The Niagara-Orleans League boys basketball title race tightened up a bit this evening as Wilson trimmed front-running Albion 51-47 and Akron downed runner-up Newfane 58-44.

Despite the road loss Albion, which slips to 8-2, maintains a game and a half lead over Newfane which falls to 6-3. Wilson improves to 5-3 and Akron to 5-4.

Wilson 51, Albion 47
Trailing 23-15 at the half, Wilson used a 23-13 third quarter scoring edge to key the win over Albion.

Mike Miller scored 11 and Luke Bradley 5 to lead that uprising which rallied the Lakemen into a 38-36 lead at the three-quarter mark.

Bradley also scored 5 and Alex Martinez 4 in the final period to help Wilson lock up the win.

Miller finished with 17 as Bradley and Martinez both scored 12.

Deyonci Farley led Albion with 13 as Xavier Cornick and Kevin Hillman each had 7.

Akron 58, Newfane 44
Leading by a narrow 24-23 margin at the half, Akron used a big 19-7 third period scoring burst to key the win over Newfane.

Adam Mietz scored 8 to lead that surge as the Tigers moved out to a 43-30 lead at the three-quarter mark.

Mietz finished with 22, Mitchell Holtz 12 and David Kalinowski 11.

Garrett Srock led Newfane with 14.

Undefeated (10-0) regular season champion Roy-Hart took first place honors in 7 of 11 events at the annual Niagara-Orleans League girls individual swim championships held this evening at Akron.

Mandy Hill was a double winner in the 200 Individual Medley (2:18.67) and 100 Butterfly (1:02.71) and Kayla Hagen took both the 100 Freestyle (:54.39) and 100 Backstroke (1:02.23) to set the pace for Roy-Hart which also had Madison Ohol win the 500 Free (5:52.5).

Roy-Hart also captured both the 200 Freestyle Relay in 1:44.15 with the foursome of Hagen, Jordyn Bobzien, Kennedy Lang and Hill and the 400 Freestyle Relay in 3:50.37 with the quartet of Hagen, Ohol, Hill and Anna Rickard.

Medina’s Hannah Heil won the 50 Free (:25.66), Newfane’s Lauren Gaughran the 200 Free (2:06.35) and Akron’s Natalie Baumler the 100 Breaststroke (1:21.07).

Akron also captured the meet opening 200 Medley Relay in 2:05.31 with the foursome of Baumler, CC Morey, Alex Roland and Rachel PeQueen.

Morey also placed second in both the Individual Medley and Backstroke as did PeQueen in the 50 Free and Gaughran in the Butterfly. Akron also got second place finishes from Mindy Doktor (200 Free), Madison Kaczmarek (100 Free) and Marisa Maggiore (500 Free) while Roy-Hart’s Molly Russell took second in the Breaststroke.

After a two week layoff, the Roy-Hart/Barker/Medina Club Hockey team visited Olean for a make-up game Thursday and came home with a 3-2 overtime victory to improve to 12-4 on the season.

Breaking a scoreless deadlock, RBM got on the board first in the second period on Nick Wood ‘s (Akron) 15th goal of the season.  Assists went to R-H’s Jason Kuchey and Ryan Mettler.

Just seconds later, Olean tied the game.

Kuchey was then able to regain the lead for RBM with a goal before the end of the period assisted by Dominic Peracciny (R-H).

However, Olean again tied the game and it went into overtime.

At the 4:17 point of the OT,  Mettler scored the game- winner with passes from Kuchey and Peracciny.

RBM will close out the regular season with two games next week.  On Wednesday, they travel to Riverside Arena to play Buffalo at 8 p.m. and then they close out at home against Orchard Park on Saturday at 7:40 p.m.

Front-running Legion nipped JR Wilson 36-34 Monday in Medina Euchre League action.

Runner-up Sacred Heart downed Vets Club 46-24 in the other match.

Legion is now 653-537, Sacred Heart 624-566, JR Wilson 598-592 and Vets Club 505-685.

League action resumes on February 3 with Sacred Heart at Legion and Vets Club at JR Wilson.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Danielle Weldon puts up a shot ahead of Pembroke defender Dekari Moss during the host Lady Tigers loss to the Lady Dragons this evening.

Improving to 14-1, Pembroke downed host Lyndonville 68-46 in a Genesee Region League girls basketball game this evening.

Emily Peters poured in a game high 23 points, including seven threes, to lead the way for Pembroke as Serene Calderon added 15, Dekari Moss 12, Mackenzie Johnson and Megan Conibear 6, Casey Wurth 4 and Allie Schwerthoffer 2.

Lyndonville’s Ella Lewis drives on Pembroke defeder Casey Wurtz.

Ella Lewis scored 16 and Lorelei Dillenbeck 12 to pace Lyndonville as Karlee Rounds added 8, Kaylee Nesbitt and Savannah Poler 4 and Danielle Weldon 2.

Pembroke jumped out to a 14 point, 26-12, first quarter lead as Peters scored 8, including a pair of threes.

The Lady Dragons maintained a 15 point, 35-20, half-time advantage and boosted the lead to 22, 51-29, at the three-quarter mark. Peters hit five threes in the second half.

Elba 50, Holley 25
Elba posted a 50-25 G-R win over Holley as Brynn Walczak led the Lady Lancers with 20.

Halee Passarell and Olivia Radford each scored 7 for Holley.

Oakfield-Alabama 44, Kendall 33
Oakfield-Alabama defeated Kendall 44-33 in another G-R contest as MaKena Reding scored 16 and Brianna Smith 11.

Holley-Kendall bested visiting Wilson 43-36 in a non league wrestling match this evening.

Dawson Custer (152) and Frank Golisano (182) both registered pins for Holley-Kendall as Jayden Pieniaszek (138) had a technical fall victory and Bruce Rasmusson (106) and Dylan Clemons (126) decision wins.

Luke Atlas (120), Allan Schultz (132), Cameron Guy (145), Treny Kenny (160) and Xavier Fitzgibbon (195) all had pins for Wilson.

Earlier in the week Rasmusson and Pieniaszek both earned decision wins in Holley-Kendall’s 55-18 non league loss to Brighton.

Contributed Photo – Carlitos Sanchez

BATAVIA – Albion High graduate and Genesee Community College sophomore Carlitos Sanchez has set a new GCC school record for Men’s 50 Yard Freestyle.

Sanchez posted a time of 22.23 in the 50 Free, which was .08 faster than the previous Genesee record of 22.31 set back in 2005 by Adam Dewey.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Nathan Hydock puts up a shot against Attica defender Adam Bukowski during the host Tigers overtime loss to the Blue Devils this evening.

Putting together a big fourth quarter surge to get back into the game, Lyndonville ended up dropping a 60-56 overtime decision to visiting Attica this evening in a Genesee Region League game.

Trailing by nine, 44-35, early in the fourth quarter, Lyndonville put together a key 11-0 scoring burst to rally into a 46-44 lead with 24 seconds to go.

A jumper by Nate Dillenbeck, a three by Noah Poler, and then a layup by Dillenbeck pulled the Tigers to within one at 44-43.

Nathan Hydock then put Lyndonville up 45-44 with a pair of free throws at the 1:38 mark. He upped the lead to 46-44 with another foul shot with 24 seconds to go.

However, Attica sent the contest into overtime as Adam Bukowski made two free throws with 15 seconds remaining to tie the contest at 46-46.

Lyndonville’s Nate Dillenbeck puts up a shot as Adam Bukowski tries for a block for Attica.

Lyndonville moved on top 48-46 at the outset of the four minute overtime period on two free throws by Hydock.

The lead though would be the last for the Tigers.

The Blue Devils answered with a key 6-0 run on two free throws and a jumper by Tyler Meyer and two free throws by Ayden Goll.

Lyndonville battled back to within one twice, first at 56-55 with 46 seconds to go after a three by Dillenbeck and two free throws by Hydock and again at 57-56 with 24 seconds remaining after a free throw by Casey Winiecki but could not pull even.

The Blue Devils final five points came from the free throw line including three by Goll and one each by Meyer and Frankie Bisceglie.

Goll finished with 18, Meyer 14 and Bisceglie 12 to lead the Blue Devils.

Dillenbeck took game high honors with 26 and Hydok had 16 to pace the Tigers which also had Poler with 5, Russ Stephens and Anthony Moule 4 and Winiecki 1.

Getting point production from six players, Attica grabbed a 15-13 lead after one quarter.

Lyndonville took the lead for the first time at 18-15 after a pair of baskets by Moule at the outset of the second quarter.

However, the Blue Devils answered with a 17-3 run over the final seven minutes of the period to open up an 11 point, 32-21, advantage at the half.

The Blue Devils maintained a nine point, 42-33, lead at the three-quarter mark despite 10 points in the stanza by Dillenbeck, including a pair of threes.

The Tigers then put together a strong stretch run outpointing the Blue Devils 13-4 in the fourth period which finished deadlocked at 46-46.

Attica though made good on 10 of 13 free throw attempts in the overtime period to key a 14-10 scoring edge to claim the narrow win.

The Blue Devils and Tigers are now both 5-4 in G-R action.

Alexander 65, Kendall 46
Leading 35-28 at the half, Alexander used an 18-6 third quarter scoring edge to key a 65-46 G-R win over host Kendall.

Tyrone Woods scored 19 and Bryce Davis 10 to spark the Trojans which led 53-34 at the three-quarter mark.

Derek Edick scored 26, Zach Barrett 10 and Mason Kuhn added 7 and 9 rebounds for Kendall.

Wheatland-Chili 46, Holley 42
Up 36-34 after three quarters, Wheatland-Chili used a 10-6 fourth quarter scoring edge to earn a narrow 46-42 G-R win over host Holley.

Aaron Lund led W-C with 13.

Carson Major scored 20 and Kohl Morgan had 9 and 17 rebounds for Holley.

Undefeated (10-0) regular season champion Roy-Hart took first place honors in six of 11 events at the annual Niagara-Orleans League boys individual swim championships this evening at Akron.

Carter Green was a double winner in the 200 Freestyle (1:51.39) and the 500 Free (5:12.86) and Will Rickard captured both the 50 Free (:23.18) and 100 Free (:51.51) to lead the way for Roy-Hart.

Green and Rickard also teamed up with Ozzy Moore and Noah Stern to win both the 200 Freestyle Relay (1:34.48) and the 400 Freestyle Relay (3:31.17).

Medina captured the 200 Medley Relay in a time of 1:47.72 with the quartet of Hunter Heil, Isaac Pace, Chris Goyette and August Pietrafesa.

Heil also won the 100 Backstroke in :58.63.

Albion’s Sam Sanchez won the 100 Butterfly (:56.48), Akron’s Jacob Cobti the 200 Individual Medley (2:13.69) and Barker’s Ryan Santarsiero the 100 Breaststroke (1:06.53).

In the individual events second place finishes went to Pietrafesa (200 Free), Santarsiero (Individual Medley), Ryan Krenning of Albion (50 Free), Heil (Butterfly), Stern (100 Free), Christopher Ulrich of Roy-Hart (500 Free), Thomas Furmanski of Albion (Backstroke) and Pace (Breaststroke).

Akron edged past visiting Albion 50-48 in a Niagara-Orleans League girls basketball game this evening.

Jessee Jonathan poured in 34 points, including the game winning basket, to lead the way for Akron which improves to 3-5.

Honesty Little scored 16 and Paige Derisley and Kendall Derisley 13 each for Albion which slips to 6-3.

Akron led 27-19 at the half but Albion rallied back into a 33-33 tie and the contest was a sea-saw battle the rest of the way.

Newfane 44, Medina 20
Leading 14-8 at the half, Newfane used a big 20-5 third period scoring edge to key a 44-20 win over host Medina.

Lauren Boudeman scored 9 and Allison Clark 7 to lead Newfane which got point production from 10 players as the Lady Panthers improve to 7-1.

Sarah Sones scored 7 and Faith Vanderwalker 6 for Medina which slips to 0-9.

Wilson 47, Barker 19
Front-running Wilson improved to 8-0 with a 47-19 win over Barker (3-6) which got 11 from Sydnie Luckman.

N-O Standings
Wilson 8-0, Newfane 7-1, Albion 6-3, Roy-Hart 3-5, Akron 3-6, Barker  3-6, Medina 0-9

G-R League
Attica downed Lyndonville 49-42 and Alexander defeated Kendall 43-33 in  Genesee Region League games.