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The Albion Boys JV soccer team completed an undefeated 10-0 Niagara-Orleans League season by defeating Roy-Hart 6-0 Saturday.

The team had a great balance of scoring, defense, and goal keeping. The defense and goalies only allowed an average of 1 goal per game, while the offense produced an average of 4 goals per game!

The Purple Eagles offense was strong, led by Spencer Lombard, Thomas Hollenbeck, Angel Rosario-Soto, and Tre Yaskulski. The team scored a total of 64 goals with 56 assists.

The defense only allowed 20 goals for the season led by Zach Moore, Jacob Fuller, Spencer Sietmann, Vincent Tarricone, Honorato Martinez, and Omar Peterson in goal.

“The team’s success was based on their ability to work as a team and their dedication to the game,” said Coach Jeff Radder. “Great season, Albion JV Boys Soccer!”

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Holley’s Zach Day (20) and Dalton Moyer (18) and their Hawk teammates will face Wayland-Cohocton Thursday in the semifinals of the Section V Class C Bowl playoffs.

Holley begins defense of its Section V Class C Connors & Ferris Bowl title by facing Wayland-Cohocton in the semifinals at 6 p.m. Thursday at Caledonia-Mumford.

The game had originally been scheduled to be played at Holley. The victor will face the winner of the Mynderse vs. Dansville semi in the finals.

The game will be a rematch of last year’s Class C semi which saw Holley defeat Wayland-Cohocton 21-12. The Hawks went on to defeat Mynderse 34-6 in the championship game.

Offensively the Hawks are led by quarterback Jeremy Mallett and running backs Colin Papaj and Zach Day who have both scored 4 touchdowns.

The Hawks bring a 3-4 regular season record into the playoffs while the Golden Eagles are 1-6.

Albion, Barker/Roy-Hart to host non league games

Two other non league games are also on the Thursday evening schedule as Albion hosts Lew-Port at 6:30 p.m. and Barker/Roy-Hart entertains Pioneer at 6 p.m. at Middleport.

Albion is looking to avenge a narrow 26-25 loss to Lew-Port in the season opener.

The Purple Eagles and Lancers both bring 2-5 records into the contest.

Barker/Roy-Hart is 2-5 and Pioneer 3-4. Pioneer bested Barker/RH in their only other meeting in 2014.

Medina and Roy-Hart both closed out the Niagara-Orleans League volleyball season with victories this evening.

Medina downed host Newfane 25-11, 24-26, 25-13, 25-16 and Roy-Hart bested visiting Wilson 26-24, 25-14, 25-18.

In the other finale, Akron completed a 10-0 title season with a four set 25-15, 25-19, 19-25, 25-22 win over visiting Albion.

Je’ne Brown had 7 kills, Maddie Williams 5 kills and 12 digs, Emily Kams 13 digs and 5 aces, Grace Masse 5 digs and Alyssa Beyer 5 dgs to lead the way for Medina.

Lexie Sargent served up the first seven points in the third set for Medina and Kams tallied points 17-21 in the final set as Williams register an ace for the match winner.

Bea Bacon had 14 service points, 11 kills and 4 aces; Victoria Stanczyk 14 points with 2 aces; Aspen Moore 10 points, 3 aces and 3 kills; Skyler Christopher 6 kills and Olivia Vorholzer 5 kills to set the pace for Roy-Hart.

Chanyce Powell had 18 kills to lead the way for Albion as Kaitlyn Van Skiver added 8 kills, Haley Smith 6 kills, Caitlynn Snook 4 kills; Emilie Barleben 3 kills, 26 digs and 24 assists and Isabella Gibbs 10 digs and 2 aces.

Final Standings: Akron 10-0, Albion 7-3, Roy-Hart 6-4, Medina 4-6, Wilson 3-7, Newfane 0-10.

Byron-Bergen 25-25-25, Notre Dame 16-14-18

Byron-Bergen defeated Notre Dame in straight sets in a Genesee Region League match as Lauren Burke had 11 aces and 10 kills and Quinn Chapell 4 aces and 3 kills.

B-B is now 13-0 in the league and 14-1 overall.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall’s Jake Adams, right, battles for control of the ball with Wheatland-Chili’s Dylan Vogel during the host Eagles sectional loss this evening.

A lone first half goal proved to be just enough as No. 9 seed Wheatland-Chili edged past No. 8 Genesee Region League foe Kendall 1-0 this evening in the opening round of the Section V Class D1 boys soccer playoffs at Kendall.

The teams had split a pair of regular season G-R meetings.

Kendall finishes the season at 8-8-1.

The No. 5 seed Kendall girls will also host a G-R foe in the opening round of the Class D1 playoffs as the Lady Eagles entertain No. 12 Lyndonville at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Kendall, which brings an 11-5 record into the sectionals, scored a 3-0 win during the G-R season over Lyndonville which is 6-10.

The No. 15 Holley girls dropped a 5-1 decision to No. 2 Addison today in the opening round of the Class C1 playoffs at Wayland-Cohocton.

Kendall’s Joe LoSapio brings the ball up field against W-C defender Kevin Bayly-Henshaw.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Matt Hess scores his second goal for Medina/Lyndonville during the Mustangs sectional opening win over Salamanca/Cattaraugus Little Valley this afternoon at Vets Park.

Ethan Leonard (9) tries to advance the ball up field for the Mustangs against Jacob Davison.

A quick two goal scoring burst early in the second half  keyed No. 7 seed Medina/Lyndonville to a 3-1 victory over No. 10 Salamanca/Cattaraugus Little Valley this afternoon in the opening round of the Section VI Class B2 boys soccer playoffs at Vets Park.

Leading by a narrow 1-0 margin, the Mustangs pulled away as Matt Hess scored off an assist from Vassilios Bitsas at 28:28 of the second half and Elian Gonzalez quickly followed up with a tally on a direct kick at 25:50.

The two goals proved big as Salamanca/Cattaraugus Little Valley scored just five minutes later on a goal by Justin Pincoski.

The Mustangs grabbed a 1-0 lead when Hess scored with just 3:45 remaining in the first half.

Now at 11-6, Medina/Lyndonville next visits No. 2 MST Seneca on Thursday.

In other Class B2 games, No. 8 Akron blanked No. 9 Eden 2-0 on goals by Ethan Martin and Cody Blasko, No. 3 Wilson shutout No. 14 Olmsted 5-0 as Cesar Carlin scored 4 goals and No. 13 Roy-Hart lost 3-0 at No. 4 Southwestern.

In a Class B1 opener No. 10 Albion dropped a narrow 1-0 decision at No. 7 Alden as Nate Newer netted the lone goal for the Bulldogs.

Albion edged past Medina 28-31 this afternoon in a regular season ending Niagara-Orleans League cross-country meet at Newfane.

Evan Steier finished in third to lead the way for Albion while Medina’s Dan Heil won the race.

Newfane defeated Medina 20-37 and Albion 22-37 in the other portion of the meet.

The Newfane girls finished a 6-0 regular season by downing Medina 15-48 and Albion 16-47.

Albion bested Medina 19-42 in the other portion of the meet to improve to 5-1.

The Lady Panthers were led by the 1-2-3 finish of Vanessa Burkard, Nina Burkard and Kim Goerss.

The Wilson boys also scored a sweep defeating Akron 24-31 and Roy-Hart 16-43. Akron also bested Roy-Hart 19-36.

Wilson was led by the 2-3 finish of Will Schwarzmueller and Trey Rees as Akron’s Mike Swiniarski won the race.

The Akron girls likewise posted a sweep defeating Wilson 21-40 and Roy-Hart 19-44. Wilson gained a split by downing Roy-Hart 25-30.

Akron’s Margo Henley won the race as Roy-Hart’s Anna Rickard placed second and Wilson’s Julie Reagan third.

The league championships will be decided at the annual All-League meet on October 29 at Lakeside Beach State Park.

Boys Standings: Barker 6-0, Wilson 5-1, Newfane 4-2, Akron 3-3, Albion 2-4, Roy-Hart 1-5, Medina 0-6.
Girls Standings: Newfane 6-0, Albion 5-1, Akron 4-2, Medina 2-4, Roy-Hart 2-4, Barker 1-5, Wilson 1-5.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman –  Medina’s Guin Schalck and Wilson’s Olivia Mitchell battle for the ball during the Mustangs loss to the Lakewomen this evening at Vets Park.

Wilson scored twice in the final nine minutes to down Medina 2-0 this evening in a Niagara-Orleans League season ending field hockey game at Vets Park.

Snapping the scoreless deadlock, Maddy Mokarski tallied with 9:03 remaining off an assist from Alex Seeley.

Seeley then added an insurance goal just four minutes later.

Wilson finishes the N-O season at 8-4 and Medina at 1-11.

Akron 1, Roy-Hart 0
Akron closed out a perfect 12-0 N-O championship season with a rainy 1-0 win over visiting Roy-Hart.

Abby Enfield scored the game’s lone goal for Akron early in the second half off an assist from Abby Stone.

Roy-Hart ends up at 7-5.

Barker 4, Kenmore 0
All of the scoring took place in the first half as Barker shutout Kenmore 4-0 on goals by Ciara Gregoire, Haley Brown, Lena Fazzolari and Rachel Hurtgam.

Barker finishes the league campaign at 9-3 and Kemore at 2-10.

Final Standings: Akron 12-0, Barker 9-3, Wilson 8-4, Roy-hart 7-5, Newfane 3-9, Kenmore 2-10, Medina 1-11.

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Front-running JR Wilson defeated Vets Club 39-31 and runner-up Legion downed Sacred Heart 40-30 in Medina Euchre League competition Monday.

JR Wilson is now 83-57, Legion 74-66, Sacred Heart 66-74 and Vets Club 57-83.

League action resumes on October 24 with JR Wilson at Sacred Heart and Vets Club at Legion.

Improving to 11-5, Kendall rolled to a straight set 25-8, 25-10, 25-9 victory over visiting Rochester Academy Charter this evening in a non league volleyball match.

Jessica Coble had 11 assists, 7 service aces and 3 digs; Chelsea Wright 6 spiking kills, 5 aces, 4 assists and 4 digs; Lexi Payton 5 kills and 3 digs, Mariah Marks 3 kills and Jenna Regan 7 aces and 1 kills to lead the way for the Lady Eagles.