Emily Leone, Codi Battaglia, and Meg Stucko (Section V Alumni)

     I have been working with Brockport College for a few years now and get to see some familiar faces from photographing high school games for MaxPreps.  I decided that I wanted to add some photos of those Section V Alumni that I recognize at the college level both from Brockport and their opponents to this blog.  I will be updating with recent photos of alumni and also add some older ones too.  I will start with a game I shot earlier this week.  The Brockport Women's Basketball team has three Section V Alumni on the team this year.

  Emily Leone (21) Brockport Golden Eagles

   Spencerport Rangers Alumni

January 14, 2014;  Brockport, NY; USA; Emily Leone (21) shoots from outside during the Brockport Golden Eagles Women's Basketball game vs. Fredonia Blue Devils at Jim and John Vlogianitis Gymnasium.

Emily Leone (44) as a Spencerport Ranger in high school.

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Codi Battaglia (5) Brockport Golden Eagles

Aquinas Lil' Irish Alumni

November 23, 2013;  Brockport, NY; USA; Codi Battaglia (5) dribbles past a defender during the Brockport Golden Eagles Women's Basketball game vs. Cazenovia Wildcats at Jim and John Vlogianitis Gymnasium.

No basketball photo but here is Codi Battaglia playing lacrosse in high school for Aquinas.

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Meg Stucko (33) Brockport Golden Eagles

Elba Lancers Alumni

December 4, 2012;  Brockport, NY; USA; Meg Stucko (33) attempts a layup during the Brockport Golden Eagles Women's Basketball game vs. Oswego Lakers at Jim and John Vlogianitis Gymnasium.

I do not have a photo of Meg in high school.

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Football State Semifinals

The last football of the year for me was the state semifinals at Marina Auto Stadium. The first game was between Walton and Cal-Mum and the later game was between Aquinas and Whitesboro. Click here for the rest of the pics...

28th Annual Eddie Meath All-Star Game 2010

This year the game took place on a hot July 4th day. This was a much better played game than last year. It was good to see some improved sportsmanship by everyone involved. Offensively, Clay Harris for the East and Adam Gruschow for the West stood out. Zach Cicero and Shawn Burke seemed to be in on every tackle and played great defense for the East. Click here for the rest of the pics...

Two Hornell players (Austin Dwyer #44 and Cody Recktenwald #56) pay homage to fallen classmates

The west all-stars warm-up before the game

West all-stars exit their locker room

East all-stars await the national anthem

Captains of the west all-stars greet a child honoree

Tom Rapone (#72) looks to make a block

Nick DiMartino (#1) gets by a tackler

Gannon Osborn (#12) and team celebrates his touchdown

Duell Smith (#23) eyes an open receiver

Manny Magliocco (#17) fires a screen pass to his receiver

Adam Gruschow (#1) is tripped up by David Tack (#3)

Cheerleading all-stars show off their moves at halftime

Boys Lax Continued...

Here are some more boys lacrosse regular season games from Section V.

I think on this day April 8th, I wanted to photograph a baseball game but the weather was not cooperating like the previous two days. I decided to make sure to get a game in by shooting a lacrosse game because they usually don't get rained out. I decided on the Saints and Warriors who played at Churchville-Chili's stadium. While the weather stayed decent I was able to catch a great game between the two teams. Schroeder pulled out a victory 8-6. Click here for the rest of the pics...

On April 13th, I was able to shoot the first half of Brockport at Gates-Chili as the sun was setting. Some really nice color in a bunch of the shots but had to work with some odd shadows too. Gates took control early and won by the score of 16-4. Click here for the rest of the pics...

I was in Hawaii for a week and I came back to a great game between Aquinas and Penn Yan on April 29th. Penn Yan started off quick and it looked like they might runaway with this one. Aquinas came back with a streak of goals in the second quarter to close the gap. Penn Yan played an outstanding second half to stay ahead and finish off the Irish. Penn Yan 14, Aquinas 6 was the final. Click here for the rest of the pics...

The Spartans played Brighton on May 1st and played great and actually tied the Barons late in the game at 10 a piece. I was very impressed with the comeback as I have seen both teams play this year and thought GC would not be able to keep it close. The Barons scored 2 late goals in the 4th quarter to retake the lead and get the win. Final score; Brighton 12, Gates-Chili 10. I thought this photo was funny and it was something different than the normal action shot. Click here for the rest of the pics...

Spring Girls Lacrosse

After a quick portrait session for NSR on Wednesday March 31st, I drove over to McAvoy Park where the Canandaigua Braves were playing the Webster Thomas Titans in girls lacrosse. It was good to see some of the impressive girl college recruits in the area. The Braves ended up beating the Titans 17-8 but both teams showed talent on offense and defense. Click here for the rest of the photos...

After the Gates-Thomas boys game on April 3rd, I drove to Eastridge to see the girls lacrosse team take on Aquinas. I also wanted to see the new stadium. It looks like the new turf field is going to be really nice. Parts of the stadium are still under construction, they were using a small scoreboard instead of the new one. The baseball and softball fields also are not complete yet...the facilities do look top notch so far. The game was close and Aquinas ended up scoring twice to break a tie at the end to win 11-9. Click here for the rest of the pics...

After the RH v. HFL baseball game on Saturday April 10th, I photographed the girls lacrosse game between RH and Fairport. The sun was shining and both teams were playing well as Fairport had a run early. RH answered with a litle run of their own but couldn't keep up with Fairport as the Red Raiders won 14-11. Click here for the rest of the pics...

Early Spring Lacrosse

Spring season started with a string of boys lacrosse games. Here is a few to get my blog going again. The first game of the year was between the Bath Haverling Rams and the Mynderse Academy Blue Devils played at the Aquinas Institute on March 27th. Bath took control right away and was up big before giving up some late goals. I was excited to get back outside to shoot even if it was cold early. It did warm up by the start of the second game. Bath beat Mynderse 18-7. Click here for the rest of the pics...

The second game on Saturday put St. Francis from section 6 up against the home team Aquinas L'il Irish. St. Francis beat Bishop Kearney the day before 14-3, but section 5 had it's revenge through the Irish. I was only able to shoot the first half and Aquinas was pouring on the offense and up 8-0 when I left. The game ended with Aquinas winning 14-2. Click here for the rest of the pics...

On Monday, March 29th, the Honeoye Falls-Lima Cougars took on the Fairport Red Raiders at Fairport. The game started with a somewhat cloudy day and was overcast. Fairport scored early and often and led 13-1 at halftime. Fairport switched goalies at half and the scoring continued into the third. I left for the Canandaigua/Pittsford game after three quarters because Fairport was ahead 15-2. The game ended 16-4. Click here for the rest of the pics...

After the Fairport-HFL game, I drove over to Nazareth college for the Canandaigua-Pittsford game. I stayed 3 quarters as Canandaigua were dominating the game but not really the score. It was 7-2 and I felt Canandaigua's offense was too much for Pittsford. King in goal was also having a great game. I was mistaken as I found out that Pittsford fought back to within 2 goals. That was as far as they got though and the Braves pulled out the victory 7-5. Click here for the rest of the pics...

On April 1st, the Penfield Patriots took on the Webster Thomas Titans at McAvoy Park. This was the best lacrosse game that I have seen so far this year. It was evenly matched as both teams traded the lead throughout the fourth quarter. The game went into overtime and was ended by JT Hauck of Thomas on a shot that sent him to the turf. At first, I thought he was protecting himself from being mobbed but noticed that everyone stopped when they got to him and that he was injured, Luckily, it was just a leg cramp and he eventually walked off the field smiling. Click here for the rest of the pics...

After the Penfield-Thomas game on Thursday I decided to catch some of the Lightning-Barons game at 7pm. I only stayed for the first half because Brighton already had the game in hand at that point. It was 11-2 at half and Brighton ended up winning 17-5. Click here for the rest of the pics...

The last game of this blog was between the Gates-Chili Spartans and the Webster Thomas Titans at Gates. The Spartans look like a young, rebuilding team and it showed Saturday. Thomas came out on fire, scoring 10 in the first quarter while Gates did not score. Thomas ended up winning 20-6 with many players showing up on the scoresheet. Click here for the rest of the pics...

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...

Football Continues at Rhino's Stadium

Here are some shots of the last two weekends of Sectional finals and State playoffs. Hopefully that will catch me up to start blogging winter sports. Click here for the galleries.

Aquinas beats McQuaid 31-17 (Class A Final)

Letchworth beats Attica 28-6 (Class C Final)

Dundee beats Avon 20-10 (Class D State Qualifier)

Hornell beats Livonia 32-7 (Class B Final)

Webster Schroeder beats Gates-Chili 52-14 (Class AA Final)

Super Saturday Part 1

Had a very long day of photography Saturday. I started at 9:00 am at RIT's Gordon Field House for the high school track and field event. The RIT Invitational contained many teams in and outside of Monroe County. I have never shot inside the field house so I just tryed to keep all the distractions out and shoot one thing at a time. Anyone who has been to one of these meets knows the commotion of all the different events going on at once.

I found myself trying to shoot as many Gates Chili participants as possible. This meant shooting the pole vault and then a 3200 meter runner as they passed me where I stand. It did get very crazy trying to get all the GC athletes, but I did my best. I also tryed to shoot some of the better athletes as they participated because you could possibly see these kids in an olympic setting sometime in the future. You never know.

Anyways it was very difficult because of the dim lighting, but a few photos came out relatively well with some noise ninja applied. I had to leave early (2 pm) because I had to be at the Chocolate Ball at 4:30 pm and still needed to charge the batteries and get dressed up. You can read about the ball in Super Saturday Part 2....

More Athletes: RIT Invitational 1-31-09