Photo by Cheryl Wertman – After taking a throw from Remington Albee, Roy-Hart pitcher Thomas Russo sprints to first base to get the out on Akron’s Jack Klodzinski during the Rams win over the Tigers at Gasport this evening.

Maintaining a one game lead, Roy-Hart defeated Akron 11-1 in a key Niagara-Orleans League baseball game this evening under the lights at Gasport.

Roy-Hart improves to 9-1 in N-O action to stay a game ahead of 8-2 Medina as Akron slips out of contention at 6-4.

Thomas Russo went the distance on the mound for Roy-Hart giving up 5 hits and striking out 13.

Roy-Hart moved on top to stay by scoring three times in the second inning on a fielders choice play off the bat of Jay Heideman, a bunt single by Dawson Draper and a single by Ryan Mettler.

The Rams then broke the game open with four runs in the third inning on a two-run single by Remington Albee, an RBI single by Ethan Kuzma and an RBI bunt by John Conley.

Roy-Hart also tallied four times in the sixth inning capped off by RBI hits by Kuzma and Heideman.

The Rams will close out the N-O season with road games at Akron and Albion next Tuesday and Wednesday. Medina will finish the league campaign with a home and home series against Barker Wednesday and Thursday.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Aidan Paul, left, and Xander Payne combined to pitch a non hitter this evening as Medina edged host Depew 2-0.

Backing a strong no hit pitching performance Medina pushed across two runs in the eighth inning to nip host Depew 2-0 in a non league game this evening.

A sacrifice fly by Julian Woodworth drove in the winning run and Zach Fike followed up with a single to plate an insurance run.

A walk to Richard Keppler, a sacrifice by Hayden Woodroe, a single by Tyler Kroening and an intentional walk loaded the bases to set up the opportunity.

On the mound, Aidan Paul and Xander Payne each pitched four innings for the combined no hitter with a total of 20 strikeouts.

Medina next hosts LeRoy in another non league contest at 4:45 p.m. Monday.

Notre Dame 12, Lyndonville 0
Colin McCulley hurled a one hitter to lead Notre Dame to a 12-0 win over host Lyndonville in a Genesee Region League game.

In another G-R contest, Holley shutout Pembroke 13-0.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Amari Jones slides into second base ahead of a tag by Barker’s Noah Sandolfini during the host Purple Eagles win over the Raiders this afternoon.

Exploding for eight runs in the first inning Albion went on to blank visiting Barker 12-0 this afternoon to regain the .500 mark at 5-5 in Niagara-Orleans League baseball competition.

A two-run double by winning pitcher Amari Jones along with an RBI double by Javon Jones and two-run singles by both Brendan Lebaron and Chris Sacco highlighted the decisive first inning uprising.

The Purple Eagles tacked on three runs in the third inning on a two-run double by Tyler Gibson and an RBI double by Lebaron and one in the fourth on a home run by Caleb Fox.

On the mound, Amari Jones gave up just 2 hits and struck out 8 over the five innings of the run rule contest.

The loss drops Barker to 2-8.

The Albion Storm traveled to take on LeRoy Red this evening and came home with a 16-8 fast pitch softball victory.

Defense was on point for the Storm with Izzy D’Agostino starting on the mound and getting 3 strikeouts in 2 innings. Leah Zastrow came in for the third and fourth innings also snagging a K and getting out of the third inning with only 4 pitches. Melia Prince came in to finish the game covering the 5th and 6th inning snagging herself 3 strikeouts.

The offense the Storm was strong racking up 13 hits. Leading the way was Adrianna D’Agostino going 3-3 , Izzy D’Agostino, Gia Howard, and Sophia Dash all went 2-3. Brooklynn Miens, Meadow Smith and Brooke Miller each collected singles as well.

The Storm travels to Brockport on Friday.

Putting a lock on the Division 2 title, Lyndonville romped to a 20-2 Genesee Region League softball victory over host Notre Dame this afternoon.

Ella Lewis had a three-run home run in the first inning and a three-run double in the fourth, Morgan Austin a two-run single in the fourth and Bella Groves a grand slam home run the sixth to highlight the offense for undefeated Lyndonville which improves to 15-0 overall.

Addy Dillenbeck had 4 hits, Lorelei Dillenbeck 3 and Lewis, Austin and Groves 2 each.

The Lady Tigers next visit Byron-Bergen on Saturday at 11 a.m.

Kendall 10, Alexander 6

Shelby Kruger, Julie Coble, Grace Levett, Grace Robinson and Taigan Guerrero each had 2 hits to lead Kendall to a 10-6 G-R win over Alexander. Kruger and Coble both had doubles.

Barker 8, Wilson 5
Scoring five quick runs in the first inning, Barker went on to defeat host Wilson 8-5 this afternoon to improve to 7-3 in Niagara-Orleans League softball competition.

A two-run double by Rachel Sutter and a two-run single by Anna Bowerman highlighted the Lady Raiders big first inning uprising.

Bowerman, Kaylee Stoll and Peyton Bradley each finished with 2 hits.

Juliana Levesque had 2 hits for Wilson which finishes the N-O season at 6-6.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Zaric Boyce had 8 assists for Medina in today’s win at Gowanda.

Getting goal production from seven players, Medina romped to a 14-1 victory over host Gowanda this evening in a Class D Division lacrosse game.

Dylan Lonnen scored 4 goals, Cayden Lilleby 3, Sam Kingsbury and Will Prest 2 each and Cole Callard, Jacob Rissew and Aiden Burczyk 1 apiece for the Mustangs balanced attack.

Zaric Boyce also had a huge day offensively by dishing out 8 assists.

Medina jumped out to a 4-1 first quarter lead as Lonnen and Kingsbury both netted a pair of goals.

The Mustangs then used a 5-0 second quarter scoring edge to boost the advantage to 9-1 at the half.

Prest and Lilleby both had 2 goals and Lonnen 1 during that stretch.

Now at 6-8, Medina next visits Gananda on Saturday for a non league game.

Holley trimmed rival Kendall 3-2 in a Genesee Region League tennis match this afternoon.

Cavan Bennage won at first singles for Holley which also got victories from the doubles teams of Cora Bennage – James Tette and Mason Neale – Drew Carlston.

Kendall got wins from Tobias Passer at second singles and Joshua Esposito at third singles.

Holley is now 8-2 and Kendall 5-4.

Jumping out to an early 4-0 lead, Kendall went on to edge host Attica 6-5 in a Genesee Region League baseball game this afternoon.

Zach Barrett had 4 hits and drove in 3 runs for Kendall as Louis Conte chipped in with 3 hits and Reuben Marquess 2.

An RBI double by Barrett helped Kendall build up the 4-0 lead. A sacrifice fly by James Fox plated the Eagles fifth run and an RBI single by Barrett drove in what proved to be the game winner in the sixth inning.

Barrett also came on in relief with one on in the seventh inning and got the final three outs to lock up the win.

Newfane 7, Wilson 1

Newfane erupted for seven runs in the seventh inning to down rival Wilson 7-1 in a Niagara-Orleans League game.

A double by Kaiden Rose ignited the Panthers uprising which also featured a bases clearing double by Brady Harrington and a two-run homer by Tyler Baes.

Newfane is now 4-7 and Wilson 2-9.

Barker (6-3) downed host Medina (3-9) 14-11 and Roy-Hart (11-0) topped visiting Albion (4-7) 15-1 in Niagara-Orleans League softball action this afternoon.

In the other N-O contest, Akron (7-5) bested Wilson (6-5) 17-7.

Lilly Monthony had 5 hits including two doubles and two triples to highlight the offense for Barker as Natalie Brandel, Rachel Sutter, Anna Bowerman and Mia Herman each had 2 hits.

Faith Oberther had 3 hits for Medina as Iyla Lilleby and Rylee VanNostrand both had 2.

Reanna Perkins struck out 12 in the circle and also belted a pair of home runs to lead the Roy-Hart attack.

Juliana Buscarino, Peyton May and Lila Brigham each had a pair of hits for the Lady Rams.

Aly Knaak had 2 hits for Albion.

G-R Softball
In Genesee Region League softball action, undefeated (14-0) Lyndonville swept a doubleheader from Wheatland-Chili by scores of 24-0 and 30-4, Pembroke blanked Kendall 7-0 and Oakfield-Alabama downed Holley 24-1.