley - 5-2-1 (BB, OA, Elba)

5 - Attica 1-5-2 (Alex, Lyn)

6 - Kendall - 0-6 (Pem, @ Lyn, @ ND)

Big games this week:  Both Pembroke and BB play @ Wheatland which are huge games in the division 1 race.  Alexander and Holley both lost to Wheatland and if either Pembroke or Holley can beat Wheatland they will have the upper hand going into the final 2 weeks.  Pembroke and Bergen both have Elba at home this week and that will be a tough out for both teams as well.  BB travels to Holley early in the week, Holley beat BB at Bergen earlier in the year.  Pembroke also has to travel to Kendall which is improved from earlier in the season and it is always tough to play in Kendall.  It will be interesting to see the standings one week from today, we could have 4 teams all tied again (Pem, Alex, Holley will all have 11 games played and Bergen will have 10 at the end of this week).  Or someone could have pulled ahead with a good week.

Division II:

1 - Wheatland - 7-1 (@ OA, Pem, BB)

2 - Elba - 4-2-1 (@ Pem, Lyn, @ BB, @ Holley)

3 - Lyndonville 3-4 (@ Elba, Ken, @ Attica)

4 - Oakfield - 1-4-1 (@BB, WC, @ Holley, Pem)

5 - Notre Dame - 0-8 (Alex, Ken)

Big Games: this week only has one big divisional game which is Lyndonville traveling to Elba, Lyndonville knocked off Elba earlier in the year and Elba has been in a bit of a funk ever since.  The other big games are both Wheatland and Elba playing Pembroke and Bergen, if either one manages to win both they will have a huge lead going into the final 2 weeks.  Elba has to travel to Holley which could be a great game as well.

Pembroke scored 29 points in the second quarter and had a 49-7 lead after three in taking care of Elba/Byron-Bergen 56-21 Saturday.

The Dragons continued putting up absurd offensive numbers.

Andrew Wright picked up 138 yards and a TD with a fumble recovery for a touchdown and Josh Phillips had just eight carries, but gained 118 yards and scored twice.

Mike Dibble gained 98 yards and scored three times and David Kleckler went 5-for-5 for 98 yards with a 36-yard touchdown pass to Ken Babcock.

Zach Green scored two fourth quarter touchdowns for the Lancers (1-3) and finished with 137 rushing yards. Eric Kowalik also tossed a touchdown pass to David Garnish.

Pembroke is now 4-0.

Andy Ruddock won Class B Offensive Player of the Week last week, and he  might have a shot at it again this week.

The senior running back rushed for 246 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries to lead his Attica football team to a 44-27 win over Barker Saturday.

Ruddock had touchdown runs of 71, 22 and 8 yards.

Luke Pariso gained 42 yards and had a pair of scores on nine carries and Brandon Rollins pitched in 77 yards passing with a TD.

Pariso and Levi Comfort had nine tackles apiece to go with Kevin GAllinger's 11.

Greg Brown had a touchdown run and returned an interception 25 yards for a touchdown for the Raiders (1-3).

Jim Porter threw a touchdown pass and rushed for a score.

Attica improves to 3-1.

The Lady Irish put together a complete team effort in their win over the Hornets.  The offense was led by senior middle hitter Brittany Morelli putting the ball down for nine kills.  Also adding to the offensive game was sophomore Liz Geandreau who added five kills.  Setting up the offense was libero Nichole Hart whose passing led to 5 assists for sophomore setter Megan Condidorio and nine assists for freshman setter Kendra Wall.  The Lady Irish are presently 8-3 over all and 7-2 in the league.  The team will be playing in the annual Canandaigua tournament on Saturday at 8:30 am.