Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Nathan Dillenbeck is an All-State soccer honoree.

Lyndonville High senior Nathan Dillenbeck has been named to the second team of the All-State small schools boys soccer squad.

Dillenbeck, a three-year starter for the Medina/Lyndonville varsity team, finished with a career total of 56 goals which is a record for both schools.

Dillenbeck scored 23 goals last fall, including both goals in the sectional championship game, as the Mustangs tied Tonawanda 2-2 in overtime to earn a share of the title.

Dillenbeck has also been a multi year starter for Lyndonville’s varsity basketball and baseball teams.

For the past few years the Section VI Class B alignment for football divisions has been determined by school enrollment.

That formula for determining division alignment has left some schools like Albion with some very long road trips.

This past season the Purple Eagles B2 Division opponents included Olean, Lake Shore, Dunkirk, Depew, Maryvale and Maritime.

However, that situation will change this coming fall season as Section VI officials have now realigned the Class B divisions geographically.

This fall Albion will be in the B North Division along with Roy-Hart/Barker/Lyndonville, Lew-Port, Cheektowaga, Maryvale, Burgard and Maritime.

Roy-Hart/Barker/Lyndonville, which played its inaugural season this spring (the 2020 Fall 2 season) in the Section V 8 Man Division, has moved into the 11 Man Class B due to the combined enrollment of the three schools.

The B South Division will include Olean, Dunkirk, Lake Shore, East Aurora, Pioneer, Iroquois and West Seneca East.

Medina will again compete in the C North Division whose alignment has remained the same with Akron, Newfane, Wilson, Cleveland Hill and Tonawanda rounding out he lineup. The Mustangs claimed the title in their first season in the division this spring.

Contributed Photo – The foursome of Deb Wood, Paula Knaak, Owen Toale and Randy Knaak won the Spring Mixer Torunament at Hickory Ridge this weekend.

The Spring Mixer Member’s Tournament at Hickory Ridge, postponed from a rainy May, was held this past weekend.  The format was a scramble with pairings done by established GHIN or league handicaps.

 The foursome of Randy Knaak, Paula Knack, Deb Wood and Owen Toale won the tournament with a seven under par 65.

 Dona Hazen, Craig Hazen, Gary Wood and Dick Taylor were one stroke off with a 66.  Larry Powers, Brenda Powers, Jim Zambito and Marcia Zambito took third place with  a 67.

 The highlight of the tournament was a hole in one on the par three number 6 by Werner Stumpf.

Leagues are slow reporting but results are coming in.

 The always reliable Ladies Night Out League on Tuesday reports Deb Wood with a 37 for low gross.  Emily Ferguson was close behind with 42.  Low net was shared by Karen Berlew and Sarah MacCallum with net 32 each.

 The team of Deb Wood and Jan Palmer lead the standings with 24 points.  Very close behind are Dona Hazen and Karen Berlew with 23.5 points.  Laurie Freeman and Linda Chrzan hold third with 18.5 points.

The Wednesday Night Men’s League has the team of Daniels and Hendrickson in first place with 32.5 points.  Zambito and Toale are second with 23.5 and the Denniston are in third with 22.  Low gross for last week was Raymont Daniels with 43.  Daniels also snagged low net with 34.  Daniels and Ed Morgan recorded birdies.

Kendall’s Derek Edick won the Long Jump and placed second in the Triple Jump at the annual Genesee Region All-League track meet held Saturday at Batavia.

The Kendall boys also had Joseph Nettles place third in both the 100 and 400 and sixth in the 800 and Ethan Kuhn take fifth in both the 110 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles.

Alezya Brown led the Kendall girls with a second place finish in the Triple Jump.

The Lady Eagles also had Hannah Brundage place third in the 1500 and sixth in the 800 and Maddison Dellaquila sixth in the High Jump.

The Holley boys had KJ Biedlingmaier place fourth in the Pole Vault and sixth in the Triple Jump and Riley Allen fifth in the Shotput.

Allyson Skehan placed fourth in both the 400 Hurdles and High Jump for the Lady Hawks.

The Lyndonville boys squad had Ethan Creig place fourth in the 400 and fifth in the 200, Josh Slingerland third in the 800 and Kevin Travis fourth in the Shotput.

Annabelle Follman placed sixth in the Discus for the Lady Tigers.

Contributed – Omer Fugate

A classic pitchers dual opened the Albion Midget League season as Sandstone nipped Carlton 1-0 on Saturday.

Sandstone’s Omer Fugate pitched a perfect game with 16 strikeouts while Carlton hurler Colin McMullen threw a 4 hitter with 9 strikeouts.

Sandstone scored the game’s lone run in the sixth inning on a bunt single by Garritt Smith which followed singles by Wesley LeFrois and Braydon Linke.

In the other opener, Rotary/St. Mary’s nipped Elba/Barre 12-11.

The league has only four teams this season. The teams will play each other three times followed by a double elimination playoff.

Coming off a near perfect 14-1 regular season, the Lyndonville High softball team has earned the No. 1 seed for the upcoming Section V Class C2 tournament.

The Lady Tigers will host No. 16 Red Creek in the opening round at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The victor will then face the winner of Tuesday’s No. 9 Kendall at No. 8 Byron-Bergen game in the quarterfinals later in the week.

The Lyndonville baseball team, which posted an 11-3 regular season record, has earned the No. 2 seed for the Class C2 playoffs.

The Tigers will host No. 15 Geneseo at 5 p.m. Monday.

The victor will then face the winner of Monday’s No. 10 Marion vs. No. 7 HAC game in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.

In Class B2, No. 10 Holley-Kendall will visit No. 7 Mynderse at 5 p.m. Monday.

The Holley softball squad, which is seeded No. 14 in Class C1, will visit No. 3 Red Creek at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Contributed Photo – Holley third grader Caiden Murray meets with York Revolution pitcher Jake Welch

An avid baseball fan Holley third grader Caiden Murray recently got a very special surprise when he was visited at school by Jake Welch who pitches for the York Revolution in the Atlantic League.

Jake is the son of Robert Welch who works security at Holley Elementary School.

Robert notes that while working the lunch hour he saw Caiden wearing an Aaron Judge Yankees jersey and they started talking about baseball. “I told him about Jake and he said he wished he could meet him.”

At the time Jake was working out in Florida in preparation for the Revolution’s season so Robert gave Caiden an Atlantic League ball.

Then, while working directing traffic at the school, Robert spoke with Caiden’s mother as she dropped him off and she said he was so excited and wished he could meet Jake.

Robert notes that his wish came true when Jake came home for three days before leaving for the season. He got permission from the school for Jake, who was vaccinated, to come to the school and meet and talk baseball with Caiden.

Jake presented Caiden with a training glove which was donated by the glove’s manufacturer Valle Baseball in Rochester for whom Jake works in the off season.

“Caiden’s interest in and love of baseball is what made both of our decisions to do this,” said Robert. “Baseball is limited in Holley with no youth programs. I just saw a chance to spark a young man’s interest in baseball with hopes he would continue his love for the game.”

Interestingly, Jake works out in the off season with Holley graduate Dylan Hillabush, a lefty pitcher who just graduated from SUNY Brockport.

Albion regained the .500 mark at 4-4 in Niagara-Orleans League tennis competition by downing visiting Barker 3-2 this afternoon.

Singles wins by the trio of Carson Bader, Leo Bolton and Josh DePoty earned the victory for the Purple Eagles.

Barker got wins from the doubles duos of Ella Gooding – Willard Nellist and Aidan Mescall – Carla Stoloski.

Staying perfect at 11-0, Akron, which has already locked up the title, posted a 4-1 N-O win over Roy-Hart this afternoon.

Straight set shutout wins at the first two singles positions by Will Chubb and Caleb Suckow led the way for the Tigers.

Akron 4, Roy-Hart 1

First Singles: Will Chubb (Akron) d. Domonick Peracciny 6-0, 6-0

Second Singles: Caleb Suckow (Akron) d. Tagen Decker 6-0, 6-0

Third Singles Nik Gutierrez (Royalton-Hartland) d. Samantha Niescier 6-2, 6-4

First Doubles: Sean Brennan and Sean O’Shaughnessy (Akron) d. Marissa Scott and Ava Owens 6-0, 6-0

Second Doubles: Kaly Lin and Morgan Towlson (Akron) d. Chelsie Gutierrez and Alex Stern 6-0, 6-1

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina goalie Robert Morehouse makes the save on a shot by Gananda’s Drew Smith during the Mustangs loss to the Panthers this afternoon at Vets Park.

Gananda downed Medina 19-12 at Vets Park his afternoon in a non league lacrosse game for the Little Blue Jug.

Gananda, which is coached by Medina grad Joe Sidari, scored the last three goals of the second quarter to take the lead for good by an 8-6 margin at the half.

Medina did stay within one at 10-9 in the third period after two goals by Zach Blount and one by Josh Wilson.

However, the Mustangs could not pull even as the Panthers scored the last four goals of the third period to move back out to a 14-9 lead.

Gananda then outpointed Medina 5-3 in the final stanza to lock up the win and take home the Little Blue Jug.

Mitchell Silversmith finished with 5 goals for Medina as Wilson netted 4 and Blount 3.

Silversmith and Wilson each scored two goals in the opening period to put Medina up 4-3.

Goals by Silversmith and Blount kept the Mustangs up 6-5 early in the second period but the Panthers answered with a 3-0 scoring edge to close the half and regain the lead for good at 8-6.

The Panthers attack was led by the trio of Cohyn Reisman (6 goals), Drew Smith (5 goals) and Joseph Chiccino (4 goals).

Medina is now 3-3.

The contest was also an effort to raise funds to fight the ALS disease in the name of Medina grad Jimmer Szatkowski.

Medina’s Tasker Taylor brings the ball up field against Gananda defender Noah Mancuso.

Rebounding from an early 6-0 deficit, Albion rallied to nip visiting Barker 10-8 this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League softball game.

Albion scored twice in the second, third and fourth innings to pull even at 6-6 and then took the lead for good at 9-6 on a key three-run double by Aly Knaak in the fifth inning.

Kenzi Hapeman had 4 hits, Emaini Poole 3 and Bryne Dysard and Hannah Hinkley 2 each for Albion which improves to 4-3.

Sydnie Luckman had a grand slam home run in the first inning and Anna Bowerman 2 hits, including a double, for Barker.

Barker 20, Newfane 5

Barker bested Newfane 20-5 on Friday as Mia Herman had 4 hits, including a pair of doubles. Bowerman, Chloe Lee, Jessalynn Coen and Rachel Sutter each had 3 hits.