Jumping out to a two set lead, Kendall went on to defeat visiting Webster Christian 25-12, 25-21, 12-25, 25-19 this afternoon in a non league volleyball match.

Madison Rath had 10 spiking kills, 4 service aces and 2 digs; Chelsea Wright 7 kills, 4 aces and 5 digs and Sarah Pearson 18 assists, 6 aces and 3 kills to lead the way for Kendall.

Medina 25-25-25
Tapestry 6-18-8

Cassie Sargent had 4 kills, Lexi Neuman 3 kills and Grace Masse 15 assists to lead Medina to the straight set non league win over host Tapestry.

Alyssa Beyer served up points 7-14 in the opening set to get Medina going.

Neuman registered a kill to polish off the final point in the second set and Masse served up points 5-10 in the third set.

Albion (3-4) will visit Maryvale (3-4) at 7 p.m. Friday in the semifinals of the Section VI Class B Chuck Funke Memorial Classic Bowl.

The Albion /Maryvale victor will then face the winner of the Pioneer (2-4) at Fredonia (2-4) semifinal in the championship game next week.

Holley (0-7) will face host Wayland-Cohocton (1-6) at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the semifinals of the Section V Class C Connors and Ferris Bowl.

The Holley/Wayland-Cohocton victor will take on the winner of the Mynderse (1-6) vs. Marcus Whitman (0-7) semifinal in the championship game next week.

In two Section VI matchup games, Medina/Lyndonville (4-3) will visit Tonawanda (2-5) at 6 p.m. Thursday and Barker/Roy-Hart (1-6) will travel to Olean (1-5) at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Emily Blanchard (8) and her Purple Eagle teammates will host CSAT on Monday to open the Section VI Class B soccer playoffs. The action here is from a regular season meeting between the teams.

Section VI Class B girls soccer playoff competition gets underway on Monday as No. 12 seed Albion hosts Niagara-Orleans League foe No. 21 CSAT at 6 p.m. The winner will face another N-O foe, No. 5 Newfane, on Wednesday.

Allbion downed CSAT twice during the N-O season by scores of 8-0 and 12-0.

Emily Blanchard with 19 goals and 14 assists and Mariah Elsenheimer with 14 goals and 3 assists leads the attack for Albion. Ally Page also has 6 goals and 8 assists, Nicole Eldred 4 goals and 4 assists and Mikayla Yaskulski 4 goals and 2 assists for the Purple Eagles.

No. 17 Medina visits No. 15 East Aurora at 3 p.m. Monday with the winner visiting N-O champion No. 2 seed Wilson on Wednesday.

Destiny Satkowski has had 18 goals and 5 assists and Martha Gardner 3 goals and 14 assists to pace Medina.

No. 16 Roy-Hart will host No. 17 Depew at 6 p.m. Monday with the victor taking on top seeded City Honors on Wednesday.

Roy-Hart’s offense has been sparked by the duo of Emma Lindke with 23 goals and 9 assists and Amber Villella with 20 goals and 12 assists.

Kristian Snyder (8) and his Medina/Lyndonville teammates will open Section VI Class B1 playoff action on Tuesday at Vets Park against Springville.

In Class C, No. 14 Barker visits N. 3 Frewsburg at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The Section VI boys soccer playoffs will get underway on Tuesday with No. 6 Medina/Lyndonville hosting No. 11 Springville at 3:30 p.m in Class B1. The victor will face the winner of the No. 14 Depew at No. 3 Newfane game on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

Also in Class B1, No. 9 Albion visits No. 8 Tonawanda at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The winner will face top seeded Burgard on Thursday.

In Class B2, No. 11 Roy-Hart visits No. 6 MST Prep and No. 12 Fredonia travels to No. 5 Akron at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Fredonia vs. Akron winner will then face No. 4 Wilson on Thursday.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lavonn Guy scored 4 touchdowns for the Medina Broncos during Saturday’s Niagara Orleans Football Association JV Division semifinal round playoff win over Albion. Amari Jones makes the tackle for Albion.

Scoring in every quarter, the Medina Broncos defeated the Albion JV Eagles 33-20 Saturday in the semifinal round of the Niagara Orleans Football Association JV Division playoffs at Oakfield.

Lavonn Guy rushed for 208 yards and 4 touchdowns on plays covering 34, 32, 18 and 84 yards, to lead the way for the Broncos.

Iverson Poole added 92 yards rushing including a 28 yard touchdown carry.

Guy also ran for an extra point and quarterback Xander Payne passed to Anthony Monell for a two-point conversion.

On defense, Chris Johnson had 8 tackles, Zack Oliver 6 tackles and 3 sacks, Brandon Collins 6 tackles and 2 fumble recoveries, Guy and Poole 5 tackles each and Hayden Woodroe 3 tackles and an interception.

Amari Jones ran for two touchdowns and passed for another for Albion.

For Albion, quarterback Amari Jones had 52 yards rushing, including a pair of 1 yard touchdown runs. He also threw a 36 yard TD pass to Tyler Gibson and a two-point conversion pass to Javon Jones.

Defensively, Chris Porter made 7 tackles, Amari Jones 6 tackles and Javon Jones 5 tackles and an interception.

The Broncos will next host Akron in the playoff championship game at 6 p.m. next Saturday at Vets Park. Akron defeated Tri-Town 28-7 in the other semifinal.

Iverson Poole picks up yardage for the Broncos as Jaren Rhim blocks.

Varsity Division

Newfane 19, Medina Stallions 6
Sydney Brown scored the lone touchdown for the Medina Stallions on a 6 yard run in the 19-6 Varsity Division semifinal loss to Newfane. He had 102 yards rushing on the night as Emmanual Taylor added 42 yards.

On defense, Tyler Chinn had 2 interceptions and Taylor 7 tackles for the Stallions.

Improving to 5-2, the Medina/Lyndonville JV football squad downed Albion 44-8 this morning at Vets Park.

Quarterback Ronnie Koonce completed 13 of 18 passes for 357 yards and 5 touchdowns to lead the way for the Mustangs.

Johnny Salone caught four of those touchdown passes on plays covering 58, 22, 40 and 35 yards. He had a total of 10 receptions for 236 yards.

Trenton Jones also scored on on a 75 yard pass reception from Koonce and Iszon Richardson tallied on a 24 yard run.

On defense, Salone had 7 tackles and an interception, Jones a fumble recovery and Brendan Luthart an interception.

Albion’s touchdown came on a 15 yard pass from Bryce Pritchard to Nate Moore as Eugene Harrison added the two-point conversion.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley’s Clarence Moyer sheds the grasp of Notre Dame’s Charlie Stevens to score a touchdown during the Hawks loss to the host Irish this afternoon.

A quick two touchdown scoring burst just before half-time sparked Notre Dame to a 32-22 victory over visiting Holley this afternoon in a Genesee Region League football season finale.

Leading by a narrow 6-0 margin, Notre Dame upped the advantage to 19-0 at the half as quarterback Connor Logsdon threw a 30 yard touchdown pass to CJ Souzzi with 4:41 to go and then Jack Sutherland broke loose to a 35 yard TD run with just 35 seconds remaining. Sutherland also scored the first TD for the Irish on an 8 yard run in the opening quarter.

Holley did mount two good scoring threats in the opening half but were stopped both times by the Irish defense. First, quarterback Nick Passarell ran 25 yards to the Notre Dame 20 but the drive was halted on downs. Then Parrick Purtell recovered a Irish fumble for the Hawks at the Notre Dame 36 but again the threat was stopped on downs.

Then just before half-time a penalty wiped out a 35 yard Passarell to Clarence Moyer pass completion down to the Irish 15.

Holley defenders Nick Passarell (12) and Zach Day (20) tackle Irish running back Jack Sutherland as Ross Pinson comes in from the front to help for the Hawks.

Holley cut the deficit to 19-6 midway through the third quarter on a 3 yard touchdown run by Passarell. A big 28 yard pass completion from Passarell to Moyer set up that threat. A fumble recovery by Ryan Andrews gave the Hawks possession to set up the opportunity.

Passarell then came up with a big defensive play on the next series stopping a Notre Dame drive by intercepting a pass in the Holley end zone.

However, the Irish quickly pulled way to a commanding 32-6 advantage as Peter Daversa scored on an 11 yard run with 1:15 to go in the third quarter and again on a 13 yard run just 1:26 into the fourth quarter. An Irish interception at the Hawks 29 set up the second score.

Holley’s Nick Schenk comes in to tackle Notre Dame’s Jack Sutherland.

Holley though closed strong as Passarell completed two touchdown passes to Moyer covering 27 and 48 yards in the last three minutes. Passarell also ran for the two-point conversion after the second TD to make the final score 32-22.

Notre Dame finishes the regular season at 5-1 in the league and 5-2 overall while Holley winds up at 0-6, 0-7. Both teams will begin post season play next week.

Holley quarterback Nick Passarell gets away from a tackle attempt by Irish defender Jack Sutherland.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall’s Maya Rutland, who has scored a team leading 25 goals, and her Lady Eagles teammates have earned the No. 1 seed for the Section V Class C2 playoffs.

The undefeated defending champion Kendall girls soccer team has earned the No. 1 seed for the upcoming Section V Class C2 playoffs.

Kendall, which brings a 16-0 regular season record into the playoffs, will host a quarterfinal game at 6 p.m. Friday against the winner of Tuesday’s contest between No. 8 Campbell-Savona (7-8-1) and No. 9 Red Jacket (5-10).

In addition, Kendall Coach Pam Beres has been honored as Section V Class C2 Coach of the Year.

In Class B2, No. 6 Holley (3-9-4) visits No. 3 Dansville (5-9-2) at 3 p.m. Friday in a quarterfinal game.

In Class D1, No. 13 Lyndonville (3-12-1) will face No. 4 Arkport/Canaseraga (13-2-1) at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Warsaw.

In Section V boys sectional pairings, No. 6 Kendall will face No. 11 Bolivar-Richburg at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Warsaw in Class C2 while No. 3 Holley will host No. 6 Attica at 6 p.m. Saturday in Class B2.

Ironically Holley, which brings and 11-4 record into postseason play, just nipped Attica 3-2 Friday in the Genesee Region League season finale.

Kendall brings an 8-8 record into the playoffs after downing Pembroke 2-1 Friday to snap a four game losing streak.

Earning the first set win of their inaugural season, the Lyndonville/Medina boys volleyball team dropped a 23-25, 25-20, 26-24, 27-25 decision to host Wayne this evening.

Junior Eddy Schildt led the Tigers offense and sophomore Mason Pecoraro sparked the defense.

“Even though we did not gert the win, this game showed us how far we have come as a team and as a program,” said Coach Kevin Lasky. “The boys came out firing on all cyclinders to take the first game. After that first game come from behind victory, the boys lost there consecutive very close, very hard fought games. Our players really stepped up to complete.”

Albion romped to a 25-10, 25-8, 25-17 victory over visiting Attica this evening in a non league volleyball match.

Kelsee Soule had 13 spiking kills and 16 digs, Chanyce Powell 11 kills, 5 digs, 2 aces and 3 blocks and Meghan Hurley 4 kills and 12 assists to lead the way for Albion.

The Purple Eagles also got 2 kills each from Kaitlyn VanSkiver, Aleah Foos and Emilie Barleben. Foos also had 2 blocks, Barleben 2 aces and Kassidy Hastings 10 assists.

Medina improved to 7-4 in Niagara-Orleans League competion with a 25-20, 25-12, 25-20 victory at Newfane.

Lexi Neuman served up points 1-5 and Lexie Sargent 19-22 in the opening set to get Medina rolling.

Emily Kams then scored points 10-16 in the second set and Meghan O’Keefe closed out the match by serving up points 21-25 in the third set snapping a 20-20 tie.

Kams had 12 assists on the night and O’Keefe 2 aces and 6 digs.

Carley Schultz chipped in with 4 kills and 4 digs, Molley Gross 4 aces and 2 kills and Je’ne Brown 5 kills and 2 blocks for the Mustangs.