Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Oliver Beach and Jason Anstey teamed up to score a key win at second doubles for Albion in the Purple Eagles narrow win at Roy-Hart this afternoon.

Albion capped off a perfect 12-0 Niagara-Orleans League tennis championship season with a narrow  3-2 win at Roy-Hart this afternoon.

The Purple Eagles captured both singles matches on wins by Leo Bolton and Mark Ames.

A victory by the second doubles team of Jason Anstey and Oliver Beach provided the all important third point for the Purple Eagles.

Roy-Hart got wins from the doubles teams of Allie Trombley – Ella Martillotta and Abby Glyshaw – Emily Livergood.

The N-O title is the first for the Purple Eagles since 2015.

Final N-O Standings: Albion 12-0, Akron 10-2, Wilson 8-4, Barker 6-6, Roy-Hart 4-8, Medina 2-10, Newfane 0-12

Section V Baseball Playoffs
No. 16 seed Red Creek edged No. 17 Holley 13-12 in the opening round of the Section V Class C1 baseball playoffs this afternoon.

Red Creek will now face top seeded Gananda on Saturday.

Lyndonville will open Section V Class D softball playoff competition at home on Saturday as the Lady Tigers host No. 12 Arkport-Canaseraga at 11 a.m.

The victor will face the winner of the No. 4 Genesee Valley-Belfast vs. No. 13 Alfred-Almond in the quarterfinals.

Kendall will also open sectional play at home as the No. 8 Lady Eagles will host No. 9 Cuba-Rushford in a Class C2 contest at 11 a.m. Saturday.

The winner will visit top seeded Dundee-Bradford in the quarterfinals on Monday.

In Class C1, No. 15 Holley will open at No. 2 Avon at 5 p.m. Friday.

Seeded No. 4, Kendall will host No. 13 Caledonia-Mumford in the opening round of the Section V Class C2 baseball playoffs at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Kendall brings a 12-5 record into the sectionals while Cal-Mum is 4-13.

The victor will face the winner of the No. 5 Alexander vs. No. 12 Alfred-Almond game in the quarterfinals on Tuesday.

The Class C1 sectionals gets underway today as No. 17 Holley visits No. 16 Red Creek in a play-in game at 4:30 p.m.

The winner will visit top seeded Gananda on Saturday.

Medina will open Section VI Class D lacrossse playoff competition on the road on Monday.

Seeded No. 6, Medina will visit No. 3 East Aurora in the quarterfinal round of the Class D sectionals at 5:30 p.m. Monday.

The Blue Devils downed the Mustangs 13-4 during the regular season.

The Class D opening round playoff games will have No. 7 Depew hosting No. 10 Newfane this evening and No. 8 Wilson hosting No. 9 Tonawanda on Friday.

The Wilson/Tonawanda winner will visit top seeded Akron and the Depew/Newfane victor will visit No. 2 seed Gowanda in the quarterfinals on Monday.

Monday’s other quarterfinal will have No. 5 Salamanca at No. 4 Eden.

Undefeated (12-0) Niagara-Orleans League champion Barker has earned the No. 1 seed for the upcoming Section VI Class C softball playoffs.

Barker will host a Class C quarterfinal game at noon on Saturday against the winner of Friday’s opening round contest between No. 8 Frewsburg and No. 9 Maple Grove.

Albion is seeded No. 8 in Class A and will host an opening round game at 5 p.m. Friday against No. 9 West Seneca East.

In Class B1 opening round games No. 9 Medina will travel to No. 8 Southwestern and No. 10 Newfane will visit No. 7 Springville at 5 p.m. Friday. No. 6 Akron will visit No. 3 Olmsted in a quarterfinal game at noon on Saturday.

In Class B2 quarterfinal contests, No. 7 Roy-Hart will visit No. 3 Portville and No. 3 Wilson will host No. 6 JFK at noon on Saturday.

Niagara-Orleans League champion Medina has earned the No. 1 seed for the upoming Section VI Class B baseball playoffs.

The Mustangs will host a quarterfinal game on Monday against the winner of Friday’s 5 p.m. opening round contest between No. 9 Salamanca and No. 8 Akron.

Friday’s other Class B openers at 5 p.m. will have No. 13 Allegany-Limestone at No. 4 Roy-Hart and No. 10 JFK at No. 7 Newfane.

In a Class A2 opener on Friday, No. 10 Albion will visit No. 7 Dunkirk. The winner will visit No. 2 Iroquois on Monday.

In a Class C opener on Friday No. 5 Wilson will host No. 12 Barker.

File Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Kaedon Cleveland repeated as the N-O 110 Hurdles champion in the meet at Wilson today while Roy-Hart’s Julia Miles was a double winner in the 400 Hurdles and High Jump.

Six individual event multiple winners highlighted the action at the annual Niagara-Orleans All-League track meet held today at Wilson.

Newfane’s Liam Betteridge was a triple winner in the 800 (2:12.10), 1600 (4:46.61) and 3200 (10:47.27) as his Panthers teammate Ben Dickinson doubled in the 400 (:52.41) and the Triple Jump (43-2 1/2).

Roy-Hart had Braden Ricker double in the 100 (11:28) and 200 (:22.71) and Julia Miles in the 400 Hurdles (1:10.51) and High Jump (4-10).

Ricker also teamed up with Ronan Klug, Zach Schultz and Jose Pabon-Rosa to earn Roy-Hart a win in the 1600 Relay (3:42.47). The Rams also won the 3200 Relay (8:52.78) with the quartet of Schultz, Klug, Josiah Rodriguez and Lawson Wallworth.

Medina’s Madelynn Rutledge doubled in the Long Jump (16-11) and Triple Jump (33-7).

Medina’s Madelynn Rutledge won both the Long Jump and Triple Jump.

Wilson’s Savanna Jones captured both the 100 (:13.06) and 200 (:27.23).

Medina also had Kaedon Cleveland repeat as the N-O 110 Hurdles champion (:16:10) and Gordon Young win the High Jump (5-10).

Albion’s Cencere Lowe won the Long Jump (21-10 3/4). He also teamed up with Hunter Huscher, Finn McCue and Rashard Johnson to earn the Purple Eagles a victory in the 400 Relay (:45.20).

Barker had five individual event winners as Zackary Santarsiero took the Shotput (41-4), Jordyn Kinne in the 100 Hurdles (:16.66), Emma Evans in the 3000 (11:28.16), Illiana Manning in the Shotput (31-7 1.2) and Kiera Dalton in the Discus (110-7).

Newfane also had Sebastian Winchell take the Pole Vault (11-9), Stephanie Chunco the 400 (1:03.56) and Kylie Bowman the 1500 (5:23.70).

Akron also had Kuuchut Grijalva win the 400 Hurdles (1:03.28), Jack Holland the Discus (127-0) and Madigan Regan the 800 (2:26.76).

Regan also combined with Kayla Cebulski, Hannah Liss and Emily Snyder to earn Akron a win in the 1600 Relay (4:25.73).

Wilson’s Marissa Schultz won the Pole Vault (8-6). She also teamed up with Bella Thrush, Addison Elia and Jones to win the 400 Relay (:52.29).

The Newfane girls foursome of Bowman, Jenna Achtyl, Jade Jerge and Isabella Pasquale won the 3200 Relay (10:10.48).

The winners of the Steeplechase were Roy-Hart’s Jillian Ossont (8:47.97) and Wilson’s Jaydan Ruble (10:36.32).

The Pentathlon winners were Albion’s Ben O’Connor (2212) and Wilson’s Madison Horn (1722).

Albion put a lock on the Niagara-Orleans League tennis championship with a 4-1 home court victory over defending champion Akron this afternoon.

Leo Bolton and Mark Ames scored singles victories for the Purple Eagles which also got wins from the doubles teams of Jason Anstey – Oliver Beach and Landon Graybill – Jordan Marshall.

Albion, stays perfect at 11-0 while Akron slips to 9-2.

The N-O title is the first for the Purple Eagles since 2015.

“I’m just really happy for the kids,” said Albion Coach Jay Kovaleski whose Purple Eagles will look to complete a 12-0 N-O season with a win at Roy-Hart on Thursday. “They are really pumped  up and looking forward to doing that,” he added.

In the other N-O matches, Barker downed Roy-Hart 4-1 to finish at 6-6 and Wilson blanked Medina 5-0 to wind up at 8-4.

Dan Goodwin and Lucas DerSarkissian scored singles wins for Barker.

The Bulldogs also got wins from the doubles teams of Nick Heideman – Aurora Wass and Ryan Fisk – Oscar Dergel.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall’s Sophia Picardo slides safely into second base as Rylan Townsend looks to make the play for Lyndonville. The action took place during the Lady Eagles win over the visiting Lady Tigers this afternoon.

Roaring out to an 11-0 lead in the first two innings, Kendall went on to down visiting Lyndonville 17-12 in a Genesee Region League softball game this afternoon.

Kendall scored 6 quick runs in the first inning as Ella Christ had a two-run double and Maggie Zastrow and winning pitcher Danielle Offhaus RBI singles.

Keeping the momentum, the Lady Eagles tacked on 5 more runs in the second inning as Sophia Picardo had an RBI single.

Brooke Rodas and Zastrow both finished with 3 hits and Offhaus 2 for the Lady Eagles.

Addie Dillenbeck had a double and triple, Hanna Fox a double and Alexa Robinson 2 hits for the Lady Tigers.

Notre Dame 13, Albion 0
Notre Dame blanked Albion 13-0 in a non league contest as Loretta Sorochty struck out 20 and allowed only 2 hits.

Sorochty, Mia Treleaven, Amma Sisson and Gianna Falleti each finished with 2 hits.

Alexander 11, Barker 6
Alexander scored 6 runs in the seventh inning to down Barker 11-6 in a non league contest.

Rachel Sutter and Elise Monaco both had 2 hits for Barker.

Baseball
Akron 14, Albion 3
Vince Consiglio hit a grand slam home run and Anthony Consiglio a two-run homer to lead Akron to 14-3 win over Albion in the N-O finale played at Newfane.

Jack Julicher finished with 3 hits and Vince Consiglio 2 for the Tigers which wind up at 6-6 in N-O action.

On the mound, Julicher allowed 4 hits and struck out 6 in the 5 inning run rule contest.

Final N-O Standings: Medina 11-1, Roy-Hart 9-3, Newfane 7-5, Wilson 7-5, Akron 6-6, Albion 2-10, Barker 0-12.

Lyndonville catcher Addie Dillenbeck awaits the ball as Angelina Aguirre crosses home plate for Kendall.

Playing with just five players the Medina Unified bsketball team dropped a narrow 32-28 decision at Akron on Tuesday.

Russell Brunette and Xavier Moyer both scored 10 points to lead Medina as Matthew Kennedy added 6 and Anthony Harrington 2.

Medina is now 2-2.