Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley’s Samantha Bates works to keep the ball away from Lyndonville/Medina’s Lilly Joe Carpenter during the Lady Hawks win at Vets Park this evening.

A quick three goal scoring burst late in the first half broke the contest open as Holley went on to defeat Lyndonville/Medina 6-0 in a Genesee Region League girls soccer game this evening at Vets Park.

Holley did grab a quick 1-0 lead on a goal by Hayley Skidmore off an assist from Samantha Bates in the first five minutes.

Ella Lewis of Lyndonville/Medina keeps the ball away from Holley’s Allison Lyndaker.

The Lady Hawk then broke the contest wide open with the decisive three goal uprising as Kayleigh Neale scored with 8:43 to go in the first half, Bates tallied at 6:46 and then Halee Passarell scored at 5:03.

Allison Lyndaker rounded out Holley’s scoring with a pair of second half goals as Neale and Passarell earned assists on the second tally.

Emma Brady made three saves to earn the shutout in goal for the Lady Hawks.

Holley improves to 9-1-2 with the win while Lyndonville/Medina slips to 2-10.

Kendall 1, Notre Dame 0

A second half goal by Megan Gates was enough to earn Kendall a narrow 1-0 G-R win over Notre Dame.

Kailie Regan made three saves to earn the shutout in goal for the Lady Eagles.

Kendall improves to 6-4-1.

Gracie Cogovan of Lyndonville/Medina battles with Holley’s Kayleigh Neale for control of the ball.

A late goal proved to be just enough to earn Barker a narrow 1-0 win over host Kenmore this evening as the Lady Raiders pull into a dead even tie with Akron for the Niagara-Orleans Field Hockey lead at 10-1.

Madison Gancasz scored the lone goal for Barker with just 3:15 remaining in the fourth quarter off an assist from Aaliyah Wheat.

Barker will next visit Newfane and Akron will travel to Kenmore on Thursday to close out the N-O season.

Wilson 3, Newfane 0

Gianna Marchetti scored two goals and Anna Meyers one to lead Wilson past rival Newfane 3-0.

Wilson finishes the N-O season at 3-9 and Newfane slips to 1-10.

Improving to 8-3, Roy-Hart scored a 3-1 victory over visiting Pembroke this evening in a non league boys soccer game.

Trent Choate scored two goals and Aidan Bligh one for the Rams

Goalie Brad Voelker came up with some key saves to help preserve the Rams win.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Nadia White, left, and Kara Choate scored the goals for Roy-Hart this afternoon as the Lady Rams earned a share of their first ever Niagara-Orleans League title with a 3-2 win at Wilson.

Making school history Roy-Hart claimed a share of the Niagara-Orleans League girls soccer championship for the first time with a come-from-behind 3-2 victory at Wilson this afternoon.

Rallying in the second half Roy-Hart avenged an earlier season 3-0 loss to gain a share of the crown as Nadia White scored two goals and Kara Choate one.

Roy-Hart and Wilson finish the season deadlocked for the title at 8-2.

The victory also completes a sweep for Roy-Hart as the boys soccer team also captured the N-O title.

“I’m really proud of the girls. They’ve just worked so hard they really deserve it,” said Coach Rich Jennings. “They’ve just been very resilient in bouncing back from the earlier loss to Wilson and from the loss to Albion last week. They just continued to fight back. It’s an historic season for the program and I’m just really proud of them.”

Roy-Hart jumped out to a quick lead in the opening minute on a goal by White off an assist from Choate.

However, Wilson battled back with goals by Rian Faery and Lily Avery off corners to rally into a 2-1 lead at the half.

The Roy-Hart defense then played shutout ball in the second half led by goalie Rileigh McCabe and defenders Clara Jones, Maddy Colley, Amelia Konstanty and Hanna Willard.

“Our defense just played phenomenal in the second half,” said Jennings.

Roy-Hart quickly tied the game just three minutes into the second half on a goal by Choate off an assist from Reanna Perkins.

The Lady Rams then got the game winner when White scored with nine minutes to go.

Final N-O Standings:Roy-Hart 8-2, Wilson 8-2, Albion 7-3, Akron 4-5-1, Newfane 3-6-1, Barker 0-10.

Neighboring Sections V and VI are taking different approaches in setting the field for the upcoming soccer playoffs.

Just as in past years Section V is conducting an open sectionals for boys and girls soccer with all teams eligible. The seeding meetings scheduled for this coming Sunday.

The Section V playoffs are slated to get under way with a pre quarterfinal round on November 10-11 The finals are slated for November 20-21.

Section VI is limiting its playoff field to teams with at least a .500 league record for boys and girls soccer and field hockey. The soccer seeding meetings are scheduled for Saturday and the field hockey meeting for Friday.

The Niagara-Orleans League has four teams qualified for the boys soccer sectionals including Roy-Hart (7-3), Akron (6-3-1), Newfane (6-4) and Medina/Lyndonville (5-3-1).  Wilson at 4-5 needs a win to qualify.

The boys soccer playoffs have the quarterfinals slated for November 10, the semifinals for November 12 and the finals for November 14.

In girls soccer three N-O teams have qualified including Wilson (8-1), Roy-Hart (7-2) and Albion (7-3).

The girls soccer playoffs have the quarterfinals scheduled for November 9, the semis for November 11 and the finals for November 14.

Three N-O teams have also qualified for the field hockey playoffs including Akron (10-1), Barker (9-1) and Roy-Hart (6-4-1).

The field hockey playoffs have the quarterfinals slated for November 9, the semis for November 12 and the finals for November 14.

In both Sections’ V and VI the higher seed will host games through the finals.

The Holley and Kendall Genesee Region League soccer games, which were scheduled for this evening, have been postponed.

The Wheatland-Chili at Kendall boys games been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday and the Kendall at Oakfield-Alabama/Elba girls game has been tentatively rescheduled for Friday.

The Holley at Attica boys contest has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Photos by Tom Rivers

BARKER – The Niagara-Orleans League held its annual league meet on Saturday at Barker. The meet is usually at Lakeside Beach State Park but state parks aren’t allowing any events with more than 50 people. The Newfane girls and boys team both defended their titles as league champs.

The league also recognized the top 21 runners for the boys and girls. The first team includes the top 7 runners, with the second team runners 8-14, and honorable mention for the runners who place 15th through 21st. There are seven schools in the league and each school was allowed up to seven runners for the race.

Boys First Team (top photo) includes from left Cameron Castanon of Medina, 1^st in 17:31; Arian Cayea of Medina, 2^nd in 17:36; Reuben Rivers of Albion, 3^rd in 17:37; Nick Baes of Newfane, 4^th in 17:38; Jay Heideman of Roy-Hart, 5^th in 17:39; Andrew Cuzzacrea of Newfane, 6^th in 17:47; and Connor Cuzzacrea of Newfane, 7^th in 17:48.

Girls First Team includes Kylie Bowman of Newfane, 1^st in 19:50; Lauren Wagner of Akron, 2^nd in 20:09; (missing from photo is Leah Siegman of Newfane, 3^rd in 20:22); Taylor Heschke of Newfane, 4^th in 20:30; Alanna Holman of Albion, 5^th in 20:45; Catalena Ersing of Newfane, 6^th in 20:47; Kayla Murray of Akron, 7^th in 21:15.

Gabe Mark of Medina edges John Chubb of Akron at the finish line. They both made the second team all league.

There were no group photos for the second teams and the honorable mention runners.

Boys Second Team includes Mason Allee-Castro, 8^th in 17:54; Jayden Reynolds of Newfane, 9^th in 18:12; Gabe Mark of Medina, 10^th in 18:16; John Chubb of Akron, 11^th in 18:17; Austin Burkhard of Newfane, 12^th in 18:18; Alwyn Cayea of Medina, 13^th in 18:22; Dawson Donovan of Barker, 14^th in 18:24.

Melissa Robinson, an Albion senior, ran cross country for the first time this season and excelled. She made second team all league.

Girls Second Team includes Kaila Szczygielski of Akron, 8^th in 21:22; Marina Ersing of Newfane, 9^th in 21:27; Melissa Robinson of Albion, 10^th in 21:29; Carla Stoloski of Barker, 11^th in 22:22; Shelby Nerber of Newfane, 12^th in 22:48; Sara Siegmann of Newfane, 13^th in 22:53; Cassidy Wagner of Wilson, 14^th in 23:10.

Landin Chaffee, an Albion freshman, finishes ahead of Evan Taylor of Barker. They both made honorable mention for all league.

Boys Honorable Mention includes Gannon Gibson of Newfane, 15^th in 18:28; Robert Mason of Barker, 16^th in 18:31; Landin Chaffee of Albion, 17^th in 18:42; Evan Taylor of Barker, 18^th in 18:49; Ethan Niver of Newfane, 19^th in 19:01; Logan Harris of Barker, 20^th in 19:03; and Isaac Pace of Medina, 21^st in 19:09.

S’koi Sanders-Smith of Albion finished 19th in the race, which earned her a spot on honorable mention all league.

Girls Honorable Mention includes Jackie Thompson of Wilson, 15^th in 23:11; Mikayla Woock of Barker, 16^th in 23:52; Jennifer Reagan of Wilson, 17^th in 24:25; Lydia Samson of Barker, 18^th in 24:39; S’koi Sanders-Smith of Albion, 19^th in 24:40; Madelynne Jowdy of Wilson, 20^th in 24:42; and Emma Corbett of Akron, 21^st in 24:44.

Return to top

Coming on strong after a slow 1-3 start to the season, Albion made it six wins in a row by downing host Barker 4-2 this morning to close out the Niagara-Orleans girls soccer season.

Abby Scanlan had three goals and one assist, Leah Prichard a goal and an assist, Claire Squicciarini an assist and Nikki Creasey an assist for Albion which will take a 7-3 league record into the sectionals.

Paige Sutch scored both goals for Barker.

Akron 7, Newfane 0

Kara Sequin scored five goals to lead Akron (4-5-1) to a 7-0 win over Newfane (2-7-1).