Le Roy senior A.J. Schmidt’s ‘last run’ served as a stark reminder of just how important high school athletics can be to a young man or woman. Schmidt’s last run displayed entirely what being part of a team is all about and represents why the impact of high school athletics goes beyond the p…

The difficult and never-before-seen 2020 Section V boys soccer season wrapped up last week when the section crowned its eight champions for the season that was condensed and modified due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

ORCHARD PARK — The Buffalo Bills and ADPRO Sports are proud to once again partner to recognize some of the best coaches that Western New York has to offer through the 2020 High School Football Coach of the Week program.

LE ROY — The sheer will and determination shown by cross country runners is something to behold. To take to the course for 15-plus minutes, running your heart out all the way, it takes a special kind of athlete - a special type of person.

OAKFIELD — It was a bittersweet day for Notre Dame senior Ben Skalny at the Sec. V Championships. While Skalny came away with his first-ever Class D2 Title, his team fell just short of pulling off a sectional three-peat, falling just short of first-place Honeoye, 34-45. The Irish saw three o…

OAKFIELD — There was a reason why Oakfield-Alabama/Elba senior Zack Hall viewed this past weekend’s Sec. V Championships as the pivotal moment of his high school career.

OAKFIELD — Before the start of the season, the Livonia boys cross country team didn’t know what to expect. The Bulldogs knew they were good. But just how good remained in question.

OAKFIELD — Pavilion/York cross-country coach Jim Sattora said momentum is everything.

Tomorrow morning, area harriers will take to the course for the final race of the season, as the Section V Cross Country Championships are set to take place across the region. Several local teams and individuals appear in the running for a sectional title, although projecting the competition…

2020 Livingston Conference

LCAA Girls Soccer

BYRON — While the Genesee Gymnastics teams wasn’t able to crack the top three at last weekend’s Section V championship, a number of individual gymnasts finished with some quality performances against some tough competition at MCA Gymnastics in Byron.

BATAVIA — There was never a doubt.

FILLMORE — When Keshequa boys soccer coach Ron Macomber Jr. finally walked off the Fillmore turf Wednesday night following his Indians’ 2-0 Section V Class D1 title, capping off the program’s first-ever back-to-back crowns, he had mixed emotions.

AVON — Wednesday night’s Section V Class C2 title game between No. 1 Geneseo and No. 2 Byron-Bergen was a matchup between two decidedly different teams.

AVON — Everything aligned for a classic, Livingston Conference battle for the Section V Class C1 title Wednesday night at Avon High School.

BATH — The Le Roy girls soccer team knew that it was going to have to try and contain Bath-Haverling freshman Ella Yartym if it had hopes of walking away with the Section V Class B2 title on Wednesday night in Haverling.

BATAVIA — The roster has just three seniors and the regular season was as up and down as it could be. Throw in a pandemic and there probably weren’t a lot of people who thought that the Notre Dame girls soccer team would be in the sectional final.

While not all that surprising considering the evolving situation, the news out of Section VI was a blow to local high school athletics nonetheless.

LIVONIA — The Batavia boys soccer team had put together one of the best seasons in recent memory for the program, earning the Blue Devils the No. 3 seed in the Section V Class B1 tournament. A win over Newark in the quarterfinals had Batavia in the semifinals on Tuesday night, but that’s whe…

Before and throughout the 2020 girls soccer season, there was plenty of questions as to whether or not the season would ever come to fruition and then if it would come to an end with sectional blocks being awarded. While, for the most part, teams were able to avoid any serious issues with th…

AVON — At the beginning of the fall soccer season, everyone was hoping for an Avon vs. Warsaw girls sectional finals after both captured sectional titles in 2019.

BATAVIA — After their shootout win over No. 5 Midlakes in the Section V Class B1 finals last week, the Batavia girls soccer team might have felt that it had a little destiny on its side this season.

LE ROY — Last season the Le Roy girls soccer team advanced all the way to the Section V Class B2 title game before dropping a heartbreaker to Avon. Once again the Oatkan Knights are heading back to the championship game and this season they are doing it in dominant fashion.

GLENDALE, AZ — Bills fans will likely forever remember Buffalo’s 32-30 loss to the Arizona Cardinals as one of the most heartbreaking losses in the team’s history. Yes, I know this franchise has endured four-straight Super Bowl losses, the ‘Music City Miracle,’ and countless other heartbreakers.

GLENDALE, AZ — The Bills have headed west where they will take on one of the top up and coming teams in the NFL, the Arizona Cardinals, who are led by one of the top up and coming quarterbacks in the league, Kyler Murray. Buffalo is coming off its best win of the year and has another golden …

BERGEN — Upon speaking with Byron-Bergen girls soccer coach Wayne Hill earlier this week, he cited several underclassmen as significant factors in his team’s success this season. The Bees are led by five seniors and six juniors, but also come equipped with three sophomores, three ninth-grade…

AVON — The third time was definitely a charm for the No. 7 seeded Pavilion/York boys soccer team who upset No. 2 Avon 1-0 in the Section V Class C1 quarterfinals Saturday night on a goal midway through the first half by freshman Kyan Tiede assisted by junior Jackson Feltham.

WARSAW — For being just a sophomore, Chloe Hubbard has ice water in her veins.

BATAVIA — The Batavia girls soccer team is advancing to the Class B1 semifinals and the Blue Devils did so in exciting fashion.

AVON — Top-seeded and unbeaten Avon didn’t have any trouble getting past No. 8 Marcus Whitman in Class C1 quarterfinal action Friday night in Avon.

BATAVIA — The Batavia Muckdogs team president Ben Hayes announced recently that refunds to season ticket holders for the 2020 season will finally be issued this week.

PITTSBURGH, PA. — Le Roy senior midfielder Maddie Keister was one of 11 players to sign National Letters of Intent for University of Pittsburgh women’s head soccer coach Randy Waldrum this week.

PEMBROKE — For some, this week’s sectional soccer quarterfinals will be a rubber match of their three-games, for others a clean sweep is on the table.

BATAVIA — The Batavia Muckdogs team president Ben Hayes announced recently that refunds to season ticket holders for the 2020 season will finally be issued this week.

OAKFIELD — It was a tale of two halves for the Oakfield-Alabama/Elba United girls soccer team during their 2-1 pre-quarterfinal win over York on Tuesday night. United fell behind just 12 minutes into the game on a goal from the Golden Knights’ Sydney Emerson, but O-A/E bided its time until t…

BATAVIA — Through the first two weeks of the fall soccer season, any thoughts of Pembroke making a deep sectional run were probably non-existent.

ATTICA — Tucked away, almost unknown to any passers by, on Exchange St. in Attica the Attica Youth Athletics fields are nestled behind homes and surrounded by trees. The home to soccer, baseball, football and softball fields, the AYA park has been a staple in the town for many years.

LE ROY — At just 4-6-1, it certainly wasn’t the season that the Le Roy boys soccer team had been expecting. With 10 seniors and a talented group, the Oatkan Knights had struggled, losing three in a row before the scheduled regular-season finale against Hornell at Hartwood Park.

ARLINGTON, TX. — For the first time in league history, the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) will hold its prestigious World Finals in Texas, with the 2020 PBR World Finals: Unleash The Beast set to buck into Arlington and AT&T Stadium on Nov. 12-15.

NAPLES — This season has been a bit of a struggle for the Pavilion girls soccer team.

This season’s Section V Boys Soccer postseason will be perhaps the most unique we’ve ever seen. With most teams being restricted to league-only regular-season schedules, forecasting this season’s tournament has been as difficult as ever.

GENESEO — The Batavia Soccer Club fifth and sixth grade boys’ team was crowned champion of the Livingston County Fall Soccer League on Saturday.

LE ROY — Le Roy principal Tim McArdle understands the importance of the student-athlete, and the important role they play within their community.

BATAVIA — In his short time as the Notre Dame softball coach, Otis Thomas has continually told his players that what they put in, they will get out, whether it be in athletics or life in general.

OAKFIELD — It’s been no secret that over the past several years the Oakfield-Alabama/Elba cross country team has been one of the best in the Genesee Region, if not all of Section V.

VICTOR — The Genesee gymnastics team finished its regular season over the weekend, recording a second place finish in a quad meet which featured three Monroe County schools. Fairport won the meet with a team score of 122.975, while Genesee came in second with a score of 117.85. Finishing in …

Divisional cross-country championships were captured Saturday afternoon across the LCAA and Genesee Region.