Orchard Park/ East Aurora Sun section B 10-19-2014

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HACKFORD ROUNDS OUT VOLLEYBALL GAME The Orchard Park & East Aurora Sun / Saturday, October 18, 2014

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Janca, OP provide too much firepower for Lancaster By Mike Petro SPORTS REPORTER

JEFFREY T. BARNES

Dillon Janca had six touchdown passes in the Quakers’ 53-28 victory over Lancaster in Week 6. The sophomore now has 20 scoring throws on the season. OP takes on Jamestown Friday (Oct. 17) with the Class AA South title on the line.

Dillon Janca has come to appreciate the playmakers around him on the Orchard Park football team. The sophomore quarterback may have been the one to put up the huge statistics in a Week 6 win but it was the many weapons around him that helped make the performance. Janca finished with 317 yards and six touchdown passes in the Quakers’ 53-28 win over Lancaster in the Class AA South tilt on senior night in Orchard Park. He hit five different receivers for scores and was a few yards away from throwing a touchdown to a sixth different receiver in the fourth quarter. “I just got the ball to our playmakers and let them make plays,” said Janca, who also overcame throwing four interceptions. “That’s what they do best. We have a lot of guys who can do that. There are some plays that I made bad throws on but I’ll remember and learn from those. It’s great having all of those guys and know that I can trust them.” Junior Joe Losardo led the way for the large cast of notable Orchard Park receivers with 152 yards and two touchdowns on four catches. He caught a 69-yard score, the last of five Janca touchdown passes in the first half, and added a 26-yard catch that hit paydirt in the fourth quarter.

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Lady Quakers set to crowd sectional field with large contingent of qualifiers By Aaron Garland SPORTS REPORTER

Orchard Park girls diving coach Tom Lengel wouldn’t mind losing this bet. The wager, Lengel admits, could be ugly. But it would also mean the Orchard Park girls swimming and diving team would have another state champion, so he’d happily honor it. Senior diver Morgan Wellenzohn, who owns OP’s 6 dives and 11 dives records, is nearing the end of an accomplished career. But it won’t conclude without a second shot at a state title. Wellenzohn finished third at the New York State Public High SchoolAthleticAssociation Girls Swimming & Diving Championships a year ago. She, again, is

DAVE ECKHARDT

Orchard Park senior swimmer Megan Lanser is qualified for sectionals in the 100 back.

qualified for the Nov. 21 and 22 meet at Ithaca College, as she is the top-ranked diver in Section VI with ECIC Championships a week away. Lengel made a deal with Wellenzohn that if she places first, he will execute a summersault off the diving board at OP. He knows it is very plausible he will have a splash landing, too. Wellenzohn is undefeated in dual meets over her four-year varsity career, and has been surgical in her victories in 2014. “If she does the best she can, we’re not ruling out winning,” said Lengel, who is in his first year with the girls program, as is head coach Bret Norvilitis.

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