Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Brody Fry, left, started on the mound for the Yankees and Breylin McEwen-Miller for the Blue Jays during Tuesday evening’s playoff championship game which was won by the Yankees.

The Woodroe Realty Medina Yankees won the Major Division championship by defeating the Mark’s Pizzeria Medina Blue Jays 9-0 Tuesday evening at Butts Park.

Tyler Kroening bangs out a hit for the Yankees.

Strong pitching and good defense keyed the Yankees successful championship quest.

Brody Fry had 6 strike outs over the first 3 innings and Tyler Kroening had 7 strikeouts over the last 3 innings to preserve the shutout.

Defensively Cole Callard,  Kroening, Colton Smith, and Kolton Fletcher all contributed to make key outs in the game.

Fry led the way at the plate with a single, double and 2 RBI’s and scoring twice. Callard had a single and a triple, 1 RBI and scored a run; Kroening 2 singles, scored twice and had an RBI; Smith had a single, RBI and scored a run, Jimmy Dieter a hit, RBI, scored a run, Joseph Reese 2 hits and scored a run. Timmy Vasquez and Fletcher each added a hit, and Aiden Wisniewski scored a run.

For the Blue Jays, Brady Christiaansen and Avion Johnson each had a single.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Barre’s Cami London bangs out a triple during this evening’s Albion Midget League win over visiting Sandstone.

Undefeated front-running Barre bested visiting Sandstone 14-2  this evening to maintain a two game lead atop the Albion Midget League standings.

Josh Bovenzi, who picked up the win on the mound also had a big night at the plate belting a two-run triple in the first inning and a three-run  home run in the second to help spark Barre out to a big 6-1 lead.

Keeping the momentum, Barre broke the contest wide open by adding five runs in the third as Cami London and Zach Vancott both banged out triples.

Cencere Lowe and Emma Shay both had triples on the evening for Sandstone.

Barre stays undefeated at 5-0 while Sandstone slips  to 3-3.

In their previous two games Barre downed Vets and Carlton.

Barre 7 – Vets 0

A complete game shutout from Nathan Gibson helped the Barre Cubs defeat the Vets 7-0.  A triple by Ryan Dunn and single by Caleb Colucci were the only hits allowed by Gibson. Dunn also shared pitching duties with Brody Vercruysse for the Vets.  A home run by Bovenzi, 2 singles by Lucas Martin, and singles by Owen Bentley and Gibson produced the runs for Barre.

Barre 14 – Carlton 8

A high scoring game was highlighted by a two run home run from Finn McCue in the first inning and a Grandslam by Drew Boyce in the third inning for Carlton.  Dominic Jurs added a double and two singles for the Clippers going 3 for 4 on the night.

At the plate for Barre, a multi-hit game was turned in by Bentley, Gibson, Jacob Neal and Mason Snook.  Each of them contributed two hits a piece for the Cubs.

Barre’s Josh Bovenzi, left, and Sandstone’s Seth Krenning were starting mound opponents. Bozenzi also had a big game at the plate.

Jr. Wilson II and Banes Machine Shop/Banes Plumbing both swept to doubleheader victories Monday in Medina Women’s Softball League competition.

Jr. Wilson II bested Team Monte Alban by scores of 16-6 and 19-9 while Banes downed Just Us 10-1 and 16-11.

Laura Valley had a home run and Jen Hughes a double and triple in the opener which saw Jr. Wilson II  score 3 runs in the first inning, 4 in the second and 7 in the third.

Hughes finished with 4 hits as Valley and Jenn Thom both had 3.

Tiffany Robb, Koreena Couch and Megan Perkins each had 2 and Ashley Crawford a triple for Team Monte Alban.

In the second game, Julie Tette, Valley, Nicki Maryjanowski, Jen Hughes, Thom, Desi Hughes and Jen Molisani each had 3 hits for Jr Wilson II which tallied 3 runs in the first inning and 8 in the second.

Sunshine Heschke and Jamie Heschke both had 2 hits for Team Monte Alban.

Banes used a  big 6 run first inning to key the opening win over Just Us as Connie Heschke, Kathy Allen, Jami Chatt, Robin Blaun, Lindsay Chatt, Lexi Neuman and Patti Page all had singles.

Hits by Sue Seefeldt, Jessica Carpenter and Allen quickly tacked on 2 more runs in the second inning.

Allen, Grace Masse and Lindsay Chatt each had 2 hits in the game.

In the second game, Banes used big back-to-back scoring innings of 5 in the third and 6 in the fourth to key the win. A home run by Masse and a triple by Blaun highlighted the big third inning. Neuman, Heschke, Seefeldt, Allen and Jami Chatt then all had singles and Jen Masse and Grace Masse doubles in the fourth.

Seefeldt finished with 4 hits including a double as Heschke, Jen Masse, Lindsay Chatt and Grace Masse each had 3.

The Medina-Lyndonville United U12 soccer team earned a pair of victories over the last few days defeating Niagara PAL 5-1 and the Akron Predators 2-0.

Caden Kingsbury led the offense against Niagara PAL with 2 goals as Cole Callard, Cameron Kenward and Vinny Gray each had 1 goal.

The defensive play of Luke Duffina, Kolton Fletcher and Trenton Morley helped Medina secure the victory only allowing 1 goal on the day.

Camden Fike got things going against Akron by scoring the first goal off of a rebound.  Callard sealed the victory with another goal.

The defense on both sides was resilient helping to keep the game close.

Next game will be July 1st vs Tonawanda Triton followed by the final game on July 2nd vs. West Seneca Knights

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Grayson Prynn started on the mound for the Somerset Blue Jays and Sawyer Lilleby for the Medina Orioles in Monday evening’s Minor Division playoff semifinals at Somerset which was won by the Jays 5-4.

The Somerset Blue Jays pushed across a run in the seventh inning to edge past the visiting Medina Orioles 5-4 Monday evening in the semifinals of the Minor Division baseball playoffs.

Grayson Prynn singled and came home with the game winner on a hit by Kian Lawson.

Rory Harvey bangs out a hit for the Blue Jays.

The Blue Jays then survived a scare in the bottom of the seventh as Anthony Reese tripled with two out for the Orioles but was stranded as Jays hurler Cayvon Heigl registered a clutch game ending strikeout to preserve the narrow win.

The Jays also got off to a fast start scoring three times in the top of the first inning as Heigle singled, Drew LaGreca had a two-run double and Rory Harvey an RBI single.

The Jays made it 4-1 in the fourth as LaGreca doubled, Lawson singled and Harvey had an RBI single..

However, the Orioles battled back to knot the contest.  After scoring once in the first as Brennan Allen doubled and once in the fourth as Sawyer Lilleby tripled, the Orioles pulled even with two runs in the fourth as Reese, Steven Gobeli and Allen all singled.

LaGreca, Harvey and Lawson each finished with 2 hits for the Jays as did Reese and Allen for the Orioles.

The Blue Jays will now face the Lyndonville Twins in the championship game which is expected to be played at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Lyndonville.

Last week was a busy three game one for Sandstone in Albion Midget League baseball action.

Improving to 3-2, Sandstone defeated Vets 7-4 and Carlton 3-0 before dropping a narrow 9-8 decision to St. Mary’s.

Sandstone scored five runs in the third inning against Vets highlighted by two-run singles by Cencere Lowe and Drew Pritchard. A single by Seth Krenning and a double by Nolan Sullivan set up the threat.

Cencere finished with 3 hits and Elliottt Trapiss 2.

Hunter Lonnen had a two-run double for Vets in the sixth inning.

Krenning then hurled a one hit shutout with 13 strikeouts in the win over Carlton.

Sandstone scored once in the first on a single by Emma Shay and twice in the fifth on a single by Sullivan.

Finn McCue struck out 10 on the mound for Carlton.

St. Mary’s jumped out to a big 7-0 lead in the first inning against Sandstone highlighted by two-run doubles by Kyle Radder and Issac Sugar.

However, Sandstone battled back to knot the contest at 8-8 as Pritchard had a three-run homer in the first inning and a two-run single in the third and Shay a three-run single in the fifth.

St. Mary’s though pulled out the win with a run in the sixth on doubles by Jack Kinter and Blake Preston.

Kinter, Preston and Sugar each finished with 2 hits.

Trapiss had 3 hits and Krenning and Pritchard 2 each for Sandstone.

Standings: Barre 4-0, Sandstone 3-2, Rotary 3-2, St. Mary’s 3-2, Carlton 1-3, Vets 0-5.

Front-running Victor edged past the host Albion Raptors 3-2 Sunday evening in a Rochester District Youth Soccer League U17 Division game.

Albion jumped out to an early 1-0 lead on a goal by Abby Scanlan and then got a big save from goalie Brynn Walczak to keep the lead.

Victor finally got on the scoreboard in the final five minutes of the opening half.   Keeping the momentum, Victor then scored the first two goals of the second half to take the lead for good at 3-1.

Albion did battle back to within one as Scanlan scored off an assist from Aly Knaak. The Raptors then just missed on scoring the equalizer when a shot by Scanlan banged off the post.

Victor improves to 6-2-1 while Albion takes a 2-2 record into Thursday’s 6:30 p.m. game at the Cobras.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall goalie Katie Pearson goes high to knock the ball away during this evening’s win over visiting Medina/Lyndonville.

Playing with no subs, Kendall edged past visiting Medina/Lyndonville 1-0 this evening in a Rochester District Youth Soccer League U18 Division game.

Kendall scored the game’s lone goal eight minutes into the second half as Grace Robinson tallied off an assist from Alayna Steffen.

Katie Pearson earned the shutout in goal as Lizzie Sutphen, Kari Harrier and Julie Coble helped to anchor the defense..

Kendall improves to 3-1-1 while Medna/Lyndonville is 1-3.

U15 Division
Albion 3, Byron-Bergen 2
Albion trimmed Byron-Bergen in a U15 Division game Friday to improve to 5-1-1.

Albion built up a 2-0 half-time advantage on goals by Jamie Penna and Aurora Serafin.

Byron-Bergen cut the deficit to 2-1 but Albion answered back with what proved to be the game winning goal by Penna.

Kendall’s Grace Robinson and Medina/Lyndonville’s Olivia Carter battle for possession of the ball.

Sarah Gregori of Medina/Lyndonville sends the ball up field ahead of Kendall’s Alayna Steffen.