The Medina Cubs downed the Lyndonville Orioles 18-3 on Saturday in a local youth baseball Major Division game.

Great pitching was turned in by Vinny Gray and Luke Grimes each with 9 strikeouts. Catching was handled by River Jones,Ethan Page, Frankie Stevens.

Offensively, Ryan Pegelow had a home run and a triple and Conor Crandall a double. Other hits were banged out by  hits by Ryder Jones, Camden Fike and Brayden Lewis.

Great fielding plays were turned in by Henry Winters and Briley Allen.

The other Major Divisin games were postponed including the Medina Yankees vs. Somerset Reds, Somerset Braves vs. Roy-Hart Red Sox, Newfane Jr. Panthers vs. Somerset Dodgers and Medina Blue Jays vs. Roy-Hart Yankees.

In the Minor Division, the Medina Pirates edged the Lyndonville Giants 2-1, the Lyndonville Twins downed the Somerset Yankees 12-4 and the Medina Athletics blanked the Lyndonville Tigers 6-0.

The Stanley Cup playoffs are now in full swing and locally several members of the Roy-Hart/Barker/Medina squad are playing in a Spring hockey league hosted by the Holiday and Leisure Rinks.

The local players including Michael Kuchey, Jason Kuchey, Colin Dodge and Dominic Pericciny along with Jacob Harris from Barker and goalie Andrew Warner are members of the Puck Hogs squad in the seven team Varsity Division.

The Puck Hogs defeated Batavia 11-2 in the season opener last weekend and then  played to a 5-5 tie against Orchard Park on Friday.

Against Batavia, Jason Kuchey scored from Harris and also had an assist on another goal and Pericciny scored the final goal.

Against Orchard Park, Michael Kuchey scored unassisted, Jason Kuchey assisted on two goals and Pericciny assisted on the final goal.

The Roy-Hart boys and girls track teams both earned second place honors at the Lew-Port Invitational today.

Will Rickard doubled in the 400 and 400 Hurdles and Anna Rickard in the 1500 and 3000 for Roy-Hart as Kali Scharping won the High Jump and Paige Dent the Pole Vault.

Roy-Hart next hosts the Niagara-Orleans All-League meet on Wednesday and Thursday.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Charlie Bruning belts the game winning home run in the ninth inning as the Rams nipped Medina 1-0 at Vets Park this afternoon. The Medina catcher is Austin Mosher.

Doing it both on the mound and at the plate, Charlie Bruning keyed Roy-Hart to a thrilling 1-0 nine inning victory over Medina at Vets Park this afternoon to really tighten up the Niagara-Orleans League baseball title race.

Bruning provided the margin of victory for the Rams as he belted a walk off home run with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning.

On the mound, he blanked Medina over the nine innings giving up 4 hits and striking out 12.

With the win, defending champion Roy-Hart improves to 5-2 in N-O competition and pulls even with front-running Medina (7-2) in the all important loss column.

Wilson likewise pulled even in the loss column at 5-2 by downing rival Newfane (1-5) 4-2.

Roy-Hart also mounted a threat in the opening inning getting two runners aboard via a leadoff single by Charlie Brigham and an intentional walk.

However, Medina pitcher Trevor Luthart quickly got out of trouble with a clutch inning ending strikeout.

Trevor Luthart delivers a pitch for Medina.

Luthart had a sparkling afternoon on the mound allowing just that one hit and striking out 13 before he had to leave the game with two out in the ninth due to the 105 pitch county limit. In fact he retired the last 22 batters in a row that he faced.

Medina mounted a threat in the fourth inning getting the first two runners aboard on bunt singles by Brian Fry and Nate Sherman.

The Roy-Hart defense though came up with a huge 1-3-2 double plate from Bruning to Walker Samanka to Noah Hardy to help get out of the jam as Bruning followed up with a big inning ending strikeout.

The Mustangs threatened again in the sixth getting two runners on via two out singles by Fry and Shrman.  Bruning though quickly dashed that opportunity by notching another clutch strikeout.

Medina got the leadoff hitter aboard in the seventh via a walk but couldn’t advance him as two Bruning strikeouts and a groundout to Karl Darling at third quickly ended the inning.

The Mustangs then got two runners aboard in the eighth on a hit batter and intentional walk but again couldn’t capitalize as a Bruning strikeout and a groundout to Thomas Russo at second base wiped out the threat.

Bruning then put Medina down in order in the top of the ninth on two groundouts and a strikeout setting the stage for his game winning home run with two out in the bottom of the ninth.

The game completed an extra innings victory season sweep for Roy-Hart which claimed a 5-3 win in 8 innings over the Mustangs in the earlier meeting.

The contest was played at Vets Park as Roy-Hart’s field at Gasport was too wet to play.

Medina will next visit Akron on Monday and then close out the N-O schedule with contests at Barker on Wednesday and at home against Wilson on Saturday.

Roy-Hart has five N-O games to play next week to finish the league season including two against Barker and one each against Akron, Albion and Wilson.

Wilson 4, Newfane 2

Ian Evans hurled a two hitter with 13 strikeouts and also hit a solo home run to lead Wilson past Newfane 4-2.

Roy-Hart catcher Noah Hardy gets set to tag out Medina runner Brian Fry at home.

Roy-Hart’s Charlie Brigham slides into second as Medina’s AJ Seefeldt tries to control the ball.

Holley downed visiting Byron-Bergen 9-4 this afternoon in a Genesee Region League softball game.

Holley had a big seven run fourth inning scoring burst as Haley Skidmore and Jocelyn Chilton each drove in two runs and Gianna Grathouse and winning pitcher Maddie Marsh both plated one.

In the circle, Marsh struck out seven.

Defensively, Sarah Klatt turned a double play for the Lady Hawks.

Rain washed  out the rest of this afternoon’s slate of local high school baseball and softball games.

The Medina vs. Roy-Hart Niagara-Orleans League baseball game, which was scheduled for this afternoon at Gasport, has been rescheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at Vets Park.

The Albion vs. Wilson baseball game has been rescheduled for May 16.

The Wilson at Albion softball game has been rescheduled for May 13 at 6:30 p.m.

Also postponed were the Lyndonville vs. Elba and Byron-Bergen vs. Kendall Genesee Region League baseball games as well as the Kendall vs. Lima Christian softball game.

A pair of three set wins highlighted Medina’s 5 1/2-0 victory over visiting Wilson this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League tennis match.

Ray Paull rallied past Joey Moote 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 at first singles and Haylee Seefeldt outlasted Nate Jacquess 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 at second singles.

The Mustangs also got straight set wins by Kody Leno at third singles and by the doubles teams of Andrew Houseman-Jonathan Pietrafesa, Isaac Pace-Ben Zakes and Alex Hetrick-Owen Herman.

Medina improves to 8-3 and Wilson slips to 6-5.

In another N-O match, Newfane (3-8) downed Albion (3-8) 4 1/2-1.

Matt Kovaleski earned Albion’s lone point at first singles.