Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley’s Rachael Howard and Kendall’s Lauren Pilon have earned G-R All-Star volleyball honors.

Two local players, Holley senior Rachael Howard and Kendall sophomore Lauren Pilon, have earned Genesee Region League volleyball All-Star honors.

Three other local players, Holley junior Adriana Botello, Kendall sophomore Madison Shonitsky and Lyndonville sophomore Loeelei Dillenbeck, are Honorable Mention selections.

The G-R All-Star team also includes Kiersten Przybylski, Riley Merle, Mya Merle and Hailie Kramer from Alexander; Ellie Newell, Natalie Perl and Tori Walker from Attica; Lexi Viurraro, Julia Pangrazio and Kelly Ireland from Byron-Bergen; Lindsey Weidman and Amelia McCulley from Notre Dame; Thalia Sainpaulin from Wheatland-Chili and Leah Bezon from Elba.

The Honorable Mention selections also include Sam Sawyer from Alexander, Madelynn Pimm and Jorie Strzelecki from Byron-Bergen, Megan Johnson from Oakfield-Alabama, Ellie Cusmano and Ashley Harmon from Attica, Sarah McGinnis from Notre Dame, Miah Werth and Laci Sewar from Elba and Taylor Drummond and Emily Parker from Wheatland-Chili.

Section V Tennis

Holley freshman Cavan Bennage placed fourth at the Section V Class C individual tennis championships held Saturday at Gates-Chili.

Bennage, who went 2-2 on the day,  won his first two matches to advance to the semifinals.

Photos courtesy of Stephanie DiGiulio

ALBION – Dominic DiGiulio set two state records today in a powerlifting competition in Niagara Falls through the US Powerlifting Association.

He set the state record for the deadlift at 534 lbs and a new standard for the bench press at 253 lbs for the 16/17-year-old age group in the 242-pound weight class.

Dominic, 17, in January set a new Albion school record in the dead lift with 605 pounds, breaking the mark of 585 pounds, set by his cousin Jonathan Trembley in 2013.

Dominic said he could have lifted more at the Niagara Falls competition, but didn’t want to push it because he is in the middle of track season. He competes in the throwing events for the Purple Eagles.

Dominic has kept up his strength training, even for part of the pandemic when gyms were closed. During that time he picked up boulders in his backyard.

He plans to major this fall at Brockport State College to major in exercise science. He wants to get his master’s degree and work as a strength and conditioning coach.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Jack Whipple dives back to the bag ahead of a throw to Attica’s first baseman Jake Dressel during the Blue Devils win over the Tigers this evening.

Avenging an earlier season 3-1 loss, Attica pushed across a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to nip Lyndonville 3-2 this evening in a Genesee Region League baseball game at Lyndonville.

Wyatt Bryman doubled with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to drive in the winning run for the Blue Devils.

Attica’s other two runs came in the first inning but Lyndonville rallied into a tie by scoring once in the third as Nathan Dillenbeck doubled and came home on a fielders choice play off the bat of Rolland Balcerak and once in the fourth as Alex Barry singled and came home on a wild pitch.

Lyndonville though could not score again as the Tigers left two runners stranded in both the second fourth innings and later left runners at second and third in the seventh.

The Tigers are now 8-3.

Lyndonville’s Trenton Muck lays down a sacrifice bunt.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Dayne Aina works toward a pin over Medina’s Miles Hartway during the Purple Eagles win over the visiting Mustangs this morning.

Albion downed visiting rival Medina 42-30 this morning in a Niagara and Orleans Counties wrestling league match.

Albion jumped out to a quick 24-0 lead on consecutive match opening pins by Ellwood Hafner in 1:28, Alex Hafner in 38 seconds Bryan Ortiz in 59 seconds and Dayne Aina in 3:51.

However, Medina battled back into a 24-24 tie after pins by Noah Skinner in 1:50, Robert Morehouse in 5:57, Rashawn Bloom in 21 seconds and a forfeit win.

Albion though regained the lead at 30-24 after a pin by Andrew Uderitz in 2:36.

The Purple Eagles then locked up the win by taking two of the final three bouts, all three of which were forfeits.

Medina’s Robert Morehouse rallied to score a pin over Adonis Guzman with only three seconds remaining.

Albion’s Andrew Uderitz gains control over Medina’s Trenton Morley.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Brynn Howell makes a running catch in left field for Lyndonville during the Lady Tigers win over visiting Attica today.

Improving to 9-1, Lyndonville downed visiting Attica 9-2 today in a Genesee Region League softball game.

Breaking away from a 1-1 deadlock, Lyndonville took the lead for good by scoring four times in the third inning on a two-run triple by winning pitcher Haley Shaffer and RBI singles by Lorelei Dillenbeck and Addison Dillenbeck.

The Lady Tigers tacked on two-more runs in both the fourth and fifth innings to lock up the win. Lorelei Dillenbeck had a two-run double in the fourth and Addison Dillenbeck an RBI triple and Brianna Krisher an RBI single in the fifth.

Lorelei Dillenbeck, Shaffer and Addison Dillenbeck each finished with three hits.

Lyndonville’s Lorelei Dillenbeck steals second ahead of a tag by Attica’s Brittany Martin. Backing up the play is Elizabeth Newell.

Getting goal production from seven different players, Medina romped to a rain soaked 18-4 victory over host Tonawanda this evening in a Class D Division lacrosse game.

Leading 4-2, Medina broke the contest side open by erupting for eight unanswered goals in the second quarter to race away to a commanding 12-2 half-time advantage.

The Mustangs maintained  a 15-3 lead after three quarters.

Mitchell Silversmith and Josh Wilson each scored 5 goals to lead the Mustang scoring parade. Zach Blount also netted 3, Mark Reigle 2 and Tasker Taylor, Jacob Rissew and Sam Kingsbury 1 each.

Improving to 3-1, Medina next visits 3-1 Salamanca on Wednesday.

Washed out this evening, Medina will now host rival Albion in a Memorial Day make-up baseball game at 7 p.m. Monday at Vets Park.

Defending champion Medina, which is off to a 4-0 start in Niagara-Orleans League competition, is looking to pull even with 5-0 Roy-Hart in the race for the league title, while Albion is looking to snap a season opening three game N-O losing streak.

The teams will then meet again on Tuesday in a regularly scheduled contest at Albion at 4:45 p.m.

Today’s washouts also sets up a Genesee Region League diamond doubleheader at Lyndonville on Saturday. Lyndonville will host Attica in softball at 11 a.m. and in baseball at 5 p.m. The Lady Tigers are off to an 8-1 start to the season and the Tigers are 8-2.

Today’s N-O washouts also included Akron vs. Wilson in baseball, Barker vs. Newfane and Wilson vs. Roy-Hart in softball and Medina vs. Albion, Roy-Hart vs. Newfane and Akron vs. Barker in tennis.

The Notre Dame vs. Kendall G-R softball game was also postponed.

The Albion Storm 12u softball team was downed 15-3 by a strong Oakfield  Blue squad Thursday.

Anna Gillette was on the mound for the Storm all 5 innings. The 5th grader fired in 12 strikeouts and only gave up 5 hits throughout the game.

At the plate the Storm had a rough night and couldn’t quite get the timing down managing only two hits. Gillette singled in the third to drive in a run, then stole home on a wild pitch. Gia Howard doubled in the fourth then scored on a dropped third strike.

The Storm plays Tri-Town in Alexander on Tuesday.

Building up a 6-0 lead, Wilson went on to defeat visiting Albion 8-6 this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League baseball game.

Wilson built up the big early lead by scoring twice in the first inning and then four times in the second highlighted by a two-run double by Mike Miller.

Miller, who had three hits on the day, also scored what proved to be the game winning run for the Lakemen in the sixth inning as he doubled and came home on an error.

Noah Yernye also had three hits and Tyler Younsett two for the Lakemen.

Albion did cut the deficit to 7-5 by scoring three times in the fifth inning highlighted by a two-run single by Javon Jones but the Purple Eagles could get no closer.

Javon Jones and Amari Jones both had two hits for Albion.

Wilson is now 3-2 and Albion 0-3.

Roy-Hart 13, Barker 1

Undefeated (5-0) Roy-Hart downed visiting Barker 13-1 this evening to move a half a game ahead of idle Medina (4-0) in the N-O title race.

Noah Stern had three hits and Braydon Hy and winning pitcher Thomas Russo III two each to lead the attack for Roy-Hart which broke the contest open with a big 9 run fourth inning. Russo’s hits included a double and triple.

On the mound, Russo allowed no hits and struck out 12 in five innings of work.

Barker is now 0-6.

Wrestling

Starpoint 54, Medina 9

Connor Crandall had a pin and Miles Hartway a decision win for Medina in the Mustangs 54-9 loss at Starpoint.

North Tonawanda 48, Albion 27

Amilcar Morales and Alex Haefner both had pins for Albion in the 48-27 loss at North Tonawnda.

Medina earned a split with host Wilson this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League track meet.

Medina won the boys’ meet 69-67 and Wilson took the girls’ competition 79-53.

The Medina boys squad got individual event wins from Ben Griffin (400), Alwyn Cayea (800), Arian Cayea (1600), Cameron Castanon (3200) and Mason Moreland (Pole Vault).

Jared Jaques was a quadruple winner for the Wilson boys in the 110 Hurdle,s 400 Hurdles, Long Jump and High Jump.

Medina is now 2-2 and Wilson 3-2.

Maddie Schultz was a triple winner in the 100 Hurdles, 400 Hurdles and 100 and Jenny Reagan doubled in the 1500 and 3000 for the Wilson girls which improve to 2-3.

FaithAnn Vanderwalker doubled in the Long Jump and Triple Jump for Medina as Corinne Hill took the 400, Taty Baity the Shotput and Phallon Rivera the Discus.

Wilson is now 2-3 and Medina 1-3.

Newfane sweeps Roy-Hart

Newfane swept host Roy-Hart winning the boys’ meet 114-27 and the girls’ 95-46.

Xavier Thomas tripled in the Pole Vault, Shotput and Triple Jump and Dakota Baker doubled in the 100 and 200 to lead the Newfane boys squad which improves to 3-1.

Brandon Allen doubled in the 110 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles and Jay Heideman took both the 1600 and 3200 for Roy-Hart which is now 1-3.

Ashlynn Joseph doubled in the 100 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles and Mel Myers in the High Jump and Long Jump for the Newfane girls which stay unbeaten at 4-0.

Nadia White took both the 800 and Triple Jump for Roy-Hart which is now 2-2.

Barker and Akron split

Barker nipped Akron 66-64 in the boys’ meet. Akron gained a split on the day by winning the girls’ competition 127-10.

Tyler Hillman doubled in the 110 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles, Dawson Donovan in the Triple Jump and 200 and Mason Allee-Castro in the 800 and 1500 for the Barker boys sqaud which improves to 2-3.

John Steen won both the 110 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles for Newfane which slips to 2-2.

Samantha Bellis tripled in the High Jump, Long Jump and Triple Jump while Sophia Jones doubled in the 100 and 200 and Lauren Wagner in the 800 and 1500 for the Akron girls which stay undefeated at 4-0.