Mustangs complete sweep of Purple Eagles; Rams and Raiders score wins

Photos by Cheryl Wertmn – Medina shortstop Joe Cecchini takes the throw at second  base to get a force out at second on Albion’s Tyler Gibson. Mustangs second baseman Tyler Kroening backs up the play. The action took place during the Mustangs win over the host Purple Eagles this afternoon.

Completing a home-and-home season series sweep, Medina blanked rival Albion 5-0 in a Niagara-Orleans League game this afternoon at Albion.

In the other N-O games, front-running Roy-Hart stayed undefeated at 5-0 by downing Newfane (1-5) 9-1 and Barker (2-5) upended Akron (5-2) 5-3.

Zach Fike hurled the shutout on the mound scattering 3 hits and striking out 12 as Medina improves to 5-1 in N-O action.

Xander Payne, Joe Cecchini and Aidan Paul each banged out a pair of hits to lead the Mustangs at the plate.

Breaking away from a scoreless deadlock, Medina grabbed a 3-0 lead in the third inning. Payne singled in the first run after an error and a sacrifice bunt by Tyler Kroening set up the opportunity. Then, after a sacrifice bunt by Hayden Woodroe, a walk and an intentional walk loaded the bases, Cecchini banged out a two run single.

The Mustangs tacked on two big insurance runs in the fifth inning on back-to-back RBI doubles by Fike and Paul. A leadoff single by Payne ignited the uprising.

Cade Wolcott had a double and Amari Jones and Javon Jones singles for Albion which slips to 1-4.

Albion’s Dallas Ecker tags out Medina’s Aidan Paul at third base.

Roy-Hart 9, Newfane 1
Ryan Mettler hurled a 3 hitter with 12 strikeouts for Roy-Hart while Brayden Hy led the way at the plate with 4 hits, including a double and triple, and 5 RBIs.

John Conley and Nathan Beyer also each had 2 hits and Mettler a double for the Rams which scored in five different innings.

Barker 5, Akron 3
Aidan Voss got out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh inning by registering two clutch game inning strikeouts to earn Barker the victory. He had a total of 8 strikeouts on the afternoon.

Voss, Drew Sandolfini and Noah Sandolfini each had a pair of hits for the Raiders.

Voss and Drew Sandolfini had RBI singles in the first inning to put Barker on top to stay.