Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Tre Yaskulski soars to a victory in the 110 Hurdles during the Purple Eagles home meet against rival Medina this afternoon.

The Albion boys track squad stayed undefeated at 3-0 by posting a 101-40 victory over visiting rival Medina this afternoon in a Niagara-Orleans League meet.

Medina did gain a split on the day by downing Albion 83-49  in the girls meet as the Mustangs improve to 2-1.

Albion’s Domnic DiGiulio lets go with a throw in the Shotput.

Tre Yaskulski was a double winner in the 110 Hurdles and Triple Jump for the Albion boys which also got individual event wins from Dom Burton (400 Hurdles), Kendyll Hadick (100), Ugene Harrison (200), Zach Collacecchi (400), Kirk Ellison (Shotput), Nick Perry (Discus), Nate Moore (Long Jump), Christian Drisdom (High Jump) and Alex Zaczek (Pole Vault).

Caelan Holland doubled in the 800 and 1600 for Medina as Cameron Casana took the 3200.

The Medina girls were led by two individual event double winners as Devin Griffin took the 100 Hurdles and High Jump and Olivia Carter the Long Jump and Triple Jump.

The Mustangs also had  Alex Strong  win the 400 Hurdles, Emma Schwartott the 400, Hannah Heil the 1500 and Jessie Granchelli the 3000.

Albion’s Cameo Haskins competes in the Shotput.

Abby Scanlan doubled in the 100 and 200  and Ashlyn LeBaron in the Shotput and Discus for Albion as Emma Mathes added a win in the 800.

Roy-Hart sweeps Barker
Roy-Hart’s track teams both improved to 2-2 by sweeping Barker as the Rams won the boys’ meet 72-64 and the girls’ competition 87-54.

The Roy-hart boys were led by a quartet of individual event double winners as Will Rickard took the 400 Hurdles and High Jump, Ozzy Moore the 1600 and 3200, Ethan Lindke the Long Jump and Triple Jump and Nate Bower the Shotput and Discus.

Josh Weekland won the 100 and 110 Hurdles for Barker which slips to 2-1.

The Roy-Hart girls were paced by a trio of individual event double winners as Kali Scharping took the High Jump and Long Jump, Anna Rickard the 1500 and 3000 and Nadia White the 400 and Triple Jump.

Katrina Clare doubled in the 100 and 200 and Shelby Ewald the Shotput and Discus for Barker.

Newfane sweeps Wilson
The Newfane track teams improved to 2-0 by sweeping rival Wilson taking the boys’ meet 76-65 and the girls’ 99-41.

Reese Casinelli was a quadruple winner for the Newfane boys in the 110 Hurdles, 100, 200 and 400.

Will Schwartzmueller doubled in the 1600 and 3200 and Marcell Wilson in the Long Jump and Triple Jump for Wilson.

Gina Shorter doubled in the 100 and 200 for the Newfane girls.

Skylar Munnikhuysen doubled in the High Jump and Long Jump and Izzy Dinse in the Shotput and Discus for Wilson.

Medina’s Kharise Johnson in action in the Long Jump

Medina’s Jarin Rhim in action in the High Jump

Six players contributed goals as Medina posted a rainy 16-6 victory over Wilson in a Class D Division lacrosse game this evening at Vets Park.

Christian Silversmith scored 6 goals and Tommy Vasquez 5 to lead the Mustangs attack as Chase Prest added 2 and Zach Blount, Cayden Lilleby and Cooper Fearby 1 each. Blount also handed out 6 assists.

Medina jumped out to a 3-0 first quarter lead as Vasquez had 2 goals and an assist and Lilleby a goal.

The Mustangs went on to lead by margins of 6-3 at the half and 10-3 after three quarters.

Now at 3-2 in the division, Medina will next host Akron (3-2) in a key divisional contest at 5 p.m. Friday at Vets Park.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Michael DiCureia bangs out a two-run double during the Purple Eagles key win over host Roy-Hart this afternoon.

Staying in the thick of the title chase, Albion posted an 8-3 victory over host defending champion Roy-Hart in a key Niagara-Orleans League baseball game this afternoon.

Front-running Medina blanked Barker 18-0 and Wilson nipped Akron 5-4 in the other N-O games.

Those results leave Medina on top at 5-1 followed closely by Wilson 3-1, Albion 3-2 and Roy-Hart 2-2. Akron is two games off the pace at 2-3.

The Mustangs will visit the Lakemen in another key contest on Wednesday.

Thomas Furmanski threw six innings of 3 hit shutout ball with 11 strikeouts to lead the way for Albion.

Breaking away from a scoreless deadlock, Albion scored three times in the fourth inning on a two-run double by Michael DiCureia and an RBI single by Michael Harling.

A sacrifice fly by Bryce Pritchard in the fourth inning made it 4-0 and the Purple Eagles went on to up the advantage to 8-0 by tallying three times in the sixth on a two-run single by Pritchard and an RBI single by Liam Ward and once in the seventh on an error.

Charlie Brigham had a two-run double and Gavyn Boyle an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh for Roy-Hart.

Medina 18, Barker 0
Everyone in the lineup had at least one hit as Medina rolled to an 18-0 win over visiting Barker.

A triple by AJ Seefeldt, along with doubles by Brian Fry, Matt Saj, Joe Cecchini and Austin Mosher, highlighted the attack for the Mustangs which scored 7 runs in the fourth inning, four in the second and three in both the first and fifth frames.

Xander Payne picked up the in on the mound for the Mustangs scattering 4 hits and striking out 4 over six inning.

Wilson 5, Akron 4

Trailing 2-0, Wilson rallied for five runs in the sixth inning on 3 hits, a walk and 2 errors to earn the narrow win over Akron.

Ian Evans registered 13 strikeouts on the mound for Wilson while Akron hurler Brandon Orr had 12 strikeouts.

Albion first baseman Isaiah Callicutt takes the throw as Roy-Hart’s Mike Huntington gets picked off.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Kane Flynn delivers a pitch for Lyndonville during this afternoon’s win over visiting Holley with grapple falling around him.

Staying undefeated at 6-0 in Genesee Region League play, Lyndonville posted a 14-0 victory over visiting Holley this afternoon.

After scoring once in the first, Lyndonville began to pull away by scoring three times in the second on an RBI triple by Nathan Dillenbeck and a two-run homer by Zach Johnson.

The Tigers then broke the contest wide open by erupting for five runs in both the third and fourth innings.

Matt Hess had a two-run triple, Johnson a two-run double and Dillenbeck an RBI double in the third while Casey Wieniecki had a three-run double in the fourth which also included doubles by winning pitcher Kane Flynn and Dillenbeck.

Flynn pitched the first four innings allowing just 1 hit and striking out 5.

Lyndonville is now 7-0 overall.

Lyndonville’s Zach Johnson circles the bases after belting a second inning home run.

Medina defeated host Barker 25-6 and Roy-Hart downed host Albion 10-2 in Niagara-Orleans League softball action this afternoon.

Camri King had a two-run home run, Brooklyn Brown a solo homer and Tessa Pecoraro two singles for Medina which improves to 3-1 in N-O competition.

Defending champion Roy-Hart stayed unbeaten at 3-0 as Jamie Bower had 3 hits, including a double and triple, winning pitcher Mallory Steiner 2 hits with a double and triple and Maddie Fry 2 hits.

In the circle, Steiner struck out 10.

Lexi Wolck had 2 hits for Albion which slips to 1-3.

In the other N-O contest, Wilson (3-1) nipped Akron (1-2) 14-13.

Medina will host Wilson in a key game at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.

Breaking away from an 8-8 deadlock, Lyndonville erupted for 6 runs in the seventh inning to defeat host Oakfield-Alabama 14-8 this afternoon in a Genesee Region League softball game.

Two-run doubles by Gracie Johnson and Megan Kriesher highlighted the decisive uprising for the Lady Tigers which also included a double by Cassie Boyce and a single by Chloe Stinson.

Krisher had a total of 4 hits, including three doubles, as Johnson and Stinson both had three base raps.

Lyndonville improves to 3-1 in the league and 5-1 overall.

In other G-R action Holley had a 16-7 advantage in hits but dropped a 32-11 decision to Elba and Byron-Bergen trimmed Holley 5-3.

Halee Passarell and Tia Hoffarth both had 4 hits and Jocelyn Chilton 2 for the Lady Hawks.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Carson Bader, right, works toward a win over Medina’s Andrew Houseman at second singles during today’s match which saw the host Mustangs down the Purple Eagles.

Medina bested visiting rival Albion 4 1/2-1 this afternoon to remain tied for second place in the Niagara-Orleans League tennis standings at 5-1 with Roy-Hart which downed visiting Newfane 3 1/2-2.

Ray Paull defeated Matt Kovaleski 6-3, 6-4 at first singles and Kody Leno downed Josh Riley 6-3, 6-0 at third singles to lead the way for Medina.

The Mustangs also swept the three doubles matches as the duos of Jonathan Pietrafesa-Isaac Pace defeated Chase Froman-Matt Rowcliffe 6-2, 7-5; Carter Green-Ben Zakes downed Zach Kilner-Josh DePoty 6-2, 6-0 and Mark Barcena-Sam Boyle bested Katelyn Spierdowis-Kolin VanGorder 7-5, 6-4.

Albion’s Carson Bader defeated Andrew Houseman 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at second singles.

Albion is now 2-5.

Roy-Hart likewise swept the three doubles matches from Newfane getting wins from the teams of Michael and Jason Kuchey, Aspen Moore-Jose Campos and Mason Collins-Isabel Keirn.

The Rams also got a win at third singles from Dominic Peracciny.

Newfane, which is now 1-4, got wins at the first two singles spots from Danny Dy and James Liebring.

Kendall 3, Holley 2
Kendall trimmed rival Holley 3-2 in a Genesee Region League tennis match.

Nate Warters and Ryan Barrett scored wins at the first two doubles spots for Kendall which also took the first doubles on a win by the duo of Stephen Balka and Tory Raufeison.

Kristina Yaroshchuk won at third singles for Holley which also got a win from the second doubles team of Erik Balys and Kory Puente.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Christian Silversmith and his Medina teammates will face a pair of divisional foes this coming week.

Medina returns to Class D Division lacrosse competition this coming week with a pair of key home games.

The Mustangs will host Wilson at 7 p.m. Monday and defending champion Akron at 5 p.m. Friday both at Vets Park.

Medina is currently vying with Akron for second place in the D Division standings which would earn the Mustangs home games for the sectional quarterfinals, and if successful, also for the semifinals.

Salamanca at 7-0 has first place locked up while Akron (3-2) and Medina (2-2) are battling for the runner-up spot. Wilson at 1-4 and Gowanda at 0-5 round out the division standings.

Medina will also visit Akron in the division finale on May 13 after visiting Gowanda on May 8.

Christian Silversmith currently leads Medina is scoring with 17 goals as his brother Mitchell Silversmith has 12, Chaise Prest 8, Tom Vasquez 7, Cayden Lilleby and Jacob McEwen 4, Tim Roy, Mark Reigle and Zach Blount 2 and Blaire Prest 1.

Contributed Photo – Kyle Barna

Medina High graduate Kyle Barna capped off a strong season for the Lake Erie College lacrosse team as he scored three goals this afternoon in the Storm’s regular season ending 22-11 win over Davis & Elkins College.

Barna, a junior,  finishes the regular season with 25 goals and 9 assists for a total of 34 points. He is second on the team in goals, third in points and fourth in assists.

His season highs were four goal efforts against both Merrimack College and Young Harris College.

Barna previous played two years as Pfeiffer College.

During his scholastic day as Medina, Barna scored a school record 280 points on 181 goals and 99 assists.