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Football 2008


ROAD TO THE RALPH: Section VI playoff schedule

SCHEDULE: Every game, all the way to Week 13

STANDINGS: For all of WNY's leagues

TEAM-BY-TEAM SCHEDULES: Review each team's results and some fast facts from our preview

VIDEO: A preview look at three of WNY's best

BLOG: Lots to talk about at the PREP TALK BLOG


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ALL-WNY FOOTBALL 50th ANNIVERSARY
The 2007 series that looked back at various eras, and a list of every All-WNY team

2008 Section VI Tournaments


SOCCER: Boys and girls championships
VOLLEYBALL: Both tournaments
FIELD HOCKEY: First round to the finals


Weekly features

SIDELINES: Featuring the News football polls
STANDINGS & STATISTICS: For all fall sports


Basketball

2008-09: Building the boys schedule
2007-08 All-WNY TEAM: Video, stories and more


2008 Archive

All-WNY Baseball
Wrap-up | First Team | Honor Roll | All-time roster
All-WNY Softball: Wrap-up | Honor Roll
All-WNY Boys lacrosse: Wrap-up | Honor Roll
All-WNY Girls lacrosse Wrap-up | Honor Roll
Empire State Games: Local gold medal winners


Other features

Where are the student-athletes of the CLASS of 2008?


Photo galleries

Browse and purchase News photos


Prep Talk blog

Much more high school coverage and your comments

High School

Thursday's high school scores

Updated: 11/20/08 10:26 PM

Thursday's high school scores

Section VI in the state football playoffs, year-by-year

Updated: 11/20/08 1:03 AM

Year-by-year history of the Far West Regionals, state semifinals and state championship games since the state championship format began in 1993.

Review Keith McShea's Prep Talk high school sports chat

Updated: 11/19/08 10:07 PM

Section VI is sending four football teams to the final four, but how far can they go?

Gutowski primed for a strong finish
NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM

One thing Paige Gutowski knows about her races is she always saves her best for last.

Tuesday's high school scores

Updated: 11/20/08 1:39 AM

Tuesday's high school scores and statistics

Salamanca, Portville girls net state volleyball titles
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

Updated: 11/17/08 6:33 AM

Fire trucks and police escorts welcomed the Salamanca and Portville girls volleyball teams back to their respective towns late Sunday night after both teams won New York State titles in Glens Falls.

Clarence, East Aurora fall in finals
NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

Updated: 11/17/08 6:33 AM

ONEONTA — The Clarence and East Aurora boys soccer teams had never even trailed in a game during their wonderful seasons.

Sunday's high school scores

Updated: 11/16/08 8:49 PM

Sunday's high school scores

Dressel has a good time at sectionals

Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM

It takes a lot for Marissa Dressel to be impressed with herself, which makes what she did on Saturday so significant.

Riverside brings the right stuff
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM

McKinley’s Kevin Chillis spent most of his Saturday morning scorching the Riverside defense for his 214 yards. But when he needed the all-important 215th, his opponents had other plans.

Clarence, East Aurora advance to finals

Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM

Tyler Hamill and Ben Scalzi scored second-half goals, and Clarence (23-0) rolled on to the championship game of the state Class AA boys soccer playoffs with a 2-0 victory over Section I champion John Jay at the Soccer Hall of Fame complex in Oneonta.

Orchard Park has company in final four
NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM

Last year, Orchard Park was the only football team from Section VI to win a Far West Regional game and advance to the state semifinals.

Southwestern keeps faith
NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM

Southwestern has the word “faith” stitched into hats and labeled on helmets. On Saturday, they had faith they’d make one more big play than Le Roy, and they did.

Steelers can’t stop Bath-Haverling attack
NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM

Lackawanna’s defense knew what was coming, but that didn’t help the undersized Steelers in Saturday afternoon’s Class B Far West Regional football game.

Sweet day for Section VI
FROM NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM

Orchard Park and Southwestern helped Section VI to a historic Far West Regional football weekend Saturday.

Saturday's high school scores

Updated: 11/15/08 9:18 PM

Saturday's high school scores and statistics

OP, Southwestern make Section VI football 4 for 5
NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

Updated: 11/15/08 6:56 PM

Orchard Park and Southwestern helped Section VI to a historic Far West Regional weekend Saturday.

Sweet Home topples Aquinas

Updated: 11/15/08 6:58 AM

Sweet Home is off to its first state final four, and it sure did it in style.

St. Francis, O’Hara finish season with title trophies

Updated: 11/15/08 6:58 AM

St. Francis’ winning season isn’t reflected in its final record, but that’s OK.

Maple Grove steamrolls Dundee

Updated: 11/15/08 6:58 AM

Maple Grove enhanced its reputation for getting off to a quick start following Friday night’s demolition of V-Dundee.

Jamestown diver, Raymond, is above board

Updated: 11/15/08 6:58 AM

Senior Jessica Raymond of Jamestown claimed the title in diving at Friday’s Section VI Swimming and Diving Championships at the Erie Community College Burt Flickinger Aquatic Center.

Sweet Home dethrones Aquinas
NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

Updated: 11/14/08 11:53 PM

If you're going to make the final four in high school football from the Western part of the state, you're going to have to win football games this weekend at the University at Buffalo.

Friday's high school scores

Updated: 11/15/08 2:29 AM

Friday's high school scores and statistics

This weekend's high school sports schedule

Updated: 11/13/08 4:37 AM

This weekend's high school sports schedule, from football playoffs to the state final four in several fall sports.

Review the live Prep Talk high school sports chat

Updated: 11/12/08 9:17 PM

Who's going to win the Far West Regionals at UB Stadium this weekend? How will Section VI do in the five games?

Rematches highlight a huge weekend

Updated: 11/11/08 7:22 AM

On what should be an eventful weekend of high school football in Western New York, there are two big rematches of note.

Khmylev edged in state final

Updated: 11/11/08 7:22 AM

Olga Khmylev (Williamsville East) ran into a familiar rival in the final of the New York State girls tennis championship Monday. A back-and-forth match that could have gone either way tilted away from Khmylev at the end.

Otto has just the right kick

Updated: 11/11/08 7:47 AM

Courtney Otto isn’t a fast swimmer because of what she does on the surface of the water. It goes deeper than that.

Sidelines /News and notes from area high schools

Updated: 11/11/08 7:22 AM

2008 News football polls

Sending best wishes to a teammate

Updated: 11/11/08 7:22 AM

On Saturday, I got the shocking call that fellow News reporter Tom Borrelli had an accident at All High Stadium.


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