Williamsville East, last year’s Division 2 Section VI champion and state runner-up, is on its way back to First Niagara Center. The Flames played a tougher schedule this year against the league’s larger and deeper schools, but through it all, they held onto a love for each other. And when Matt Cohen recorded a hat trick in Thursday’s 6-4 semifinal …
Coppola leads full team effort in Hamburg win
Hamburg coach John McFall said that junior goaltender Griffin Coppola played his best game of the season on Sunday. “He made some great saves, very rarely gave up a rebound,” McFall said. “I think he caught seven or eight shots, just caught ’em right in his pads and core and didn’t give anything up. Not to give a team a …
Hamburg battles adversity in win over Lancaster
Hamburg seems to have figured out how to use adversity to its advantage. The Bulldogs even go so far as to hope that each opponent will come out with an intensity that they’ll need to match in order to be successful. “We were hoping that they would come out intense and they did, because when teams come out more intense, …