Recap Week January 5-8
Story and Photos by Janet Schultz©, NYHOL
Statistics in the WNYGVIH League have always bounced around and even at this second half of the season we have no idea who will be in first!
CASH moved into First Place (7-2-0 in 9 games) after defeating St. Mary’s of Lancaster (STM) 3-1 and Niagara County (NICO) 11-1 (actually twice, first in the Dec. 22 make-up game).
LIDA follows with a 6-1 record then STM (6-2) and HEWS (4-3).
KenGiPort and FOP are tied at fifth with 4-4 records and then Williamsville (1-6) follows. MonMar and NICO are tied in last place with 0-5 records.
Leah Dowling (LIDA) heads the 2025-26 Scoring Record with 10 goals and 10 assists for 20 points. She is followed by Teagan Willats (KenGiPort) with 9 goals/11 assists; Sabrina Basamania (FOP) 5 goals/11 assists; Brynn Cafferty (LIDA), 8 goals/7 assists and Peyton Forcucci (FOP) 11 goals and 4 assists.
CASH’s Ella Celej lead the goalies with 198 saves on 211 shots for a .938 save percentage in 404.2 minutes in net. She leads in minutes played.
Kate Kelley of MonMar has a .912 save percentage stopping 187 of 205 shots.
Betsy Accurso (STM) has the second most minutes in net at 360 with a .885 save percentage.
Ella Buczynski (HEWS) and Accurso each have logged two shutouts.
Lila Jones (NICO) has faced 212 shots on goal.
So how have all these stats come about after this week’s play?
On Monday, Jan. 5, St. Mary’s defeated Williamsville 10-0 with Accurso getting the shutout. Anna Bacon and Sophia Hathaway shared goaltending duties for Williamsville. Then it was Buczynski with a 5-0 shutout over HEWS.
CASH defeated NICO 11-1 on Tuesday and KenGiPort shutout MonMar 5-0, Ella Johnston getting the shutout for KenGiPort.
LIDA took HEWS 4-3 with a 1-1 tie after the first, 3-3 tie after the second and LIDA dropping the final goal with 25 seconds left in the third to win. Calling this the “seconds game” after goals were scored in the second and third periods with just 25-36 seconds left in the period.
On Wednesday there was no score and no penalties in the first period of a 5-0 win for FOP over MonMar. Rachael Fix got the W for FOP.
Thursday it was FOP over Williamsville 8-3; CASH over STM 3-1 and NICO and MonMar played to a 303 tie with Grace Elliott stopping 32/35 for MonMar and Lila Jones stopping 34/37 for NICO. MonMar and NICO went in with identical win/loss records and came out the same way, only adding a tie; they both stayed tied for last place.
Four WNY players had Hatties this week including Brynn Karan (STM), Hannah Favata (STM), Peyton Forcucci (FOP) and Sabrina Basamania (FOP).
What’s coming:
Monday, January 12: FOP at STM, 4 p.m.; KGIP at HEWS, 8 p.m. and a rescheduled game LIDA at NICO at 3:30 p.m. at Dwyer.
Tuesday, January 13: NICO at FOP at 4 p.m.; CASH at LIDA, 4:15 p.m. and STM at KGIP, 8 p.m.
(This is LIDA’s Senior Night)
Wednesday, January 14: NICO at Williamsville, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 15: CASH at FOP, 4:30 p.m.; LIDA at Williamsville, 4:30 p.m. and KenGiPort at Webster at 6 p.m.
Remember all games are open free to spectators and the players would love your support.
