Host Albion and Barker both came away with a victory this afternoon to open the Niagara-Orleans League swim season.

Albion won the boys meet 52-42 and Barker took the girls competition 59-35.

Carlitos Sanchez was a double winer for the Albion boys in the 100 Free and 100 Backstroke as Matt Kovaleski took the 100 Butterfly and Sam Sanchez the 50 Free.

Andrew Jenks was a double winner for Barker in the 200 Individual Medley and 500 Free.

The Barker girls were sparked by wins by Sara Gendrue in the 100 Breaststroke, Natalie Bruning in the 100 Backstroke, Christiana Carestia in the 500 Free and Natalie Menz in the 50 Free.

Michaela Pantano doubled in the 200 Free and 100 Buttefly and Liz Furmanski took both the 200 IM and 100 Free for Albion.

Albion next hosts Medina at 4:30 p.m. Friday while Barker visits Roy-Hart at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Tri-County Bantam Travel team scored a pair of victories this weekend in Western New York Amateur Hockey League action.

The Eagles blanked the Perinton Blades 5-0 on Saturday as Tucker Johnson registered the shutout, Patrick Ricker had 2 goals and Jake Esposito had 3 assists. Josh Wood, Carter Augello and Alonzo Storey also each netted a goal.

Today, Tri-County downed the Buffalo Regals 6-2 as Mike Holding scored 3 goals, Trevor Wiesner 2 and Storey 1.

The Eagles are now 7-4-1 in the league and 9-10-1 overall.

Batavia Ramparts improve to 12-0
The Batavia Ramparts traveled to Fredonia and came away a 14-0 winner.

Eight different players scored goals as Jed Reese had 4, Max Hutchins 3, Vinnie DiRisio 2 and Dominic Peracciny, Zach Geitner, Corey Saj,  Derrick Fedus, and Matt Frieday 1 each.

Zach Howard posted the shutout in net, his fifth of the season.

The Ramparts have two games next weekend, Saturday in Brockport against Tri- County and a Sunday home contest against Jamestown.

Tri-County Pee Wee wins twice
This weekend the Tri-County PeeWee Travel hockey team traveled through the winter weather to bring home victories against the Jamestown Lakers and Olean Arrows.

On Saturday, they skated against the undefeated Jamestown team in a tough battle that entered the 3rd period scoreless. With 9:17 remaining in the 3rd period Landen Schwab opened the scoring for the Eagles. With less than 2 minutes remaining, Brian Hartman secured the game with an empty net goal. Henry Schultz added a 3rd goal with less than a minute remaining.  The goalie, Hayden Watt played excellent in the shutout as well.

On Sunday, the Eagles easily defeated Olean by a score of 7-1. Josh Esposito open the scoring in the first minute of play with an assist by William Kennard. Carson Bader had the next 5 goals for the Eagles. Brenna Munn closed out the scoring with the final goal. Schultz had 3 assists in the win.

Contributed Photo – Scott Bradley makes the turn to enter the finishing chute at the Cozumel triathlon on his way to breaking the 9 hour mark.

Lyndonville native Scott Bradley recently had a strong finish to his busy year of triathlon competition including earning the initial first place finish of his pro career.

Bradley earned his milestone first victory at the Finger Lakes Triathlon in September which was an Olympic distance triathlon (0.9 mile swim, 25 mile bike ride and 6.2 mile run) with no professional category.

Bradley came out of the water in fourth place in a time of 27:38 but quickly moved into first place overall by posting a personal best and course record time of 55:47 in the bike ride which is his strongest event.

He then capped off his victory by posting a time of 36:00 in the 6.2 mile run finishing the triathlon in a total time of 2:01:15 which was a new event record by 1 minute and 13 seconds.

Keeping the momentum, Bradley then earned a third place finish at the Niagara Falls Barrelman 70.3 (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike red and 13.1 mile run) with a total time of 4:05:59 which was the second best of his career.

Bradley came out of the water fourth out of five male Pros in the competition in 31:26.

The bike ride again proved to be his strength as he had the fastest time of the day by over two minutes (2:03.:13) which was a personal best in a 70.3 event and moved him into second place.

A run time of 1:28:13 then earned him a third place finish, which was his second podium in a 70.3 event and his second time finishing “in the money”.

Bradley next competed in the Ironman 70.3 at Miami placing 19th out of 36 Pros and out of 2,219 overall competitors.

Slow swim times were the rule as Bradley posted a time of 37:32 which placed him 33rd out of the 36 Pros.

However, he started climbing up the leaderboard by posting the 10th fast time in the bike ride of 2:04.57 to clim to 25th place.

His day was then highlighted by the posting of a personal best time of 1:21:31 in the run which moved him up to 19th place.

Bradley then completes his season by competing in the Ironman Cozumel, a full triathlon.(2.4 mlle swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile run).

Competing in the event for the third time, he broke one hour in the swim for only the second time at this distance. His time o 58:16 placed him 33rd out of 34 male Pros.

A personal best time of 4:37:11 on the bike ride, which was the 11th fastest of the day, moved him up to 16th place overall.

With a goal of breaking 9 hours for the first time in a full triathlon, Bradley then needed a run of 3:18:51 to reach his goal. He ended up with 7 seconds to spare as he ran a 3:18:44 to finish with a personal best time of 8:59:52 which was good for 17th out of the 34 male Pros and 19th overall out of 1,390 competitors.

His dad Wes Bradley notes that “after starting his season in Panama in January with a crash on his bike, Scott’s season was progressing very slowly through Ironman Canada in Whistler, B.C. in July. Scott spoke with his coach at that point, asking for a change in his training program. These final four events of the season showed some significant gains in all three distance races.”

After taking this month off, Bradley will resume training in January for Ironman 70.3 in Puerto Rico in March and the Boston Marathon in April. He is still working on putting together the remainder of his 2017 schedule.

Bradley is the Assistant Principal at Byron-Bergen Jr.-Sr. High School.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – It will be Albion vs. Medina in basketball and swimming Friday. Medina’s Alex Allis, left, and Albion’s Nicole Eldred and their teammates are getting set to face their rivals.

Medina and Albion will renew their rivalry in boys and girls basketball and swimming to highlight the upcoming week of local high school sports action.

On the basketball court Friday, Albion will host Medina in the boys game and the Mustangs will host the Purple Eagles in the girls contest in the Niagara-Orleans League openers for both schools.

Albion will also host Medina in an N-O boys and girls swim meet on Friday.

The week’s boys basketball action will also feature an interesting early season non league clash of unbeatens as 4-0 Barker hosts 2-0 Lyndonville on Tuesday. Lyndonville also faces a key Genesee Region League home game against Elba on Friday in a matchup of teams that battled for the Division 2 title last year.

Weekly Schedule
Monday
Boys Basketball: CSAT at Medina, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Buffalo Arts at Albion, 7 p.m.
Swimming: Barker at Albion, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday
Boys Basketball: Lyndonville at Barker, CCA at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.; Holley at Attica, Kendall at Elba, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Roy-Hart at Niagara Catholic, 5:30 p.m.; Newfane at Wilson, 6 p.m.; Hutch-Tech at Medina, Barker at Akron, 6:30 p.m.; Attica at Holley, Elba at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Swimming: Medina at Newfane, Roy-Hart at Akron, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday
Girls Basketball: Albion at Niagara Catholic, 5:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Medina at Wilson, Barker/Roy-Hart at Albion, Newfane at Akron, 6 p.m.

Thursday
Girls Basketball: Lyndonville at Elba, Holley at Byron-Bergen, Kendall at Wheatland-Chili, 7 p.m.
Swimming: Roy-Hart at Barker, Akron at Newfane, 4:30 p.m.

Friday
Boys Basketball: Wilson at Akron, 6:30 p.m.; Medina at Albion, Elba at Lyndonville, Wheatland-Chili at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Akron at Wilson, 6 p.m.; Albion at Medina, Newfane at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.
Swimming: Medina at Albion, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday
Boys Basketball: Roy-Hart at Cleve Hill, 1:30 p.m.

Going 4-1 on the day, Holley-Kendall earned second place honors today at the Springville Duals wrestling tournament.

Holley-Kendall defeated Salamanca 78-9, North Tonawanda 54-36, Sweet Home 60-21 and Wilson 69-18 but lost to Williamsvile North 46-36.

Jayden Pieniaszek went 5-0 on the day for the Hawks while Tristyn Moyer, David Farruggia, Brandon Gardner, Dawson Custer, Jeremy Browe, Braxton Leary-Hart and Dylan Spellan were all 4-1, Nate Silversmith 3-1 and Erik Balys, Riley Hirschman and Chad Miller 3-2.

Churchville-Chili Tournament
Lyndonville competed in the Churchville-Chili Tournament today and the Tigers went 0-5 in the team competition.

Individaully for the Tigers, Jeff Gress Jr. went 5-0 including earning his milestone 150th career victory, Dustin Joy 4-1 and Frank Carrasquillo and Chase Stinson 3-2.

Batavia Tournament

Medina’s Colby Petrie went 3-2 on the day and placed third at 113 pounds at the Batavia Tournament.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Jacob Bruning goes up for a shot against Oakfield-Alabama’s tourney MVP Ryan Douglas during the host Rams loss to the Hornets this afternoon in the title game of the R-H Tournament.

Brendon Hess puts up a shot for Roy-Hart.

Breaking the contest wide open with a huge third quarter scoring burst, Oakfield-Alabama went on to defeat the host Rams 62-32 this afternoon in the championship game of the Roy-Hart Tournament.

Leading 29-20 at the half, Oakfield-Alabama erupted to outpoint Roy-Hart 19-3 in the decisive third period.

Dalton Carlson scored 8 early points to ignite that uprising as the Hornets pulled away to a commanding 25 point, 48-23, advantage at the three-quarter mark.

The Hornets jumped out to a 10 point, 17-7, lead at the end of the first period. Ryan Douglas, who was named the tourney’s MVP, scored 7 and Reice Woodward, who was selected to the All-Tournament team, netted 4 to lead that early Hornets surge.

Douglas then scored all 12 of the Hornets second period points, including a pair of threes, to keep O-A up by 9, 29-20, at the half.

Douglas finished with a game high 27, Woodward 14 and Carlson 10.

Jacob Bruning scored 12 for Roy-Hart as Matt Borel added 5, DJ Davis and Brendon Hess 4, Charlie Brigham 3 and Tim Moriarity and Paul Ragonese 2 each. Bruning and Borel were both named to the All-Tournament team.

Now at 1-3, Roy-Hart next hosts CCA in a non league game Tuesday.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley’s Isaiah Flow drives by Tonawanda’s Zach Stapf during the Hawks loss to the Warriors  this afternoon in the consolation game of the Roy-Hart Tournament.

Holley’s Dylan Hillabush shoots over Tonawanda’s Hayden Lilly.

Tonawanda nipped Holley 58-54 this afternoon in the consolation game of the Roy-Hart Tournament.

A layup by Charles Moore with less than a minute to play, which snapped a 54-54 tie, was the game winner for Tonawanda. Moore was named to the All-Tournament team.

Holley pulled even four times in the decisive final quarter but could not gain the lead. The Hawks knotted the contest at 41-41 on a basket by Isaiah Flow, at 43-43 on a tally by Dylan Hillabush, at 46-46 on a three by Derek McArthur and finally at 54-54 on a three by Ryan Andrews with 1:05 remaining.

Trailing 25-22 at the half, the Hawks pulled even at 39-39 at the three-quarter mark on Patrick Bower’s second three of the period.

Bower and Andrews both finished with 14 and Hillabush 11 for the Hawks as McArthur and Flow both had 7 and Andrew Moseman 1. McArthur ws named to the All-Tournmanet team.

Holley, which is now 0-3, next visits Attica at 7 p.m. Tuesday in a Genesee Region League game.

The Medina boys swim team defeated visiting Oakfield-Alabama 94-77 in a non league meet today to stay perfect at 4-0.

Mason Pecoraro was double winner in the 200 Individual Medley and Backstroke for the Seahorses as Powell Stephens took the 50 Free and Jack Hill the 100 Butterfly.

Completing the sweep, the Medina girls team downed O-A 105-55 to improve to 3-1.

Hannah Heil was a double winner for the Seahorses in the 50 Free and 100 Free.

Kendall defeated visiting Rochester Academy Charter 36-29 in a non league girls basketball game this evening to improve to 3-1.

In Genesee Region League action, Notre Dame defeated visiting Lyndonville 60-33 and Oakfield-Alabama downed Holley 59-21.

Lizzie Rath scored 13 points, Daniela Volkmar 11 and Taylor ReQua 8 to lead Kendall. Rath also had 16 rebounds and 4 steals and ReQua 7 rebounds, 4 steals and 4 assists.

Kendall led 16-8 at the half.

Notre Dame 60, Lyndonville 33
Margaret Sutherland scored 19 and Callie McCulley 16 to lead Notre Dame past Lyndonvlle.

Aubrey Lewis scored 8 and Anna Lewis and Alecia Hinkson 7 for Lyndonville.