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3 from Albion will compete in national high school clay target shooting
ALBION – Three members of the high school clay target shooting team in Albion will be competing in the national competition on Saturday in Michigan.
Patrick Brien, Alex Rustay and Shane Hastings will be among 1,800 participants in the USA High School Clay Target League National Championship in Mason, Michigan.
They will compete in the individuals competition on Saturday. To advance to the finals on Sunday, they need to shoot at least 94 out of 100 targets on Saturday, said Jeff Atwell, one of the Albion coaches.
At the state competition, Brien hit 94 out of 100 and Rustay shot 96 out of 100. Those two just graduated from Albion, which fielded a clay shooting team for the first time this spring. That team finished ninth in the state out of 65 teams in the state competition.
“I think it will grow in popularity,” Atwell said about the program. “It’s a good program overall. It teaches them safety and responsibility.”
Holley also has a team and had six qualify for nationals – Brad Kingdollar, Ethan Waldron, Noah St. John, Evan Press, Jake Silpoch and Kyle Surowy.
The team isn’t making the trip to Michigan this year but expects to be back in 2020, said Troy Kingdollar, one of the coaches.
Surging Jr. Wilson 1 sweeps twin bill
After dropping their first game of the season, Jr. Wilson I has gone on to win 8 straight games, outscoring their opponents 167-49 in Women’s A League Softball play. Most recently, they won a double header over Medina VFW on Monday night, by scores of 22-4 and 11-8.
In the first game, Jr. Wilson I scored 6 runs in both the first and second innings, highlighted by doubles from both Jodi Zacher and Molly Huber, which gave Jr. Wilson I an early 12-2 lead. There were singles by Jaclyn Guzdek, Sara Flansburg, and Michele Crandall in the first inning as well.
Jr. Wilson I extended their lead in the fourth, scoring 9 runs on 6 hits, including a 3 run home run by Flansburg.
In the second game, VFW kept it close by scoring three runs in the 5th, making it 7-5. Jr. Wilson I would battle back and score three of their own in the bottom of the fifth inning on two walks and a double by Sami Johnson.
Crandall leads the team so far this season with 20 hits, while Flansburg and Zacher both have 17. Zacher leads the team in doubles with 5, followed by Guzdek and Arden Zavitz with 3. Jessica Rosenbeck and Flansburg have the only home runs for the team so far this season.
Jr. Wilson I next plays White Birch on July 22nd.
Adam Krenning named new athletic director for Albion
Photo by Tom Rivers: Adam Krenning speaks to the Albion varsity football team on Sept. 1, 2017 before his first game as the head football coach. Albion came from behind to beat Springville, 40-34, in that game. The team shared the league title with Dunkirk that year and then won it outright in 2018.
ALBION – Adam Krenning is the new athletic director for Albion Central School, following the retirement of Randy Knaak.
Krenning was appointed to the position on Monday by the Board of Education. He has been the head varsity football coach the past two seasons, leading the team to league titles both seasons (2017 was a shared title with Dunkirk).
Krenning has been an agriculture teacher at Albion the past 19 years and the FFA advisor. That program has grown from a dozen students when he started to 118 this past school year.
“I just feel I can help the athletic program in the same way I grew the agriculture and FFA program,” he said this morning.
Krenning is meeting with school officials later today to discuss his role with the FFA and agriculture programs. He would like to continue to help with those programs.
He helped develop a 5-acre land lab for agriculture and FFA programs. FFA students also have strong connections with the agriculture community, collecting more than 30,000 pounds of produce each year in a food drive.
Krenning played tight end and defensive end for the Purple Eagles, with his last season in 1992. He has been a football coach the past 12 years, with the past two as the varsity head coach.
In his new role, he will work on scheduling games for all of the Albion sports, arranging transportation and for officials, and finding staff to run clocks and keep pitch counts.
He wants to see all of the teams excel on the field, court and in the pool, but Krenning said it’s not just about wins and losses in measuring the success of a program.
“It’s about the connections with kids,” he said. “How are we helping them to become better people in society.”
Tiger matmen attend Penn St. Wrestling Camp
Contributed Photos – Eight Lyndonville wrestlers attended the Penn State University Wrestling Camp this past weekend. The Tigers attending, who are shown here with Penn St. Coach Cael Sanderson, included, from left, Patrick Hargrave, Christian Garver, Avery Wilcox, Dillon Burt-Hodgins, Payton Grabowski, Coach Sanderson, Maddox Stirk, Brennon Munn and Connor Bell. They were accompanied by Lyndonville coaches Joe Suhr and James Zeliff. The camp was a four day team camp that included instruction from the Penn St staff and wrestlers of the NCAA team champions for 8 of the last 9 seasons including 2018-19 and some competition. They received instruction from Olympic Gold Medalists Jake Varner and Coach Sanderson, the only wrestler ever to go undefeated in his collegiate career. They also were instructed by NCAA Champions Vincenzo Joseph, Jason Nolf, Mark Hall, and Anthony Cassar. The camp enabled the wrestlers to learn a ton of new things as well as getting to compete against top teams from all over the United States.
Here Penn St. Coach Cael Sanderson demonstrates a technique to the campers.
Barker 1 sets pace in field hockey league
Barker 1 picked up a win and a tie Monday in the Barker 7 on 7 Summer Field Hockey League competition.
Barker 1 tied Medina 3-3 as Lena Fazzolari scored 2 goals and Ella Gooding 1. Lyla Lilleby scored 2 and Mary Flores 1 for Medina. Anna Bowerman made several key saves in goal for Barker 1.
Barker 1 then defeated Roy-Hart 7-0 as Kaedynce Schumacher scored 2 goals and Sophia Gerhardt, Gooding, Ella Fox, Bowerman and Addison Szafranski each netted 1.
The other game saw Barker 2 downed Roy-Hart 12-1 as Madilyn Detschner scored 5 goals, Brianna Bachman 3, Ciara Gregoire 2 and Serena Harris and Natalie Bruning 1 each. Cheyenne Stillwell scored for Roy-Hart.
After the league’s first two week’s Detschner and Abby Blount (Medina) share in the scoring lead with 5 goals as Flores has 4 and Bachman, Stillwell and Braelin Taylor (Medina) 3 each.
Barker 1 is now 2-0-1 (7 points), Medina 2-0-1 (7 pts.), Barker 2 1-2-0 (3 pts.) and Roy-Hart 0-3-0.
Late State College homer nips Muckdogs
Contributed Photo – Batavia Muckdog Brayan Hernandez (23) during his first home run of the season. He hit his second Tuesday night in a loss to State College.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Just when the Batavia Muckdogs were ready to come home with a sweep of State College, Jonatan Machado provided eighth inning heroics.
Machado crushed a two-out, three-run home run that finished erasing a 5-2 Batavia lead and gave the Spikes a 6-5 lead they would hold for the win.
Leonardo Taveras, who has been nearly perfect for the Spikes, came on in the top of the ninth, striking out two batters while picking up the save with his fastball clocked at 98.
Picking up the win on the mound for the Spikes was Cardinals’ 2019 seventh round draft pick right-hander Jack Ralston (1-0). Batavia won the series, 2-1.
Batavia rapped 18 hits but no home runs on Monday in a victory, and started Tuesday with two home runs.
Jack Strunc blasted his first of the season, a 2-RBI shot in the fourth inning. Strunc was a 25th round pick in June of the Miami Marlins out of Creighton.
Brayan Hernandez hit his second home run of the season in the fifth inning, a solo shot.
Nic Ready had a strong 2-for-4 game with two doubles, a RBi and a run as he now has a .310 average.
Dalvy Rosario (run) doubled for the Muckdogs and Troy Johnston singled.
Batavia southpaw Edison Suriel took the loss in relief
Batavia starter Julio Frias went five strong innings with five strikeouts and gave up one earned run.
Another bright spot for Batavia was a strong outing by M.D. Johnson, who came on with one out and struck out two batters for his third hold.
Batavia (15-9), remains in first place and plays at home tonight at Dwyer Stadium against the Lowell Spinners, a farm club of the Boston Rex Sox.
Local players spark Genesee soccer teams
Orleans County players are helping to lead a quartet of Genesee United teams to strong seasons in the Rochester District League.
At the halfway point of the season, the Genesee United team is currently 6-0-1 and in first place in the 1st Division of the Rochester District Adult Soccer League. Destiny Satkowski (Medina/Slippery Rock U.) leads the team in scoring with 7 goals and 2 assists. Other Orleans County players on the squad are Mariah Elsenheimer (Albion/Iona College), Emilie Rath (Medina) and Anna Rath (Medina/Alfred State)
The 2nd Division of the Rochester Adult League has Genesee United in second place at 5-1. Destiny Satkowski is the league’s leading scorer with 8 goals and 2 assists. Other Orleans County players on the squad are Elsenheimer , Aubrey Lewis (Lyndonville/Daemen College), Casey Flynn (Medina) and Kaya Bloom (Medina).
Genesee United is in first place at 5-2 in the Rochester District Youth League U19 Division. Destiny Satkowski again is the league’s leading scorer with 14 goals and 5 assists. Other Orleans County players on the squad are Anna Lewis (Lyndonville) and Bloom.
In the Rochester District Youth League U18 Division Genesee United is in second place at 3-2-1. RDYSL (Orleans County players on the squad are Melanie Hibbard, Alana Drewery, Marg Brakenbury, Brianna McMullen, Madelynn Satkowski, and Gracie Cogovan.
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Banes sweeps twin bill from White Birch
Undefeated Banes Machine Shop/Banes Plumbing scored a doubleheader sweep over White Birch by scores of 9-3 and 9-2 Monday evening in Medina Women’s Softball League action.
A four run second inning keyed Banes to the opening game win while a five run sixth frame locked up the night cap victory.
A triple by Grace Masse highlighted the decisive sixth frame which also included singles by Amy Allis, Lindsay Chatt and Lexi Neuman.
Earlier in the second game Connie Heschke, Sue Seefeldt, Jen Masse and Chatt all had singles during a two run first inning and Masse had a triple and Sarah Surdel a single during a two run fifth.
Chatt finished with 3 hits and Masse 2.
Banes next faces Medina VFW in a doubleheader next Monday.
Good start for Green at Jr. PGA championship
Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Here Melanie Green lines up a putt during her recent state high school championship victory.
Medina’s Melanie Green got off to a solid start today at the 44th annual Girls Junior PGA championships being held at the Keney Park Golf Course at Hartford, Connecticut.
Green, who is a making a return trip to the national championship, shot an even par round of 70 and is five shots off the pace.
Playing on the back nine to open the tourney, Green shot a two over 37 over those nine holes bogeying the 12th and 15th holes.
However, she bounced back strongly on the front nine registering birdies on the 1st, 2nd and 4th holes to go one under. She did bogey the 7th hole to finish the front nine with a two under 33 and even par on the day.
The 144 player field is crowded at the top as three players are tied for first place at five under followed by one at four under, five at three under, five at two under, 12 at one under and 13 at even par.
Everyone will play another 18 holes on Wednesday after which the field will be cut to the top 70 plus ties for the final 36 holes to be played Thursday and Friday.
Green, who successfully defended her Section VI and state high school championships this spring, qualified for the national championship by winning the Western New York Junior PGA title for the second year in a row.
Big first half keys M-L United U17 to win
Building up a 3-0 half-time advantage, front-running Medina-Lyndonville United went on to defeat the host Niagara Pioneer Gunners 4-1 Monday evening in a Buffalo and Western New York Soccer League U17 Division game.
Improving to 4-0, M-L United built up the big half-time lead on goals by Zaric Boyce, Jack Whipple and Sam Kingsbury.
Niagara got on the scoreboard at the outset of the second half but M-L United got that one right back as Devin Rounds netted the clincher.
M-L United, which is now a half game ahead of 3-0 Niagara-Wheatfield, next visits South Buffalo on Wednesday.
Holley U17 holds lead
Font-running Holley played to a 3-3 tie with runner-up Scottsville Sunday evening to maintain a hold on first place in the Rochester District Youth Soccer League Boys U17 Division.
Holley, which lost to Scottsville 3-2 earlier in the season, improves to 6-1-3 while Scottsville is 5-1-4.
Girls U17
Host Lancaster-Depew blanked the Medina/Roy-Hart Lady Rams 2-0 Monday evening in a Buffalo and WNY Soccer League U17 contest.
The Lady Rams are now 2-1-2
