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Midget A squad returns to ice, honors fallen teammate with win
The Batavia Fisher Sports NY Ramparts midget A youth hockey team recently returned to action for the first time since the death of teammate Collin Crane in a Dec. 8 car accident.
And the Ramparts made him proud.
In fitting manner, Batavia paid tribute to their fallen teammate -- who wore jersey No. 9 -- by netting that many goals in a 9-3 rout over Rochester Youth.
The Ramparts hung Crane's jersey behind their bench and also skated around a faceoff circle and touched the ice in his memory. The teams also had a moment of silence prior to the contest.
Following the game, Batavia team members gathered in front of their net and said a prayer for Crane.
During the game, Nate Jonathan led the Ramparts with a hat trick, while Matt Tambe notched two goals and an assist. Also scoring for Batavia were Tim Martell (two assists), Garrett Rustay (one assist), David Thuerck and David Schmeider.
In other youth hockey games recently:
Midget MOHL BATAVIA 7, HAMBURG 0: Tommy Zacher turned aside all 17 shots he faced and Parker Brinkworth and Zack Laird each had two goals and two assists as the Ken Barrett Ramparts blasted Hamburg.
Jake Dominesey (two assists), Tyler Arnold (one assist) and Adam McCoy also lit the lamp for Batavia, Other assists were credited to Ben Madafferi, Joe Ryan and Alec Seppala.
BATAVIA 4, CHEEKTOWAGA 0: The Ramparts got more shutout goaltending from Tommy Zacher -- who made 27 saves -- in knocking off the previously undefeated Warriors.
Ryan Tenney paced the Batavia offense with a goal and two assists. Also finding the net for the Ramparts were Jake Dominesey, Ryan Barnhardt and Riley Vallance. Trevor Schimley, Grant Herson and Ben Madafferi notched assists.
BATAVIA 3, CAZENOVIA 3: Tyler Arnold scored twice in the Ramparts' tie with Cazenovia.
Jake Bower had the other Batavia goal, with assists going to Jake Rosecrans, Taylor Wyder, Ben Madafferi and Jake Dominesey.
Bantam B BATAVIA 4, ROCHESTER YOUTH 0: Dusty Lauer scored twice and added an assist to back the shutout goaltending of Alex Mott as the Garland Enterprises Ramparts zipped Rochester Youth.
Katie Smith and Dylan DeMarzo added single goals for Batavia.
GENESEO 3, BATAVIA 2: The Ramparts fought valiantly but came up short against Geneseo.
Dylan DeMarzo and Dusty Lauer scored for Batavia.
MONROE COUNTY 9, BATAVIA 4: Riley Kusmierski netted a pair of goals in the Ramparts' loss to Monroe County.
Batavia also received goals from Tommy Mellon and Casey Austin and assists from Katie Smith and Jacob Cryer.
BATAVIA 3, GENESEO 3: Two goals from Dylan DeMarzo and one from Riley Kusmierski helped the Ramparts play to a tie with Geneseo.
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WEBSTER 4, BATAVIA 3: A furious late rally by the Turnbull Heating and Air Ramparts fell short in a close loss at Webster.
Batavia trailed 3-1 with four minutes remaining before goals by Zac Dusky and Jacob Kasmarek tied the score. After Webster took the lead again, Batavia appeared to score the tying goal, but it was ruled to have been scored after the final horn.
Dylan D'Alba scored the other Batavia goal. Tyler Kota had two assists for the Ramparts, while Zac Smith and Hayden London posted singles.
GAHA Families,
Thank you for another successful Homecoming Weekend! We had great baskets to raffle off and creative posters to display around the rink! We appreciate all your time and efforts! The winner of the poster contest was the PeeWee Travel team. They will receive $100.00 . The basket that had the most tickets went to Bantam Travel! They will also receive $100.00! We also collected many items to donate to the United Way Back Pack Program. Thanks for all your support!
Chaunda Hertel & Stephanie D'Alba
Try Hockey For Free - Session 2 - A Tremendous Success
March 1st - Try Hockey For Free
The 2nd session of Try Hockey for Free was a tremendous success!
We had 59 kids participate in the session on Saturday!
The Pee Wee Tier III team and coaches hosted the event on the ice and did an outstanding job for this event which is tremendously important for USA Hockey and our organization!
As always special thanks to Chaunda and Stephanie for setting up the program, advertising it, and making sure it ran smoothly for the participants.
The Castilone Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ramparts pee wee Tier III youth hockey team capped off a strong season with a fourth-place finish at the New York State 12-and-under Tournament in Amherst recently.
In their first game, the Ramparts disposed of Cortland 5-3 thanks to Ethan Hutchins’ four goals — the first of which came eight seconds into the game.
Sam Sallome also lit the lamp for Batavia, which received assists from Cameron Ells, Jared Hardies, Mark Anauo, Devin Grimshaw, Grant Hens and Kevin Tourt.
Game two saw Batavia overcome a three-goal first-period deficit to stun Chazy Youth 4-3.
Baylee D’Alba and Hardies scored in the second period to bring the Ramparts within 3-2. Sallome tied the game in the third period, then Grimshaw notched the game-winning tally with four minutes left. Grimshaw, Ells and D’Alba had assists.
In the third game, Bronxville scored three times in the third period to break a tie and went on to defeat Batavia 5-2.
Grimshaw and Zac Akin found the net for the Ramparts, with D’Alba posting an assist.
Batavia advanced to the semifinals, but ran into Tri-Town — the top-ranked team in the North — and lost 5-0.
Tri-Town went on to win the state title.
Jacob Snieszko and Ethan Conrad split goaltending duties throughout the weekend for Batavia.
The Ramparts were coached by Mike Reich.
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