Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion goalie Sydney Mulka knocks the ball away from Kendall’s Megan Gates as Aurora Serafin moves in to assist. The action took place during the Purple Eagles home field win this evening.

Albion trimmed visiting Kendall 2-1 and Roy-Hart downed host Attica 6-1 this evening in non league girls soccer games.

Abby Scanlan scored both goals for Albion upping her season total to 14. She scored with just 45 seconds to go in the first half off an assist from Nikki Creasy to give Albion a 1-0 lead. Later she netted what proved to be the game winner with 23 minutes remaining in the second half to give the Purple Eagles a 2-0 advantage.

Kendall cut the deficit to 2-1 when Alezya Brown scored with 19 minutes to go but the Lady Eagles could not net the equalizer.

Albion is now 8-2 and Kendall 5-6-1.

Kara Choate scored 3 goals upping her season total to 25, Kaitlyn Metter 2 and Allie Trombley 1 to lead the way for Roy-Hart which improves to 7-0-1.

Roy-Hart built up a commanding 4-0 half-time advantage on two goals by Choate off assists from Mettler and Nadia White and one each by Mettler off an assist from White and by Trombley from Mettler.

In the second half the Lady Rams had Choate score off an assist from Trombley and Mettler tally on a penalty kick.

In another non league contest this morning Eastridge downed Lyndonville/Medina 6-0 at Lyndonville on Homecoming.

Kendall goalie Kailie Regan goes down to make a save on a shot attempt by Albion’s Abby Scanlan who netted both of the Purple Eagles goals.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Greg Thompson eludes a Cleve Hill tackler as Noah Skinner provides a block during the Mustangs win over the host Eagles this afternoon.

Regaining a share of the C North Division lead, Medina rolled to a 38-6 victory over host Cleveland Hill this afternoon.

The victory pulls Medina even with Akron for the C North lead at 2-0 and improves the Mustangs overall record to 4-0.

Quarterback Xander Payne threw for three touchdown passes, two to Greg Thompson and one to Joe Cecchini, and Noah Skinner ran for another TD to lead the Mustangs attack.

Medina running back Cayden Lilleby eludes a Cleve Hill tackler to pick up yardage.

The Mustangs defensive unit also contributed a touchdown as Josh Wilson recovered a Cleve Hill fumble in the Eagles end zone.

Medina jumped out to a quick 8-0 lead in the first three minutes as Payne hooked up with Cecchini for a 24 yard touchdown pass. Skinner, who added the two-point conversion run, had a big 34 yard run on the game’s first play from scrimmage to ignite the Mustangs drive.

The Medina defensive unit helped to hike the lead to 16-0 late in the quarter as Wilson had the first of his two fumble recoveries on the afternoon in the Eagles end zone and Iverson Poole added the two-point conversion run.

The opening quarter lead could have been even bigger but the Mustangs had one long touchdown run called back by a penalty and then lost the ball on a turnover near the Cleve Hill goal line on the next possession.

The Mustangs did double the lead to 32-0 at the half by scoring on both second quarter possessions as Payne connected twice with Thompson for TD passes the first covering 51 yards and the second 21 yards. The later, his 12th TD pass of the season, came with just 34 seconds to go in the quarter.

It was a scoring opportunity set up by a fourth down sack of the Cleve Hill quarterback by the trio of Cecchini, Skinner and Jarin Rhim.

Cleve Hill scored the only touchdown in the third quarter with a lengthy 8 minute long drive.

Skinner rounded out the Mustangs scoring with a 33 yard touchdown run up the middle early in the final quarter.

That opportunity was also set up by a big fourth down sack of the Cleve Hill quarterback by the brother duo of Josh and Ollie Wilson.

A fumble recovery by Dominic Larabee on Cleve Hill’s next possession then capped off a big afternoon for the Mustangs defensive unit.

Medina will next visit Wilson at 7 p.m. Friday.

Medina’s defensive trio of Josh Wilson (56), Noah Skinner (42) and Joe Cecchini (3) combine to tackle a Cleve Hill’s Antwan Ceasar for a loss.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Barker’s Anna Bowerman starts a rush up field as Madison Kelley comes in to defend for Roy-Hart during this evening’s game which was won by the host Lady Raiders.

Celebrating Homecoming Barker posted a 2-0 victory over Roy-Hart in a Niagara-Orleans League field hockey game this evening played under portable lights at Barker.

Alexa Zglinicki scored what proved to be the game winning goal for Barker at 7:38 of the opening quarter off an assist from Rachel Sutter.

The Lady Raiders later got a big insurance goal when Mia Herman tallied unassisted with 2:48 to go in the third quarter.

Barker improves to 7-1 and Roy-Hart slips to 5-4.

Akron 6, Medina 0
Front-running Akron improved to 6-0 with a 6-0 win over visiting Medina which is now 4-3.

Lacey Berghorn and Jenelle Kieffer both scored two goals for Akron as Olivia McClaine and Alexandra Roland each chipped in with one.

Roy-Hart’s Claire Halstead works to keep the ball away from Barker’s Ashlin Cole.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley goalie Broek Ostrom makes one of his several spectacular saves on Kendall’s Zach Barrett during this evening’s home game against the rival Eagles.

One hundred minutes of soccer failed to decide the issue as rivals Holley and Kendall played to a 0-0 double overtime tie in a Genesee Region League boys game this evening.

Kendall had a big 13-1 edge in shots in the first half but couldn’t dent the net as Holley goalie Broek Ostrom came up with no less than five big saves.

Ostrom also had six more saves in the second half which saw Kendall have an 8-3 edge in shots.

Kendall goalie Jorden Ostrander made one big save in the closing seconds of the first half off a Holley corner kick opportunity and added two more saves in the second half.

Ostrander also made the one big save in the first 10 minute overtime period.

Ostrom then completed his big night in the net with two more clutch saves in the second overtime period.

Kendall is now 6-0-1 in the league and 6-3-1 overall while Holley is 0-6-1, 2-7-1.

Kendall’s Josh Esposito slides to take the ball away from Holley’s Kalen Brady.

Returning to action after having a week off due to a Covid quarantine issue at Akron, Medina will visit Cleveland Hill at 2 p.m. Saturday for a C North Division football game.

Medina is 1-0 in the division and 3-0 overall while Cleve Hill is 1-1 and 2-2 overall.

The weekend’s other C North Division games will have Wilson (2-0, 3-1) at Akron (1-0, 3-0) at 7 p.m. Friday and Tonawanda (0-2, 0-4) at Newfane (0-2, 1-3) at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The Akron at Medina game is expected to be made up on Monday October 18. That will also involve moving the Mustangs home game against Tonawanda from Friday Oct. 15 to Thursday Oct. 14.

Albion is also scheduled to return to action early next week after missing two games due to a Covid quarantine issue. The Purple Eagles are scheduled to make up their B North Division game against Burgard next Tuesday at Burgard.

That has also resulted in the move of the Purple Eagles home game against Cheektowaga from Friday Oct. 8 to Saturday Oct. 9. No date has been set yet for the Purple Eagles make up game against Lew-Port.

Albion is 2-0 in the division and 3-0 overall while Burgard is 0-2 and 1-2 overall.

Burgard will also host Roy-Hart/Barker/Lyndonville (0-3, 0-3) tomorrow evening in another B North contest.

Maritime (2-0, 2-2), which shares the B North lead with Albion, will visit Cheektowaga (1-0, 1-2) on Friday evening.