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Medina High graduate and Canisius College junior Tommy Zacher earned his first career win in goal for the Griffins lacrosse team this past week. Zacher, who is Medina’s first Division 1 lacrosse player, entered the game with Canisius trailing Manhattan 9-7. He registered three saves over the final 22 minutes as Canisius rallied to claim a 13-11 victory.

Leading by a narrow 4-2 margin, Geneseo scored a total of nine runs during the fifth and sixth innings to lock up a 13-3 win over visiting Holley/Kendall this afternoon in a non league baseball game.

Nick Passarell had three hits for Holley/Kendall including a double.

Now at 2-2 overall, Holley/Kendall next visits Attica on Monday in a Genesee Region League game.

In other non league contests, St. Mary’s of Lancaster defeated Roy-Hart 9-2 and Newfane nipped Cleve Hill 8-7.

Kyle Jurek had 3 hits and Matt DiTullio 2 for Newfane as Tanner Feeley and Tyler Jurek boh added doubles.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Allison Bensley slides safely into third base ahead of a tag by Newfane’s Teagan Volpe. The action took place during the Mustangs win over the Lady Panthers this afternoon at Vets Park.

Putting together a big late inning scoring burst Medina rallied to edge past Newfane 8-6 this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League softball game at Vets Park.

Trailing 6-3, Medina exploded for five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to claim the win on RBI singles by Alisha Scroger and Courtney Bailey, a pair of fielders choice plays and an RBI double by Ryenn Oliver. Singles by Destiny Satkowski and winning pitcher Emily Kams set up the threat.

The Mustangs other three runs came on solo tallies in the first inning on a double by Scroger, the fourth on a single by Allison Bensley and the fifth on a single by Brandi Guild.

Medina’s Brandi Guild tries to tag out Newfane’s Caitlin Chunco as she dives back to third base.

Newfane broke away from a 2-2 deadlock by scoring three times in the fifth on a fielders choice play off the bat of Katie Kneeland, an error and an RBI single by Teagan Volpe. An error, a bunt single by Cassidy Geise and a single by Olivia Littman loaded the bases to set up the opportunity.

The Lady Panthers maintained a 6-3 lead by scoring once in the top of the sixth but the Mustangs answered right back with the decisive five run uprising in the home half of the frame.

Satkowski, Scroger, Bensley and Oliver each had two hits on the day for Medina as did Geise, Volpe and Caitlin Chunco for Newfane.

In the circle, Kams registered 7 strikeouts.

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

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Chelsea Wright delivers a pitch for Kendall during the Lady Eagles win at Holley today.

Scoring five quick runs in the first inning, Kendall went on to defeat host Holley 13-4 today in a Genesee Region League softball game.

Two hits by Sarah Pearson, along with one each by winning pitcher Chelsea Wright, Emily Mattle and Michela Hanlon, led the offense for Kendall which also benefitted from a total of 17 walks, seven of which came in the opening frame.

Kendall’s Rebecca Banker slides into home for a first inning run as Holley catcher Julianna Drewry tries to make the tag.

In the circle, Wright scattered 5 hits and struck out 7.

Anna Brasted had three hits for Holley including a double and triple.

Kendall is now 2-1 and Holley 0-3 in G-R action.

Holley first baseman Anna Brasted holds the ball after tagging out Kendall’s Sarah Pearson.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Barker’s Brad Wilson scores on a squeeze play during the Raiders home field win over Medina this afternoon as Mustangs pitcher Tyler Ames flips the ball to catcher Justin Morgan.

Jumping out to an early 6-0 lead, Barker went on to defeat visiting Medina 6-4 this afternoon as the Raiders improve to 3-0 in Niagara-Orleans League baseball competition.

Barker scored four quick runs in the first inning on a two-run single by Jake Meister and RBI singles by winning pitcher Brad Wilson and Kyle McDonald.

The Raiders tacked on two more runs in the second on a double by Wilson and a squeeze bunt by Meister.

Medina did rally late as Jared Zinkievich, seeing his first acton since being injured while making a diving catch on Tuesday, banged out a three-run triple in the seventh inning. However, the Mustangs rally fell short.

Wilson went the distance on the mound allowing 4 hits and striking out 7.

Playing their fourth game in as many days, the Mustangs slip to 1-3 in N-O action.

Brad Wilson delivers a pitch for Barker.

Albion 9, CSAT 8
Albion pushed across a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to nip visiting CSAT 9-8 and maintain a share of the N-O lead at 3-0.

Bryce Pritchard banged out an RBI double in the last of the seventh to earn the Purple Eagles the narrow win as an error set up the opportunity.

Earlier, Albion scored five times in the second inning to grab a 7-2 lead. A double by Nate Moore ignited that uprising whig also featured RBI singles by Randy Eblacker and Vincent Zona and a two-run error.

Eblacker, Zona and Jason Downs each had two hits on the day.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Michael Wells delivers a pitch for Lyndonville during the Tigers home field win over Northstar this afternoon.

Banging out 15 hits, Lyndonville posted an 11-2 victory over visiting Northstar this afternoon in a non league baseball game.

Winning pitcher Michael Wells, Eric Neace and Cody Bensley each had 3 hits for the Tigers as Dawson Joy and Andrew Dusett both added 2.

Trailing 2-0, Lyndonville moved on top to stay by scoring four times in the third inning on a solo home run by Joy, a two-run single by Wells and an RBI single by Neace.

The Tigers later put a lock on the win by scoring three times in both the fifth and sixth innings. Neace had an RBI single in both frames and Wells an RBI single in the sixth.

Wells went the distance on the mound allowing 4 hits and striking out 9.

Holley/Kendall 13, Pembroke 2
Holley/Kendall likewise rolled to a 13-2 victory over Pembroke in a Genesee Region League contest.

Trailing 2-0, Holley’Kendall rallied into the lead for good by scoring 5 runs in the second inning highlighted by two-run singles by both Justin Parker and Nick Passarell.

Parker and Passarell both had a pair of hits on the day as the Hawks go to 2-0 in G-R action.

When competition in the Niagara-Orleans League season opener ended on Thursday with 15 of 17 events completed the Albion boys track team trailed host rival Medina/Lyndonville by 15 points (69-54).

Because of wet grounds the remaining two events, the shot-put and discus, were postponed until today at Albion.

The large deficit meant that Albion would have to take 17 of the possible 18 points in the two remaining events in order to claim victory.

And incredibly that is exactly what the Purple Eagles did to emerge with a 71-70 victory.

Senior Nate Trembley led the Purple Eagles comeback by taking first place in both the shot-put (42-6) and the discus (105-7).

Junior Kory Reynolds likewise came up big taking second place in both events.

Jared Hollinger, who is also a junior, provided the meet winning point for the Purple Eagles with a third place in the shot-put.

The Albion girls, which held a big 70-52 lead at the end of Thursday’s competition, locked up a 75-65 victory by taking second and third in the shot-put with Nicole Eldred and Bre Johnson and second in the discus with Johnson.

Medina/Lyndonville’s Emma Gardner took first place honors in both the shot-put and discus.

Albion posts win over CSAT

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Stacy Buckland delivers a pitch for Lyndonville during the Lady Tigers home field win over Holley this afternoon.

Exploding for nine runs in both the first and second innings, Lyndonville went on to defeat visiting Holley 26-4 this afternoon in the Genesee Region League softballl opener.

Aubrey Lewis had 3 hits and Jess Harling 2 to lead the Lady Tigers offense.

Ryley O’Mara bangs out a hit for Holley.

Albion 13, CSAT 4
Improving to 2-1, Albion downed host CSAT 13-4 in a Niagara-Orleans League game.

Meghan Hurley had 4 hits, including a two-run home run and 3 RBIs, to spearhead the Albion attack. Kassidy Hastings added 3 hits as Olivia Prest, and Brylie Hapeman both had 2 for the Purple Eagles. Prest drove in 3 runs and Hapeman 2.

The Purple Eagles pulled away by erupting for seven runs in the third inning.

Holley trims Oakfield-Alabama

Improving to 4-0, Medina blanked visiting Barker 5 1/2-0 this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League tennis match.

Straight set wins by the singles trio of Kristian Snyder (6-1, 6-0 over Nick Fazzolari), Tristan Sanders (6-0, 6-2 over Andrew Jenks) and Brandon Harris (6-1, 6-2 over Alexander Israel) led by way for Medina.

The Mustangs also got 6-0, 6-0 wins by the doubles teams of Kyla Leno-Mike Cardone, Nick Bogan-Ray Paull and Able Zavitz-Vassilios Bitsas.

Holley 3, Oakfield-Alabama 2
Holley edged past Oakfield-Alabama 3-2 to improve to 2-1 in Genesee Region League action.

A  win by Pablo Romero at second singles provided the margin of victory for Holley.

The Hawks also got wins by Brady Smith at first singles and by the second doubles team of Derek McArthur-Jake DeSimone.

On Thursday, Holley blanked Pembroke 5-0 on singles wins by Brady, Romero and Cameron Bennage along with victories by the doubles teams of Gabe Mendoza-Melanie Klossner and McArthur-DeSimone.

In one other G-R match, Alexander defeated Kendall 4-1.

Collin Lewis scored a three set win at first singles for Kendall.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Medina defenders Kalvin Packer and Ian Joseph sandwich Salamanca’s Kiona Welch during the Mustangs win over the visiting Warriors this afternoon at Vets Park.

Regaining the .500 mark at 3-3, Medina defeated visiting Salamanca 14-5 this afternoon in a Class C Division lacrosse game at Vets Park.

Coby Albone scored 5 goals, Jake Cotter and Brendan Luthart 3 and Greg Husung, Tyler Valley and Mason Lewis 1 each to spark the Medina attack.

Medina jumped out to a 4-2 first quarter lead on goals by Cotter, Luthart, Albone and Husung.

Two second period tallies by Cotter, along with 1 each by Valley, Husung and Albone, helped boost the Mustangs advantage to 9-2 at the half.

Medina next hosts Gowanda/Silver Creek on Tuesday.