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Three Ramparts teams take home hardware at The Gateway to the Adirondacks Tournament in Utica

By Howard B. Owens

Press release:

The Batavia Ramparts played a strong weekend of hockey earning two championships and a 2nd place finish in the Gateway to the Adirondacks Tournament. Mite Team Sprague was the first team to get in on the winning, taking 2nd place to a strong West Hartford Wolves team in what was many players’ first-ever hockey tournament. Carley Grice picked up a shutout award and Duke Defreeze added a Hat Trick award puck on their way to the 2nd finish.

Pee Wee III earned their way into the championship game with a tough come-from-behind win against league foe, West Seneca, in an early Sunday morning matchup. Later that afternoon, with all of their Ramparts family cheering them on, they faced off against Lysander who beat them 7-1 earlier in the tournament. Lysander got out to a quick lead but the Ramparts never gave up and battled back to a 6-4 victory and a tournament championship. This was a total team effort led by Aaron Kujawski in goal, with big games coming from Joey Pellegrino, Gunner Hale, and Arlo Hoisington.

Up next was the Squirt III team with their chance to add another championship. They played to a tie in an early morning game to secure a spot in the finals against Navy Elite, who they also lost to early in the tournament 3-1. In this revenge match-up, Batavia started out with a quick 2-0 lead in the first period with goals from Dylan Reidmiller and Cole Woodward and never looked back. They took that lead into the third period until Hunter Sprague added a third goal.  Jack McCarthy put it away with an empty netter making it a 4-0 final score. Sammy Calletto was awarded two shutout pucks for the tournament and Hunter Sprague picked up a playmaker puck with three assists in the championship game.

Photos: Olympic Torch brought to Batavia for Ramparts to pass

By Howard B. Owens

An Olympic Torch passed through Batavia today with a spot at the Ice Arena where members of the Ramparts passed it into the arena and then were given a chance to sake it around the ice rink.

Above, Levi Bennett during his turn to carry the torch.

Batavia Ramparts Squirt B team wins Tier 2 Championship in Cleveland

By Billie Owens
 
Submitted photo and press release from Ritchie Kirkum:
 
The Batavia Ramparts Squirt B team won the Tier 2 Championship this weekend at the Rock & Roll tournament in Cleveland, Ohio. They are coached by Rob Smith, Randy Havens and Steve Tanner.

Tournament stats:
 
Colton Smith -- two goals
Ashton Pfendler -- three goals
Cooper Augello -- four assists
Cole Davis -- two goals, one assist
Colin Kirkum -- two goals including the game winner in overtime to win the championship.
 
Colin was named MVP.

Batavia Bantam Empire Win Over Tri-County at SUNY Brockport

By Jill Franclemont
Batavia Ramparts (Bantam Empire) vs. Tri-County Youth Hockey 
 
Saturday, February 7, 1:30pm at SUNY Brockport
 
Final score: 6-2 Batavia
 
Batavia Goals: Matt Saj; Scott Tanner; Mitchel Pangrazio, assist Aidan Franclemont; Matt Saj, assist Aidan Franclemont; Nick Baumler, assist Shane McClurg; Tom Mellon, assist Nate Hamilton
 
Goalie: Chris Klein
 
Team sponsor: Clark Patterson Lee - Design Professionals
 

Batavia Bantam Empire Ties Rochester Youth Hockey (D'Arcy)

By Jill Franclemont
Batavia Ramparts (Bantam Empire) vs. Rochester Youth Hockey (D'Arcy)
 
Saturday, January 3, 6:50pm at Falletti Ice Rink in Batavia
 
Final score: 4-4
 
Batavia Goals: Tom Mellon assist by Eve Murray; Nate Hamilton assist by Tom Mellon; Nick Baumler assist by Tom Mellon; Tom Mellon assist by Nick Baumler
 
Goalie: Mitchel Pangrazio
 
Team sponsor: Clark Patterson Lee - Design Professionals

Batavia Bantam Empire Win Over Canandaigua Knights

By Jill Franclemont
Batavia Ramparts (Bantam Empire) vs. Canandaigua Knights (Bantam)
 
Saturday, December 27, 6:50pm at Falletti Ice Rink in Batavia
 
Final score: 5-2 Batavia
 
Batavia Goals: Shane McClurg, assist by Mitchel Pangrazio & Scott Tanner; Tom Mellon, assist by Nate Hamilton & Aidan Franclemont; Nick Baumler, assist by Seth Seppala; Nate Hamilton, assist by Tom Mellon; Nick Baumler 
 
Goalie: Chris Klein
 
Team sponsor: Clark Patterson Lee - Design Professionals
 

Ramparts teams take second

By Timothy Walton

It was a day of hard fought efforts for two Ramparts teams that got a shot at the championship game of the Batavia New Year's Eve Classic Tournament that was hosted at the Falleti Ice Arena.

ROCHESTER: 5  / BATAVIA: 4-----The Bantam travel team started out the day of championships facing off against the Rochester Youth Americans. Looking for revenge as the Amerks had defeated them just a day earlier, the Ramparts took the early lead online to find themselves in a in a scoring battle, being answered back right after they scored all their goals.

 Parker Brinkworth was one of the Ramparts that had a big day. He started off the scoring with an early goal off of a set up from Mason Versage. He then followed up and assisted on goals by Zack Laird and Evan Eckerson. Brandon Holley scored Batavia's last goal off of an assist by Nate Palmer and Sean Olin. Joe Ryan ended the game with an assist as well.

ROCHESTER: 1  / BATAVIA: 0----- The PeeWee travel team came out with a long fought effort against the Rochester Grizzlies. Ramparts goalie Matthew Anauo stopped 16 shots and looked like he was going to put the game into overtime as he stopped all the shots he faced up until 1:00 left in the game. The Grizzlies beat a defender on the blue line and fired a shot by Anauo to give the Grizzlies the last minute goal and the 1-0 victory. The Ramparts had 6 shots on goal.

Two Ramparts teams in the finals

By Timothy Walton

Photo: Batavia goalie Jimmy Johnston makes a save against a Rochester forward

This year has started off on a good note for two of the Batavia Ramparts teams! They hosted the GAHA New Year's Eve Classic Tournament this weekend and both the Pee Wee Travel (11-12 year olds) and the Bantam III Travel teams both are headed to the championship game! 

The Bantam team will take on the Rochester Youth Americans at 11:30am tomorrow. They lost tonight to Rochester 4-2 in a closely fought game.

The Pee Wee team will face the Rochester Youth Grizzlies at 2:40pm tomorrow.

Both events are free to attend and are at the Falleti Ice Arena, which will have public skate in between the two games.

(Photos courtesy of Scott Grefrath)

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