Contributed Photo – The Mustangs first team B2 Division honorees include, from left, David Class, Lincoln Pace and Brian Fry.

Medina/Lyndonville/Barker has placed a trio of players on the first team of the B2 Division All-Star football squad.

The Mustangs trio includes senior offensive tackle David Class, senior defensive tackle Lincoln Pace and junior defensive back Brian Fry.

Fry had 62 tackles and Pace 33. Fry also led the Medina with 10 touchdowns and 1,035 all purpose yards.

The Mustangs are represented on the second team by the quartet of senior linebacker Bobby Geiger, senior defensive back Caleb Cudzilo, junior running back Rodney Davis and sophomore utility player Jarin Rhim.

The Mustangs also had three Honorable Mention selections in senior Andrew Saunders and juniors Tyler Chinn and Robert Morehouse.

The Roy-Hart/ Barker/ Medina (and Akron) Club Ice Hockey team will begin their third season of Western New York Club Hockey League competition when they host ELPS (Eden/Lake Shore/Pioneer/ Springville) at 7:40 p.m. Saturday at Lockport.

After finishing second in the New York State tournament the last two years in a row, the RBM team is ready for the big push to the ultimate prize.

Representing Roy Hart on the team are sophomores Ryan Mettler and newcomers Andrew Downey and Elijah Giroux; juniors Tagen Decker and Dominic Peracciny and seniors Jason Kuchey and Colin Dodge.

Joining them from Barker are seniors Mitchell Johnson and Jacob Harris and from Medina junior Conner McNeil.

Representing Akron are seniors Nick Wood and Trevor Crawford and new this season, sophomore Matthew Miller.  Also, returning from last season is goaltender Andrew Warner, a Tonawanda senior.

The team is coached once again by Michael Kuchey.

During their initial season, RBM was in the small school division. Last season they were in the large school division and this season they have returned to the small school division.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman -Barker’s Ciara Gregoire and her Lady Raiders teammates will take on Bronxville in the Class C state semifinals on Saturday at Alden.

Looking to keep the momentum from last weekend’s Far West Regional field hockey win, Barker will face Bronxville (Section 1) in the Class C state semifinals at 11:45 a.m. Saturday at Alden High School.

The victor will advance to the championship game at 10 a.m. Sunday at Alden against the winner of the Carle Place (Section 8) vs. Johnstown (Section 2) semi. The Carle Place vs. Johnstown game will be played at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The state semis and finals were originally scheduled to be played at Williamsville North but were switched to Alden because Tuesday’s snow storm left North’s fields unplayable.

It marks the second year in a row and the sixth time since 2000 that Barker has advanced to the state semifinals.

“You don’t get this far without being good so we expect Bronxville will be  very good team,” said Barker Coach Jeff Costello. “We had good scoring balance and depth in the regional and we will need that again. And our goalie (Courtney Hillman) came up with some big saves which was good to see and we will need more play like that as we try to push through to the finals.”

Improving to 17-3, Barker defeated East Rochester 6-1 in the regional as five different players contributed goals  including two by Ciara Gregoire and one each by Serena Harris, Natalie Bruning, Rachel Hurtgam and Madison Gancasz as Katrina Clare dished out four assists.

On the season Clare leads the Lady Raiders with 18 goals and 21 assists. Gregoire has 17 goals, Hurtgam 12, Ginger Alexander 9,  Emily Wagner 6, Gancasz and Bruning 5, Ella Gooding and Harris 4, Ella Fox 2 and Lena Fazzolari and Brianna Bachman 1.

Bronxville, which is 15-3-2, defeated Taconic Hills (Section IX) 5-0 in the regionals.

The other regionals saw Carle Place nip Pierson/Bridgehampton (Section II) 1-0 and Johnstown edge Greene (Section IV) 2-1.

Carle Place bested Barker 5-0 in last year’s state semifinal.

In all Barker is 1-4 in those previous semifinal contests since 2000.

Barker’s lone semi win came in 2000 as they outlasted Pierson/Bridgehampton in a marathon contest decided in a stroke-off. The Lady Raiders then dropped a 5-1 decision to Afton in the title game.

In the other semi appearances the Lady Raiders lost by narrow margins of 1-0 to Pierson/Bridgehampton in 2010, 2-1 to Southampton in 2012 and 1-0 in double overtime to Cazenovia in 2013.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall’s Brittney Marks

Kendall senior Brittney Marks has earned Genesee Region League All-Star volleyball honors for the second year in a row.

Marks had 94 service aces, 76 spiking kills and 115 assists for the Lady Eagles this season.

Byron-Bergen heads the team with four All-Star selections including repeat honorees Madison Farnsworth and Abby Vurraro along with Lexi Vurraro and Hannah Catalino.

Notre Dame is represented by the trio of Adryona Miller, Jewel Shenck and Alexis Danosos.

Attica also has a trio of honorees including Mary Weber, Randsley Berry and Claudia Hardie.

Rounding out the All-Star team are Kiersten Pryzbylski and Rylie Merle from Alexander, Brianna Smith and Leah Bezon from Oakfield-Alabama/Elba and Dekari Moss from Pembroke.

Farnsworth, Abby Vurraro, Miller, Shenck, Weber and Smith are all repeat honorees.

Lyndonville’s Lorelei Dillenbeck received Honorable Mention.

The Honorable Mentions selections also include Leah Veley and Ellie Newell from Attica, Hannah Van Skiver from Byron-Bergen, Abby Vingrey from Notre Dame, Megan Johnson from Oakfield-Alabama/Elba, Olivia Metz from Pembroke and Madison Rollo from Wheatland-Chili.

Class C Far West Regional
Portville 25-25-25, Byron-Bergen 16-13-10
Farnsworth had 9 kills and Lexi Vurraro 12 assists and 2 kills for Byron-Bergen in the three set loss to Portville in the Class C Far West Regional. The Lady Bees finish the season at 20-1.

Contributed Photos – Akron’s quartet of first team All-League honorees include Julia George, Kara Sequin, Maddie Henning and Morgan Wdowka.

Champion Akron has placed four players on the first team of the annual Niagara-Orleans All-League girls soccer squad including junior midfielders Kara Sequin and Maddie Henning, senior midfielder Julia George and senior defender Morgan Wdowka.

Sequin, a three time first team honoree, scored 32 goals this season and had 9 assists. George had 3 goals and 3 assists, Henning 2 goals and 1 assist and Wdowka 2 assists.

Roy-Hart’s first team All-League trio includes Nadia White, Clare Jones and Kara Choate.

Roy-Hart is represented on the first team by the underclassmen trio of junior defender Clara Jones, sophomore midfielder Kara Choate and freshman forward Nadia White.

Choate scored 24 goals and added 6 assists while White had 3 goals and 6 assists.

Albion has placed the duo of senior forward Claire Squicciarini and sophomore forward Abby Scanlan on the first team.

Scanlan had 18 goals and 4 assists and Squicciarini 8 goals and 7 assists.

Albion’s first team honorees Abby Scanlan, left, and Claire Squicciarini.

Wilson is represented by senior forward Skylar Munnikhuysen and sophomore sweeper Kaelin Faery.

Munnikhuysen, a three-time first team selection, scored 17 goals and added 14 assists.

Rounding out the first team is Newfane freshmen midfielder Rachel Chunco who had 6 goals and 3 assists.

Akron is represented on the second team by the senior trio of goalie Megan Sheehan and defenders Mindy Doktor and Caeley Harsh.

Albion also has three second team honorees including senior midfielder Paige Derisley, sophomore defender Aly Knaak and sophomore midfielder Leah Pritchard.

Wilson likewise has a trio of selections including junior midfielder Lilly O’Lay, junior defender Kassidy Sidote and eighth grade forward Leia Cloy.

Rounding out the second team are Barker junior goalie Sydnie Luckman and Roy-Hart junior midfielder Ceci Santos along with Newfane junior forward Taylor Heschke and sophomore forward Angelins DiTullio.

Rounding out the first team are Newfane’s Rachel Chunco along with the Wilson duo of Skylar Munnikhuysen and Kaelin Faery.

The Honorable Mention selections, listed by school, are as follows:

Akron – Stella VanWyk (Fr.), April Kock (Fr.), Natalie Karmazyn (Jr.)

Albion – Mariah Plain (Sr.), Kendall Derisley (Sr.), Nicolina Creasey (So.)

Barker – Bailey Sutch (Sr.), Nya Johnson (Jr.)

Newfane – Lauren Gaughran (Sr.), Katie LaRuffa (Sr.), Cameron Cain (Sr.)

Roy-Hart – Grace Parker (Fr.)

Wilson – Maddie Miller (Fr.), Melanie Gray (Sr.), Kenzie Beyer (Jr.)

Final N-O Standings: Akron 9-1-0, Roy-Hart 7-2-1, Wilson 5-3-2, Albion 4-5-1, Newfane 2-6-2, Barker 0-10-0

Legion maintained a double digit lead atop the Medina Euchre League standings with a 35-25 win over Sacred Heart Monday.

JR Wilson downed Vets Club 39-31 in the other match to close to within a point of second place.

Legion is now 227-193 on the season followed by Sacred Heart 216-204, JR Wilson 215-205 and Vets Club 182-238.

League competition continues on Nov. 18 with Vets Club at Legion and JR Wilson at Sacred Heart.

Hitting the century mark, the Niagara County Community College women’s basketball team romped to a 100-39 victory over visiting Bryant & Stratton (Albany) this afternoon to improve to 5-0 on the season.

Newfane graduate Paige Emborsky led the Thunderwolves with 20 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists.

Albion grad Caitlynn Snook chipped in with 5 points and 3 rebounds.

The Thunderwolves also had Alaina Forbes with 18 points and Molly Mahony 16.

Contributed Photo – Brianna McMullen

BATAVIA – Medina High graduate and Genesee Community College freshman Brianna McMullen has been named GCC Female Athlete of the Week.

McMullen placed second in both the 50 Freestyle and 100 Freestyle events at the season opening tri-meet at Erie Community College.

McMullen was also on the 200 Medley Relay team that placed second.

The GCC swimming and diving team will be participating in the SUNY Potsdam Invitational on November 23-24.

Going 3-1-1 the Tri County Midget Yellow team placed second at the Cleveland Rock and Roll Cup Hockey Tournament this past weekend.

Tri County opened with a 7-2 win over Royal Oaks as Patrick Ricker and James Hapeman each scored 3 goals and Zack Geitner 1.

Ricker then had 2 goals and Max Hapemn 1 in Tri County’s 2-2 tie with Cleveland.

Tri County completed the preliminary round of competition with a 5-1 win over Erie as Ricker netted 2 goals and John Pilon, James Hapeman and Geitner 1 each.

In the semifinals, Tri County downed Batavia 3-1 as Ricker scored 2 goals and Jake Esposito 1.

In the championship game, Tri County dropped a narrow 3-2 decision to Southtowns. Ryan Wells netted both Tri County goals.

Tri County returns to Empire Amateur Hockey League competition this coming weekend with games at Perinton on Saturday and at Monroe County on Sunday.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Champion Medina/Lyndonville has placed this quartet of players on the first team of the Niagara-Orleans All-League soccer squad. From left are Nate Dillenbeck, Jack Whipple, Nate Sherman and Evan Horn.

Champion Medina/Lyndonville has placed four players on the first team of the annual Niagara-Orleans All-League boys soccer squad.

The Mustangs quartet includes junior forward Nate Dillenbeck, who was named N-O Player of the Year, senior midfielder Nate Sherman, senior defender Evan Horn and sophomore defender Jack Whipple. Sherman is a repeat first team honoree.

Dillenbeck led the Mustangs in scoring with 19 goals and 8 assists while Sherman had 4 goals and 7 assists.

Runner-up Roy-Hart is represented by five players including junior forward Aidan Bligh, sophomore forward Trent Choate, junior midfielder Noah Stern, senior defender Clayton Keyes and senior goalie Colby Hancock. Bligh is a repeat first team selection.

Choate had 14 goals and 5 assists, Bligh 12 goals and 9 assists and Stern 9 goals and 3 assists while Hancock made 92 saves in goal.

Roy-Hart Coach Greg Martillotta was honored as N-O Coach of the Year.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart Coach Greg Martillotta, who was named N-O Coach of the Year, is shown here with the Rams quintet of first team All-League honorees. They include, from left, Trent Choate, Clayton Keyes, Colby Hancock, Noah Stern and Aidan Bligh.

Rounding out the first team are Albion senior midfielder Angel Rosario, Newfane junior midfielder Jeremy Foltz and Wilson senior defender Marcus Schwarzmueller.

Rosario and Foltz both had 8 goals and 2 assists while Schwarzmueller had 6 goals and 2 assists.

Medina/Lyndonville is also represented by four players on the second team including junior forward Dan Mandujano, junior midfielder AJ Seefeldt, junior defender Casey Winiecki and sophomore goalie Zach Fike. Mandujano had 12 goals and 4 assists and Seefeldt 4 goals and 7 assists.

Contributed Photos – Angel Rosario (Albion), Marcus Schwarzmueller (Wilson) and Jeremy Foltz (Newfane) round out the first team.

Wilson has placed the trio of senior forward Quinn Rees, sophomore midfielder Owen Cloy and sophomore defender Patrick Hemming on the second team.

Albion is represented by the senior duo of midfielder Juan Santiago and defender Spencer Sietmann on the second team which also includes Roy-Hart junior defender Dominic Peracciny, Newfane junior forward Trevor Heschke and Akron senior midfielder Bryce McClaine. Heschke had 15 goals and 10 assists.

The following players, who are listed by school, earned Honorable Mention:

Akron – Joey Abrams (Jr.), Caleb Suckow (Fr.) and Clint Szcygielski (Sr.)

Albion – Omar Peterson (Sr.), Conner Hollenbeck (Sr.) and Alex Gibson (Jr.)

Medina/Lyndonville – Russ Stephens (Jr.)

Newfane – Connor Gunby (So.), Ty Williams (So.) and Connor MacEvoy (Sr.)

Roy-Hart – Peter Martillotta (Fr.), Aiden Guild (Fr.) and Matt Scott (Sr.)

Wilson – Jacob Hecko (Sr.), Trent Kenny (Sr.) and Joseph Moote (So.)

Final N-O Standings: Medina/Lyndonville 9-1, Roy-Hart 8-2, Newfane 5-3-2, Albion 3-6-1, Wilson 3-6-1, Akron 0-10