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Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Josh Metzler (13) tries to advance the ball against Batavia/Alexander defender Matt Grover during the host Purple Eagles non league win this evening.

A three goal scoring burst early in the second half keyed Albion to a 4-1 victory over visiting Batavia/Alexander this evening in a non league boys soccer game.

Breaking away from a 1-1 deadlock, Albion regained the lead for good as Connor McQuillan scored off a corner by Owen Foos.

The Purple Eagles quickly upped the lead to 4-1 as Kendyll Hadick scored two minutes later and Hayden Pecoraro tallied five minutes after that.

The Purple Eagles took a 1-0 lead in the first half on a goal by Nick Reed.

Holley 3, Roy-Hart 1
Dylan McKay and Gabe Mendoza each had a goal and an assist and Andrew Cary a goal to lead Holley (8-3) to a 3-1 non league win over Roy-Hart at Gasport.

Alonzo Sager scored the goal for Roy-Hart which trailed 2-1 at the half.

Newfane 0, Wilson 0
In one key Niagara-Orleans League game, Wilson (4-2-2) played to a 0-0 overtime tie against rival front-running Newfane (8-0-1).

Contributed Photos – Coach John “Pinky” Loughlin

The memory and achievements of the late long time Medina High football coach John “Pinky” Loughlin is being honored with the formation of a football memorial wall of fame named in his honor.

The inaugural class of the John “Pinky” Loughlin Memorial Wall of Fame will be inducted in ceremonies just prior to the 7:30 p.m. kickoff of Medina’s game against Depew at Vets Park Friday.

Loughlin, who also served as Athletic Director for many years, guided the Medina football team for 24 years from 1955-1978 during which time his Mustangs captured 13 Niagara-Orleans League championships and won a total of 135 games. His Mustangs won the N-O title outright eight times (1955, ’58, ’64. ’70, ’72, ’73, ’74, ’77) and earned co-championships five more times (1957, ’59, ’61. ’62, ’63) compiling a career league record of 119-30-6. Overall his teams went 135-50-7.

The initial class of inductees has five former Mustang players including Ernie Clark (Class of 1956), Norm Goheen (Class of 1963), Carlton “Duke” Little (Class of 1974), David Fluellen (Class of 1983) and Jim Snyder (Class of 1989).

Large banners with the picture of each inductee will be on display along the east end zone during football season.

“There has been a push for a long time to honor Pinky in some way at Vets Park and after years of thinking about what we could do, I came up with the concept of a Wall of Fame to honor the longtime coach along with some of the great football players that played at Vet’s Park,” said Medina varsity football Coach Eric Valley. “I have been in contact with Pinky’s family and they are very excited about the wall of fame. After looking through many deserving candidates the first five were overwhelmingly agreed upon to be the initial group to be inducted Friday.”

Ernie Clark

Clark, a two-year, two-way starter at end and linebacker, helped lead Medina to the N-O championship in 1955 in what was both the Mustangs first year in the league and Loughlin’s first year at the MHS helm. Clark went on to star at Michigan State University and then to play for the Detroit Lions becoming the only Mustang alum to play in the National Football League.

Norm Goheen

Goheen, who played from 1960-62, helped lead Medina to N-O titles in both 1961 and 1962. He scored a total of 35 touchdowns in his career including 13 in 1961 and 12 in 1962.

Carlton “Duke” Little

Little, who played from 1971-73, helped the Mustangs capture division titles in both 1972 and 1973. He rushed for 1,516 yards and scored 24 touchdowns during his career. He had 7 touchdowns in 1972 and 17 in 1973.

David Fluellen

Fluellen, who played from 1980-82, helped lead Medina to division and Section VI championships in both 1980 and 1982. He had a total of 1,687 yards rushing, 691 receiving and 37 touchdowns in his career. In 1980 as a sophomore he had a game saving pass interception in the final seconds near the goal line to preserve Medna’s 20-14 sectional championship win over Silver Creek. He had 21 touchdowns and 1,103 yards rushing in 1982 when he capped off his career with a 4 touchdown effort in the Mustangs 26-7 sectional title win over Cassadaga Valley including runs of 74 and 59 yards.

Jim Snyder

Snyder, who played from 1986-88 keyed Medina to both division and sectional championships in 1988. He scored 23 touchdowns and had 1,730 yards rushing in 1988 as he earned Western New York and New York State Class B Player of the Year awards. He capped off his career by scoring both touchdowns in Medina’s 14-7 victory over rival Albion in the Section VI championship game which completed the Mustangs only 10-0 season. He had 38 touchdowns and 2,927 yards rushing for his career.

Friday will also be Family Night as Mustang players and their families will be introduced at 7 p.m.

Improving to 5-2, the Albion JV Eagles nipped visiting Oakfield/Elba 12-6 Saturday in a Niagara Orleans Football Association JV Division game.

Amari Jones ran 5 yards for one touchdown and passed 50 yards to Javon Jones for the other score to lead the Eagles. Amari Jones had 49 yards rushing, Jacob Hughson 63 and Javon Jones 91 yards receiving.

On defense, Amari Jones made 6 tackles, Jorden Ostrander, Chris Porter and Zach Olles 5 each. Olles also had a sack.

In the Mini Division, Oakfield/Elba blanked Albion 20-0.

Xavier Byrd had 33 yards rushing, Destin Brown 28 and Blake Preston 29 passing for Albion.

Defensively, Jonathan Eibl, Brown and Byrd each made 4 tackles.

In the Varsity Division, Oakfield/Elba downed Albion 33-12.

Anthony Freeman and Thomas Furmanski both had 65 yard touchdown runs for Albion which is now 4-3.

On defense, Mehkyron Drisdom made 11 tackles, James Denoncourt 8, Bryce Kelly and Deyonci Farley 7 and Freeman 6.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – The Kendall boys soccer squad will visit rival Holley on Saturday for the Hawks Homecoming contest. Here Holley’s Tyler Hill (22 )races for the ball with Kendall’s Nathan Warters (13) during the earlier season meeting between the teams.

It is stretch run time as area high school boys and girls soccer and field hockey squads head into the second from the last week of the regular season with title races heating up.

The Genesee Region League boys soccer competition will feature Kendall (4-2) hosting Byron-Bergen (3-3) on Tuesday and then visiting rival Holley (4-2) Saturday for the Hawks Homecoming contest.

Kendall, which nipped Holley 2-1 in their earlier meeting, is led by Jake Adams with 11 goals and Nathan Warters with 7. Gabe Mendoza leads Holley with 14 goals.

Holley is 7-3 overall and Kendall 7-4.

The G-R girls soccer Division 1 action will have undefeated (9-0) defending champion Kendall facing a busy three game week as the Lady Eagles will host Attica (3-4-1) on Monday, visit runner-up Wheatland-Chili (7-2) Friday and then visit rival Holley (2-6-2) on Saturday for the Lady Hawks Homecoming.

Now at 12-0 overall, Kendall, which blanked Holley 2-0 in their earlier meeting, is sparked offensively by Maya Rutland with 17 goals, Taylor Rutland and Coralee Freitag both with 8 and Taylor ReQua 7.

Riley Sanger has 4 goals and Lezi Milazzo 3 to pace Holley.

The Holley girls soccer squad will host rival division leading Kendall for Homecoming on Saturday. Here Holley’s Kristen Nenni (21) works to control the ball against Kendall’s Taylor ReQua (10) during the teams earlier season meeting.

In the Niagara-Orleans League boys soccer title race undefeated (8-0-0) Newfane holds a two and a half game lead over defending champion Medina/Lyndonville (5-2-1) heading into Wednesday’s key meeting between the Panthers and Mustangs at Vets Park. Newfane won the earlier season meeting by a narrow 1-0 margin in overtime. Medina/Lyndonville also visits third place Akron (5-3-0) on Saturday.

Newfane is sparked offensively by Chad Gilson with 16 goals and Trevor Moreland 10 while Medina/Lyndonville has Brian Anderson with 7, Greg Husung and Kristian Snyder 4 and Vassilios Bitsas and Colm Cooper 3.

In the N-O girls soccer title race, undefeated (10-0) defending champion Wilson holds a one game lead over rival Newfane (9-1). Wilson visits Roy-Hart (5-4-1) and Albion (5-5) travels to Newfane in key games on Tuesday.

The N-O field hockey title race is a close three-way battle with Akron at 8-0-0, Wilson 7-1-1 and defending champion Barker 6-1-1. Barker will host Wilson in a key contest on Tuesday. The teams battled to a 1-1 overtime tie earlier in the season.

Barker’s Natalie Menz and her Lady Raider teammates face a key home contest Tuesday against Wilson as both teams chase undefeated Akron in the N-O field hockey title race.

The week’s volleyball spotlight will be on a very interesting clash between undefeated league leaders as Albion hosts Notre Dame at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Albion leads the N-O league at 8-0 while Notre Dame heads the G-R Division 1 race at 9-0.

The Week’s Schedule

Monday

Boys Soccer – Newfane at Wilson, 4:30 p.m.; Batavia at Albion, Holley at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Lyndonville at Barker, 4:40 p.m.; Attica at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.
Volleyball – Kendall at Rochester Academy Charter, 4:30 p.m.; Notre Dame at Albion, Lyndonville at Newfane, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday

Boys Soccer – Holley at Pembroke, 4:30 p.m., Byron-Bergen at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Akron at Barker, CSAT at Medina, Albion at Newfane, 4:30 p.m.; Wilson at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.
Field Hockey – Wilson at Barker, Akron at Newfane, 4:45 p.m.; Roy-Hart at Medina, 7 p.m.
Cross-Country – CSAT and Medina at Newfane, Barker and Albion at Wilson, Roy-Hart at Akron, 4:45 p.m.
Volleyball – Alexander at Holley, Pembroke at Kendall, Oakfield-Alabama/Elba at Lyndonville, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday

Boys Soccer – Newfane at Medina, Akron at CSAT, 4:30 p.m.; Albion at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Lyndonville at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.; Holley at Byron-Bergen, 6:30 p.m.
Volleyball – Wilson at Medina, Newfane at Akron, Allbion at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday

Girls Soccer – Barker at CSAT, Wilson at Medina, Roy-Hart at Newfane, Albion at Akron, 4:30 p.m.
Field Hockey – Barker at Newfane, Wilson at Roy-Hart, 4:45 p.m.; Kenmore at Akron, 5 p.m.
Volleyball – Notre Dame at Holley, Lyndonville at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.

Friday

Football – Depew at Medina/Lyndnville, 7:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer – Wilson Magnet at Kendall, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Kendall at Wheatland-Chili, 6:30 p.m.
Volleyball – Roy-Hart at Medina, Albion at Akron, CSAT at Newfane, Rochester Academy Charter at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday

Football – Albion vs. Barker/Roy-Hart, 1:30 p.m. at Barker; Oakfield-Alabama at Holley, 1:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer – Medina at Akron, Wilson at Roy-Hart, 10 a.m.; CSAT at Albion, 12 p.m.; Kendall at Holley, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Barker at Medina, Newfane at Wilson, Albion at CSAT, Roy-Hart at Akron, 10 a.m.; Kendall at Holley, 6:30 p.m.
Volleyball – Kendall at Holley, 12 p.m.

N-O League Standings

Boys Cross-Country – Akron 2-0, Roy-Hart 2-0, Barker 1-0, Albion 1-1, Newfane 1-1, Medina 0-1, CSAT 0-2, Wilson 0-2
Girls Cross-Country – Akron 2-0, Newfane 2-0, Medina 1-0, Albion 1-1, Roy-Hart 1-1, Barker 0-1, CSAT 0-2, Wilson 0-2
Field Hockey – Akron 8-0-0, Wilson 7-1-1, Barker 6-1-1, Roy-Hart 4-5-0, Newfane 2-6-0, Kenmore 1-8-0, Medina 1-8-0
Boys Soccer – Newfane 8-0-0, Medina/Lyndonville 5-2-1, Akron 5-3-0, Wilson 4-2-1, Albion 2-5-2, Roy-Hart 1-7-0, CSAT 1-7-0
Girls Soccer – Wilson 10-0-0, Newfane 9-1-0, Akron 6-3-1, Roy-Hart 5-4-1, Albion 5-5-0, Medina 2-6-2, Barker 1-9-0, CSAT 0-10-0
Volleyball – Albion 8-0, Akron 5-1, Roy-Hart 5-2, Medina 3-4, Newfane 2-5, Wilson 2-5, CSAT 0-8

G-R League Standings

Boys Soccer – Wheatland-Chili 5-1, Holley 4-2, Kendall 4-2, Byron-Bergen/Elba 3-3, Attica 1-5, Pembroke 1-5
Girls Soccer Division 1 – Kendall 9-0-0, Wheatland-Chili 7-2-0, Byron-Bergen 6-2-1, Attica 3-4-1, Holley 2-6-2
Girls Soccer Division 2 – Alexander 6-1-2, Pembroke 2-6-3, Lyndonville 3-6-1, Oakfield-Alabama/Elba 2-7-1, Notre Dame 1-7-1
Girls Volleyball Division 1 – Notre Dame 9-0, Byron-Bergen 7-1, Alexander 4-2, Attica 4-2, Holley 1-8
Girls Volleyball Division 2 – Pembroke 5-3, Oakkfield-Alabama/Elba 4-3, Kendall 3-6, Lyndonville 2-5, Wheatland-Chili 0-9.

Football

B East Division – Alden 4-0, 5-0, Depew 3-1, 3-2, East Aurora/Holland 2-1, 3-2, Medina/Lyndonville 1-2, 3-2, Albion 0-3, 1-4, Barker/Roy-Hart 0-3, 1-4
G-R League – Attica 4-0, 4-1, Notre Dame 4-0, 4-1, Elba/Byron-Bergen 3-2, 3-2, Alexander 2-2, 3-2, Oakfield-Alabama 1-3, 2-3, Pembroke 1-4, 1-4, Holley 0-4, 0-5

The Medina/Lyndonville JV football team rallied for a touchdown and a two-point conversion with just 20 seconds remaining to nip Alden 22-20 this morning at Vets Park.

Alden took a 20-14 lead by scoring a touchdown with just 40 seconds remaining.

However, the Mustangs answered right back just two plays after the ensuing kickoff as quarterback Ronnie Koonce completed a 62 yard touchdown pass to Johnny Salone to tie the game at 20-20.

That same combination of Koonce to Salone then clicked again for the game winning two-point conversion.

Earlier in the half, the Mustangs rallied from deficits of 6-0 and 14-6 on touchdown runs by Koonce of 28 and 21 yards. Koonce also completed a two-point conversion pass to Brendan Luthart after the second TD knotting the game at 14-14.

Koonce had a total of 71 yards rushing and Salone 100 yards receiving.

Ond defense, Salone, Ian Joseph and Jesus Iniguez each made 7 tackles and Mike Eckerd had a key fumble recovery.

The Mustangs and Bulldogs are now both 4-1 on the season.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall’s Brayde Moyer (5) is flanked by his Eagle teammate Jake Adams (3) and Albion’s Dan Beam (6) as he brings the ball up field. The action took place during Kendall’s non league win over visiting Albion this evening.

Making a lone first half goal stand up, Kendall nipped visiting Albion 1-0 this evening in a non league boys soccer game.

Nathan Warters scored the only goal of the game for Kendall with 18:38 remaining in the first half. The goal was his seventh of the season.

Albion’s Nick Reed (2) battles for control of the ball with Kendall’s Brandon Lewis (7).

Eagles goalie Cameron Zinsmeister and his defensive mates did the rest blanking the Purple Eagles to preserve the narrow win.

Kendall improves to 7-4 on the season while Albion slips to 2-8-2.

Kendall’s Paul Urguhart (2) slides to knock the ball away from Albion’s Brad Sanford (4).

Albion’s Hayden Pecoraro (8) tries to move the ball up field as Kendall’s Jesus Aguirre (9) moves in on the play.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Rhiannon Burgess tries to keep the ball away from the Holley trio of Emily Weezorak, Anna Jewell and Olivia Radford. The action took place during the overtime tie between the Lady Tigers and Lady Hawks this afternoon at Lyndonville.

An exchange of first half goals proved to be all of the scoring as host Lyndonville and Holley battled to a 1-1 double overtime tie this afternoon in a Genesee Region League girls soccer game at Lyndonville.

Lyndonville grabbed an early 1-0 lead as Anna Lewis scored off an assist from Abi Rodriguez.

However, Holley pulled even before half-time as Lexi Milazzo scored with Julianna Drewry earning the assist.

Holley’s Lexi Milazzo kicks the ball away from Lyndonville’s Jasmine Plummer.

Lyndonville goalie Makenzie Muck then had to make several saves in the two 10 minute overtime periods to turn back Holley scoring chances and keep the Lady Tigers even.

Lyndonville is now 3-8-1 on the season and Holley 2-7-3.

Lyndonville’s Brooke Kiefer kicks the ball away from Holley’s Courtney Winkley.

Holley’s Emily Weezorack works for control of the ball against Lyndonville’s Anna Lewis.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Riley Starr returns a serve during the Lady Tigers home court win over Holley this afternoon.

Celebrating Homecoming, Lyndonville scored a straight set 25-22, 25-22, 25-22 victory over visiting Holley this afternoon in a Genesee Region League volleyball match.

Cierra Riley had 8 service aces, 4 spiking kills and 4 digs for Lyndonville. Jennifer Wetherbee added 15 digs, Jessica Harling 4 aces and 5 digs and Skyler Lear 6 assists and 3 digs for the Lady Tigers.

Lyndonville, which dropped a 25-5, 25-20, 25-13 decision at Notre Dame on Friday in another G-R match, is now 3-7.

Holley is now 1-9.

Holley’s Helena Mclean tries to spike over Lyndonville’s Brooklynn Riley.

Field Hockey

Pine Richland 2, Barker 0
Scoring a goal in each half, Pine Richland High, Pa. scored a 2-0 victory over Barker this afternoon in an interstate field hockey game played at Mount Lebanon High, Pa.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Kristian Snyder (8) brings the ball up field for Medina/Lyndonville during this afternoon’s non league loss to Northstar at Lyndonville.

Northstar scored a goal with just 11:19 remaining in the second half to nip Medina/Lyndonville 2-1 this afternoon in a non league boys soccer game at Lyndonville.

Trailing 1-0, Medina/Lyndonville pulled even on a goal by Kristian Snyder, his fourth of the season, with just 30 seconds remaining in the first half as Colm Cooper earned the assist.

However, the Mustangs could not find the net in the second half.

Now at 7-3-1 overall, Medina/Lyndonville next hosts undefeated (8-0) Niagara-Orleans League leading Newfane at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Panthers nipped the Mustangs 1-0 in overtime in their earlier season meeting.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Chris Steves (79) of Barker/Roy-Hart tackles East ball carrier Quannie Roberts (5) during Barker/Roy-Hart’s win over the Pennsylvania squad this afternoon at Middleport.

Rallying with a big second half scoring burst, Barker/Roy-Hart snapped a season long four game losing streak by defeating East High of Erie, Pa. 26-16 this afternoon in an interstate contest at Middleport.

Trailing 16-8 at the half, Barker/Roy-Hart got back into the game on a 3 yard touchdown run by Eric Fitch in the third quarter.

Quarterback Andy Xapsos helped set up that tally with runs of 24 and 19 yards and a 21 yard pass completion to Matt Maines.

Barker/Roy-Hart then rallied into the lead for good with a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns on a 40 yard pass from Xapsos to Maines and a 1 yard run by Fitch.

Runs by Xapsos of 14 yards on a fourth down play and of 12 yards on a third down carry highlighted the final scoring drive.

Ed Wasnock (2) of Barker/Roy-Hart tries to go through East tackles by Davahntae Barnes (4) and Shalin Snider (55).

“It’s always nice to get a win,” said Barker/Roy-Hart Coach Bill Bruning. “The kids played well.”

Fitch also scored on a 1 yard TD run and and added the two-point conversion carry in the first quarter to give Barker/Roy-Hart and early 8-0 lead.

However, the East Warriors answered with a pair of touchdowns on a run by Davahntae Barnes and a pass by quarterback Chris Adams to take a 16-8 lead at the half.

Xapsos finished with 167 yards rushing and 68 yards passing.

Fitch led the Barker/Roy-Hart defense in tackles with 11 as Matt Laverty had 9, Noah Rocklein 8 and Trevor Meal 7. Rocklein also had a sack and Ed Wasnock an interception.

The loss drops East to 0-5.

Barker/Roy-Hart next hosts Albion at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Barker.

Noah Rocklein of Barker/Roy-Hart puts a hit on East quarterback Chris Adams.