Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Taylor Rutland scored what proved to be the game winning basket for Kendall in the narrow win over visiting Lyndonvilel this evening.

Kendall rallied late to nip visiting Lyndonville 28-27 this evening in a Genesee Region League girls basketball game.

Trailing 25-24, Kendall rallied into the lead for good at 27-25 on a three point shot by Taylor Rutland with just over a minute to go.

The Lady Eagles got the ball back after a Lyndonville turnover with 9 seconds to go and Lizzie Rath made one of two free throws to up the Kendall lead to 28-25 with three seconds remaining.

Lyndonville made two of three free throw attempts with no time remaining to make the final 28-27.

Taylor ReQua had 9 points, 10 rebounds and 10 steals to lead the way for Kendall.

Rath finished with 6 points, Taylor Rutland 5, Maya Rutland and Bridget Miller 4 each for the Lady Eagles.

Aubrey Lewis had 12 points, Makenzie Muck 6 and Jasmine Plummer 5 for Lyndonville.

Lyndonville, which was blanked from the field in the fourth quarter, led 12-7 after one period, 21-13 at the half and 25-20 at the three-quarter mark.

“It’s a huge win for us,” said Kendall Coach Jeff Parizek whose Lady Eagles improve to 1-1 in the league and 2-3 overall. “We just played tenacious defense.”

Lyndonville is now 0-2 in the league and 1-4 overall.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Jalin Cooper scored 18 to help lead Medina past visiting Burgard 47-39 this evening.

Gaining victory No. 1 on the young season, Medina bested visiting Burgard 47-39 this evening in a non league boys basketball game.

Jalin Cooper scored 18, Justin Morgan 11 and Tyler Ames 8 to lead the way for Medina which snapped a brief season opening two game losing streak.

Medina jumped out to a 12-6 first quarter lead as Cooper and Mason Lewis each scored 4 points.

The Mustangs increased the lead to 28-16 at the half as Cooper tallied 9, Daryl Haynes 4 and Morgan 3 in the second quarter.

Two threes by Morgan, along with 5 points by Cooper, in the third period helped keep Medina up 41-28 at the three-quarter mark.

Medina next hosts Newfane at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Mustangs Niagara-Orleans League opener.

Newfane 50, Akron 31
Newfane opened N-O competition by defeating host Akron (0-2) 50-31.

Chad Gilson and Zach Lajoie both scored 9 points to lead the balanced attack for Newfane which held a 24-12 advantage at the half.

Building up a 35-13 half-time advantage, Batavia went on to defeat visiting Albion 68-33 this evening in a non league girls basketball game.

Tiara Filbert scored 20 and Madison McCulley 15 to lead the way for Batavia.

Chanyce Powell scored 13, Emily Blanchard 8 and Sierra Newton 7 for Albion. Powell also grabbed off 7 rebounds and Newton 6.

Newfane 47, North Tonawanda 45 (OT)
A basket by Emily Foltz with 10 seconds to go in overtime provided the margin for Newfane over host North Tonawanda iin a non league contest.

Paige Emborsky scored 18 and Foltz 10 to lead the way for Newfane.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Kalvin Packer works toward a pin over Joe Lebron of St. Mary’s of Lancaster during the host Mustangs non league win this evening.

Benefitting from eight forfeit wins worth a total of 48 points, Medina rolled to a 60-22 victory over visiting St. Mary’s of Lancaster this evening in a non league match.

In two Niagara-Orleans League season opening matches, Barker/Roy-Hart defeated Akron 46-24 and Newfane downed Wilson 83-6.

Joe Velez (132) and Kalvin Packer (195) scored first period pins in times of 1:11 and :41 respectively for Medina’s only wins of the five bouts decided on the mat.

Jake Fay (138) and Tom Desiderio (170) scored pins for the undermanned St. Mary’s squad.

Barker/Roy-Hart 46, Akron 24
Tyler Choate (138), AJ Schafer (145) and Nick Fazzolari (220) all registered pins to lead Barker/Roy-Hart past visiting Akron 46-24.

Dan Wheeler (126), Ryan Ulrich (152) and Cameron Swick (170) also all scored decision wins for Barker/Roy-Hart.

Newfane 83, Wilson 6
Pins by Charlie Johnstone (132), Paul Dunbar (145), Adam Nowicki (160), Nick Gifford (170), Tyler Skidmore (182) and Chris Johnstone (220), along with a technical fall win by Jake Kubala (195), led defending champion Newfane to an 83-6 win at rival Wilson.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Tanner Rees in route to a win in the 200 Individual Mediey during the Channel Cats victory over host Albion this afternoon.

Nine time defending champion Roy-Hart opened defense of its Niagara-Orleans League boys swim title by defeating host Albion 67-27 this afternoon.

The Roy-Hart girls completed the sweep by downing Albion 65-29.

The Roy-Hart boys were led by a trio of individual event double winners as Tanner Rees took the 200 Individual Medley and 100 Butterfly, Nathan Mikoll the 50 Freestyle and 100 Free and Mason Sparks the 200 Free and 500 Free.

Elliott Spitzer also posted a win in the 100 Backstroke for the Channel Cats.

In sweeping the three relays, Roy-Hart had Spitzer, Jarret Thompson, Rees and Sparks win the 200 Medley; Jake Stern, Trevor Meal, Jack Daly and Mikoll the 200 Free and Sparks, Mikoll, Spitzer and Rees the 400 Free.

Albion’s Matt Kovaleski won the 100 Breaststroke.

Albion’s Elizabeth Furmanski heads toward a win in the 200 Individual Medley.

The Roy-Hart girls had a pair of individual event double winners as Alex Fox took the 50 Free and 100 Free and Madison Ohol the 200 Free and 500 Free.

The Channel Cats also had Alex Hill win the 100 Butterfly, Kayla Hagan the 100 Backstroke and Emily DiMayo the 100 Breaststroke.

Hill, DiMayo and Hagan also teamed up with Fox to win the 200 Medley Relay and with Emilia Peracciny to take the 400 Free Relay.

Albion’s Elizabeth Furmanski won the 200 Individual Medley. She also teamed up with Michaela Pantano, Sarah Graham and Rylie Lear to win the 200 Free Relay.

Medina splits with Newfane

Medina defeated Newfane 93-75 in the boys meet as Chase Pecoraro doubled in the 100 Free and 200 Free and Powell Stephens took the 500 Free.

Chase Pecoraro and Stephens also combined with Kristian Snyder and Mason Pecoraro to win the 200 Free Relay.

Newfane’s Andrew Hamelink set a new school record in the 50 Free with a winning time of :23.49.

The six time defending N-O champion Newfane girls downed Medina 110-60 as Lydia Gaughran doubled in the 100 Butterfly and 500 Free and Allie DeBiase in the 200 Individual Medley and 100 Breaststroke.

Medina’s quartet of Emma Gardner, Alyssa Beyer, Andrea Toussaint and Hannah Heil won the 200 Free Relay.

Barker splits at Akron

A trio of individual event double winners including Andrew Jenks (200 Individual Medley, 100 Free), Collin Webb (50 Free, 500 Free) and Collin Stevener (100 Butterfly, 100 Backstroke), led the Barker boys to a 99-63 win at Akron.

Adam Wagner also took the 200 Free and Ian Goodlander the 100 Breaststroke for the Raiders.

Akron earned a split on the day by downing Barker in the girls meet 96-74 as Madison Harris doubled in the 200 and 500 Freestyle events and Julia Deibel in the 200 Individual Medley and 100 Backstroke.

Sarah Gendrue doubled for Barker in the 100 Free and 100 Breaststroke as Natalie Menz won the 50 Free and Chloe Goodlander the 100 Butterfly.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Jasmine Plummer drives against Wheatland-Chili’s Jasmine Boswell during the host Lady Tigers loss to the Lady Wildcats.

Regaining the lead for good with a big run to close the third period, Wheatland-Chili went on to defeat host Lyndonville 50-33 this evening in a Genesee Region League girls basketball game.

Lyndonville rallied into a 19-19 tie early in the third period after two free throws by Makenzie Muck followed by a three-point play by Anna Lewis.

However, W-C answered with an 18-7 run to close the period and move back on top to stay by a 37-26 margin at the three-quarter mark. Taylor Clar scored 10 of her game high 23 points to lead that uprising.

W-C led 6-4 after one period and 17-14 at the half.

Muck finished with a total of 11 points and Aubrey Lewis 9 for Lyndonville as Anna Lewis netted 5, Abi Rodriguez 4 and Miranda Lembcke and Stacey Buckland 2 each.

Lyndonville is now 0-1 in the league and 1-3 overall.

Lyndonville’s Aubrey Lewis passes the ball behind W-C’s Abbie Callaghan.

Pembroke 40, Holley 13
Courtney Winkley and Madison Marsh each scored 5 points and Olivia Radford 3 for Holley in the 40-13 G-R loss at Pembroke.

Wilson 61, Lew-Port 34
Rachel Senek scored 17, Serina Jaeger 12, Lauren Coutuerier 9 and Jodie Vincent and Kayla Neumann 8 each to lead Wilson to a 61-34 non league victory over Lew-Port.

Senek also grabbed off 17 rebounds.

Wilson held a commanding 31-13 lead at the half.

A huge second quarter keyed St. Francis to a 73-34 victory over visiting Albion this evening in a non league boys basketball game.

Albion jumped out to a 14-11 first quarter lead as Tommy Mattison scored 6 points and Evan Pappalardo 4.

However, St. Francis answered right back with a whopping 27-6 second period scoring surge to rally into the lead for good by a 38-20 margin at the half.

The Red Raiders led the Purple Eagles 57-26 after three-quarters.

Mattison finished with a total of 9 points, Pappalardo 7 and Chase Hall 6 for the Purple Eagles.

Now at 0-3, Albion next hosts Wilson on December 15 to open the Niagara-Orleans League season.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Andy Xapsos goes in for a lay-up as Cleveland Hill’s Nick Gamble tries to block. The action took place during the host Rams loss to the Eagles this evening.

Taking charge with a big second quarter uprising, Cleveland Hill went on to defeat host Roy-Hart 60-38 this evening in a non league boys basketball game.

Trailing 14-12 at the outset of the second period, a switch to a zone defense keyed Cleve Hill to a 14-0 scoring surge to take the lead for good. Ramah Lassiter scored 8 points to spearhead that decisive run.

Chase Johnson and J’Son James both chipped in with a pair of baskets in the period which finished with the Eagles holding a 14 point, 32-18, advantage at the half after the quarter’s 20-6 surge.

Cleve Hill maintained a 14 point, 42-28, lead at the three-quarter mark.

Lassister and Daytwon Burney both finished with 16 points and Johnson 13 for the Eagles.

Andy Xapsos scored a game high 18 points and Chris Anderson 10 for Roy-Hart.

Xapsos scored 8 in the opening period to keep Roy-Hart even at 12-12 and then tallied on a lay-up at the start of the second quarter to give the Rams what proved to be their last lead at 14-12.

Now at 0-2, Roy-Hart next faces Lyndonville on Friday in the opening round of the Rams Tournament.

Roy-Hart’s Justin Hechke, right, goes for a rebound against Ramah Lassiter of Cleve Hill.