Sacred Heart pulled into a tie for the Medina Euchre League lead with a 37-33 win over Legion Monday.

JR Wilson downed Vets Club 42-28 in the other game.

Sacred Heart and Legion are now deadlocked at 637-553 on the season followed by JR Wilson 616-574 and Vets Club 490-700.

League competition continues on February 18 with Vets Club at Sacred Heart and JR Wilson at Legion.

Locking up the Empire Amateur Hockey Conference Midget Division title Tri County posted a 7-1 victory over Rochester this evening.

First period goals by Chase Froman and John Pilon put Tri County on top to stay.

The Tri County advantage jumped to 5-1 after second period goals by Patrick Ricker, Jake Esposito and Pilon.

Froman and Matt Nielson scored in the third period to close out the Tri County scoring.

Tri County finishes the league season at 16-3-2 and improves to 17-3-2 overall.

Next up for Tri County is a tournament at Pittsburgh this coming weekend.

Trailing 23-16 at the half, Akron used a big 21 point third period scoring surge to key a 55-49 win over visiting Albion this evening in a Niagara-Orleans League game.

Brandon Orr scored all 10 of his points and Joe Siska netted 8 of his 15 to spark Akron’s decisive third period surge as the Tigers rallied into a 37-33 lead at the three-quarter mark.

Adam Mietz also scored 15 and David Kalinowski 10 for Akron.

Deyonci Farley took game high honors with 25 for Albion as Kevin Hillman had 9.

Both teams are now 5-6 in N-O action.

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Akron 46, Albion 42
Helena Hill scored 16, Elise Leeds 10 and Darion Jonathan 9 to spark Akron to a 46-42 win over host Albion.

Lexi Wolck scored 11 and Brylie Hapeman 10 for Albion which trailed 28-19 at  the half.

Both teams are now 7-4 in N-O competition.

Roy-Hart 58, Buffalo Arts 50
Lexie Lovewell and Rileigh McCabe each scored 15 and Meghan Washington 9 to lead Roy-Hart to a 58-50 non league win over Buffalo Arts.

Trailing 31-17 at the half, Roy-Hart erupted for 30 points in the third period to key the win.

Holley 43, Barker 35
Maddie Marsh scored 14 and Olivia Radford and Halee Passarell 9 each to pace Holley to a 43-35 non league win over Barker. Marsh also grabbed off 16 rebounds.

Gabby Baker scored 10 and Kylie Annable 8 for Barker.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Zach Johnson goes in for a layup against Kendall defender Mason Kuhn during the Tigers win over the visiting Eagles this evening.

Getting double figure point production from five players, Lyndonville completed a Genesee Region League Division 2 championship season with an 81-56 victory over visiting Kendall this evening.

Lyndonville finishes the G-R season at 12-2 (17-2 overall) while Kendall is now 5-8 (8-11 overall).

Zach Johnson scored 16, Matt Hess and Nathan Hydock 14, Nathan Poler 12 and Nathan Dillenbeck 10 to lead Lyndonville’s balanced attack as Russell Stephens added 7, Devin Rounds 3 and Evan Horn and Jonathan Slingerland 2.

Hunter Menze scored 19 and Nate Warters 16 to lead Kendall as Mason Kuhn added 7, John Rath 6, Derek Edick 5 and Dale Steffen 3.

Kendall’s Hunter Menze goes to the basket as Nathan Hydock defends for Lyndonville.

Lyndonville jumped out to a 10 point, 19-9, first period lead highlighted by two layups off steals by Johnson and one by Poler and a three by Dillenbeck. Matt Hess and Poler both scored 6 and Johnson 4 in the period.

Kendall closed the gap to five, 26-21, midway through the second period after a jumper by Menze and a layup by Warters but the Eagles would get no closer. Menze had a total of 10 points in the stanza.

Lyndonville answered back with a key 11-1 run including two jumpers by Hydock, a three-point play and a jumper by Dillenbeck and a jumper by Poler to pull back out to a 15 point, 37-22, advantage.

The Tigers maintained that 15 point edge, 41-26, at the half.

Lyndonville extended its advantage to as much as 25, 60-35, late in the third period and maintained a 22 point, 64-42, lead at the three-quarter mark.

Hydock had 8 in the third period, including a pair of threes, as Johnson had 7, also including a three, and Hess 6.

Lyndonville next hosts CG Finney in a non league game on Wednesday to close out the regular seaon while Kendall faces Notre Dame in the G-R season finale on Thursday.

Rochester Prep 94, Holley 49
Building up a 45-23 half-time advantage, Rochester Prep went on to defeat host Holley 94-49 in a non league contest.

Kohl Morgan scored 25 for Holley.

Lyndonville’s Nathan Hydock grabs a rebound from the Kendall duo of Nate Warters and Hunter Menze.

Kendall’s Mason Kuhn puts up a shot against Lyndonville defender Nathan Hydock.

Photo by Ginny Kropf – Curtis Foss of Medina is shown with his family after winning the 58th USBC Genesee Region Masters tournament Sunday at Scopano Lanes in Oakfield. With him are his sister Cassidy Oliver of Medina, left; his mother Sue Green of Medina and his grandfather Darrell Green of Medina. He is the only person ever to win this event five times.

Just over a week after becoming the first person to ever bowl  two 300 games in one series at Oak Orchard Lanes in Albion, Curtis Foss of Medina has become the first person to win the USBC Genesee Region Masters five times.

Foss started the two-day tournament at Scopano Lanes in Oakfield Saturday with 37 bowlers in qualifying rounds. He was leading the top eight qualifiers after bowling 259, 278, 257 and 236 for a total of 1,030.

Sunday he was top seed, which gave him +80 points to start. Then he bowled seven more games – one against each of the other seven. His average was 257 on Saturday and 254 on Sunday.

“I was pretty confident going into the tournament, after the way I’ve been bowling,” Foss said, referring to his record 823 two weeks ago in Albion, followed by an 813 series in Medina less than a week later. “The USBC Genesee Region Masters is my favorite tournament. Winning this means everything to me. I kept thinking about dad and my Grandma Green.”

His father was champion bowler Bob Foss, who died Oct. 1, 2016. His grandmother Mildred Green died the day before Thanksgiving, 2018. Both would have been there to cheer him on.

One reason this tournament means so much to Curtis is because his dad won it in 2012 at Scopano’s, the only Masters’ title Bob Foss Jr. ever won.

Curtis’ previous wins were 2008 at Mancuso’s in Batavia, 2009 at Oak Orchard Bowl in Albion, 2014 at Medina Lanes and 2015 at Letchworth Pines.

Foss’ next tournament is on Valentine’s Day.

Closing to within a point of capturing the division championship, the Tri County Midget hockey team romped past Webster 11-0 Saturday.

Patrick Ricker scored 3 goals, Jake Esposito and John Pilion 2 and Ian McGraw, Nicholas Weber, James Hapeman and David Archibald 1 each to spark Tri County which led 4-0 after the first period and 6-0 after the second.

Today Tri County dropped a narrow 5-3 decision to undefeated upper division leading Monroe County.

Tri County rallied from a 3-1 deficit into a 3-3 tie on third period goals by Ricker and Josh Gimeli but Monroe regained the lead for good with a power play goal.  Ricker also netted Tri County’s other goal in the first period which tied the contest at 1-1.

Tri County is now 15-3-2 in the league and 16-3-2 overall.

For the second night in a row, the RoyHart/Barker/Medina/Akron Club hockey team played into overtime, tying Jamestown 5-5 on Saturday.

As this ends the regular season, RBM finishes with a record of 6-10-2, and is expected to be the No. 1 seed in its division in the upcoming sectional playoffs.

This was a very tough game as RBM found themselves behind 3-0 at the end of the opening period.  Finally, in the next period they got on the board with a goal by Dominic Peracciny (R-H), his first of three on the night, assisted by Michael Kuchey (R-H).

Entering the final period down 3-1, RBM allowed Jamestown to score very early in the period.  It was at this point that the team really went to work, beginning with a Kuchey goal of assists from Peracciny and Mitchell Johnson (B) ) and continuing the comeback with a Dylan Krzykowski (Ak) goal assisted by Tom Paisley R-H).

Jamestown went ahead 5-3 with just three minutes remaining in the game, but Peracciny was able to score two goals in that time, with the last one coming with just 39 seconds left in regulation.  The teams finished with a scoreless five minute overtime.

Playoff pairing should be announced this coming week.