Section V soccer championship games are next for Holley and Kendall girls on Friday

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley’s Kyla Burne, left, and Kendall’s Izzy D’Agostino and their Lady Hawks and Lady Eagles teammates will be competing in Section V championship games on Friday.

Holley and Kendall will both be competing in Section V girls soccer tournament championship games on Friday.

No. 5 seed Holley will face No. 3 Canisteo-Greenwood in the Class C1 title game at 5:15 p.m. at Dansville.

Top seeded Kendall will take on Genesee Region League foe No. 2 Byron-Bergen in the Class C2 championship contest at 5:45 p.m. at Brockport.

The title game appearance will be the third in four years for Holley which brings a 12-6-1 record into the contest after the Lady Hawks upended top seeded Geneseo 1-0 in the semifinals on Tuesday. Holley defeated Williamson 2-1 in the 2023 final but lost to Gananda 3-1 in 2022.

Canisteo-Greenwood brings a 15-3 record into the finals after downing No. 2 Campbell-Savona/Hammondsport 3-0 in the semifinals on Tuesday.

The contest will be a rematch of a regular season non league game which saw Canisteo-Greenwood nip Holley 1-0 at Holley.

Offensively Holley, which has only two seniors on its 18 player squad, is led by Ava Mosier (15 goals, 5 assists), Hanna Ostrom (8 goals, 5 assists), Jayna Burris (6 goals and 9 assists) and Kyla Burne (5 goals and 4 assists).

Anchoring the Lady Hawks defense goalie Zoey Warner has made 55 saves and has a 1.28 goals against average.

For Canisteo-Greenwood Adrianna Beers has 14 goals and 2 assists and Kadyn Piliero 9 goals and 3 assists.

For Kendall the C2 final will be a rematch of last year’s title game which saw Byron-Bergen nip the Lady Eagles 1-0.

Kendall brings a 17-1 into the finals, which includes a 2-1 regular season G-R win over Byron-Bergen. The Lady Eagles downed No. 4 Keshequa 3-0 in the semifinals.

The Lady Bees are 16-2 on the season after blanking No. 3 Bloomfield 3-0 in the semifinals.

The Byron-Bergen offense is led by Mia Gray (42 goals and 23 assists) as Grace DiQuattro has 28 goals and 24 assists, Anastasia Kuszlyk (14 goals and 6 assists) and Elizabeth Starowitz (13 goals and 22 assists).

Kendall’s attack is sparked by Ryleigh Denning (28 goals, 5 assists), Sophia Picardo (16 goals, 23 assists), Jersie Drake (10 goals, 8 assists). Alea Barrett (6 goals, 6 assists) and Stella Kwiatek (6 goals, 8 assists).

The Lady Eagles defense is anchored by goalie Brooke Rodas who has made 94 saves and has a goals against average of 0.33.

The Class C1 and Class C2 winners on Friday will then face each other early next week in the Section V Class C state qualifier contest.