Local Sports
Awards program honors Rams’ athletes

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Kaitlin Mettler and Ronan Klug
The achievements of Roy-Hart’s student-athletes were celebrated with the Rams year end awards program this past week.
Ronan Klug was honored as the Rams Male Athlete of the Year and Kaitlin Metter the Female Athlete of the Year.
Roy-Heart Awards were presented to Braden Ricker (Basketball and Track), Erique Powell (Basketball), Emily Livergood (Volleyball and Tennis), Ava Achtyl (Field Hockey, Girls Swimming and Tennis), Abigail Glyshaw (Field Hockey, Girls Swimming and Tennis), Caitlin O’Connor (Girls Bowling) and Ava Udell (Girls Wrestling).
The Dave Brown Memorial Swimming Award was presented to Garrett Armenia.
Sean Mettler received the Stan Voss Memorial Baseball Award.
The John Jablonski Outstanding Track Athlete Award was presented to Matthew VanKeuren.
Ella Martillotta and VanKeuren received the William Donovan Memorial Once A Ram, Always A Ram, Scholarship Award.
The Bruno Pacini Award was presented to Jackson West.
Lila Brigham received the Bill Holahan Coaches Award.
The Dan Seefeldt Award was presented to Allie Trombley and Josiah Rodriguez.
Dan Aquilina received the Connor Callaghan Courage Award.
The Walter Kowalski Award was presented to Tysen McCaa.
Zachary Schultz received the Brian Weaver Memorial Award for Outstanding Citizenship in the Roy-Hart Community.
The Wally Sidebottom Memorial Award of Excellence was presented to Ella Martillotta.
Abigail Glyshaw and Scott Clark received the Niagara-Orleans League Scholar Athlete Award.
Albion 18U wins with big late inning uprising
A big late inning scoring burst rallied Albion to a 10-7 win over Alden in a GLOW 18U Division baseball game Thursday evening.
A double by Drew Boyce along with singles by Gavin Boyce and Mason Snook keyed the decisive 7 run fifth inning uprising which rallied Albion from a 5-3 deficit into a 10-5 lead.
Snook, Drew Boyce and Kaiden Froman each finished with a pair of hits.
Gavin Boyce, Omer Fugate and Drew Pritchard shared the pitching duties combining for a 3 hitter with 7 strikeouts.
Improving to 3-0, Albion next visits Lyndonville at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Lyndonville dropped a narrow 7-6 decision to Tri Town Thursday to slip to 0-2.
Trailing 7-0, Lyndonville rallied for 6 runs in the sixth inning on doubles by Devon Babcock and Kameron Kassey along with singles by Will Arlington, Austin Fonda and Shawn Robertson but the comeback bid fell just short.
N-O League honors Track Players of the Year

Contributed Photos – Wilson’s Savanna Jones and Roy-Hart’s Braden Ricker have earned Niagara-Orleans League Track and Field Players of the Year honors. Jones is a three-time N-O All-League meet champion in both the 100 and 200 sprint events. Ricker is a two-time champion in both the 100 and 200..
Banquet honors Lyndonville’s student-athletes

Contributed Photo – Highlighting this week’s annual Lyndonville High Athletic banquet was the presentation of a number of special awards. The recipients of those awards and the awards they received included, from left, Ty Holmes (U.S. Marines Award), Brody Hazel (Mike Fuller Memorial Award), Emma Freas (Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Award), Addison Dillenbeck (GR League Scholar-Athlete, Tri-Athlete Award, “Bub” Meland Award, Alfred Schmitt Memorial Award, Paul Howell Memorial Award, Ted Hettig Memorial Award, Coaches Award, Stan Sherwood Award), Natalie Rath (Harold Dix Jr. Memorial Award), Maddox Smith (Harold Dix Jr. Memorial Award) and Lane Woodworth (Paul Howell Memorial Award).
In addition to the special awards the banquet included the presentation of a number of team awards. By team those recipients are as follows:
Girls Volleyball: Most Valuable Player – Addison Dillenbeck, Most Improved Player – Sarah Corser, Queen of the Court – Hannah Fox
Girls Soccer: Most Valuable Player – Alexa Robinson, Coaches Award – Isabella Groves, Most Improved Defensive Player – Abby Alexander, Most Improved Offensive Player – Arnie Sturtevant, Hustle Award – Lilly Raduns, Outstanding Defensive Player – Brooke Robinson
Boys Soccer: Most Valuable Player – Brody Hazel, Scholar-Athlete – Juan Alberdi, Outstanding Offensive Player – Colton Smith, Unsung Hero – Michael Alexander, Most Improved Player – Barrett Alexander, Outstanding Defensive Player, Jesus Reyes-Rosario, Rookie of the Year – Amir Zimmerman, Coaches Award – Chanse Amsdill and Austin Fonda
Girls Basketball: Most Valuable Player – Addison Dillenbeck, Most Improved Player – Hannah Fox, Outstanding Defensive Player – Alexa Robinson, Coaches Award – Lilly Raduns, Heart and Hustle Award – Isabella Groves
Boys Basketball: Most Valuable Player – Lane Woodworth, Defensive Player of the Year – Juan Alberdi, Most Improved Player – Lyric Raduns
Wrestling: Most Outstanding Wrestler – Ty Holmes, Most Improved Wrestler – Chanse Amsdill, Coaches Award – Shannon Withey
Baseball: Most Valuable Player – Colton Smith, Most Improved Player – Juan Alberdi, Coaches Award – Thomas Blake
Softball: Most Valuable Player – Arnie Sturtevant, Most Improved Player Brooke Robinson, Coaches Award – Emma Freas, Bandaid Award – Isabella Groves
Track and Field (boys): Most Improved Player – Devin Dix, Coaches Award – Aidan Allen
Track and Field (girls): Most Improved Player – Violet Ostrander, Coaches Award – Alyssa Prine
Albion duo heads annual N-O All League tennis team

Contributed Photos – Albion’s Landon Graybill and Leo Bolton.
Champion Albion has placed the singles duo of senior Leo Bolton and junior Landon Graybill on the first team of the annual Niagara-Orleans All-League tennis squad.
Bolton, who manned the first singles spot for the Purple Eagles, has also been honored as N-O Player of the Year. He is a four-time first team selection.
Graybill, who played second singles for the Purple Eagles, was a second team All-League honoree last year.
Barker also has two first team honorees in senior Ryan Fisk and junior Daniel Goodwin as does Roy-Hart in juniors Max Hickman and Colin Cousins.
Rounding out the first team are Medina sophomore River Jones, Akron junior Whitley Koopman and Wilson eighth grader Keira Croisdale.
The second team is headed by the Akron senior trio of Aubrianne Balztley, Hayden Wight and Wakinyan LaFromboise.
Roy-Hart has placed the duo of senior Allie Trombley and junior Kaylie Churchill as has Newfane in sophomores Dylan Lonnen and Sara Klinger.
Completing the second team are Medina senior Logan Trillizio and Wilson senior Natalia Ward.
The Honorable Mention selections, as listed by school, are as follows:
Albion – Oliver Beach (Sr.) and Jillian LeBaron (Soph.)
Medina – Paisley Panik (Jr.) and Talia Rupp (8th)
Roy-Hart – Ella Martillotta (Sr.) and Emily Livergood (Sr.)
Newfane – Emma Niver (Sr.) and Kendall Jesson (Jr)
Wilson – Shelby Robinson (So.) and Tessa Gunther (So.)
Barker – Nick Heidemann (Jr.)
Akron – Alexander Parisi (Jr.)
Albion nips Pavilion in 18U diamond contest
An unearned run midway through the game proved to be the difference as Albion nipped host Pavilion 2-1 in an 18U baseball game Tuesday evening.
Breaking away from a 1-1 deadlock, Albion regained the lead for good by scoring a run in the fourth inning as Chastin Styer reached on a dropped third strike, stole second, advanced to third on a ground out and scored on a passed ball.
Albion’s other run came in the first inning on singles by Elliott Trapiss and Gavin Boyce. Trapiss had 2 hits on the day.
Pavilion tied the game with a run on an error in the second inning.
Nate Gibson and Omer Fugate shared the pitching duties for Albion giving up a combined total of 5 hits with 11 strikeouts.
Now at 2-0., Albion next hosts Alden on Thursday.
White Birch, Jr. Wilson and Banes score Medina Women’s Softball ‘A’ Division wins
White Birch, Jr. Wilson and Bane’s all scored victories in Medina Women’s Softball League ‘A’ Division games Monday evening.
White Birch defeated Dubby’s 10-6, Jr. Wilson downed Parkitects 14-2 and Banes trimmed Dubby’s 20-18.
White Birch 10, Dubby’s 6
Improving to 4-1, White Birch banged out 20 hits in the win as Aubrey Lewis had 2 singles, 1 double and 2 RBI’s; Ella Lewis 1 single, 1 double and 2 RBIs; Maddy Boyle, Mallory Albone and Lily Kompe 2 singles each; Anna Lewis 1 triple and 1 single; Bekah Hoffee 1 double; Gracie Johnson 2 singles and 2 RBIs and Stacy Buckland, Kenzi Muck, Brynn Howell and Dana Cotriss 1 single each.
Dubby’s highlighted hitters were: Kelsee Soule with 3 hits (2 singles and a double) and Jayden Townsend with 3 singles.
On defense for White Birch, Howell caught the closing third out at right field on a fly ball, leaving 2 batters stranded.
Jr. Wilson 14, Parkitects 2
Junior Wilson, which is now 5-1, scored 3 runs in the first on a two run double from Stormi Beach and a single off the bat of Jessica Rosenbeck and another 3 in the second after singles from Jenn Thom, an error, and a single from Chasity Chinn loaded the bases, allowing Jaclyn Rodriguez to knock in two runs.
A double from Sara Flansburg and singles by Lizzy Zacher, Connie Hornquist, and Thom scored 5 more runs in the third.
Flansburg finished with 3 hits on the night while Thom, Rodriguez, Rosenbeck, and Jodi Zacher contributed 2 hits each.
Lorelei Sanders and Kelsey Mest both had two hits for Parkitects, including a triple from Mest in the 3rd inning.
Banes 20. Dubbys 18
Rileigh McCabe, Amy Lavender, Teri Scharlau, Patti Page Jami Chatt, Kathy Allen and Sue Seefeldt each had 3 hits to lead the way for Banes. McCabe, Allen and Seefeldt all had doubles.
Trailing 6-3, Banes scored 6 runs in the third inning to take the lead for good. Triple by Morgan Allis, singles by Lavender, Krissy Scharlau, Page, Sophia Goyette, Connie Heschke and a double by Seefeldt keyed the uprising.
Banes also scored 3 in the fourth on singles by Lindsay Chatt, Allis, Allen, Lavender, Seefeldt, McCabe and Scharlau; 4 in the sixth on doubles by Allen and McCabe, singles Lavender, Seefeldt, Scharlau and Page and 4 in the seventh on singles by Heschke, Jami Chatt, Allen, Seefeldt, Scharlau and a double by Lindsay Chatt
Banes is now 2-3.
All Star honors for Medina lacrosse trio

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Class D Division lacrosse All-Star squad honorees, from left, Austin Seefeldt, Cole Callard and Lucius Wagner.
Medina has placed three players on the Section VI Class D Division All Star lacrosse squad.
Senior attackman Cole Callard has been named to the first team and senior Lucius Wagner to the second team as senior defender Austin Seefeldt has earned Honorable Mention.
Callard led Medina in scoring with 45 goals and 24 assists. He also had a school single season record 138 ground balls, 21 interceptions and 24 caused turnovers.
Wagner had 22 goals, 4 assists amd 57 ground balls.
Seefeldt won 45 faceoffs and had 41 ground balls. He also had a goal and an assist.
Albion girls post U19 win over Fairport
Albion bested Fairport 6-1 Sunday in a Rochester District Youth Soccer League girls U19 Division game.
Albion jumped out to a 2-0 half-time advantage on goals by Brianna Lewis and Ava Woolston.
Albion then locked up the win with 4 second half goals including two by Woolston and one each by McKinley Knight and Kendall Peruzzini.
G-R softball All-Star honors for Kendall trio

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall’s G-R All-Star trio includes, from left, Teagan Shaw, Brooke Rodas and Izzy D’Agostino.
A trio of Kendall players including junior catcher Brooke Rodas and freshmen infielders Izzy D’Agostino and Teagan Shaw have earned Genesee Region League softball All-Star honors.
Rodas hit .343 with 8 doubles, 2 home runs and 21 RBIs.
D’Agostino hit .429 wi 6 doubles, 2 triples, 1 home run and 16 RBIs.
Shaw hit .418 with 6 doubles, 1 triple and 22 RBIs.
Kendall also had seniors Ella Christ (infield), Maggie Zastrow (infield/outfield) and junior Alea Barrett (infield) earn Honorable Mention.





