Livingston County Swimmers Turning up the Heat

LIVINGSTON COUNTY — The top swim times in Livingston County have been released and so far this year the region has yet to produce a New York State Qualifier.

The times are getting closer and closer as swimmers near sectional form.

Here are the Boys events/times:

50 Freestyle    NYS Qual 22.29
1    22.83    Aaron Haase        Hornell
2      23.37    Nick Cole        Avon
3    23.55    Isaiah Hale        Dansville
4    23.65    Jake Olson        Dansville
5    23.70    Troy Lubanski        York
6    24.14    Jonathan Ingold        Hornell
7    24.35    Paul LaRue        Livonia
8    24.36    Devin Lajoie        York
9    24.50    Taylor Caruso        Geneseo
10    24.65    Alex Reber        Bath

100 Freestyle    NYS Qual 48.94
1    51.68    Aaron Haase        Hornell
2    52.32    Nick Cole        Avon
3    53.00    Jake Olson        Dansville
4    53.50    Paul LaRue        Livonia
5    53.97    Alex Reber        Bath
6    54.09    Jonathan Ingold        Hornell
7    54.11    Devon Foster        Livonia
8    54.40    Jon Vogler        Dansville
9    54.43    Jacob Zitz        Avon
10    54.50    Devin Lajoie        York

200 Freestyle    NYS Qual 1:47.60
1    1:52.58    Aaron Haase        Hornell
2    1:54.73    Jacob Zitz        Avon
3    1:54.84    Isaiah Hale        Dansville
4    1:55.42    Joe Skelly        Bath
5    1:57.92    Troy Lubanski        York
6    1:58.10    Paul LaRue        Livonia
7    1:58.61    Alex Reber        Bath
8    2:00.44    Jonathan Ingold        Hornell
9    2:02.30    James Lacitignola    Geneseo
10    2:02.76    Nick Cole        Avon

500 Freestyle    NYS Qual 4:54.64
1    5:04.52    Jacob Zitz        Avon
2    5:04.57    Aaron Haase        Hornell
3    5:18.70    Paul LaRue        Livonia
4    5:23.91    Joe Skelly        Bath
5    5:26.04    Elijah Hale        Dansville
6    5:27.49    Greg Marshall        Geneseo
7    5:34.87    Don Martell        Wayland-Cohocton
8    5:39.64    Nick Cole        Avon
9    5:40.78    Alex Reber        Bath
10    5:43.48    Michael Conley        Bath

100 Backstroke    NYS Qual 55.57
1        58.23    Paul LaRue        Livonia
2        58.89    Troy Lubanski        York
3        59.22    Jake Olson        Dansville
4    1:00.31    Greg Marshall        Geneseo
5    1:00.73    Michael Conley        Bath
6    1:01.19    Devon Foster        Livonia
7    1:02.79    Jacob Streb        York
8    1:04.11    Aaron Haase        Hornell
9    1:04.37    Colin Gilbert        Bath
10    1:04.84    Jon Vogler        Dansville

100 Breaststroke    NYS Qual 1:02.30
1    1:05.30    Isaiah Hale        Dansville
2    1:05.96    Troy Lubanski        York
3    1:07.03    Paul LaRue        Livonia
4    1:09.36    Tom Donohue        Livonia
5    1:09.71    Brian Gaffney        Livonia
6    1:10.04    Aaron Haase        Hornell
7    1:11.40    Greg Marshall        Geneseo
8    1:12.01    Nate Taylor        Avon
9    1:12.72    Jack McKeown        Avon
10    1:12.75    Joe Williams        Wayland-Cohocton

100 Butterfly    NYS Qual 54.30
1    58.18    Aaron Haase        Hornell
2    58.45    Isaiah Hale         Dansville
3    59.30    Troy Lubanski        York
4    1:00.71    Jake Olson        Dansville
5    1:00.86    Ray Mineti        Livonia
6    1:01.09    Paul LaRue        Livonia
7    1:01.21    Jake Chichester        Livonia
8    1:01.56    Joe Skelly        Bath
9    1:02.30    James Lacitignola    Geneseo
10    1:02.42    Ryan Klugh        York

200 IM        NYS Qual 2:01.62
1    2:08.16    Troy Lubanski        York
2    2:09.83    Paul LaRue        Livonia
3    2:12.00    Isaiah Hale        Dansville
4    2:14.61    Aaron Haase        Hornell
5    2:15.50    Greg Marshall        Geneseo
6    2:18.33    Michael Conley        Bath
7    2:18.72    Ray Mineti        Livonia
8    2:19.30    Brian Gaffney        Livonia
9    2:21.58    Jonathan Ingold        Hornell
10    2:23.94    Elijah Hale        Dansville

Diving (6 Dives)
1    233.77    Peter Skelly        Bath
2    233.18    Shawn Hussian        Livonia
3    207.30    Dakota Spink        Dansville
4    204.20    Lewis Jackson        Bath
5    197.40    Austin Wheeler        Perry
6    190.95    Josh Lyons        Livonia
7    189.97    Sierra Seybolt        Avon
8    183.37    Jason Putney        Dansville
9    181.95    Gage Harrison        Hornell
10    171.90    Devin Cooley        Wayland-Cohocton

Avon celebrates little league and community

AVON —  It's the only time the Yankees and Red Sox ever play nice, the Avon Little League opening day.

The League has over 200 boys and girls playing this year, which also includes a girls softball league.

"LIttle League is truly special to our community," said Richard Burke, "It brings parents, grandparents and the community all together in one place."

The games are played at the Avon driving park and culminate with a season ending playoff.

According to www.littleleague.org, youthful sluggers began playing baseball in the streets of New York City as early as the 1880s with pre-teen kids battling it out from different neighborhoods.

VIDEO: Warsaw Sinks Cal-Mum with Last Second Shot

CALEDONIA — The Cal-Mum Red Raiders hosted the Warsaw Tigers in a Section V midweek match-up that ended with Warsaw firing a 3-point buzzer beater to sink Cal-Mum 48-45.
 
With the score tied at 45-45 and 18.5 seconds left Warsaw Head Coach, Rob Stedman called his favorite play named after his son.

"We practice that play a lot," said Stedman. "We have to switch up it's name now because it is so well scouted."

The high double screen didn't go quite like it was scripted, but a wide open Hayden Newcomb, from Warsaw, took advantage of the screen and fired a 3-point bomb from the top of the arc.

"I was confident of the shot," said Newcomb. "People think because of my height that i can't shoot but i can. This win was a team effort though, we are like a family."

Newcomb led Warsaw with 21 points and Christian Hallett led Cal-Mum with 15. Cal-Mum was up 27-23 at the half.

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BOYS BASKETBALL: East Rochester Defeats Avon in Class C1 semis

ROCHESTER – The #4 Avon Braves came into the Class C1 semifinal fresh off a 55-52 win over #5 Gananda, but Avon was no match for #1 East Rochester Monday night at RIT as the Bombers rolled the Braves 63-33. Avon struggled on the offensive end all night, and three players in double figures, lead by senior Nick Nadeau’s 16 points, propelled the Bombers (17-3) to the blowout win.

Seniors Malachy Coyne and Zack Pumputis lead the Braves (11-9) with six points each, and fellow senior Brandon Fuentes added five points, five rebounds and four assists in the losing effort. Senior Michael Campbell came off the bench in the final seconds to bury a three-point bucket for the Braves as well.

Avon head coach Rob Fries said East Rochester’s defense disrupted his team all night and prevented the Braves from finding a rhythm offensively.

“(East Rochester) are really quick – they’re just tough to simulate in practice,” Fries said. “We never really got any looks inside. We got stuck out on the perimeter, and we got further and further away from the basket. We did a better job in the second half, but by then it was a little too late.”

Despite the loss, Fries said he was proud of his team’s second-half effort and their strong 2011-2012 season.

“They’re a great group of kids, they play hard, and I thought we got better as the year went along, he said. “We came out and played every game, and we did a lot of things to try to be competitive – some worked and some didn’t. Tonight just didn’t work for us.”

East Rochester will face #3 Pembroke (14-6) in the Class C1 final March 2 at 9 p.m. in Rochester’s Blue Cross Arena.

Wet Spring Crushing Sports Season

LIVONIA — The Bulldogs Annual Invitational Track Meet ended almost as soon as it began on Friday May 13^th after thunder was heard less than an hour into the meet.

Many of the top student athletes in Section V were invited to this event including competitors from Avon, Cal-Mum, Perry, Warsaw, Dansville, Lima Christian, Letchworth and York making the trip into Bulldog Country.

After waiting out the mandatory 30 minute wait after thunder was heard or lightening seen… the rains, wind and looming thunderstorms arrived on cue forcing the cancellation of this event. An announcement of a possible make up date is likely to follow sometime this week.

Mazurowski Runner-up in State Wrestling Tournament

ALBANY— Bryce Mazurowski from Avon finished as runner-up in the New York State 195 pound wrestling tournament, falling to Zack Diekel from Whitehall 9-3 in the finals.

Mazurowski came into the championship match on a roll defeating the divisions  number 1 seed Ryan Todd.

Diekel was in control throughout the match with three single leg takedowns.

Mazurowski had an incredible run through the state tournament as a lower seed. congratulations Bryce on all your hard work.

Johnny's Running of the Green a Hit for Local Runners

ROCHESTER — Our region was well represented in 'Johnny's Running of the Green 5-mile'  as the  2011 Greater Rochester Track Club Season with a 5-mile race in Downtown Rochester.

The race is the first of the Greater Rochester Track Club's Rochester Runner of the Year series, the next series race is May 1 - the Unity Health System Rochester Flower City 1/2 Marathon.

The top three regional finishers:

MALE
1 Matthew Roberts, Scottsville, 26,  27:42 5:32/M
2 Paul Schwan, Le Roy, 18, 29:18 5:52/M
3 Alex Hall, Caledonia, 15, 30:38 6:08/M

FEMALE
1 Nicole Carrier Hemlock, 28, 31:53 6:23/M
2 Gabrielle Keister Leroy, 30, 36:06 7:13/M
3 Katherine Di Nicola Geneseo, 22, 38:02 7:36/M


The overall men's winner was Dennis Pollow Jr. with a time of 24:15. The overall female winner was Elizabeth Carey,  26,  with a time of 28:01.

BOYS BASKETBALL: Avon edges Dansville 53-48

DANSVILLE – The Avon Braves traveled to Dansville for a sectional tune up against the Mustangs and came away with a 53-48 victory.

Avon(9-8) took a 41-28 lead into the fourth quarter, but Dansville (6-11) came out hot in the final period to add some drama to the game before Avon retook control in the closing seconds.

Senior Brandon Fuentes led the way for the Braves with 13 points and five rebounds. Junior Tyler Hite scored 11 points and pulled down 7 rebounds, junior Zach Mouw finished with 10 points and five rebounds and senior Zack Pumputis added 10 points to round out Avon’s quartet of double-digit scorers.

Avon head coach Rob Fries said turnovers and foul trouble contributed to his team’s shaky fourth quarter, but he looked forward to building toward sectionals.

“I don’t think we’re the best team in Section V, but I think we can play with anybody on any night,” Fries said. “We’ve been able to play with teams for about 27 minutes a game, and we need to just cut down on some of the mistakes we made late in the game (tonight).”

For the Mustangs, seniors Mitch Lamerson and Geoff VanDunk both collected double-doubles, with Lamerson finishing with a game-high 18 points and 10 rebounds and VanDunk scoring 11 points and corralling 11 boards.

Avon will host Caledonia-Mumford Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in their regular-season finale. Dansville will also play a final home game Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., as they host the Livonia Bulldogs.