Albion downed Medina 242-256 in a Niagara-Orleans League golf match this afternoon.

Owen Spencer took medalist honors with a 43 for Albion as Drew Pritchard added a 46, Viktor Snyder 48 and Gavin Boyce 49.

Cam Fike had 44 and Tyler Draper 45 for Medina.

Albion is now 6-2 and Medina 4-3.

Roy-Hart remained undefeated at 6-0 with a 232-247 win over Newfane.

Roy-Hart’s Evan Poeller and Gavin Heideman and Newfane’s Caleb Rivera all shared medalist honors with rounds of 43.

Wilson earned its first win of the season this past Friday by downing rival Newfane 262-271.

Ben Meyers took medalist honors for Wilson with a 39 and Rivera led Newfane with a 45.

Contributed Photos – Holding the trophy, Melanie Green celebrates capturing the Guardian Championship Tournament title.  At right, the Epson Tour salutes Green’s victory.

Continuing a sensational debut season, Medina’s Melanie Green captured her second Epson Tour tournament championship in dramatic fashion today at the Guardian Championship at Prattsville, Alabama.

Green outdueled Gianna Clemente in what ended up as a five hole playoff to claim the championship.

The two golfers matched scores over the first four playoff holes. Then on the fifth hole Green claimed the title by making par as Clemente bogeyed.

The playoff was set up when Clemente had a birdie on 17 and Green a bogey on 18 leaving the two golfers deadlocked with identical rounds of 68 and identical tournament totals of 13 under par 203.

Green, who started the day at 9 under and tied for third two shots off the pace, upped her total to 12 under after the front nine. She had four birdies (on 4, 5, 8 and 9) and one bogey (on 6) during that stretch.

Keeping rolling on the back nine, she pulled into a tie for first at 13 under after a birdie on 12. She then took over sole possession of first place at 14 under with another birdie on 16.

However, the combination of Clemente’s birdie on 17 and Green’s bogey on 18 caused a tie for first place forcing a playoff.

Green, who also regained first place in the Epson Tour’s season long points race with the win, opened the tourney with a 6 under par round of 66 on Friday. She followed that up with a 3 under par 69 on Saturday to stay in the thick of the title chase.

Green’s first Epson Tour victory came at the Island Resort Championship in Michigan in June.

Weekly Schedule
Monday
Girls Soccer – Holley at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Albion at Alexander, 6:30 p.m.
Golf – Albion at Medina, Newfane at Roy-Hart, 4 p.m.

Tuesday
Boys Soccer – Medina at Park, Attica at Lyndonville, 5 p.m.; Newfane at Roy-Hart, 6:56 p.m.; Holley at Wheatland-Chili, Pembroke at Kendall, 7 p.m.; Akron at Newfane, 7:15 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Roy-Hart at Wilson, Newfane at Akron, 4:45 p.m.; Medina at CSAT, 5 p.m.; Barker/Lyndonville at Albion, 6:45 p.m.
Field Hockey – Medina at Roy-Hart, Akron at Barker, 4:30 p.m.
Volleyball – Wilson at Medina, Albion at Akron, Roy-Hart at Newfane, Notre Dame at Lyndonville, Holley at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.
Cross-Country – Roy-Hart and Wilson at Albion, Newfane at Medina, Akron at Barker, 4:45 p.m.
Golf – Roy-Hart at Akron, Barker at Wilson, 4 p.m.

Wednesday
Boys Soccer – Roy-Hart at Albion, 6:45 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Oakfield-Alabama at Holley, Kendall at Pembroke, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Roy-Hart at Eden, Kenmore at Newfane, 5 p.m.
Volleyball – Wheatland-Chili at Holley, 6:30 p.m.
Golf – Newfane at Albion, Roy-Hart at Barker, Akron at Wilson, 3 p.m.

Thursday
Football – Barker/Roy-Hart at Medina, 5:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer – Medina at Wilson, Kendall at Byron-Bergen, Lyndonville at Holley, 7 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Akron at Barker/Lyndonville, 5 p.m. at Lyndonville; Albion at Roy-Hart, 6:45 p.m.
Volleyball – Medina at Roy-Hart, Wilson at Albion, Newfane at Akron, Lyndonville at Elba, Pembroke at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.

Friday
Football – Lackawanna at Albion, 7 p.m.
Boys Soccer – Kendall at Finney, 5 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Wilson at Medina, 4:30 p.m.; Alexander at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Newfane at Akron, 4:30 p.m.; Roy-Hart at Sacred Heart, 6:30 p.m.; Barker at Medina, 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Medina at Maryvale, LeRoy at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Golf – Akron at Roy-Hart, Barker at Newfane, Medina at Wilson, 4 p.m.

Saturday
Football – Notre Dame at Holley, 1 p.m.

Boys Soccer – Holley at Attica, 1 p.m.; Pembroke at Lyndonville, 5 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Roy-Hart at Akron, 10 a.m.; Barker/Lyndonville at Newfane, 11 a.m.; Medina at Albion, 12 p.m.; Holley at Wheatland-Chili, 7 p.m.

Contributed Photo – Moses Taylor picks up yardage for the Mini Division Eagles.

Albion swept to three wins over Newfane in Niagara Orleans Football Association (NOFA) action Saturday.

Beginner Division
Albion 41, Newfane 6

Kenny Almonte rushed for 135 yards and 2 touchdowns to lead the Eagles offense. Xavier Weis added 73 yards, Lexington Pridgen 44 yards, Gunner Jackson 12 yards and all had a score. Jaxon Francis added 4 yards.

Almonte had 19 tackles on defense. Weis had 8 tackles, Francis 7, Jaxon Nashburn 4, Myles Labarge and Mason Rodden 3 each, Pridgen, Jackson and Artavion Lewis 2 each and Roman Pridgen and James Mahoney 1 each.

Mini Division
Albion 12 Newfane 6

Trailing 6-0 at the half, touchdown runs by Greyson Roberts and Moses Taylor gave Albion the 12-6 victory. Taylor ended the day with 131 yards on the ground, Roberts added 59 yards.

Jaidyn Harper led the defense with 7 tackles, Zion Richardson and Hudson Palmer had 5 each. Conor Murphy, Mason Cornick and Chase Armer 4 each. Patrick Westlund, Taylor and Zeus Vallejo 3 tackles. Wyatt Purnell, Elijah Cornick and Roman Tisdale 1 each.

JV Division
Albion 41 Newfane 14

Scoring on 4 of their first six plays, Albion jumped out to a 26-0 led and never looked back.

Damareon Shine ran for 69 yards and caught a 53 yard td pass from Jace DiMatteo for the Eagles offense. Arthur Lewis III and Camden Holt each ran for 59 yards and a score. Cayden Farrell ran for 49 yards, Jai’Kiah Drisdom 44 yards, Jayce Torres 38 yards and Matthew Colmerero 16 yards. DiMatteo ran for a score and added another TD pass to Holt. Farell added a TD pass to Torres.

Lewis III led the defense with 10 tackles. Isaac Barbz Button added 6, Roman Allport 5, Farrell 4, Kaydence Russaw and Kairo Bennett 3 each. Torres, Holt, Harrison Froman, Prince McGill, Kyle Schomske and Dominic Westlund had 2 each. Sebastian Stritzinge, Zachary Rice, Kolton Berry, Kenny Witcroft, Colmerero, Lincoln Voorhees, Cooper Traxler and Parker Gardner were all in on tackles.

Jumping out to a 3-0 half-time advantage, Byron-Bergen went on to down visiting Holley 5-0 in a Genesee Region League girls soccer game this evening.

Mia Gray and Grace DiQuattro both had 2 goals and 2 assists to lead the way for Byron-Bergen.

Byron-Bergen is now 4-0 and Holley 2-1 in the league and 2-2 overall.

Holley next visits rival Kendall at 7 p.m. Monday in another G-R contest

Maintaining a now one-third share of third place, Medina’s Melanie Green fired a 3 under par 69 today in the second round of the Epson Tour’s Guardian Championship Tournament being played at Prattsville, Alabama.

Green, who opened the tourney with a 6 under par 66 on Friday, registered birdies on 11, 15 and 16 today to improve her two day total to 9 under par 135.

Interestingly, Green briefly held the tourney lead with her 9 under total when she finished her round this morning. However four other golfers equaled or bettered that total during the afternoon session. Three players are now at 9 under, one at 10 under and one at 11 under.

She now enters Sunday’s final round just two shots back of the tourney leader’s 11 under par total.

Contributed Photo – Cole Callard

Medina High graduate Cole Callard had a big day on the football field for SUNY Cortland this afternoon.

Callard, who is a freshman at Cortland, booted his first collegiate field goal, a 37 yarder, and added four extra point kicks in the Red Dragons 30-6 victory over visiting Union.

Callard also had a pair of extra point kicks last week in Cortland’s season opening 31-14 loss to Grove City.

A four year starter during his scholastic days at Medina, Callard set Mustangs career  school records for most field goals (11) and most extra point kicks (130). His longest field goal was a school record 47 yarder.

An all state place kicker, Callard was also a four year starter for the Mustangs in soccer, basketball and lacrosse.

He is majoring in Sport Management.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley quarterback Kevin Robinson heads for the endzone on a 41  yard first quarter touchdown carry during the Hawks loss to visiting CG Finney this afternoon.

Unable to find the endzone over the last three quarters, Holley dropped a 38-12 decision to visiting CG Finney this afternoon in the Hawks 11 Man football home opener.

Holley grabbed a 12-8 first quarter lead as quarterback Kevin Robinson ran for a pair of touchdowns on carries of 5 and 41 yards. He also hooked up with Landyn Burch for a 40 yard pass completion to key the first scoring drive.

However, the final 30 points and the win belonged to Finney as Holley was stymied by a rash of penalties and turnovers over the last three quarters including a fumble, an interception, a botched punt return and a botched kickoff return.

Finney took the lead for good at 16-12 in the second quarter on a 5 yard touchdown run and a two-point conversion carry by Zyaire Banks who also scored the Falcons first touchdown in the opening quarter on a 60 yard run.

Finney then pulled away in the second half scoring one touchdown in the third quarter and two more in fourth for the 38-12 win.

Holley, which is now 0-2 will next host Notre Dame at 1 p.m. next Saturday.

Finney is now 1-1.

Holley’s Braden Read grabs the jersey of Finney quarterback Aaron Farley to make a tackle.

Holley running back Isaiah Williams looks for running room.

Seven touchdowns by the offense along with two big fourth quarter stops by the defense keyed Medina to a 48-29 win at Alden in the C North Division season opener this evening.

Medina grabbed a 14-7 first quarter lead on a 10 yard touchdown run by Christian Moss, a 25 yard TD pass from quarterback Preston Woodworth to Kolton Fletcher and a two-point conversion run by Moss.

An interception by Woodworth set up the first scoring opportunity while  a 27 yard pass from Woodworth to Fletcher and a 23 yard run by Moss keyed the second drive.

The Mustangs maintained a slender 28-21 lead at the half as Alden had a scoring drive end at the Medina goal line as time expired.

Medina’s second quarter touchdowns came on a a 45 yard pass interception return by Woodworth and a 35 yard pass from Woodworth to Avion Johnson. Moss tacked on the two-point conversion run after the second score.

Quarterback Brody Peresan thew a pair of touchdown passes for Alden in the first half.

Medina stayed on top 36-29 at the end of the third quarter as Moss had a 15 yard touchdown run and a two-point conversion carry.

The Mustangs advantage increased to 42-29 early in the final period after a 1 yard TD run by Moss. Moss and Jayzon Wills both had 15 yard runs and Jerrell Nealy a 20 yard pass reception from Woodworth to highlight the drive.

Moss, who had a total of 248 yards rushing, rounded out the Mustangs scoring with a 24 yard touchdown late in the final quarter to make the final 48-29. A 45 yard run by Moss highlighted that drive.

With the score still 42-29, the Mustangs defensive unit came up huge in the final period stopping two Alden drives inside the Mustangs 10 yard line. An interception by Fletcher stopped the first and Wills came up with a big fourth down tackle to stop the second.

Medina is now 2-0 overall and Alden is 0-2.

Barker/Roy-Hart 28, Akron 10
Barker/Roy-Hart likewise opened C North Division competition with a 28-10 victory over visiting Akron.

Barker/Roy-Hart built up a commanding 28-0 first half on touchdowns Owen Maedl (1 yard run), Joey Reiter (70 yard run), Tysen McCaa (5 yard run) and Anthony Adinolfe (4 yard run). Carter DerSarkissian and Ashton Ark both added two-point conversions.

Vincenzo Fazzio had 9 tackles, Max Townsend an interception and 3 tackles, Carson Schwab an interception and 5 tackles and McCaa an interception to highlight the Barker/Roy-Hart defense.

Akron’s touchdown was scored by Blake Gerstung on a 17 yard pass reception from Cole Siska.

Dunkirk 55, Albion 6
Dunkirk downed visiting Albion 55-6 in a B2 Division contest.

Hunter Huscher scored the Albion touchdown on a 85 yard kickoff return.

Scoring a goal in each half Kendall downed rival Holley 2-0 in a Genesee Region League boys soccer game this evening at Holley.

Pablo Rosario-Reyes scored what proved to be the game winning goal in the first half and Vinnie D’Agostino added an insurance tally in the second half on a header off a corner. Brenden Eichas assisted on both goals.

Jonny Conte earned the shutout in goal.

Albion 1, Newfane 1
Albion tied Newfane 1-1 in a Niagara-Orleans League game as Alakai Colmenero scored the Purple Eagles goal and Colin Coyle made 14 saves in goal.

Girls Soccer
Newfane 3, Albion 2 (2OT)
Newfane scored with two minutes to go in the second overtime period to nip Albion 3-2 in an N-O girls contest.

Stephanie Chunco scored all three Newfane goals.

Alayna Flugel and McKinley Knight each scored a goal for Albion.

Roy-Hart 11, Medina 0
Ruth Walker and Maria Trombley each scored the three goal hat-trick to lead Roy-Hart to an 11-0 N-O win over visiting Medina.

Kaylie Churchill, Maizie Ciliberto, Nina Santos, Felicity Kwaizer and Julia Verratti each added a goal for the Lady Rams.

Gananda/Marion 2, Barker/Lyndonville 1.
Alexa Robinson scored the Barker/Lyndonville goal off an assist from Braelynn Dillenbeck in the second half of the 2-1 non league loss to visiting Gananda/Marion.