Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Veteran members of the Holley girls varsity soccer team include, in front, Ryleigh Weader, Alivia Wolf, Leigha Walker and Alexia Renner. In the middle row are Natalie Foose, Layne Walker, Emma Brady and Zoey Wolf. In back are Sam Bates. Jailyn Bishop, Katie Dobri, Alyssa Wright and Jasmin Apicella. Missing are Bella Thom and Mia Thom.

Last fall was a very successful one for the Holley girls varsity soccer team as the Lady Hawks won the Genesee Region League Division 1 title and advanced to the finals of the Class C1 sectionals.

Now, with virtually the entire team back including all 11 starters, the Lady Hawks are taking aim at not only repeating as G-R division champs but going farther in postseason competition.

“We have a good chance to do very, very well,” said Coach Renee Wolf. “They went a long way last year and now they want to get over that hurdle. They got a taste of it (sectional success) last year so they know what it feels like.”

Heading Holley’s veteran laden squad are seniors Samantha Bates (Midfield/Forward), Emma Brady (Goalie/Midfield), and Bella Thom (Defense/Midfield) along with juniors Alivia Wolf (Midfield/Forward) and Zoey Wolf (Defense/Midfield), who all earned G-R All-Star honors last season along with Honorable Mention selections seniors Jailyn Bishop (Defense/Midfield), Leigha Walker (Defense/Midfield) and Layne Walker (Goalie/Midfield) head Holley’s veteran laden squad.

Bates led the Lady Hawks in scoring with 31 goals and 12 assists while Brady had 16 goals and 14 assists and Thom 6 goals and 8 assists.

The Lady Hawks lineup also includes seniors Ryleigh Weader (Midfield/Forward), Alyssa Wright (Defense), Jasmin Apicella (Defense/Midfield), Kaitlin Dobri (Defense/Midfield); juniors Alexia Renner (Midfield/Forward) and Natalie Foose (Midfield/Forward) and fresman Mia Thom (Midfield/Forward).

“They played together over the summer which really helps in getting us ready for the season,” said Wolf.

The Lady Hawks, which went 11-1-1 in the league and 16-2-1 overall last fall, will open the season by hosting their annual tournament on August 30 and September 1. The first round matchups will have Roy-Hart vs. Aquinas (4:30 p.m.) followed by Holley vs. Canisteo-Greenwood (6:30 p.m.). The G-R opener will be September 6 at Attica.

On the links at Hickory Ridge the Tuesday Night Ladies Night Out league have no standings to report this week. Many ladies have makeups to do from weather related and other reasons cancelations. The games will be made up soon.

For the night, low gross Deb Wood with a 34. Laurie Freeman was second with 42. Freeman also led low net with 35. Kathy Babbitt, Dona Hazen and Patty Pifister each tied for second with 36. Wood had two birdies and Barb Passerall have one.

The Pete Sullivan Sr. League held their Orange Ball tournament. In the tourney, each group is given an orange ball at the start. The ball must be passed one from one player to another on throughout the 18 holes.

The orange ball player must record his score for both him and the orange ball. At the end of 18 holes score cards are turned in with the orange ball. If you had lost your ball, water, woods or whatever, you’re automatically out of the running. Only 3 of 13 teams lost their orange ball.

The J Team of Jeff Dobson, Jimmy Z, John Gerhardt and John (too good to be true) True finished ahead of the pack with a 79.

Low gross for the day was Rich Turner with a 72. Steve Novak (watch out for this one) again turned in low net.

Amazingly, there were 24 birdies on the day. Turner had 5, True (Blue) and Dana Voisburgh had 3, Ashe, Bob Demallie and Duane Engle 2 each, Gerhardt, Dan Morphet, Bill Stanton, Gordy Watt, Darryl Szklany and Dave Bieber 1 each.

For the Thursday Night Traveling League the standings took a bit of a shuffle this week. Now leading the pack is the team of Burgess and Eaton with 276 points. Last week’s leaders of Flansberg and Stalker are now in second with 266 points. Hanlon and Schrader and Molisai and Soria are tied for third with 222 points.

Low gross for this night was Jason Schrader with 36. Low net was Ryan Wilkins with 26. Wilkins and Schrader both carded birdies along with Jim Peglow, Zack Burgess, Mike Farrell and Dave Cotter.

Contributed Photo – Landyn Galligan  makes a catch for the JV Eagles.

Albion split with visiting Batavia Saturday to open the Niagara Orleans Football Association (NOFA) season.

Albion won the Beginners Division game 28-0 and the Mini contest 44-7 .

Batavia took the JV game 23-0 and the varsity contest 23-0.

Beginners

Albion 28 Batavia 0

Elian Almonte had a big day for the little Eagles with 6 carries for 186 yards, 2 touchdowns and 2 PAT’s. He also led the defense with 8 tackles.

Conor Murphy had 41 yards rushing, Greyson Roberts 25 yards, 1 TD and 2 PAT’s. Conor Murphy also had a rushing TD.

Mini

Albion 44 Batavia 7

Picking up where he left off last year, Jace Torres had 152 yards on the ground and 3 touchdowns.

Kyle Schomske had a 70 yd TD run. Camden Holt picked up 65 yards and a TD. Liam Pearl 40 yards and Lincoln Voorhees 20 yards. Roman Allport and Voorhees added PAT’s.

On defense, Holt returned a fumble for a TD and had 5 tackles. Liam Saporito had 5 tackles, Dominic Sweet and Torres 4 each.

JV Batavia

23 Albion 0

Landyn Galligan and Jermiah Hildreth had 6 tackles a piece and Matthew Schomske and Colton Moreland 5 each. Brycen Potter also had 2 fumble recoveries.

Next week Albion will host Attica at 10, 12. 2 and 4.

It’s goodbye summer and hello autumn as fall high school sports practice begins on Saturday.

Football will kickoff the preseason practice schedule on Saturday as Medina will begin prepping to defend the Class C North title the Mustangs have won each of the past three seasons.

At Holley, the Hawks 8 man football squad will now be the combined Holley/Lyndonville squad.

The other local combined football team is Roy-Hart/Barker which last fall was the tri-school Roy-Hart/Barker/Lyndonville squad.

The other fall sports teams including boys and girls soccer, field hockey, volleyball, cross-country and golf will begin practicing on Monday.

Both the Roy-Hart boys and girls soccer teams will begin tuning up to defend the Niagara-Orleans League titles which both Ram squads have won each of the past three years.

Akron will begin practicing to defend their N-O titles in field hockey, volleyball and golf.

The other defending N-O championship teams are Barker in boys cross-country and Newfane in girls cross-country.

In The Genesee Region League, the Holley girls soccer team will be prepping to defend their division title. The Lady Hawks returns virtually their entire team from last fall’s squad which advanced to the sectional finals.

The one local change on the G-R soccer scene is that Lyndonville will be fielding only JV and modified boys teams and not varsity this season due to a lack of numbers in the upper grades.

Local youth football action will kickoff on Saturday with the start of the Niagara Orleans Folotball Association (NOFA) season.

The Association involves teams from 11 area communities competing in four age divisions including Beginner, Mini, JV and Varsity.

Saturday’s openers will have Batavia at Albion, Tri Town at Holley, Akron at Roy-Hart/Barker, Pembroke at Oakfield/Elba and LeRoy at Attica as Newfane draws the bye.

Games are scheduled for 10 a.m. (Beginner), noon (Mini), 2 p.m. (JV) and 4 p.m. (Varsity).

Teams will play an 8 game regular season followed by the playoffs on October 14 and 21.