Gowanda Small Town Times

[photo: Addison Kota reached down for a dig during the September 9 home volleyball game against Falconer

The Gowanda Varsity volleyball team traveled to Falconer on Monday, September 9. While both teams were 2-0 coming into the contest, Falconer had faced stiffer competition and was a big challenge for Gowanda. Falconer set the tone building an early 9-1 lead in the first set. The Gowanda production improved past that point, but not enough to prevent Falconer from winning the first set 25-12.

Gowanda led 1-0 and 2-1 early in the second set before Falconer spurted ahead to lead 13-5. The Golden Falcons advantage maxed out at 21-11. Gowanda was able to come back a little, but not enough to stop Falconer from closing out a 25-19 win. Down 2 sets to 0, Gowanda entered the critical third set. Again Falconer slowly built a lead. Gowanda was down 14-24 when they went on a final push. After stealing a potential match-winning point away from Falconer, Elizabeth Green came up to serve for Gowanda. The team piled up 8 consecutive points, including a pair of aces, to bring the score to 23-24. Falconer stopped the run there locking up a 25-23 win in the set and a 3-0 match win.

Topping the Gowanda effort were Holland Browning (7 kills, 13 digs, 1 ace), Addison Kota (6 kills, 2 assists, 7 digs, 1 ace) and Jillian Gernatt (17 assists, 5 digs). The rest of the team stats are as follows: Corrina John (3 kills, 3 blocks), Elizabeth Green (3 kills, 7 digs, 4 aces), Lauren Kelly (2 kills), Sydney Smith (6 digs), Tessa Kohn (5 digs) and Maleina Maines (2 digs).

The next day, September 10, the team looked to rebound as they traveled to Ellicottville. The Gowanda girls got off to a slow start and trailed for most of the first set. They did manage to pull into a tie at 22-22 before Ellicottville pulled away for a 25-22 win. Gowanda regrouped and proceeded to dominate the second set taking a 25-10 victory. The team went on to win the next two sets by identical 25-15 scores to capture the match 3-1.

Leading Gowanda were Corrina John (11 kills, 9 blocks), Addison Kota (10 kills, 1 assist, 5 digs), Elizabeth Green (8 kills, 1 ace), Holland Browning (6 kills, 6 digs 1 block) and Jillian Gernatt (3 kills, 25 assists, 1 dig). Other stats include Lauren Kelly (4 kills, 3 aces, 2 blocks), Bella Maines (11 assists), Cadence Luther (1 kill, 2 blocks), Sydney Smith (6 digs), Aubrey Smuda (5 digs, 1 ace), Maleina Maines (3 digs, 1 ace) and Tessa Kohn (1 dig).

Closing out the week, the girls volleyball team was Cassadaga Valley on Friday, September 13. The pattern remained the same, a bit of a slow start, followed but a big rebound and cruising to victory. Set scores were 25-20, 25-12 and 25-15 for a 3-0 match win.

Top stats go to Lauren Kelly (4 kills, 1 dig, 1 ace, 4 blocks), Holland Browning (3 kills, 1 dig, 2 aces), Addison Kota (2 kills, 4 digs, 3 aces, 1 block), Elizabeth Green (3 kills, 1 dig), Corrina John (3 kills) and Jillian Gernatt (12 assists, 1 ace). Also making a mark in the game were Maleina Moses (2 kills), Aubrey Smuda (2 aces), Sydney Smith (2 digs, 3 aces), Bella Maines (2 assists) and Cadence Luther (1 block).

Monday, September 9

Volleyball at Falconer
Gowanda 0, Falconer 3
12-25/19-25/23-25

Tuesday, September 10

Volleyball at Ellicottville
Gowanda 3, Ellicottville 1
22-25/25-10/25-15/25-15

Cross Country at Fredonia
Boys Teams
1st Gowanda 28
2nd Fredonia 44
3rd Falconer/Cassadaga Valley 68
4th Salamanca 90
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Girls Teams
1st Gowanda 25
2nd Fredonia 44
3rd Falcomer/Cassadaga Valley 59
Salamanca incomplete

Pine Valley/Gowanda girls Soccer at Ellicottville
Pine Valley/Gowanda 0, Ellicottville 8

Wednesday, September 11

Pine Valley/Gowanda boys soccer vs. Ellicottville
Pine Valley/Gowanda 1, Ellicottville 9

Thursday, September 12

Eden(/Gowanda) girls swimming vs. Maryvale
Eden 86, Maryvale 46

Pine Valley/Gowanda girls soccer vs. Franklinville
Pine Valley 1, Franklinville 0

Friday, September 13

Football vs. Cattaraugus-L.V.
- Blackout Game -
Gowanda 46, Cattaraugus 6

Volleyball at Cassadaga Valley
Gowanda 3, Cassadaga Valley 0
25-20/52-12/25-15

The arrival of September signaled “Back to School” and the start of the Fall Sports season. The Gowanda Varsity volleyball team had the honors of being the first team to see action. They opened their season at home facing off against Cassadaga Valley on September 4. It was all Gowanda in the first set. The home team landed the first three points in the game. That quickly grew to a 7-1 advantage. Making steady progress, they took a 25-8 win to go up 1-0 in the match. The next two game were much closer. In the end, Gowanda won the next two sets by scores of 25-18 and 24-17, respectively. The JVs also won, in a very tight match, by scores of 25-23/25-15/28-26

Leading Gowanda were Lauren Kelly (7 kills, 1 dig, 14 aces), Elizabeth Green (5 kills, 3 digs, 1 ace), Holland Browning (4 kills, 8 digs, 2 aces), Addison Kota (3 kills, 1 assist, 4 digs, 2 aces) and Cadence Luther (3 kills, 1 block). In support were Jillian Gernatt (1 kill, 15 assists, 3 digs, 4 aces), Bella Maines (1 assist), Tessa Kohn (9 digs), Sydney Smith (5 digs, 2 aces) and Maleina Moses (1dig).

The team was off to West Valley/Franklinville on September 5 for a match that was originally scheduled as a JV only affair. Lacking a JV team, West Valley opted to make it Varsity instead. It was a relatively easy outing for Gowanda. The locked down the match 3-0 with set scores of 25-7/25-7/25-9. It was a chance for some of the new members of the team to get more game experience.

Gowanda statistics for the game are as follows:
Cadence Luther 5 kills
Jillian Gernatt 13 assists
Bella Maines 4 assists, 2 digs
Holland Browning 3 kills, 4 digs, 3 aces
Sydney Smith 2 aces
Addison Kota 2 kills, 2 assists, 4 aces
Tessa Kohn 9 digs, 4 aces
Aubrey Smuda 1 ace
Elizabeth Green 4 kills, 8 aces
Lauren Kelly 4 kills, 2 aces, 1 block

The volleyball team closed out their week on Saturday, September 7, at Falconer for a tournament along with 8 other schools. In the opening rounds, Gowanda swept both Clymer and North Collins in straight sets, 2-0. In the Top Bracket, they faced Fort LeBoeuf first. After losing 13-25 in the first set, Gowanda battled through a second set with single-point margins up to a 20-20 tie. From there, LeBoeuf pulled away for a 22-25 win.

That took the team to a meeting with Southwestern in for a single set to 30 points. Gowanda was close in the early going up to an eleven-all tie. After that, Southwestern went on a 9-point run that Gowanda never recovered from. Gowanda ended up taking a 17-30 loss

No statistics were available from the tournament.

The Gowanda/Pine Valley Varsity football team opened their season on Thursday, September 5 in a non-league game at Portville. It was a contest highlighted by a few big plays, but also hampered by numerous penalties. Motion penalties were drive killers for Gowanda with some coming back to back.
Gowanda/Pine Valley found themselves behind early with Portville scoring to go ahead 7-0. Gowanda finally got the ball with 8:31 left in the 1st quarter after a Portville onside kick. Despite being flagged on their first play, Gowanda/Pine Valley managed one first down and progressed as far as the Portville 47 before punting. Portville had built a 21-0 lead when Gowanda/Pine Valley finally got on the board with 4:02 left in the half. A failed 2-point conversion took the score to 21-6. That margin grew to 27-6 by halftime. A more closely contested 3rd quarter saw both teams add 6 points to their tally. Portville added 13 points in the final quarter. Gowanda answered late in the period starting with a 66-yard kickoff return with 2:42 left in the game. Gowanda/Pine/Valley finally reached the end zone with just 33 seconds left. A successful conversion pass brought the score to 46-20. Portville just needed one kneel-down to finalize the game.
No Gowanda stats were reported from the game. Reported Gowanda/Pine Valley highlights start with a 59-yard pass from Carter Capozzi to Reginald Irion for the first half touchdown. Winter Mentley-Peters had a 42-yard touchdown reception in the 3rd quarter. Gowanda-Pine Valley’s final touchdown came on a 5-yard run by Zane Rogers.

Wednesday, September 4

Varsity Volleyball vs. Cassadaga Valley
Gowanda 3, Cassadaga Valley 0
25-8/25-18/25-17

Thursday, September 5

Varsity Volleyball at West Valley
Gowanda 3, West Valley 0

Varsity Football at Portville
Gowanda/Pine Valley 20, Portville 46

Varsity Girls Soccer
Pine Valley/Gowanda 1, Silver Creek/Forestville 7

Saturday, September 7

Varsity Volleyball at Falconer 10 teams
Bolivar-Richburg, Catt.-LV, Clymer, Fort LeBoeuf, North Collins, Panama,

Randolph, Salamanca, Sherman and Southwestern.

Preliminaries
Gowanda 2, Clymer 0
Gowanda 2, North Collins 0
Finals
Gowanda 0, LeBoeuf 2
13-25/22-25
Gowanda 17, Southwestern 30

Knox Invitational 2024 [35 schools]
Knox Farm State Park
East Aurora, NY

Boys
1st Maple Grove 46
3rd Gowanda 119
17th Maryvale 489

Gowanda Boys 5000M run [143 runners]

Chase Bolen (8th, 18:10:84)
Dustin Mohawk (14th, 18:38:07)
Cashis Montour (18th, 18:53:56)
Joseph Fernandes (48th, 20:29:47)
Maddox Hudson (56th, 21:03:43)
Brendin Diebel (61st, 21:13:39)
Owen Farner (63rd, 21:15:76)
Nathan Warrior (83rd, 22:03:81)
Marcus Gamble (94th, 22:34:84

Girls
1st CSP 64
13th Olean 278
14th Gowanda 306

Gowanda Girls 5000M run [119 runners]

Degaswined John (57th, 25:41:52)
Karice John (82nd, 27:35:75)
Helena Wallschlaeger (88th, 28:01:22)
Lillianna Pierce (92nd, 28:46:33)
Isabelle Graham (97th, 29:29:35)
Jaylynn Elliott (100th, 30:20:46)
Kiernan Quinn (104th, 31:11:42)
Norah Tadt (109th, 32:28:75)
Sophia Birtchnall (116th, 35:22:77)

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Senior Winter Rivera plays for the Snake Island Muskees in the Three Nations Senior Lacrosse League. Winter earned MVP of the semifinal game of the Presidents Cup. He scored the team’s last 3 goals including one with 2.9 seconds left to send it to overtime. The Muskees lost in OT. Winter and his teammates play for bronze today.