Monroe County Senior Select Saturday

I shot three all-star games on Saturday, March 20th. I started at Blue Cross Arena for the Section V Senior Select hockey game. I stayed for two periods and sat in a few different spots getting some different angles. Click here to see the rest of the photos...

I then drove to Gates-Chili High School for the Monroe County Senior Select girls and boys basketball games. Both games were fun to watch and at halftime that had an event for each game. The girls had a 3-point shooting contest and the winner was Jenna Hoecker (Greece Olympia). Each team had an MVP. The East MVP was Lindsay McKinnon (Fairport) and the west MVP was Brittany Quataert (Greece Athena). Click here to see the rest of the girls photos...

The boys had a dunk contest at halftime and the winner was Colin Peterson (Hilton). The East MVP was Rmani Crawford (Webster Thomas) and the west MVP was Freddie Walker (Gates-Chili). Click here for the rest of the boys photos...

Sectional Giant Slalom Skiing

On February 8th, I drove to Bristol mountain and shot the early boys sectional skiing. I stayed for both runs of the giant slalom and I always have a good time when I'm there. It was chilly early but the sun came out for the second run. Click here for all the photos of the boys participants....

Two days later on the 10th, I shot the girls giant slalom. The weather was not as nice as it was for the boys so I only stayed for one run. Click here for all the photos of the girls participants...

Hockey Sectionals

I was able to shoot 2 sectional quarterfinal hockey games at Genesee Valley Ice Rink on February 20th. The first game was Gates-Chili v. Hilton. I walked in a few minutes late to see that it was already 2-1 and Gates had the lead. The Spartans exploded offensively in the second period and Hilton could not weather the storm. Tough defeat for the Cadets and Gates moved on to face the Lightning with a 7-1 win. Click here for the rest of the pics...

The second game was much better. Aquinas was playing the higher seed McQuaid. Both teams scored a goal in the first period and it stayed tied until the third. Each team had a goal disallowed including a goal Aquinas scored with 4 minutes left in the game. Aquinas bounced back after the disallowed goal to score with about two minutes left and win 2-1. Click here for the rest of the photos...

Section V Wrestling Super Sectionals

I am finally getting to the end of my editing for the winter season and some of the galleries were being finished slowly. Skiing and wrestling took up a bunch of my time for sectionals this year. Anyways, I photographed the semifinals and finals at RIT in the Gordon Fieldhouse but mostly division 1. The semifinals were held early in the day on the 13th of February. Here are a few shots. Click here for the rest of the pics...

The second gallery is mostly D1 Finals but has a couple matches from D2. It also includes all the D1 top 6 podiums and is in the Gates-Chili section of my site. There were some great matches and emotion for the second part of the day. Click here for the rest of the gallery...

The End of Winter Basketball

Catching up on the winter season and I will start with basketball. Here are the last basketball games of the season that I covered in February. The first boys game of February was not a very well played game by either team. It was February 3rd, and the Gates boys took on the Spencerport Rangers. The Rangers were up for most of the game. Gates fought back late to squeak this one out 48-44. Click here for the rest of the pics...

Two days later, February 5th, the Spartans took on Greece Athena at home. Both teams started this game off slowly in the first quarter. Athena started hitting their shots and finding the open man. Greece pulled away in the second half as their big man underneath really played well. The Trojans won 59-51. Click here for the rest of the pics...

On February 8th, Greece Olympia boys came to the Gates-Chili field house. This was a very even paced game that Olympia took over in the last few minutes. Great action by both teams. I was impressed by a couple very athletic kids on Olympia that I had not heard about. Olympia beat Gates 61-55. Click here for the rest of the pics...

It was the girls turn on February 9th as the Pittsford Sutherland Knights took on the Gates-Chili Spartans. The Gates-Chili girls showed that they could play with anyone Tuesday night as they defeated a great Sutherland team. The Spartans kept O'Keefe from scoring big in the second half and made their foul shots to win 63-58. Click here for the rest of the photos...

I traveled to Rush-Henrietta on February 12th for a great boys game between Fairport and RH. I scheduled this game a couple weeks ago because I had an opening and knew it was going to be a great game. I wasn't disappointed as both teams carried leads at one time and battled back and forth late. Taggart for Fairport showed his stuff with 31 points and McClain was huge inside. The end came when RH could not finish in the last few minutes and the Red Raiders pulled away. Click here for the rest of the pics...

On February 15th, 2010 I drove to Oakfield-Alabama for girls senior night. I was asked to shoot the girls senior night at OA just like the boys last week. The game took place in the elementary school and is a little smaller than the high school gym. The Oakfield girls were able to get the ball inside and score consistently as they beat Alexander 46-40. Click here for the rest of the photos...

The last basketball game of February was the girls senior night at Gates-Chili as they took on the Brockport Blue Devils. Brockport stayed tough with Gates early as both teams struggled to keep the lead. The Blue Devils hit a flurry of three's to pull ahead and the inside girls worked hard to keep that lead. Gates girls lost on senior night 48-37. Click here for the rest of the photos...