Avenging an earlier season loss, the Central Amherst Orange nipped the Medina 15U team 1-0 this afternoon to close out the Mustangs participation in the Cooperstown Tournament.

Central Amherst, which recently lost 11-6 to Medina, scored the game’s lone run in the bottom of the seventh inning on a hit batter, a stolen base and a single.

Medina had only three hits including singles by Jacob Duffina, Mason Berry and Shawn Robertson,

On the mound for the Mustangs Duffina pitched a 2 hitter with 7 strikeouts.

Medina next hosts Lockport at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The Village of Albion will be holding a free summer baseball camp for students in grades 3-10 at the Albion High varsity field Monday, July 27th, through Friday, July 31st from 10a.m. until noon.

Participants will learn the basics of hitting, bunting, fielding, throwing and base running.

No experience is needed and there is no pre registration.

For more information contact the village office at 585-589-9176.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Barker pitcher Madyson Flint has earned first team All Western New York honors.

Barker sophomore pitcher Madyson Flint has been named to the first team of the All Western New York small schools softball squad.

Flint, who helped hurl Barker to a share of a second straight Niagara-Orleans League championship, registered 183 strikeouts in 104.1 innings of work in the cirlce and had a 1.96 earned run average.

At the plate, she hit .395 with 10 doubles, 2 triples and 16 runs batted in.

Barker is also represented on the All-WNY second team by senior infielder Peyton Bradley. She hit .462 with 8 doubles, 4 home runs and 26 RBIs.

Wilson senior catcher Abbie Faery, who was named N-O Player of the Year, has also been named to the second team. In helping to lead Wilson to a share of the N-O title, she hit .487 with 5 doubles, 4 home runs and 19 RBIs.

Two N-O players have also received All-WNY Honorable Mention – Roy-Hart senior pitcher Abby Fox and Wilson sophomore infielder Lucy Madan.

Fox registered 85 strikeouts in the circle and at the plate she hit .511 with 4 doubles and 14 RBIs.

Madan hit .481 with 6 doubles, 1 triple, 2 home runs and 12 RBIs.

Albion’s undefeated (7-0) 14U and 18U baseball teams will both be competing in the GLOW League playoffs this week.

On Monday, the Albion 14U will host Dansville in a semifinal round playoff game at 6:15 p.m.

The victor will face the winner of the Alden vs. Cal-Mum semi in the championship game on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the Albion 18U will host Nunda in a semifinal contest at 6:15 p.m.

The victor will advance to Wednesday’s championship game against the winner of the Alden vs. Avon semi.

Photo via Gamechanger – The Medina Mustangs 15U got the opportunity to play on Cooperstown’s historic Doubleday Field this morning. Unfortunately stormy weather ended up causing the Mustangs to drop a 5-3 decision to the VT Strikers.

A late inning comeback was ruined by stormy weather as the Medina Mustangs 15U baseball team dropped a narrow 5-3 decision to the VT Strikers in a Cooperstown Tournament game at historic Doubleday Field this morning.

Trailing 5-2, Medina cut the deficit to 5-3 by scoring once in the top of the sixth inning on a wild pitch after a single by Brandon Floret and two walks had loaded the bases.

The Mustangs then tied the at 5-5 by scoring twice in the top of the seventh inning on an RBI single by Brayden LaMartina and a passed ball.

However, stormy weather then forced play to be halted before the bottom of the seventh inning could be played.

The bad weather caused the final score to be reverted to the last completed inning, the sixth, which gave the VT Strikers the 5-3 win.

Earlier the Strikers grabbed a 2-0 lead in the second inning on a pair of walks and an error.

Medina rallied into a 2-2 tie by scoring twice in the top of the third without the benefit of a hit on 3 walks, a passed ball and an error.

The Strikers then scored what proved to be the deciding 3 runs in the bottom of the third on a double, two walks, a passed ball and a pair of wild pitches.

Brayden Calabro had 2 hits for the Mustangs whose next game will be on Sunday.

Locked in a tight battle for a playoff spot, Medina FC faces a very challenging regular season finale as the Mustangs will host undefeated (9-0) front-running Buffalo Italia FC at 8:15 p.m. Monday at Vets Park in a key Buffalo District Soccer League Championship Division contest.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Trenton Jones here makes a throw-in for Medina FC which will host division leading Buffalo Italia FC in a key regular season ending game at Vets Park Monday evening.

The Medina vs. Buffalo Italia game was originally scheduled for Sunday evening at Vets Park.

The top six teams in the final division standings advance to the playoffs.

Buffalo Italia, along with runner-up Ukraine (8-1) and third place Revolution FC (6-3) have already locked up playoff berths.

Medina is in a five way battle for one of the three remaining playoff spots.

The Mustangs have gone 4-1-1 over the last six games after an 0-3 start to the season.

The Mustangs, the Queen City Gunners and the Sporting Cavs are currently all deadlocked in fourth place at 4-4-1 (13 points).

Mes Que FC which is 4-5 (12 points) and Rance FC which is 3-5 (9 points) are also still in the playoff hunt.

The Queen City Gunners will face Rance FC and Mes Que FC will take on Ukraine on Sunday. Rance FC also has a makeup game against the Sporting Caves on the 23rd.

The Mustangs offense has been led by Cole Callard with 8 goals and Peter Martillotta with 4.

Playing shorthanded with only 10 players, Albion dropped an 8-0 decision at Avon this evening in a Rochester District Youth Soccer League girls U18 Division game.

The loss drops Albion to 2-6.

Roy-Hart Roundup
In recent Buffalo District Youth Soccer League action the Roy-Hart girls U16 Division team edged the Lockport Lightning 2-1 led by the goal scoring of Alexis Bedford to improve to 2-4.

In girls U19 Division action, Roy-Hart played to a 4-4 tie with KSC Surf to improve to 2-1-1 as Maria Trombley and Ruth Walker each scored a pair of goals.

Base hits proved to be hard to come by as the Medina Mustangs 15U team dropped a 9-0 decision to the Nuff Said Wow Factor squad this afternoon in the opening round of the Cooperstown Tournament.

Medina managed only 3 scattered hits as a trio of Nuff Said pitchers registered 15 strikeouts.

The Mustangs hits, all singles, were by Mason Berry in the fifth inning, Brayden LaMartina in the sixth and Jacob Duffina in the seventh.

Nuff Said scored in five different innings including twice in the first inning on two singles and an error, twice in the third on a pair of RBI singles, twice in the fifth on two RBI doubles, once in the sixth and twice in the seventh.

Medina will next face the VT Strikers at 9 Saturday morning at Cooperstown’s historic Doubleday Field.

The current poor air quality situation due to the wild fires in Canada has caused a number of postponements for local baseball and soccer contests.

Today’s Albion at Pavilion and Lyndonville at Alden GLOW League 18U baseball games have both been postponed.

In addition, the Albion at Wayne girls U18 Division Rochester District Youth Soccer League game has been postponed.

Yesterday both the Albion 14U Glow League baseball game against Pioneer and the Holley girls U18 soccer games against Penfield were postponed.