The Tri County Midget Yellow team downed host Rochester 7-1 in a hockey scrimmage on Wednesday.

Tri County jumped out to a 4-0 first period lead on goals by Josh Wood, Jake Esposito, Ryan Wells and Ian McGraw.

Patrick Ricker then scored 2 goals and John Pilon 1 in the second period.

The Yellow team next opens the Empire Amateur Hockey League season on Nov. 6 agains the Tri County Green team.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Nathan Dillenbeck of Medina/Lyndonville tries to head the ball into the goal as Lackawanna goalie Ismael Albakri makes the stop during the Mustangs sectional loss to the Steelers this evening at Vets Park.

It took 104 minutes to decide as No. 6 seed Lackawanna nipped No. 3 Medina/Lyndonville 2-1 in double overtime in a Section VI Class B1 boys soccer quarterfinal game this afternoon at Vets Park.

The Steelers earned the win when Kamal Abdullah scored with 6:44 to go in the second 15 minute overtime period.

The Mustangs had grabbed a 1-0 lead when Dan Mandujano scored off a throw in by Evan Horn with 25:22 to go in the second half.

That slender lead held up until Ali Alomari scored his Western New York leading 44th goal of the season on a direct kick with 9:23 remaining to pull the Steelers even.

The Mustangs couldn’t capitalize on two big scoring opportunities in the first 10 minutes missing on a header off a corner and a shot from straight away.

Then in the second half the Mustangs missed on a header off a corner and on a breakaway.

Zach Fike made several big saves in goal for the Mustangs including stopping a breakaway in the first half. He then had five key stops in the second half including two off Steeler corner opportunities. He also had a key sliding save in the first overtime and another save on a corner in the second OT.

The Mustangs finish the season at 14-3.

Lackawanna will now face No. 2 East Aurora in the semifinals. East Aurora downed No. 10 Albion 9-0.

In the Class B2 quarterfinals, No. 6 Newfane downed No. 3 Roy-Hart 3-1 and No. 2 Allegany-Limestone bested No. 10 Wilson 2-0.

Trevor Heschke scored the first two goals for Newfane and Jeremy Foltz the third.

Trent Choate scored for Roy-Hart in the contest which was tied 1-1 at the half.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Hannah Kenward works around Holland’s Taylor Thompson during the Mustangs sectional loss at Vets Park this evening.

A quick goal in the first three minutes sparked No. 7 seed Holland to a 3-0 win over No. 2 Medina in a Section VI Class C quarterfinal round field hockey playoff game this evening.

Holland took the lead for good as Jenna Dietz scored just 2:32 in off a corner opportunity.

Holland capitalized on another corner to make it 2-0 with 16:16 to go in the second half on a goal by Kelsey Robertson.

Dietz rounded out the Holland scoring with a goal with just 18 seconds to go.

Holland will next face No. 6 Eden in the semifinals. Eden nipped No. 3 Akron 1-0.

In the other quarterfinals, defending champion top seeded Barker blanked No. 8 Newfane 6-0 and No. 4 Roy-Hart downed No. 5 Wilson 2-0.

Katrina Clare scored 3 goals for Barker as Ella Gooding, Rachel Hurtgam and Brianna Bachman each had 1. Hurtgam also had 3 assists.

Cheyenne Stilwell and Mandy Hill scored second half goals to earn the win for Roy-Hart.

Barker will now face Roy-Hart in the other semifinal.

That semifinal doubleheader will be held at 5 and 7 p.m. on October 30 at Clarence.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Kevin Hillman and his Albion teammates will host Tonawanda at 7 p.m. Friday in a Class B quarterfinal contest.

Section VI Class B football playoff competition will get underway on Friday as No. 3 seed Albion hosts No. 6 Tonawanda at 7 p.m. at Spierdowis Field.

The victor will face the winner of Saturday’s 2 p.m. No. 7 Olean at No. 2 Newfane quarterfinal in the semifinals.

Friday’s other Class B quarterfinals will have No. 8 Iroquois at No. 1 Maritime and No. 5 Pioneer at No. 4 Cheektowaga. Both will be rematches of regular season games which were won by Maritime (34-13) and Cheektowaga (14-7).

Division 3 champion Albion and Division 4 runner-up Tonawanda both enter the sectionals coming off rivalry game wins. Now at 6-1, the Purple Eagles downed Medina/Lyndonville/Barker  23-6 while the 4-3 Warriors blanked North Tonawanda 23-0.

Offensively, the Warriors are led by running back Jason Frazer who had 2 touchdowns and 184 yards rushing in the win over NT. On the season he has scored 11 touchdowns and rushed for 1,011 yards.

Quarterback Thomas Furmnski, who has passed for 9 touchdowns, run for 3 and kicked a field goal, leads the Purple Eagles offense. Kevin Hillman had hauled in 6 of those TD aerials.

On the ground, Tyray White has  rushed for 8 touchdowns, Brillance Johnson 5 and Deyonci Farley 3 for the Purple Eagles.

The Albion defense has also contributed points as Chris Shabazz has returned 2 interceptions for touchdowns and Hillman has turned a fumble recovery into a TD.

Albion holds a 9-4 lead in the all-time series with Tonawanda including a 16-6 win in their last meeting in 2012.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Hailee Mithell and her Kendall teammates begin defense of their Class D1 title at home on Saturday.

Seeded No. 2 Kendall will begin defense of its Section V Class D1 girls soccer title as the Lady Eagles host No. 7 CG Finney at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Finney (9-8) advanced with a 3-0 win over No. 10 Pavilion in the opening round.

Kendall, which brings a 13-3 record into the sectionals, has been led offensively this season by Hailee Mitchell (18 goals, 7 assists), Alezya Brown (11-2), Brianna Wakefield (10-12), Madison Jacob (7-11), Grace Levett (6-3) and Lizzy Woodams (5-5).

In a Section V Class C1 quarterfinal, No. 4 Holley (10-5-2) will host No. 5 Canisteo-Greenwood (11-5-1) at 6 p.m. Friday.

The Lady Hawks offense has been sparked this season by Halee Passarell (11 goals, 7 assists), Olivia Radford (10-8), Samantha Bates (6-4) and Kayleigh Neale (5-13).

In a Section VI Class B1 quarterfinal No. 9 Albion (9-7-1) will face top seeded City Honors (10-5-1) at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Wiley Stadium in Buffalo.

Leading the Purple Eagles offense this season have been Abby Scanlan (18 goals, 4 assists), Claire Squicciari (8-7), Mariah Plain (4-9) and Kendall Derisley (4-6).

A trio of Niagara-Orleans League teams will be involved in Section VI Class B2 quarterfinals on Friday as No. 4 Roy-Hart (11-4-1) hosts No. 5 Southwestern (10-4-2) at 6 p.m.; No 2 Akron (12-4) entertains No. 7 Falconer (9-5-3) at 3:30 p.m. and No. 6 Wilson (10-5-2) faces No. 3 Olmsted (8-6-2) at All High Stadium in Buffalo at 3:30 p.m.

Kara Choate has led the Roy-Hart offense this season with 19 goals and 6 assists.

Akron has been led by Kara Sequin with 31 goals and 9 assists while Wilson has been paced by the duo of Skylar Munnikhuysen (15-11) and Leia Cloy (11-5).

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina/Lyndonville/Barker’s Rodney Davis (21), who led the team in tackles, stops East Aurora’s Jack Rogers for a loss during the Mustangs loss to the Blue Devils this evening at Vets Park.

A lightning quick two touchdown scoring burst midway through the third quarter keyed East Aurora to a 21-19 win over Medina/Lyndonville/Barker in a match-up football game this evening at Vets Park.

Trailing 13-0 East Aurora got back into the game on a 10 yard touchdown run by David Morris and an extra point kick by Lucas Juliano with 4:56 to go in the third period.

Tyler Chinn hauls in a touchdown pass for the Mustangs.

The Blue Devils got the ball back just one play after the ensuing kickoff as Jonathan Staniszewski intercepted a pass and returned it to the Mustangs 2 yard line.

Jack Rogers then scored on a 2 yard touchdown run on the next snap and Juliano again added the extra point kick to suddenly vault the Blue Devils into a 14-13 lead just 23 seconds after their first TD.

East Aurora boosted its advantage to 21-13 on a 1 yard touchdown run and extra point kick, both by Juliano with 7:13 to go in the fourth quarter.

The Blue Devils recovered a Medina fumble at the East Aurora 42 to set up that opportunity.

The Mustangs did answer right back on a 65 yard touchdown pass play from Jarin Rhim to Brian Fry cutting the deficit to 21-19 with 6:58 remaining. However, the Mustangs missed on the run attempt for the game tying two-point conversion.

The Mustangs got the ball back two more times but had the first drive stopped on a lost fumble at their own 12 and the second on downs at their 29.

The Mustangs had built up a 13-0 lead as Fry scored on a 2 yard touchdown run with 7 seconds to go in the first half and Rhim hooked up with Tyler Chinn for a 13 yard TD pass with 10:12 to go in the third quarter.

(Click here to see Brian Fry score on a 3-yard TD run for M/L/B’s first score.)

Fumble recoveries set up both Mustang scores, the first by Fry at the East Aurora 16 and the second by Chinn at the Blue Devils 21.

In all the Mustangs lost five turnovers. In fact Ti Marsh had interceptions for the Blue Devils on three straight Mustangs possessions in the second quarter.

The Mustangs finish the season at 2-6 while the Blue Devils are 4-4.

(Click here to see Jarin Rhim connect with Brian Fry, who goes to the East Aurora 3 yard line.)

The Holley varsity volleyball team celebrated Senior Night by defeating Wheatlad-Chili 25-17, 25-13, 25-9 Tuesday evening in a Genesee Region League match.

Adriana Botello had 8 aces, 8 assists, 2 kills, 4 digs;  Jade Hoffarth 2 aces, 5 kills and 4 digs and  Rachael Howard 2 aces, 5 kills and 4 digs to lead the way for the Lady Hawks.

No. 4 seed Holley blanked No. 13 Campbell-Savonna 4-0 in the opening round of the Section V Class C1 girls soccer playoffs this evening at Perry.

Halee Passarell and Olivia Radford both scored a pair of goals to spark the attack for Holley as Rachel Killian and Sara Kingdollar earned assists.

Holley will next face the winner of the No. 5 Canisteo/Greenwood vs. No. 12 Romulus/South Seneca game in the quarterfinals on Friday.

Class B1

Aquinas 3, Lyndonville/Medina 0

No. 6 seed Aquinas scored all of its goals in the first half to gain a 3-0 win over visiting No. 11 Lyndonville/Medina in a Class B1 opener.

“We played very well and held them in the second half. I am very proud of them,” said Lady Tigers Coach Paul Zeppetella.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Matt Scott goes under Akron’s Even Lazzarero while going for the ball. The action took place during the host Rams sectional win over the Tigers this evening.

Pulling away in the second half, No. 3 seed Roy-Hart downed Niagara-Orleans League foe No. 14 Akron 6-0 in an opening round  Section VI Class B2 boys soccer playoff game this evening at Gasport.

Roy-Hart grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first half on a goal by Aidan Bligh with 14:26 to go.

The Rams then broke the contest wide open by exploding for three goals in the first 10 minutes of the second half on consecutive tallies by Brendan Saia, Noah Stern and Bligh.

Later goals by Trent Choate and Peter Martillotta rounded out the Rams scoring parade.

Roy-Hart will host host another N-O foe, No. 6 seed Newfane, in the quarterfinals at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Newfane defeated Falconer/Cassadaga Valley 6-1 as Trevor Heschke had 3 goals and Connor Bowers, Jeremy Folt and Connor MacEvoy 1 each.

In another B2 opener, No. 10 Wilson defeated No. 7 daVinci 5-2 on goals by Marcus Schwarzmueller, Owen Cloy, Quinn Rees, Trent Kenny and Jake Barnes.

Roy-Hart’s Noah Stern sends a shot towards the goal as Brock Hawes defends for Akron.