Making the long trek to the Southern Tier for the second time in three days, Albion played the second half of a season opening B3 Division football game at Olean this morning as the Purple Eagles dropped a 32-7 decision to the Huskies.

Quarterback Jonah Elsenheimer scored the Albion touchdown on a two-yard run and Lucas Rowley added the extra point kick.

Olean led 18-0 at the half.

Albion will open the home portion of the season this coming Friday as the Purple Eagles will host Depew at 7 p.m. Depew opened the season with a 43-14 B3 Division win over Dunkirk.

Contributed Photos – Sam Bates, left, Jailyn Bishop and Emma Brady, right.

Three key members of last fall’s Holley state semifinal team are now playing soccer at the collegiate level.

That trio includes Sam Bates, Jailyn Bishop and Emma Brady.

Bates is a freshman forward on the Keuka College team and is majoring in Management with a concentration in Sports Management.

Interestingly, her brother Cameron is a sophomore midfielder on the Keuka men’s soccer team and has the same major.

Bishop is a freshman defender on the SUNY Cortland team and is majoring in Exercise Science.

Brady is a freshman midfielder/forward on the D’Youville University team and is a Nursing major.

Monday
Girls Soccer – Pembroke at Holley, Oakfield-Alabama at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Newfane at Barker, Akron at Wilson, 4:30 p.m.; Roy-Hart at Medina 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Lyndonville at Wheatland-Chili, Holley at Alexander, Pembroke at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.
Golf – Medina at Albion, Barker at Roy-Hart, Akron at Wilson, 4 p.m.

Tuesday
Football – Holley at Bolivar-Richburg, 5 p.m.
Boys Soccer – Lyndonville at Pembroke, 6 p.m.; Newfane at Medina, Akron at Albion, Wilson at Roy-Hart, 6:45 p.m.; Holley at Byron-Bergen, Kendall at Attica, 7 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Albion at Akron, 4:45 p.m.; Medina at Newfane, Roy-Hart at Wilson, 6:45 p.m.
Volleyball – Newfane at Medina, Akron at Albion, Wilson at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.
Cross-Country – Kendall at Holley, 5 p.m.

Wednesday
Girls Soccer – Attica at Lyndonville, Kendall at Alexander, 5 p.m.; Holley at Bloomfield, 6:30 p.m.
Volleyball – Kendall at Holley, 6:30 p.m.
Golf – Albion at Barker, Roy-Hart at Akron, Newfane at Medina, 4 p.m.

Thursday
Boys Soccer – Medina at Akron, 4:45 p.m.; Attica at Lyndonville, 5 p.m.; Roy-Hart at Albion, 6:45; Wilson at Newfane, 6:30 p.m.; Kendall at Byron-Bergen, 7 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Wilson at Newfane, 4:30 p.m.; Albion at Roy-Hart, 6:45 p.m.; Akron at Medina, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Medina at Akron, 4:30 p.m.; Barker at Kenmore, 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Roy-Hart at Albion, Medina at Akron, Newfane at Wilson, Elba at Lyndonville, 6:30 p.m.
Golf – Albion at Newfane, Wilson at Barker, Roy-Hart at Medina, 4 p.m.

Friday
Football – Newfane at Medina, Depew at Albion, Roy-Hart/Barker at Akron, 7 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Lyndonville at Holley, Kendall vs. Notre Dame at GCC, 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Attica at Holley, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday
Football – Newfield at Holley, 1 p.m.
Boys Soccer –  Byron-Bergen at Lyndonville, 3:30 p.m.; Kendall at Albion, 5 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Roy-Hart at Albion, Holley at Byron-Bergen, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Akron at Roy-Hart, Newfane at Medina, Kenmore at Wilson, 10 a.m.

The Albion youth football teams swept all three games from Holley in Niagara Orleans Football Association (NOFA) action Saturday.

Beginners Division
Albion 20, Holley 6
Patrick Westlund had 2 touchdowns and 43 yards rushing to lead a well balanced Albion attack. Hudson Palmer picked up 57 yards and a score. Gunner Jackson had 37 yards, Kenny Almonte 33 and Elijah Cornick 24 yards.

Cornick led the defense with 7 tackles. Almonte had 5 tackles, Palmer and Arlene Beecher 4 each, Royce Rotthoff 3, Lucas Rotthoff and Drake Neri each had a tackle.

Mini Division
Albion 41, Holley 0

Four different players had touchdown runs to led the Eagles offense to a victory over Holley. Elian Almonte ended the day with 102 yards and 2 TD’s. Jayce Torres had 83 yards on the ground. Cayden Farrell had 56 yards, Kyle Schomske 23 yards, Moses Taylor 23 yards and each had a TD.

Kairo Bennett, Schomske and Torres led the defense with 6 tackles each. Almonte and Harrison Froman each had 5. Taylor and Parker Gardner 4 each. Farrell had a pick 6 to go with 3 tackles.

JV Division
Albion 42, Holley 0

Liam Pearl led the Albion defense with 7 tackles. Aaden Roblero, Kolton Berry, Colton Moreland and Camden Holt each had 4 stops. Connor Hinckley, Holt and Cooper Traxler each had a fumble recovery.

Heyden Almonte finished with 174 yards rushing and 3 scores. Carter Farrell 153 yards and 3 TDs. Holt finished with 31 yards.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Mia Standish sends the ball up field during this evening’s tournament title win over Alexander as Rori Higgins trails the play.

All of the scoring came in the second half as Albion shutout Alexander 3-0 this evening in the championship game of the Purple Eagles girl soccer tournament.

A goal by Rori Higgins two minutes into the second half off an assist from Mia Standish snapped a scoreless deadlock and proved to be the game winner for Albion.

Cami London tackled on a pair of big insurance goals, the first off an assist from Julia Button and the second on a breakaway, to help lock up the win.

Aaliyah Jones earned the shutout in goal for the Purple Eagles.

Pembroke blanked Medina 5-0 in the consolation game.

Albion and Medina will both open Niagara-Orleans League competition on Tuesday as the Purple Eagles visit Akron and the Mustangs travel to Newfane.

W-C Tournament
Holley lost on penalty kicks to host Wheatland-Chili in the championship game of the W-C girls soccer tournament.

The game was scoreless at the end of regulation time and after the overtime periods.

Kenzie Snook brings the ball up field for the Purple Eagles.

Seven players contributed goals as Roy-Hart rolled to a 9-1 victory over Depew in a non league girls soccer game this morning.

Kaitlin Mettler had 3 goals and 2 assists to lead the Lady Rams.

Kaylie Churchill, Nina Santos, Addie Carr and Allie Trombley each had a goal and an assist.

Maria Trombley and Hannah Verratti also each chipped in with a goal as Ruth Walker and Felicity Kwaizer both had an assist.

Roy-Hart will next open Niagara-Orleans League competition at defending champion Wilson on Tuesday.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Cole Callard

Medina romped to a 10-0 victory over Cardinal O’Hara in a non league boys soccer game this morning at Vets Park as senior Cole Callard set a new Mustangs career goal scoring record.

Callard scored 3 goals to increase his career total to 59 breaking the old mark of 56 held by Nate Dillenbeck.

It was a big two sport weekend for Callard who also scored 2 goals in Medina’s 6-0 win over Pembroke and was a perfect 8 for 8 in extra point kicks in the Mustangs 56-7 football win over Roy-Hart/Barker both on Friday.

Vinny Gray and Briley Allen each added 2 goals for the Mustangs as Luke Duffina, Aleks Seefeldt and Tyler Kroening each chipped in with 1.

Seefeldt also had 3 assists as Gray, Callard and Jimmy Dieter each had 2 and Duffina 1.

Now at 2-0, Medina will next host Newfane at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday in the Niagara-Orleans League opener.

Maryvale 4, Roy-Hart 1
Maryvale downed visiting Roy-Hart 4-1 in a non league game as Michael Fuller scored the lone goal for the Rams.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Akron’s Morgan Tomporowski sends the ball up field during this morning’s league home opener as Naomi Bish (22) and Madelina Pavlock (16) pursue for Barker.

Akron opened defense of its Niagara-Orleans League field hockey title with a 3-0 win over visiting Barker this morning.

All of the scoring came in the opening half as Morgan Tomporowski scored once in the first quarter and Julia Klodzinski twice in the second period.

Roy-Hart 5, Wilson 0
Roy-Hart opened N-O competition with a 5-0 win over visiting Wilson which slips to 1-1.

Brooke Zglinicki scored 2 goals for the Lady Rams as Ava Achtyl, Adella Dukes and Savannah Newton each netted one.

Zglinicki, Newton and Violette Streckewald all had assists and Cas Sanney earned the shutout in goal.

Newfane 5, Kenmore 2
Newfane evened its N-O record at 1-1 with a 5-2 win over Kenmore as Ella Tower scored 3 goals and Kyra Austin 2.

Akron’s Madigan Regan gains control of the ball against Barker’s Kaylee Stoll.

Akron’s Madison Gates works against Barker’s Madelina Pavlock.

Medina improved to 2-1 in Niagara-Orleans League golf competition with a 256-282 win over Barker today.

Cam Fike took medalist honors with a 45 and Ryleigh Culver had a 48 to lead Medina.

Nate Popovich led Barker with a 48

N-O Field Hockey
Wilson downed rival Newfane 4-2 in a season opening N-O field hockey game this afternoon as Katie Hardy, Brynn Lepsch and Reese Kepner took turns scoring goals.

Kyra Austin scored both goals for Newfane.