Albion and Medina teams took two out of three games Saturday in Niagara Orleans Football Association (NOFA) action.

Albion faced Akron and won the Mini Division game 18-6 and the JV Division contest 40-0. Akron took the Varsity Division game 35-0.

Medina faced Tri Town and won the Mini Division game 14-0 and the Varsity contest 45-13. Tri Town took the JV Division game 35-13.

Mini Division
Albion 18 Akron 6
Makyell Walker 208 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns on carries of 83, 5 and 37 to lead the Albion offense. Leading the defense were Walker (9 tackles), Kawme Riley and Wes Olles

Medina Colts 14, Tri Town Trojans 0
Cole Callard and Avion Johnson both had rushing touchdowns to lead the Colts. Callard also had a two-point conversion pass to Jamaire Lemaine. Carter Woodworth, Johnson, Trevon Shine and Brody Fry anchored the shutout effort by the defense.

JV Division
Albion 40 Akron 0
Sparking Albion were Amari Jones (162 yards, 2 touchdowns), Sh’kwe Riley (73 yards and 1 TD),  Shakarion Drisdom (46 yards),  Jacob Hughson (5 yard TD) and Javon Jones (64 yard TD reception). Defensively, Amari Jones had 9 tackles 1 interception and 1 fumble recovery and Jacob Hughson 8 tackles.  Javon Jones, Braden McMurray and Brandon Cox also all had strong defensive games.

Tri Town Trojans 35, Medina Broncos 13
Lavonn Guy had 171 yards rushing including two long touchdown runs for the Broncos. Aiden Pitts added 56 yards rushing and an extra point, Trenton Much 54 yards passing and Hunter Stephens 54 yards receiving. Defensively, Guy had 8 tackles, Josh Wilson 6 and Oliver Wilson and Chris Johnson 5 each.

Varsity Division
Akron 35, Albion 0
Anthony Freeman 93 yards rushing and 9 tackles for Albion as Will Freeman and Jonny Judd also both played well on defense.

Medina Stallions 45, Tri Town Trojans 13
Brian Fry had touchdown passes of 32 yards to Emmanuel Taylor and 46 yards to Tyler Chinn and also returned a humble recovery 46 yards for a TD for the Stallions. Xander Payne added an 11 yard touchdown pass to Chinn and ran 20 yards for another TD. Chinn also had a 30 yard interception return for a touchdown and Taylor a 50 yard kickoff return for a TD. Fry, Payne and Joe Cecchini all added extra points.
On defense, Taylor and Zachary Oliver both forced fumbles. Iverson Poole had 4 tackles while Noah Skinner and Taylor both had 3 and Hayden Woodroe and Rashawn Bloom 2.

Contributed Story

Barker/Roy-Hart scored a touchdown in each half to down Medina/Lyndonville 16-6 Saturday morning in a JV football game at Vets Park.

The Mustangs took a 6-0 first quarter lead as Zach Johnson connected on a 1 yard touchdown pass to William Braswell. The score was set up by a 26 yard pass from Johnson to Rickie Pitts followed by a 34 yard run by Bobby Geiger.

However, the Mustangs would stall out on offense twice more inside the 10 yard line throughout the game.

Barker/Roy-Hart rallied into an 8-6 lead on a 37 yard touchdown pass from Charlie Brigham to Charlie Bruning with 7 seconds to go in the first half. Brigham also passed to Chase Bohall for the two-point conversion.

Barker/Roy-Hart added a big insurances touchdown midway through the fourth quarter on a 2 yard TD run by Patrick Dwyer. Brigham passed to Walker Samanka for the two-point conversion.

For the Mustangs on the day, Johnson completed 10 of 19 passes for 132 yards and added 47 rushing yards. Pitts hauled in 5 passes for a total of 81 yards, while Braswell contributed 51 receiving yards and 48 rushing yards.

Defensively the Mustangs were led by Justice Hughes and Chase Prest with 9 tackles a piece. Blaire Prest also recovered a fumble.

The Mustangs next face Lackawanna at Vets Park on Saturday at 10 a.m.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Kendall Derisley (14) battles for control of the ball with Batavia’s Allison Moore (3) during this evening’s Holley Tournament championship game which was won by the Lady Blue Devils.

All of the scoring took place in the first half as Batavia edged past Albion 2-1 this evening in the championship game of the Holley girls soccer tournament.

Batavia jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Maggie Cecere scored with 23 minutes to go in the first half.

Albion though answered right back with the equalizer just over two minutes later when Brylie Hapeman scored at 20:57.

However, the Purple Eagles could not find the net again and Batavia scored what proved to be the game winner on a shot by Allison Moore with 6:12 to go in the opening half.

Albion goalie Isabella Prest had a busy night making no less than 21 saves.

Albion’s Brylie Hapeman and Batavia’s Claire Zicki in close quarters working to advance the ball.

Now at 1-2, Albion next visits Newfane Tuesday in a Niagara-Orleans League game.

Holley 1, Greece Olympia 1 (OT)
Host Holley battled to a 1-1 double overtime tie with Greece Olympia in the consolation game.

Haylee Passarell scored Holley’s goal in the second half off an assist from Kayleigh Neale.

Holley next hosts rival Kendall on Wednesday in a Genesee Region League game.
Boys Soccer
Newfane 8, Roy-Hart 0
Exploding for three goals in the first nine minutes, defending champion Newfane went on to blank host Roy-Hart 8-0 today in a Niagara-Orleans League boys soccer game.

Trevor Moreland and Mateo May each netted a pair of goals to lead a parade of six Panther scorers.

Newfane is now 2-0 and Roy-Hart 0-1 in N-O action.

Kendall opened defense of its Genesee Region League Division 1 girls soccer title in exciting fashion today with a 3-2 double overtime victory at Attica.

TT ReQua scored all three goals for Kendall which has claimed the G-R Division 1 crown the last three years in a row.

“It was definitely a nail bitter,” said Coach Pam Beres. “We had 14 shots in the first half but could not finish. But when we needed it we got it done.”

Trailing 1-0, Kendall pulled even on a goal by ReQua 25 minutes into the second half.

The teams traded goals in the first 10 minute overtime period as a ReQua tally 4 minutes in was then off set by an Attica score.

The Lady Eagles finally pulled out the narrow victory when ReQua tallied with two minutes to go in the second overtime.

Kendall next visits rival Holley at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley’s Zach Day (20) goes over the top to score the go ahead touchdown for the Hawks during this afternoon’s season opening win over visiting Nichols.

Opening the season on a high note, Holley rallied in the second half to defeat Nichols of Buffalo 18-6 this afternoon in a non league game.

Trailing 6-3 at the half, Holley combined touchdown runs by running back Zach Day and quarterback Jeremy Mallett along with several big defensive stops, including a fumble recovery by Glenn Thrower, to earn the Hawks their first season opening victory in several years.

“You can’t imagine how important this win is to us,” said Hawks Coach Wil Prince. “It’s been a while since Holley has won an opener so this is just real big for our program.”

Holley capitalized on Thrower’s fumble recovery on the first play of the second half to regain the lead for good just six snaps later on a 2 yard touchdown run by Day. An 18 yard pass completion from Mallett to Ryan Andrews highlighted the drive. Collin Papaj added the two-point conversion run to give the Hawks an 11-6 lead.

Nichols did threaten late in the fourth quarter as the Vikings recovered a Holley fumble near midfield. However, the Hawks defense unit came up big to stop the advance at the Holley 41 as Mallett defended on a fourth down pass attempt.

“Our defense came up big for us,” said Prince.

Holley running back Collin Papaj (14) picks up yardage along the side line pursued by Nichols defender Austin Ellis-Mohr.

Holley then put a firm lock on the victory as Mallett scored on a 15 yard touchdown run with only 1:15 remaining. A big 39 yard run by Day set up the clinching tally as Andrews tacked on the extra point.

“Offensively we made some adjustments at half-time which helped us,” said Prince.

Andrews also provided the Hawks only points of the first half as he kicked a 28 yard field goal with 10 seconds to go in the first quarter for a 3-0 Holley lead.

Penalties though stymied two other Holley first half drives and a turnover halted another as Nichols grabbed a 6-3 lead at the half on a 63 yard scoring pass from quarterback Julian Freeman to Austin Ellis-Mohr midway through the second quarter.

The Holley defensive unit got fumble recoveries from Nick Smith and Passarell to stop two other Vikings first half drives. Passarell’s recovery came at the Holley 20 and Smith’s at the Hawks 43.

Holley next visits CG Finney in another non league contest next Saturday.

Holley’s Camron Labarge (1) goes high to break up a pass intended for Austin Ellis-Mohr of Nichols. Also helping to defend for the Hawks is Michael Passarell (33).

Trading touchdowns in the final hectic minute, host Lew-Port emerged with a narrow 26-25 victory over Albion this evening in a season opening interdivisional football game.

Albion rallied into a 25-20 lead with just 56 seconds to go on a 10 yard touchdown pass from quarterback Bryce Pritchard to Lamar Chambers.

Capitalizing on the recovery of a short kickoff, Lew-Port answered right back with a 32-yard touchdown pass by quarterback Dylan Milbrand with only 40 seconds remaining to give the Lancers the one point victory.

Earlier, Albion got a 10 yard touchdown run by Tommy Mattison in the first quarter, a 39 yard scoring pass from Pritchard to Kory Reynolds in the second period and a 90 yard interception return for a TD by Brandon McGuire in the third stanza. Pritchard added the extra point kick after that tally.

The contest was deadlocked 6-6 after one quarter and 12-12 at the half. The Lancers then grabbed a slender 20-19 lead at the three-quarter mark.

Defensively for Albion, Reynolds had 13 tackles and 4 sacks and Ben Restivo 9 tackles and 2 sacks.

Albion next hosts Alden at 7 p.m. next Friday in the Purple Eagles B East Division opener.

Alden rolled past Depew 40-19 this evening in the Bulldogs season and B East opener.

Albion scored a straight set 25-20, 25-10, 25-12 victory over visiting Alexander this evening in a non league volleyball match.

Chanyce Powell had 13 spiking kills and 3 service aces to lead the way for Albion.

The Purple Eagles also had Emilie Barleben with 11 assists and 2 aces, Kiara Smith 2 kills, Sierra Newton 3 aces and Caitlynn Snook 4 kills.

Albion next opens defense of its Niagara-Orleans League title at home on Wednesday against Roy-Hart.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Maddy Winters (21) advances the ball up field as Akron’s Julia Wartinger comes in to defend. The action took place during the Mustangs loss to the Lady Tigers this afternoon at Vets Park.

Two unanswered second half goals earned Akron a 3-1 victory over Medina this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League girls soccer game at Vets Park.

Kara Sequin scored both second half goals for the Lady Tigers to complete her hat-trick.

Medina got a first half goal by Olivia Carter to stay even at the break.

Sequin netted the Lady Tigers opening goal.

Akron is now 2-0 and Medina 0-1 in N-O action.

Newfane 5, Roy-Hart 0
Emily Foltz and Kayleigh Daniels both scored 2 goals and Makena Carpenter 1 to pace Newfane to a 5-0 victory over Roy-Hart.

Newfane is now 2-0 and Roy-Hart 1-1.

Boys Soccer
Alden 4, Holley 1
Alden scored on its first four shots to key a 4-1 victory over the host Hawks this evening in the championship game of the Holley Tournament.

Andrew Cary scored Holley’s goal off an assist from Tyler Hill.

Batavia nipped Roy-Hart 1-0 in the consolation game.

HAC 2, Kendall 0
Host HAC scored a goal in each half to blank Kendall 2-0 in the visiting Eagles season opener.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina/Lyndonville running back Eric Neace heads toward the goal line during the Mustangs win over Barker/Roy-Hart this evening at Middleport.

Erupting for touchdowns on the first three possessions, Medina/Lyndonville romped to a 56-24 victory over Barker/Roy-Hart this evening in the B East Division season opener at Middleport.

It took just two offensive plays for the Mustangs to get on the scoreboard as quarterback Izaiah Rhim completed a 22 yard pass to Johnny Salone and then Jake Cotter ran the final 13 yards for the touchdown with 6:38 to go in the opening quarter. A big 50 yard punt return by Jalin Cooper set up the scoring opportunity.

The Mustangs made it 12-0 when Cotter scored on a 24 yard run with 1:29 to go in the opening stanza as a 48 yard run by Eric Neace highlighted the drive.

The lead jumped to 20-0 midway through the second quarter when Neace scored on a 1 yard run and Rhim added the two-point conversion pass to Salone. A 24 yard run by Cotter and a 26 yard fourth down pass completion from Rhim to Salone keyed the march.

Barker/Roy-Hart’s Malik Smith picks up yardage down the sideline as Mustang defender Eric Neace moves in.

The Mustangs advantage ballooned to 42-0 midway through the third quarter after a quick three touchdown burst on scoring runs of 8 yards by Neace and 19 by Cotter along with a 30 yard TD pass from Rhim to Brendan Luthart. A fumble recovery by Salone on a Barker kickoff return set up Neace’s TD. Luthart and Salone also caught two-point scoring passes from Rhim during that stretch.

Cooper also scored on an 85 yard kickoff return and Dustin Joy on a 36 yard run in the fourth quarter to round out the Mustangs scoring parade.

Barker/Roy-Hart’s scoring all came in the fourth quarter on touchdown runs of 5 yards by Malik Smith, 10 by Eddie Wasnock and 5 by Aaron Curry. Smith, Wasnock and Eric Fitch each added a two-point conversion.

Medina/Lyndonville next visits Lackawanna on September 9 while Barker/Roy-Hart visits Notre Dame of Batavia on September 10.