Photo by Tom Rivers – Albion’s Ellwood Hafner in action in the pole vault during today’s win at Wilson which locked up the N-O title for the Purple Eagles.

Capping off a third straight 6-0 title season, Albion bested host Wilson 85-56 this afternoon to close out the Niagara-Orleans League boys track dual meet season.

Brian Spall was a double winner in the 110 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles for Albion which also got individual event victories from Sh’kwe Riley (400), Orion Groth (800), Ozzie Matos (200) Brendan Lebaron (Shotput) and Jahmeek Riley (High Jump).

Paul Smith was a triple winner for Wilson in the 100, Long Jump and Triple Jump while Jayden Ruble doubled in the 1600 and 3200.

Wilson did gain a split on the day by downing Albion in the girls’ meet 74-62.

Maddie Schultz was a triple winner in the High Jump. 100 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles for Wilson as Madelyn Jowdy doubled in the 800 and 1500.

For Albion, Abby Scanlan won both the 100 and 200, S’koi Sanders the Triple Jump and 400, Bri Haines the Pole Vault and Lilly Zambito the Discus.

Newfane girls Claim N-O title
A classic regular season clash of unbeatens between 5-0 Newfane and 5-0 Akron this afternoon came down to the final relay event to decide the N-O girls’ track championship.

Newfane’s quartet of Steph Chunco, Anna Chunco, Cat Ersing and Leah Siegmann scored a victory in that 1600 relay to earn the Lady Panthers the title.

Mel Myers was a triple winner on the day for Newfane in the Long Jump, High Jump and Triple Jump while Akron’s Lauren Wagner doubled in the 800 and 1500.

Newfane also downed Akron in the boys’ meet 93-48.

Max Czekj doubled in the 110 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles for Newfane as did Will Chubb in the 1600 and 3200 for Akron.

The Medina Women’s Softball League’s opening night Monday featured a tight contest as 810 Meadworks/The HempHouse nipped White Birch 17-16.

Bridget Tower started off the power inning hitting in the third inning  sparking 810 Meadworks/HempHouse  to an 8 run uprising which also includeed a two-run homer by Kelsey Schmitt.

White Birch answered back in the third bringing the score to 8-6.

In the sixth inning 810 Meadworks/HempHouse rallied with two out on runs scored by Suzy White, Alishia Foss, Tower, Kelly Jo Pritchard, Melissa Prince, Halle Deuil and Randi Scholes.

White Birch fought back in the sixth pulling to within one but 810 Meadworks/HempHouse was able to hold them for the win.

Next week, 810 Meadworks/HempHouse plays Banes at Jr Wilson field 1 at 7 p.m.

Jr. Wilson 1 27, NYSCOPBA 7

Scoring early and often, Jr. Wilson plated 10 runs in the top of the first inning on six singles and then a grand slam from Jaclyn Guzdek. Jr.

Wilson 1 then scored twice in the second inning on a 2-run blast to right field by Jessica Rosenbeck.

Adding to their lead in the third, Jr. Wilson would tack on five more. After singles from Butchie Stockwell and Penny Roath, Stormi Kruger stepped to the plate and belted a 3-run home run to right center. Sara Flansburg added a single, and was hit home by another home run shot from Rosenbeck.

NYSCOPBA picked away at Jr. Wilson’s lead in the third by adding two runs on two hits and an error, making it a 15-6 ball game. Jr. Wilson pulled away in the fourth though, adding another 10 runs on eight hits, including a grand slam from Flansburg.

Rosenbeck finished the day 4-4 with 2 homeruns, and 4 runs scored. Flansburg had three hits, while Guzdek, Kruger, Jodi Zacher, Bri Guzdek, Michelle Crandall, Stockwell, Roath and Kaitlyn Miller all finished with two hits.

Jr. Wilson 1 next plays Banes on Monday at 6 p.m. at the Jr. Wilson’s field 1

The standings after week 5 of the Meadworks Axe Throwing League are as follows.

1 – Mother Chuckers, 1847; 2 – The Kill Shots, 18383 – Pain in the Axe, 1743 4 – Axing for Trouble, 1679; 5 – Lizzie Borden, 1628; 6 – Great Axepectations, 1603; 7 – Bustin Axes, 1576; 8 – Here for Pizza, 1561; 9 – Two Cord, 1525; 10 – Happy Hippies, 1438; 11 – Berserkers, 1407; 12 – Axing for a Friend, 1358; 13 – Swoosh, 1340; 14- Axe Like That, 1317; 15 – Kiss our Axes, 1298; 16 – Smack My Axe, 1295; 17 – Anger Management, 1270; 18 – Bad Axes, 1235; 19 – Axedental Fun, 1179; 20 – JackAxes, 1095; 21 – Lillie Girls, 106422 – Mad Axes, 1009;
23 – Axe About Us, 856; 24 – The Slits, 722.

Making it three wins in a row, Albion downed host Newfane 15-4 this afternoon to reach the .500 mark at 4-4 in Niagara-Orleans League baseball action.

Tyler Gibson banged out 4 hits, Javon Jones 3 and winning pitcher Amari Jones and Brendan Lebaron 2 each to lead the attack for Albion.

On the mound, Amari Jones scattered 5 hits and struck out 10 over the first six innings.

The loss drops the Panthers to 2-7.

Albion next hosts Newfane at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.

Medina rallied in the final inning to nip visiting Akron 10-9 in a Niagara-Orleans League softball game at Vets Park this afternoon.

Hits by Faith Oberther, Rylee VanNostrand and Gianna Greco helped to plate the winning run in the bottom of the seventh for Medina.

The Mustangs got back into the game by erupting for 5 runs in the sixth inning as Lily Carpenter, Fike, Greco, VanNostrand and Regan Timmer had hits.

Roy-Hart 9, Wilson 5
Front-running Roy-Hart improved to 9-0 by downing visiting Wilson 9-5.

Reanna Perkins belted a pair of two run hoemrs and Jilianna Buscarino and Molly Russell both had triples to lead the offense for Roy-Hart.

In the circle, Perkins scattered 6 hits and struck out 15.

Barker 29, Newfane 14
Natalie Brandel and Rachel Sutter both had 4 hits, Lilly Monthony 3 and Mia Herman 2 including a home run to pace Barker past Newfane 29-14.

Barker is now 5-2 and Newfane 1-8.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Dawson Draper dives back to first base ahead of a throw to Barker’s Lucas Flegal during the Rams win over the host Raiders this afternoon.

Roy-Hart and Medina both rolled to road victories this afternoon to remain 1-2 in the Niagara-Orleans League baseball title race.

Front-running Roy-Hart bested Barker 15-1 to improve to 7-1 and Medina topped Wilson 17-1 to go to 7-2.

Roy-Hart 15, Barker 1
Thomas Russo hurled a 1 hitter with 14 strikeouts for Roy-Hart in the five inning run rule contest.

Ryan Mettler banged out 4 hits at the plate for the Rams as Russo, Jay Heideman, Brayden Hy, Remington Albee and Nathan Beyer each chipped in with 2.

Roy-Hart moved on top to stay by scoring twice in the first inning on a double by Heideman and an error as a single by Mettler started the threat.

The Rams then broke the contest open by erupting for six runs in the third inning. Mettler had two hits, Hy a double and Heideman, Beyer and Albee all chipped in with singles.

Beyer and Albee also both had RBI singles in the fourth inning.

Roy-Hart closed out the win by scoring five times in the fifth inning on a three-run home run by Russo, a solo homer by Jake Gould and an RBI double by Heideman.

Barker is now 2-6.

Medina 17, Wilson 1
Exploding for seven runs in the first inning and six more in the second Medina romped to a five inning run rule win at Wilson.

A triple by Zach Fike and doubles by winning pitcher Aidan Paul and Xander Payne highlighted the big first inning for the Mustangs which also included singles by Julian Woodworth, Hayden Woodroe and Tyler Kroening.

Paul then had a two-run double to highlight the second inning uprising which also includes singles by Woodworth, Fike, Richard Keppler and Kroening.

Fike finished with four hits, including a home run in the fourth inning, as Woodworth, Paul and Kroening each had two.

On the mound, Paul allowed only 2 hits and struck out 14.

Wilson is now 2-7.

Medina next hosts Wilson at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the annual Jeff Evoy Memorial game.

Trailing by as much as 9-1, Lyndonville rallied to nip visiting Pembroke 12-11 in a Genesee Region League baseball game this afternoon.

A four run fifth inning highlighted by a two-run single by Justin Higgins got Lyndonville rolling.

The Tigers followed up with a pair of runs in the sixth inning on a two-run single by Payton Grabowski.

Lyndonville then picked up the game winner in the bottom of the seventh as Trenton Muck walked, stole second, advanced to third on a sacrifice by Michael Marker and came home on a passed ball.

In another G-R contest, Holley and host Elba battled to a 10-10 tie in 10 innings before darkness halted play. Each team scored twice in the 10th inning.

Finishing at 12-0, Akron capped off a fourth straight Niagara-Orleans League tennis championship season with a 5-0 win over Medina this afternoon.

Will Chubb, Caleb Suckow and Whitley Koopman all scored singles wins for Akron.

The Tigers also got victories from the doubles teams of Sean Brennan – Sean OShaughnessy and Emma Corbett – Isaac Cerasani.

Barker improved to 7-4 with a 5-0 win over Newfane (4-6).

Nathan Meza Ray, Matthew Ryan and Willard Nellist all scored singles victories for Barker.

The Raiders also had the duos of Cameron Kiner – Aidan Mescall amd Kevin Hadsell – Levi Hauser score doubles wins.

Kendall 5, Attica 0

Kendall blanked Attica 5-0 to improve to 5-2 in Genesee Region League action.

Devin Edick, Tobias Passer and Joshua Esposito scored singles wins for Kendall.

The Eagles also got doubles wins from the teams of Steven Strapp – Gabriel Preston and Jonathan Esposito – Lucas Jones.

Scoring in five different innings, Lyndonville blanked Pembroke 10-0 this afternoon to improve to 9-0 in Genesee Region League softball action and 12-0 overall.

Haley Shaffer hurled the shutout in the circle scattering 4 hits and striking out 5.

At the plate, Ella Lewis banged out three hits for the Lady Tigers including a home run and a double with 4 RBIs. Shaffer also helped her own cause with a double and a sacrifice fly and a total of 3 RBIs. Gracie Johnson and Bri Krisher also each drove in a run.

Lyndonville next hosts Wheatland-Chili in a doubleheader at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Kendall 20, Wheatland-Chili 2

Julie Coble and Lauren Pilon both had 3 hits including a double and triple, Brooke Rodas 3 and winning pitcher Sara Mattle 2 to lead the way for Kendall.

Holley 11, Elba 10

Holley pushed across two runs in the seventh inning on a sacrifice fly by Tatum Gagne, which drove in the tying run, and a bases loaded hit batter, which plated the game winner, to nip Elba 11-10. A hit by Sara Kingdollar, a walk an a hit batter loaded the bases to set up the threat.

Kingdollar finished with 3 hits as Hailey Herring and AJ Botello both had 2.