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Soccer. Hockey. Lacrosse. Grand Island’s Austin Blair spent his time in high school playing three sports. He started playing lacrosse at a very young age and took up hockey a couple years later. He’s enjoyed playing hockey the most but feels he’s a stronger lacrosse player. In his senior season, Blair captained a young Grand Island hockey team that was …
Tuesday night’s game was St. Francis’ third game in three days; Grand Island, meanwhile, hadn’t played a game in a week and hadn’t even practiced over the weekend. The Red Raiders’ momentum was no match for the well-rested and calm Vikings. “We started slow and they started fast,” Grand Island coach Don Pray said. “So from that point on, I …
The Grand Island-Lewiston-Porter rivalry is one that goes way back, and the latest match up in the saga is one that neither team will soon forget. It seemed fitting that a captain would score the game-winning goal, and on Friday night at Niagara University, it was Lew-Port captain Kurt Magers who scored 28 seconds into overtime to give his team …
Grand Island opened the season with an overtime loss to North Tonawanda on Dec 3. In the rematch on Saturday night, Grand Island goaltender Nick Jennings said the Vikings wanted this one more. And in the first game of the Cataract City Classic, Grand Island came away with a 4-1 victory. “The whole game, I was confident,” Jennings said. “I …
Here’s some context to Grand Island’s 5-1 loss to Williamsville East in the small school semifinals last season: it was the first time in the history of the varsity program that the Vikings had ever reached a semifinal, and Williamsville East went on to finish as the state runner-up. “I thought the season last year went pretty well,” said junior …