The Niagara-Orleans League wrestling season wraps up this week as Albion will host the annual All-League Tournament on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. The Purple Eagles will also host Medina at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the regular season finale.

The N-O swim regular season competition will also wrap up this week as Roy-Hart/Barker will host Medina on Tuesday and Newfane on Thursday and Albion will visit Medina on Thursday, all at 5 p.m., in meets that will help determine the league’s champions. The boys standings currently has Albion at 6-1 and Roy-Hart/Barker at 5-1. The girls race as Roy-Hart/Barker at 6-0 and Albion at 5-2.

First place in the N-O boys basketball title race will be on the line on Tuesday in a key clash of unbeatens as defending champion Newfane (4-0) hosts Akron (5-0).

Weekly Schedule
Tuesday
Boys Basketball – Medina at Barker, 6 p.m.; Roy-Hart at Albion, Akron at Newfane, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Barker at Medina, Albion at Roy-Hart, Newfane at Akron, 6:30 p.m.; Lyndonville at Pembroke, Elba at Holley, Kendall at Wheatland-Chili, 7 p.m.
Swimming – Medina at Roy-Hart/Barker, Akron at Newfane, 5 p.m.

Wednesday
Boys Basketball – Pembroke at Lyndonville, Holley at Elba, Wheatland-Chili at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Wrestling – Medina at Albion, Roy-Hart/Barker at Newfane, Wilson at Akron, Byron-Bergen at Holley-Kendall, 6 p.m.

Thursday

Girls Basketball – Medina at Wilson, 6 p.m.; Roy-Hart at Barker, 6:30 p.m.; Lyndonville at Holley, Alexander at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Swimming – Albion at Medina, Newfane at Roy-Hart/Barker, 5 p.m.
Wrestling – Lyndonville at Alexander, 6 p.m.

Friday
Boys Basketball – Wilson at Medina, Albion at Akron, Barker at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.; Holley at Lyndonville, 7 p.m.

Saturday
Girls Basketball – Albion at Byron-Bergen, 4:30 p.m.
Wrestling – N-O All-League Tournament at Albion, 10 a.m.; Lyndonville Tournament, 10 a.m.

N-O Standings
BOYS BASKETBALL – Akron 5-0, Newfane 4-0, Wilson 2-3, Medina 1-2, Barker 1-3, Roy-Hart 1-3, Albion 1-4
GIRLS BASKETBALL – Wilson 5-0, Akron 4-1, Newfane 3-1, Albion 2-3, Medina 0-2, Roy-Hart 0-3, Barker 0-4
BOYS SWIMMING – Albion 6-1, Roy-Hart/Barker 5-1, Akron 3-4, Medina 1-5, Newfane 1-5
GIRLS SWIMMING – Roy-Hart/Barker 6-0, Albion 5-2, Newfane 3-3, Akron 2-4, Medina 0-6
WRESTLING – Newfane 4-0, Medina 3-1, Roy-Hart/Barker 2-2, Wilson 2-2, Akron 1-3, Albion 0-4

Six members of the Kendall Youth Wrestling Club earned top three finishes Sunday at the first annual Canandaigua Youth Wrestling Tournament.

Landon Perry placed first and Barrett Scheuerman, Caden Bauer, David Prate, Mason Cady and Tristan Cross each placed third.

All seven Albion High fall varsity teams have earned New York State Public High School Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete Team Awards by compiling composite averaes of 90 or higher. The team averages and players are listed as follows.

Photos by Bruce – FOOTBALL – 90.52 average. Players included Jett Conn, Jaxon Lynch, Jackson Snook, Logan Kast, Kaiden Froman, Seth Krenning, Alex Diaz, Auston Johnson, Josh Schoeberlein, Noah Harrison, Johnathan Eibl, Luke Bell, Xavier Byrd, Thomas LaPlant, Blake Preston, Kyle Radder, Peyton Robinson, Cameron Thomas, Mason Lynch, Kwame Riley, Colin Webb, Landin Chaffee, Brody Hafner, Rashard Johnson and Cencere Lowe.

BOYS SOCCER – 94.071 average. Players included Tye Talbot, Kevin He, Leo Bolton, Jason Anstey, Jayden Lewis, Finnegan McCue, Matt Kania, Flynn Morrison, Pablo Rosario Reyes, Adrian Figueroa-Fuentes, Benjamin O’Connor, Mark Ames, David Rosario-Soto, Jose Franco Lopez, Alonzo Figueroa-Fuentes, Donovan Braley, Noah Marat and Dominic Mulka.

GIRLS SOCCER – 95.744 average. Players included Julia Button, Lucy Rivers, Autumn Flugel, Kailee Anstey, Kayla Burgio, MacKenzie Snook, Sophia Albanese, Camryn London, Ava Woolston, Shayla Higgins, Rori Higgins, Alison Gibson, Abigail Wittenberg, Olivia Brooks, Jacqueline Santiago Garcia and Bailey Gonzalez.

VOLLEYBALL – 90.773 average. Players included Jillian LeBaron, Liana Flugel, Madison LeBaron, Jordan Simmons, Julia Knight, Zoe Marat, Madison Hughson, Leah Pawlak, Taylor LeFrois, Paige Newton and Alexis Smith.

GOLF – 95.63 average. Players included Oliver Beach, Viktor Snyder and Drew Pritchard.

BOYS CROSS-COUNTRY – 90.243 average. Runners included Adam Burgio, William Plummer, Jordan Marshall, Charles Warren, Tristian Tilbe, Myles Beach, Ezra Bloom, Andrew Hill, Robert Friedl, Joel Slack and Lucas Prest.

GIRLS CROSS-COUNTRY – 94.989 average. Runners included Meganne Moore, Cordella Rivers, Lorelei Gailie, Gina Sidari, Gabriella Dobo, Maggie Olles, Mia Olles, Shania Mathes, Grace Nesbitt and Alliyah Neidert.

In a key league meeting on Friday night in Cattaraugus, front-running ELPS nipped the runner-up Roy-Hart/Barker/Medina Club Hockey team 5-4 in overtime.

RBM took a 1-0 lead in the opening stanze on a goal by Holden Burkard (Newfane) with Barker’s Jackson Hauser and Joel Harris getting assists.

ELPS came back to tie before the end of the period and took the lead very early in the second.

Luc Wagner (Medina) brought RBM back to even assisted by Paul Lassman (Wilson).

Again in the period, Wagner scored from Jack Goehle (Newfane) to put RBM back up 2-1, but ELPS created a tie again by the end of the period.

In the Third Period, ELPS took the lead, but Sean Mettler (Roy-Hart) scored on a great pass from Hauser to even the game.

Four minutes into the OT, ELPS scored the winning goal.

RBM will be back in action on Wednesday facing City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara at the Riverside Rink at 8 p.m. before embarking on the final five games of the season, all at home.

A big third quarter scoring surge keyed Byron-Bergen to an 80-60 win over visiting Albion in a non league boys basketball game this afternoon.

Leading by a narrow two point, 38-36, margin at the half, the Bees outscored the Purple Eagles 26-12 in the decisive third period to open up a commanding 64-48 advantage.

Braedyn Chambry sparked Byron-Bergen with 34 points.

Blake Preston scored 16 and Brody Vercruysee 13 to lead Albion as Wesley Olles had 9, Isaiah Riley 8 and Kyle Radder 7.

Albion next hosts Roy-Hart at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in a Niagara-Orleans League contest.

Contributed Photo – Melanie Green

Melanie Green has earned an invitation to play at the home of The Masters – Augusta.

Green, a Medina High graduate and a senior at the University of South Florida, has been invited to play in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur Golf Tournament April 3-6.

Green, who earned All America Honorable Mention last year, is a three time All American Conferance honoree and a two time NCAA Tournament qualifier.

Heading into the Spring portion of her final year, she holds several career USF records including scoring average (72.13). rounds of par pf better (46) and is second on career birdiies with 258.

During the Fall portion of the Bulls golf season she placed in the top four in all four events including two seconds, a third and a fourth.

Contributed Photo – Local finalists at Friday’s Lockport Wrestling Tournament included, from left, Reece Senske (Medina), Luke Fay (Roy-Hart/Barker), Conor Crandall (Medina), Sebastian Temich (Lyndonville) and Sawyer Kingsbury (Medina).

Medina and Lyndonville both had individual weight class champions at the Lockport Wrestling Tournament on Friday.

Medina’s Reece Senske (108) and Conor Crandall (190) both captured titles as did Lyndonville’s Sebastian Temich (170)

Senske decisioned Sean McDonald from Starpoint 7-0 in his title bout after registering pins in his first two matches.

Crandall decisioned Cooper Farrell from Brockport 7-3 in the finals. He advanced to the title bout on two pins and a decision win.

Temich scored a 7-5 sudden victory win over Killian Simonson from Amherst in his title match. He advanced to the finals by registering four pins.

Wilson’s William Wortkoetter also won at 285 registering four pins including a quick 25 second fall in the finals.

Medina also had Sawyer Kingsbury place second at 215 and Austin Seefeldt fourth at 152.

Roy-Hart/Barker had Luke Fay (131) place second and Joe Jopp (124) and Dan Moore (215) both place fourth.

The tournament was originally scheduled to be held over two days but because of the impending snow and wind storm was condensed into a one day event on Friday.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Madison Hughson drives for a shot against Medina defender Honesty Hill during the Purple Eagles home court win over the Mustangs this evening.

Jumping out to a 15-2 first quarter lead Albion went on to down rival Medina 47-28 in a Niagara-Orleans League girls basketball game this evening.

Madison Hughson scored 11 to spark Albion in the early going and the Purple Eagles went on to lead by margin of 25-14 at the half and 33-23 after three quarters.

The Purple Eagles also finished strong outpointing the Mustangs 14-5 in the final period.

Hughson finished with a game high 24 points as Kenzi Snook added 10, Leah Pawlak 5, Julia Knight 4 and Daci Doward and Paige Newton 2 each.

Honesty Hill led Medina with 7 as Nevaeh Moss, Ariel Smith and Alexa Demmer each had 6 and Iyla Lilleby 3.

Albion improves to 2-3 in N-O action and Medina slips to 0-2.

In the other N-O games, Wilson (5-0) jumped out to a 23-3 first quarter lead and went on to down Barker (0-4) 48-13 and Newfane (3-1) bested Roy-Hart (0-3) 50-32.

Albion’s Kenzi Snook puts up a shot against Medina defenders Angel Mulcahy and Nevaeh Moss.

Medina’s Nevaeh Moss grabs off a rebound against Albion’s Julia Knight (12) and Paige Newton (22).

Holley defeated Wheatland-Chili 42-28, Lyndonville downed Attica 39-26 and Kendall dropped a narrow 32-28 overtime decision to Notre Dame in Genesee Region League girls basketball action this evening.

Zoey Wolf scored 15 points, Alivia Wolf 9 and Jailyn Bishop and Samantha Bates 8 each to lead the way for Holley. Zoey Wolf and Bishop also both grabbed off 10 rebounds and Bates had 9 steals.

Addison Dillenbeck scored 17 points and Ashlee Stephens 14 to set the pace for Lyndonville which led 18-13 at the half and 28-17 after three quarters. Stephens also had 10 rebounds and Dillenbeck 6 rebounds and 3 blocks.

Trailing 26-16, Notre Dame outscored Kendall 12-2 in the fourth quarter to knot the contest at 28 and force overtime. The Irish then outscored the Lady Eagles 4-0 in the overtime period to claim the win. Gianna Falleti led the Irish with 13.

Ava LaMay led Kendall with 7.

Akron swept to a doubleheader victory over visiting Medina in a Niagara-Orleans League swim meet this evening.

The TigerSharks won the boys’ meet 87.5-70.5 and the girls’ competition 89-59

Dawson Stone doubled in the 200 Individual Medley and 100 Butterfly and Colton Cleveland in the 100 Free and 100 Breaststroke to lead the Akron boys squad which improves to 3-5.

Jackson Reese won the 50 Free and Caiden Class the 500 Free for the Seahorses which are now 1-5.

Audrey Garverick doubled in the IM and 500 Free, Madigan Regan in the 50 Free and 100 Breaststroke and Avery Haak in the 100 Butterfly and 100 Breaststroke for the Akron girls squad which is now 2-5.