Legends vs Tigers

Lancaster Stats

This Friday Night the Lancaster Legends will be traveling to Orchard Park NY to play at Highmark Stadium to meet the Bennett Tigers. This will be 7th straight time the Legends will be playing in the Section Championship. This will be a rematch of the Championship game that was played last year when the Tigers beat the Legends 14-10 on a snowy field at Highmark. Read more about the 2021 Section VI Class AA Championship game.

Section VI Championship Games

The games will be played on Thursday and Friday this week. Why are the games being played on those days and not Friday and Saturday? The Buffalo Bills will be playing the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday and the field has to be ready for that game. Read more about Field Certification for NFL games.

Class D

Randolph will be playing Franklinville/Ellicottville on Thursday at 3pm for the Class D championship. Randolph beat CSP 37-7 to move on and Franklinville/Ellicottville beat Portville 49-3.

Class C

Lackawanna will play Fredonia on Thursday at 6pm. The Steelers beat the #1 seed in Class C Medina 29-22 last week. Fredonia was able to beat Salamanca 24-6.

Class B

In Class B Iroquois will be facing Pioneer on Friday at 5pm. Iroquois beat West Seneca East 39-14 and Pioneer would travel Maryvale and beat the Flyers 31-14.

Class A

The Jamestown Red Raiders will be playing on Thursday night at 9pm and face Williamsville North. Jamestown beat Kenmore West 55-8 and Williamsville North would beat Clarence 34-13.

Last Time Out

Lancaster played Niagara Falls last week at Foyle-Kling Field. Lancaster would score first when a pass with 36 seconds left in the 1st Quarter connected in the end zone, 7-0.

Niagara Falls would get the ball back but were stopped and forced to punt. The Legneds would go after the kick but were flagged for roughing the kicker, NF would get the ball back.

The defense for Lancaster would continue to hold the Wolverine offense and forced them to punt again. This time the ball went over the head of the punter and the Legends would start their drive inside the 10 yard line. The NF squad would hold the Legends offense to a Field Goal, 10-0 Lancaster.

The 2nd half began with Lancaster controlling the ball and were able to move the ball across the field and scored, Legends up 17-0.

Niagara Falls were unable to get their offense moving and turned the ball back to the Legends. Lancaster moved the ball and the QB would be able to get across the goal line and score, 23-0 final.

October 7th, 2022

Lancaster vs Bennett

The Bennett Tigers visited Foyle-Kling Field last Friday night to face the Legends in a Class AA game. The Tigers would get the ball first and moved to midfield but a fumble would stop their drive as Lancaster jumped on the loose ball.

Lancaster's first posession was stopped after 3 downs and were forced to punt. The rest of the 1st Quarter would look much the same way as neither team would be able to get their offense rolling.

At the end of the 1st Quarter, the Legends would have a drive start at the Bennett 44 yard line. They would be able drive down the field and were looking at a 3rd and 4 at the Tiger 17. A run to the left gained 2 yards and brought up a 4th down situation. The team opted to kick a FG but the ball sailed left of the goal post, Bennett ball at the 25 yard line.

The drive for Bennett would not take long to reach the endzone, initially. A run around the left side for a TD would be called back. Bennett would throw a pass that hit the mark and the WR sprinted down the field 92 yards and for 6 points. The 2 point conversion was no good, 6-0 Tigers

Lancaster was unable to move the ball and were forced to punt back to the visitors. The Tigers started with the ball at midfield and were able to move to the goal line and on a QB run, crossed it, 12-0 Bennett as the 2 point conversion was stopped again.

The Legends would receive the 2nd half kickoff but fumbled at their own 34 yard line with Bennett jumping on the loose ball. That drive for the Tigers led to a 1st and goal when a pass was hauled in inside the 5 yard line. Bennett would need all 4 downs to earn the TD as the Lancaster defense forced them to go for it at the 1 yard line. The 2 point conversion was good, 20-0 Bennett

Later in the 3rd Quarter, with the Tigers having the ball at the 50 yard line, the QB ran the ball to the right. He picked up 10 yards but the ball came loose and the Lancaster defense jumped on it at their 40 yard line.

The offense for Lancaster got a drive going with over 3 minutes left in the quarter. They used the pass and run to move the ball. On one of the wilder plays of the game, a perfectly run fake by the Lancaster QB to the RB fooled the official who would blow the play dead when the running back was hit and dropped to the ground. Only problem was he did not have the ball. The QB ran around the right side, with the ball and picked up a 1st down but the whisle was blown as he was running. The ball was spotted where the ball was when the whisle was blown.

The Legends would continue the drive and with the help of an offsides penalty by Bennett and had a 1st and goal from the 3 yard line. They scored on a QB run who faked to the RB but this time no whistle, 20-7.

The Lancaster offense would have more chances down the stretch but were unable to reach the endzone, final score Bennett 20 Lancaster 7.

Bennett vs Orchard Park

Bennett met OP and were able to beat the Quakers by a convincing 50-6 victory.

Section Championships Around the State in Class AA