Albion bested Barker 5 1/2-0 this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League tennis match.

Matt Kovaleski, Carson Bader and Chase Froman all scored singles match wins for the Purple Eagles as did the doubles teams of Josh Riley-Matt Rowcliffe, Andrew Caldwell-Kolin VanGorder and Zach Kilner-Katelyn Spierdowis.

In the other N-O matches, defending champion Akron improved to 10-0 by downing Roy-Hart (5-4) 4-1 and Wilson (6-3) bested Newfane (1-8) 3-2 1/2.

Nate Chubb, Will Chubb and Morgan Wdowka all won at singles for Akron as did the first doubles team of Micah Suckow-Harry Fitzgerald.  Roy-Hart’s duo of Aspen Moore- Kayla Hagen won at second doubles.

In Genesee Region League action, Holley blanked Alexander 5-0 and Oakfield-Aalbama downed Kendall 3-2.

Aaron Strathearn, Cheyan Palmer and Kristina Yaroshchuk all won singles matches for Holley as did the Hawks doubles teams of Eli Bibby-Jake Peters and Kory Puente-Cora Bennage.

Nate Warters won at first singles for Kendall as did the Eagles second doubles team of Eric Woodhams-Andrue Waugh.

Track
Wilson downed host Medina 70-49 this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League boys makeup track meet as Marcell Wilson was a triple winner in the 100, Long Jump and Triple Jump and Will Schwartzmueller doubled in the 1600 and 3200.

Wilson is now 3-2 and Medina 0-4.

The girls meet is incomplete as the Shutput and Discus were unable to be run because of wet grounds. Medina holds a 63-56 lead at this point..

Skylar Munnikhuysen was a triple winner for Wilson in the 200, Long Jump and High Jump while Emma Schwartzott doubled for Medina in the 200 and 400.

Lyndonville pushed across a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to nip visiting Oakfield-Alabama 4-3 this afternoon in a Genesee Region League game.

Improving to 8-0 in the league and 9-0 overall, the Tigers claimed the win as Kane Flynn doubled and came home on an error.

Earlier, the Tigers scored three times in the first inning on a two-run single by Noah Heinsler and a sacrifice fly by Oskar Heinsler. Two walks set up the threat.

The Hornets tied the game by scoring three times in the fifth inning on a single, two walks, an error and a passed ball.

Zach Johnson went the distance on the mound for the Tigers giving up just the one hit with 13 strikeouts.

Contributed Photo – Chase Pecoraro

Medina High graduate and Utica College junior Chase Pecoraro took top honors in the pole vault at the Empire 8 Conference track and field championships this weekend.

Pecoroaro had a winning vault of 13-9 1/4.

He also placed second in the High Jump (6-1 1/2),  sixth in the Javelin (146-6) and seventh in the 110 Hurdles (:17.14).

He is majoring in Health Studies.

Contributed Photo – Lyndonville native Scott Bradley competes in the season opening Ironman 70.3 Triathalon at Galveston, Texas

Lyndonville native Scott Bradley recently opened his Triathalon season by competing in the Ironman 70.3 Texas at Galveston.

The 70.3 triathlon includes a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike ride and a 13.1 mile half marathon.

Bradley finished 9th out of the 21 Male Pros and 10th overall out of the 386 participants who finished the story interupted race as his total time for the day was 3:57.08, a personal record which broke his best by over four minutes.

Breaking the four hour barrier was one of his goals for 2018 season that eluded him but that is now in the books. “It was difficult to have Cozumel (his final 2018 event) hanging over my head for the entire winter, but it was also motivating. Breaking the four hour barrier helped to put the Cozumel DNF (did not finish) officially to bed.” He was forced to pull out of the race due to neck issues he had been dealing with.

Bradley was 20th out of the 21 Male Pros coming out of the water at Galveston in a time of 29:20.

On the bike, he rode a 2:00:39, averaging 27.85 mph,. This was a Personal Record which was the third fastest bike time of the day.  The only two beating him on the bike were Andy Starykowicz and Matt Russell,who were third and sixth respectively on the bike at the 2018 Ironman World Championships in Kona.  Russell beat him by 5 seconds. This bike time saw him climb to 6th among the Male Pros as he dismounted his bike.

Bradley’s posted a time of  1:24.55 in the run before the event was stopped due to a major thunderstorm and torrential rains.

Bradley entered the season after achieving a high ranking in 2018.

Using the Complete Rankings for 2018 since he races as a professional in the 35-39 age group, Scott was ranked 76th among 9,425 competitors (41st among those from the U.S.)

Among those who, like Bradley, participated in two or more events, he was ranked 45th (36th from the U.S.)

Rankings are also shown for U.S. athletes by the area of the country in which they reside, as well as by state. Among those athletes residing within the Northeast U.S., he was ranked 8th among triathletes of all ages (4th among those with two or more races), not just the 35-29 age group.

In New York State he was ranked 3rd among triathletes of all ages and first among those with two or more races.

The remainder of Bradley’s 2019 schedule consists of Ironman 70.3 Eagleman in Maryland in June, Ironman Lake Placid in July and Ironman 70.3 Augusta, Georgia in September. He likely will add one more race at the end of the season.

Bradley is the Assistant Principal at Byron-Bergen Junior-Senior High School.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Timmy Vasquez takes a healthy cut at the ball for the Yankees.

The Woodroe Realty Medina Yankees opened the LOYAL Baseball season with a win 5-1 over the Champs Medina Cubs Saturday.

Brody Fry and Tyler Kroening both pitched 3 strong innings striking out 8 batters each.

At the plate, Kroening had a double an 2 RBI’s, Aiden Wisniewski and Theodore Champney both had singles.  Scoring runs for the Yankees were Jimmy Dieter, Theodore Champney, Milo Vidovich, and 2 runs by Wisniewski.

Lukas Grimes and Vinny Gray had strong pitching outings for the Cubs as both struck out 8 batters each.

Ryan Pegelow recorded several tag outs at home, and Ryder Jones caught a key pop fly in the fifth inning with bases loaded to end the inning.

Orioles 9, Pirates 2
The Medina Orioles win 9 to 2 over the Medina Pirates in Minor League action.  Hitting for the Orioles were Anthony Reese with a single, double, and triple, Steven Gobeli a double, and single, Sawyer Lilleby  two doubles, and a triple, Brennan Allen a single, and two doubles, William Tagg a double and a single, and both Maddox Smith and Tyler Draper singles.

Hitting for the Pirates was lead by Lathan McEwen-Miller with a double and a homerun. Also with hits were Devin Fuller with a double, and Daniel Diaz a single.

Pitching for the Orioles was lead by Sawyer Lilleby hurling 3 great innings, Steven Gobeli pitched 2, and Brennan Allen closed with the final inning.

Pitching for the Pirates were Shane Fearby, Talia Rupp, Latham McEwen-Miller, and Devin Fuller.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Mallory Steiner hurled defending champion Roy-Hart to a key win over Medina at Vets Park this afternoon.

Opening up a two game lead, defending champion Roy-Hart posted a 12-1 victory Medina in a key Niagara-Orleans League softball game this afternoon at Vets Park.

Roy-Hart stays unbeaten in N-O competition at 6-0 with the win while runner-up Medina slips to 4-2.

Mallory Steiner picked up the win in the circle for the Lady Rams scattering 4 hits and striking out 10. She also banged out four hits.

Jamie Bower added 3 hits and Lexie Lovewell, Jayden Townsend and Sam Choate 2 each as the Lady Rams had a total of 16 base raps.

Leading 1-0, Roy-Hart began to pull away by scoring four times with two outs in the third inning on a two-run single by Choate and a two-run error. Singles by Bower, Steiner and Ashley Hill loaded the bases to set up the threat.

The Lady Rams tacked on two runs in the fourth on an RBI triple by Steiner and a fielders choice play off the bat of Hill and one in the fifth on an RBI single by Claire Halstead to make it 8-0.

Roy-Hart  capped off the big win with a four run sixth inning uprising on a two-run single by Reanna Perkins, an RBI single by Townsend and a fielders choice play.

Medina’s lone run came in the fifth on an RBI single by Abi Neuman, She had two hits on the day and Morgan Allis had a triple.

Tourney cancelled
The Alexander softball tournament which was to include Lyndonville, Barker and Alden, was washed out.

Medina’s Lacey Kenward tags out Lexie Lovewell at home after a rundown.

Holley blanked Elba 5-0 this afternoon to improve to 3-2 in Genesee Region League tennis competition.

Aaron Strathearn, Cheyan Palmer and Kristina Yaroshchuk all scored singles victories for Holley.

The Hawks also got wins from the doubles teams of Eli Bibby – Jake Peters and Erik Balys – Kory Puene.

Akron takes two from Newfane
Defending champion Akron improved its Niagara-Orleans League leading record to 9-0 by sweeping a doubleheader from Newfane by the identical score of 4-1.

Nate Chubb, Will Chubb and Morgan Wdowka all scored a pair of singles wins for Akron as did the Tigers first doubles team of Harry Fitzgerald – Micah Suckow.

The losses drop Newfane to 1-7.

In one other N-O match, Wilson defeated Albion 4-1 to improve to 5-3. Albion is now 2-7.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Christian Silversmith takes a shot on goal during the Mustangs 17-7 loss to Akron at Vets Park this afternoon. Silversmith scored 4 goals on the day to reach the 100 goal mark for his career.

Taking charge with a big second quarter scoring surge, Akron bested Medina 17-7 at Vets Park this afternoon to take over sole possession of second place in the Class D Division standings.

Breaking away from a 3-3 deadlock, Akron erupted for five unanswered goals in the first eight minutes of the second period, including two each by Kaleb Delaney and Ryan Yaeger, to open up an 8-3 lead at the half.

The Tigers then used a 5-2 third period scoring edge, including three by Donovan Nephew, to extend the advantage to 13-5 at the three-quarter mark.

Medina had stayed even at 3-3 at the end of a sea-saw first period on goals by Christian Silversmith, Tommy Vasquez and Mitchell Silversmith.

Christian Silversmith finished with a total of four goals to become the 10th Medina player to reach the 100 goal career scoring mark. He now has a team leading total of 27 goals on the season.

Delaney finished with a total of 6 goals for Akron as Yaeger and Nephew each netted 4.

Akron is now 4-2 in the division while Medina slips to 3-3.

The Mustangs next visit Gananda on Tuesday for a non league game.

Medina goalie Wesley Hughes stops a shot by Akron’s Ryan Yaeger as Blaire Prest helps with the defensive effort for  the Mustangs.