The Albion Recreation Department will be holding a free football clinic at Bullard Park this coming Tuesday and Wednesday (July 22-23) at 10 .a.m. conducted by the Albion youth football coaches

In addition, there will be a free volleyball camp at the high school this Monday through Friday (July 21-25) from 10 a.m. to noon for students in grades 6-12.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Melanie Green tees off on her first hole of today’s second round at the Epson Pro Tournament Casella Golf Championship at Guilderland, N.Y.

Three bogies over the first six holes set an ominous tone for today’s second round as Medina’s Melanie Green missed the cut at the Epson Pro Tour’s Casella Golf Championship being played at the Pinehaven Country Club in Guilderland, New York (near Albany)

Green, who was 1 over par after Friday’s opening round, started play today on the back nine. She quickly ran into trouble with bogies on the 11th, 13th and 15th holes to drop to the make the cut score of 4 over.

Rebounding, she made a nifty shot out of the bunker on the 18th hole to stay in contention to make the cut at 4 over.

However, disaster struck on the very next hole as she had a very costly triple bogey on hole No. 1 to balloon to 7 over. The disastrous hole, which all but dropped her out of contention to make the cut, included a shot into the rough and another out of play for a one stroke penalty for a 7 for the hole.

Another bogey on the 5th hole put her 8 over. She did get that shot back with her lone birdie of the day on No. 8 and finished with a 7 over par round of 78.

“It was not good,” said Green of the off day. “It was not good at all.”

Melanie Green and her caddie and best friend Leonor Medeiros talk over how to play a putt.

A divit goes flying as Melanie Green makes a fairway shot.

Avon swept to a doubleheader victory over Lyndonville by scores of 7-4 and 3-0 today in a GLOW League 18U division baseball doubleheader.

In the opener, Lyndonville did rally into a 4-4 tie by scoring 4 times in the 5th inning highlighted by a single by Atticus Mank, two walks, an RBI double by Austin Fonda and an RBI single by Shawn Robertson. Mank and Robertson both finished with a pair of hits.

However, Avon answered with 3 runs in the home half of the fourth on a two-run double and an RBI single to claim the win.

In the second game, three runs in the third inning was all Avon needed for a 3-0 win.

Quincy McClinsey hurled a 3 hitter with 5 strikeouts for Lyndonville.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Medina Mustangs FC locked up the 1st Division title with a 1-0 win over Ukraine last Sunday. Nate Dillenbeck and Casey Winiecki here battle for a header during the Ukraine contest.

Annual title success on the field has earned the Medina Mustangs FC a promotion to a higher division in the Buffalo District Soccer League each of the past three years.

Medina’s big run began in 2023 when a victory in the 3rd Division championship game earned the Mustangs a promotion to the 2nd Division for the 2024 season.

Making the most of that promotion, the Mustangs captured the regular season 2nd Division championship with an 8-3 record to earn a promotion to the 1st Division for this season.

Again the Mustangs have made the most of the opportunity capturing the 1st Division regular season title with an 8-0-1 record with one game remaining by downing Ukraine 1-0 last Sunday.

The title has earned the Mustangs a promotion to the Championship Division for next year. The Championship Division is the second highest in the league behind only the Premier Division.

Medina will close out the 1st Division regular season by hosting second place Mandem at 6 p.m. Sunday at Vets Park. Mandem has a 6-0-3 record.

Having also earned the No. 1 seed for the upcoming 1st Division playoffs, Medina will host a semifinal round game on August 3.

In all 11 players have scored goals for Medina so far this season led by Nate Dillenbeck with 10 and Cole Callard and Peter Martillotta both with 5.

The Mustangs assist leaders are Ethan Leonard with 6 and Greg Husung with 4.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Melanie Green tees off on the first hole this morning to open the Epson Tour’s Casella Golf Championship at Pinehaven Country Club in Guilderland, N.Y.

The Epson Pro Golf Tour is making its only stop in New York State this weekend and Medina’s Melanie Green got off to what she describes as a “slow start” for today’s opening round of the Casella Golf Championship being held at the Pinehaven Country Club in Guilderland (near Albany).

Green fired a one over par round of 72 to open the tourney on the very hilly course and was five back of the leader (at 4 under) at the end of the morning session.

She rebounded from a bogey on the third hole to pull even with her only birdie of the day on No. 9.

However, Green was unable to offset a bogey on No. 11 as she just missed registering a birdie on three other holes as the putt either rimmed out or came up just sort. That bogie came after she found a sand trap for the only time on the round.

“I had some rims today but it happens to everybody,” said Green “I stayed close though and that is the big thing. You can’t win a tournament on the first day but you sure can lose it. I just have to make make some putts tomorrow.”

Green hits out of the only sand trap she found on the round.

Green was pretty satisfied with her irons and driver play as she made 17 of 18 fairways. “The fairways on this course are narrow so you have to be accurate, she added.”

Green is scheduled to tee off for the second round on Saturday at 1:14 p.m. on the 10th hole.

The field will be cut after Saturday’s round and the tourney will conclude on Sunday.

A note to anyone planning on attending the Saturday or Sunday rounds to be ready to do plenty of climbing as this is a very hilly course especially on the back 9.

Green and her caddie and best friend Leonor Medeiros keep an eye on her fairway shot.

The course is lined with large pine trees one of which frames this photo of Green.

Green makes a putt to register a par on the 16th hole.

Five big extra base hits sparked Albion to a 13-4 win over visiting Lyndonville in a GLOW League 18U Division baseball game this evening.

Elliott Trapiss banged out a three run home run in the third inning and a three run triple in the fifth frame to highlight that extra base hit surge which also included solo home runs by Kaiden Froman in the second and fourth innings and an RBI double by Gavin Boyce in the second.

Trapiss finished with 4 hits as Froman and Boyce both had 2.

Quincy McClinsey had a triple for Lyndonville. as Kameron Kassay and Shawn Robertson both had an RBI.

On the mound for Albion, Froman and Aaron Woodrow combined for a 5 hitter with 11 strikeouts.

Albion improves to 8-2-1.

Two local schools, Barker and Wilson, have received School of Distinction Awards from the New York State Public High School Athletic Association for having all of their varsity teams earn Scholar/Athlete Team Awards during this past school year.

In addition, four local schools, Medina, Roy-Hart, Newfane and Lyndonville, have received School of Excellence Awards for having at least 75 percent of their varsity teams earn Scholar/Athlete Team Awards.

A team must achieve a composite academic average of at least 90 in order to receive a Scholar/Athlete Award.

Wilson had all 20 of its varsity teams and Barker all 11 of its teams earn scholar/athlete awards to earn School of Distinction honors.

Medina had 18 teams, Newfane 16, Roy-Hart 13,and Lyndonville 9 earn Scholar/Athlete Awards to earn the School of Excellence awards.

“Congratulations to our Schools of Distinction and Excellence,” said Dr. Robert Zayas, NYSPHSAA Executive Director. “These prestigious honors represent the culmination of a school year marked by outstanding achievement in the classroom. These accolades would not be possible without the dedication, hard work, and commitment of the student-athletes, coaches, and administrators whose efforts these awards proudly recognize.”

Contributed Photo – Lily Kompe receives the game ball after hitting a game winning walk off single for White Birch in the 9th inning.

White Birch outlasted Jr. Wilson 7-6 in 9 innings Monday evening to improve to 8-1 in Medina Women’s Softball League ‘A’ Division competition.

Lily Kompe had the game winning walk off single in the ninth for White Birch.

White Birch banged out a total of 18 hits as Ella Lewis had a home run, Bekah Hoffee 3 singles, Aubrey Lewis, Maddy Boyle, Anna Lewis, Brynn Howell and Kompe 2 singles and Gracie Johnson, Kenzie Muck, Stacy Buckland and Dana Cotriss 1 single. Ella Lewis and Cotriss both had 2 RBIs.

Jr. Wilson had 13 hits highlighted by a home run and a single by Stormi Beach and a triple by Jodi Zacher.

Banes 13,  Jr Wilson 4
Leading by a narrow 5-4 margin, Banes pulled away by scoring 4 runs in both the sixth and seventh innings to down Jr. Wilson 13-4 and improve to 5-3.

A double by Rileigh McCabe and singles by Lindsay Chatt, Kathy Allen and Amy Lavender keyed the sixth inning uprising.Singles by Sophia Goyette, Connie Heschke, Allen, Lavender and Sue Seefeldt then highlighted the seventh inning scoring burst.

Kathy Allen finished with 4 hits as Lavender and Heschke both had 3.