SECTION 6 Raiders Upstate Ready for Canisius Jamestown will Football host Canisius in W E E K L Y season’s big game September 24, 2014 Issue No. 88 57 Pages INSIDE: Nichols Goes North and Gets a Tie Starpoint in a battle for Class A Playoff berth Kenmore East Grad Starring All for Buff State PLUS: State Records Team Reports Smiles NYS Rankings at Sweet Home Schedules ALSO: Senior Brandon Smiley leads Panthers Sideline Chatter Extra Point to big win over North Tonawanda Section 6 Standings This Week’s Lineup: Contents SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 Kelly Makes Big Plays 4 ... WNY Notebook 8 5 ... Players of the Week Williamsville North scored once in each 7 ... League Look-Ins quarter and beat Niagara Falls 28-12 last 13 ... 2010 Notebook week to improve 3-0. If the Spartans are going to win the AA North title this sea- 16 ... Team Reports son, they will need to keep getting big 40 ... Standings contributions from WR Zac Kelly. 41 ... Leader Board 42 ... Around The State 44 ... Campus News Brinkel Leads Frontier 9 47 ... Extra Point Frontier trailed the entire game but Upstate scored a pair of TDs in the fourth quarter to pull out a 39-27 win over Clarence. Football Paul Brinkel finished the night with 78 W E E K L Y Publisher rushing yards and a TD on just 3 carries. Adair Publishing Editor-In-Chief Mark E. Adair Business Manager Catherine M. Rutkowski 10 Starpoint In Playoff Battle Statistician Paul Hutzler Starpoint led 19-0 at the half and beat Photography Williamsville East 32-6 last week. If the Jerome Davis, Tim Frank Spartans are going to make the playoffs, The Upstate Football Weekly is published they will rely on linebacker Austin Bratek, every Thursday throughout the high school football season (August-November) by a 3-year starter. Adair Publishing. Contents copyright ©2011 by Adair Publishing. All rights reserved. This volume may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the prior written consent of the publisher. Address editorial and advertising corre- spondence to: Upstate Football Weekly, [email protected] Senior Stars at Springville 14 To advertise in the Upstate Football Weekly or for information regarding ad rates and sizes call (716) 433-8393. Springville exploded for 3 TDs and led 22-0 after the first quarter and went on to beat Eden 42-12 last week. If Football Weekly 86 Park Lane Circle Springville is going to make the Class Lockport, N.Y. 14094 B playoffs, they will need more big games from senior Kyle Crotty. (716) 433-8393 [email protected] Buffalo Bills & NY National Guard Coach of the Week Sirianni Honored for Trojans Win Southwestern coach Jay Sirianni was named the the first quarter.” Buffalo Bills/National Guard Coach of the Week after Sirianni says that the outburst was a welcome his Trojans beat Cleve Hill 37-18 last weekend. change from recent history. Interestingly, Sirianni received word that the Bills “It was nice to get the jump on Cleve Hill and get had honored him as he was driving home from the out in front early,” he said. “All last year we played team’s game against the San Diego Chargers last from behind. We got outscored 86-6 in the first quarter. week... the same team that Sirianni’s brother is the We fell behind in the first two games this year. If I quarterbacks coach for. could explain it, it wouldn’t be happening.” “I think if the Bills had known that, they probably While he was pleased, Sirianni was surprised to would have taken the award away,” Sirianni joked. that it was Cleve Hill that the Trojans jumped on. “The Chargers beat the Bills, I got to watch my little “Glen Graham is one of the better coaches around,” brother coach in he said, “and we the game, I got to try to schedule talk with Frank tough non-league Reich and I was games because notified of this on the competition the way home. makes you better. That’s not too bad That’s why we of a day.” want to play Southwestern teams like got off to a quick Cleveland Hill.” start in the win Southwestern over Cleve Hill is now 3-0 on the when Hunter season. Peterson returned “Obviously, we the kickoff 85 are feeling pretty yards for a TD. good at 3-0,” “Starting a Sirianni said. “We game that way are where we gets everyone want to be but we going,” Sirianni have a lot of the said. “He outran season left to go. everyone. He Photo by Buffalo Bills We’re still fighting wasn’t even Southwestern coach Jay Sirianni was named the Coach of the Week by for playoff posi- touched.” the Buffalo Bills and the National Guard after his Trojans beat Cleve Hill tioning. There is Cleve Hill was 37-18 last weekend. still a lot of foot- stopped on their ball left to play.” ensuing drive and punted to the Southwestern 5-yard In addition to game’s against Salamanca, MGCLake line. and Pioneer, the Trojans will have their annual rivalry The Trojans responded with a 95-yard scoring drive game with Falconer... sort of. to take a 14-0 lead. “It’s still Falconer,” Sirianni said, “but since they “That was great watching our kids being able to do merged with Cassadaga Valley it will be a little weird that,” Sirianni said. “To drive 95 yards like that on a playing them with Blue & Red Uniforms. The game is good program is pretty good football. The kids did at Falconer so it’s not the same but, then again, it will everything right on that drive.” still be a big game. We can approach that in Week 7.” Later in the first quarter, Cleve Hill trailed 14-6 and Sirianni played high school football at Southwestern had the ball deep in their own territory. before playing at Mount Union in Ohio, where he was Southwestern’s Cory Breyton intercepted a pass a backup QB. and returned it 14 yards for a TD and a 21-6 lead. He served as an assistant coach at Maple Grove “In first quarter we had an offensive TD, a defensive under Curt Fischer and won a state title in 1998. He TD and a special teams TD,” Sirianni said. “I can’t also coached the WRs at Alfred University for 2 years remember having that happen in a game much less in and took over at Southwestern in 2003. 4 Steve Foley Solid HB FB QB WR OT OG C OG OT TE DE DT DT DE on Nichols O-Line CB LB LB Nichols traveled north of the border into Canada last LB weekend and came back with an old-school result... the Big SS green played to a 15-15 tie against Villanova in Ontario. FS “I have coached 200 varsity games and have never been a tie,” Nichols coach Colin Brinson said. “It was a non- For the promotion of amateur football in WNY! league game for them and they do not play overtime in non-league games. So, it was a good game and, I guess in 2013-2014 Activities the spirit of Good International Relations, we decided to call it a tie.” The WNY Amateur Football Alliance Nichols led 15- sponsors the following programs: 14 with :25 left as Villanova lined up Senior College Night to try and game- A College Recruiter Night in December winning field goal. which gives High School Seniors the The kick was opportunity to meet with many of the wide, however, the college recruiters from throughout the ball did not go out North-East. of the end zone, Junior Combine which are 25 yards A Junior Class Combine in May which deep in Canada. gives High School Juniors an opportuni- “We fielded it but ty to demonstrate their abilities to we didn’t get it out College recruiters while participating in of the end zone,” football skill drills. Brinson said. “You must field all kicks Youth Coaching Academy and punts and run A Coaching Academy in March to train them out or it’s a 1- volunteer youth Coaches the proper point Rouge.” technique to teach the game of football So, the game to young players. ended at 15-15. Photo by Mark Adair “It was fun and Scholar-Athlete Award Dinner interesting,” Nichols senior Steve Foley. A Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet in Brinson said, “but it December to Honor High School and was a nightmare for a coach. We had to put an extra guy in College Students for their accomplish- because it’s 12-man football up there. It’s a very wide field. ments both on the football field and in It’s 65 yards wide while it’s only 53 yards in the US. the classroom. Defensively we had to account for that, offensively we had to put an extra man in for that. It was a challenge.” High School All-Star Game One player that has been a stand out for the Big Green The Alliance will support amateur is senior center Steve Foley. Foley, who also starts on the football activities such as the Annual DL, had 8 tackles, 2 for loss, and blocked a punt in the tie. Lions/Ad Pro Sports High School “That set us up for a touchdown,” Brinson said. “It was a Football All-Star Classic. big play at that moment in the game.” Foley (6-4, 215) is tied for the team-lead in tackles and also serves as the Nichols long snapper.