Wildcats Advance To Sectional Semi's

The West Genesee boy's varsity lacrosse team opened up their second season with a Sec.III Class A quarterfinal game against the Auburn Maroons 14-4. West Genny took an early lead 1-0 when senior middie Kevin Courtney took a deflected pass and redirected the shot into the Auburn net with 11:22 left. The Maroons first chance would come with 10:50 to go with Cats senior defenseman Jaren Woeppel serving a slash penalty. But Genny's junior goalie John Galloway came up big as he stuffed a diving Auburn attacker with a save right at the edge of his crease. However the ensuing clear was disrupted and Auburn's Matt Chadderdon took advantage tying the game at 1-1 with 9:44 to go.

The Cats were quick to answer at 9:31 on an acrobatic goal 2-1 from junior middie Tim Desko as he launched himself goal-ward while firing a left handed shot into the bottom left hand corner of the cage. Auburn's Chadderdon nearly tied the game at 8:44 when he used a double swim move to beat two Genny defenders, but was met by Galloway who deflected the shot off his right shoulder then outraced all players to gain possession for West Genny. The remainder of the first quarter saw both teams struggling to find consistency to no avail as the score stayed 2-1.

West Genny did manage to open the scoring as junior attackman Brian Donahue turned the corner off the left post at 11:22 then dumped his shot past the Auburn goal Pat Cameron for a 3-1 lead. Auburn's Joe Taylor answered for the Maroons less than a minute later 10:16 as he slipped several Wildcat defenders and beat Galloway to the bottom left corner to cut the lead to 3-2. West Genny added their fourth of the evening 4-2 with 8:13 to go when Woeppel found junior attckman Collin Donahue alone on the crease. Donahue took the pass and dumped a left handed shot in the goal while getting walloped by an Auburn defender. The Maroons would have the last word of the half when Jack Redmond stuck a shot into the bottom left corner of the goal with just over three minutes left in the half which would end with a 4-3 Wildcat lead.

The third quarter began with the Maroon's Chadderdon looking to change the complexion of the game, but was stopped again by Galloway who snared his point blank at the 11:39 mark. West Genny didn't waste the Galloway effort as junior middie Luke Cometti found senior attackman Adam Mazzoni who found the back of the Auburn goaliewith a left handed shot   at 11:10 to extend the Cats lead to 5-3. The Cats continued their roll 6-3 as senior middie Matt Grogan converted a pass at 10:23 from junior middie Aaorn   Printup. Just over a minute later at 9:30 the Cats disrupted an Auburn clear and it was Collin Donahue, to senior attackman Chris Schmidt, who hit Mazzoni for his second consecutive goal and a 7-3 lead and an Auburn time out. The Maroon's Chadderdon would add their last gasp of the game as Chadderdon added his third with just over six minutes to go to cut the lead to 7-4. Genny answered with 2:10 left as Desko netted his second of the game to increase the lead to 8-4.

The Cats blew the game open in the fourth as Mazzoni added his third of the game with an assist to Schmidt as Genny ran a perfect break off the face-off just six seconds in for a 9-4 lead. With 8:17 left is was junior middie   Ryan Barber converting a Desko pass for a 10-4 lead. Brian Donahue made it 11-4 with 4:11 to go when he came out of a loose ball scrum and put his shot into the goal. At 3:07 it was Donahue again converting a pass from Barber and a 12-4 lead. The final two goals of the game came unassisted from junior middie Jeremy Plochko followed by junior attackman Matt Evanchako as the Cats headed towards the Sec. Semi-Finals with a 14-4 win.