Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Holly DiMayo and her Roy-Hart teammates captured the Niagara-Orleans League title.

Ending a nearly 25 year old drought, Roy-Hart captured a share of the Niagara-Orleans League girls swim championship.

Roy-Hart, which last won the title during the 1993-94 season, shared the championship with Akron at 9-1. The teams split a pair of close decisions with Roy-Hart winning 89-81 and Akron 86-84.

The Channel Cats went on to have a big day at the All-League meet winning six events. Amanda Hill doubled in the 200 Individual Medley and 100 Butterfly and Kayla Hagen in the 100 Freestyle and 100 Backstroke. Hill and Hagen also teamed up with Holly DiMayo and Jenna Heiser to win the 200 Medley Relay and with Heiser and Madison Ohol to take the 400 Free Relay.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Here Barre’s Nathan Gibson slides into home during the Albion Midget League title game. The Rotary/Lions catcher is Lucas Powley.

Barre captured the Albion Midget League playoff championship for the fourth straight year by downing Rotary/Lions 12-4 in the playoff finals.

In the semifinals, Barre downed Carlton 8-4 and Rotary/Lions outlasted Sandstone 20-16.

In the Roy-Hart Youth/Medina LOYAL baseball playoff championship game the Roy-Hart Yankees nipped the Medina Teachers Association Yankees 3-2.

In youth soccer action, the Albion girls U18 girls team went 8-1-1 to capture a Rochester Youth Soccer League division championship.

In youth football, the Holley Junior Hawks captured their first playoff championship by downing Batavia 20-13 in the Niagara Orleans Football Association (NOFA) JV Division title game.

Contributed Photo – Members of the Medina High Unified bowling team.

The Medina High Unified bowling team had a sparkling debut season.

Coach Rob Dennis’ Mustangs went undefeated (5-0) during the regular season and then went on to capture a Section VI championship in a tournament held at Brad Angelo’s Lanes in Lockport.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – This area on the south side of Vets Park will be the location for the new permanent grandstand.

The project to completely renovate Medina’s Veterans Memorial Park entered Phase 2 this fall with the removal of the old bleachers and press box and the relocating of the light tower bases on the south side of the field.

As the year came to a close the concrete pad had been poured for the installation of a large permanent grandstand.

The first phase of the project, completed during the summer of 2017, involved the installation of a new artificial turf surface and a new digital scoreboard.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – This fall running back William Braswell and his Mustang teammates were members of the now Medina tri-school football team which now includes players from both Lyndonville and Barker.

After competing for six years as a merged team with players from Lyndonville, Medina High became a tri-school football squad this fall with the addition of players from Barker.

The Barker players were seeking a place to continue to play after Roy-Hart ended its seven year long football merger with Barker at the end of the 2017 season.

The three school setup put Medina in the Section VI Class B2 Division along with rival Albion, Depew, Lackawanna, Springville and Olean.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Ella Lewis advances the ball up field for Lyndonville/Medina.

After a year’s absence girls varsity soccer returned to Lyndonville High this fall as the Lady Tigers fielded a merged team with Medina competing in the Genesee Region League and the Section V playoffs.

That was the reversal of roles from 2017 when Lyndonville players were members of a merged team hosted by Medina playing in the Niagara-Orleans League and competing in the Section VI playoffs.

The Lady Tigers nearly finished the season with a huge upset as they dropped a narrow 1-0 decision to top seeded Hornell in the sectionals playoffs.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Devin Rounds puts up a shot as he is surrounded by Kendall defenders Dale Steffen, Brian Shaw, Nate Warters and John Rath during the Tigers Holley tournament title win over the Eagles this evening.

Remaining undefeated at 8-0, Lyndonville romped to a 73-47 victory over Kendall in the championship game of the Holley Tournament this evening.

Rochester Academy Charter took third place honors by downing Holley 55-45.

Nathan Dillenbek scored 16 and Russ Stephens 15 to lead the Lyndonville attack as Zach Johnson added 8, Nathan Poler and Nathan Hydock 7, Jon Slingerland 5, Matt Hess, Casey Winiecki and Kane Flynn 4 and Devin Rounds 3.

Johnson earned the tourney’s MVP honor while Dillenbeck and Poler were both named to the All-Tournament team.

Nate Warters scored 14 and Dale Steffen 13 to pace Kendall as Noah Rath added 9, Nicholas Spellan 5 and John Rath, Hunter Menze and Mason Kuhn 2 each.

Steffen and John Rath both earned All-Tournament team honors.

Kendall’s Hunter Menze tries to put up a shot against Lyndonville defenders Zach Johnson and Nathan Hydock.

Combining an effective pressing defense with a fast break offense, Lyndonville took charge from the outset jumping out to a 17-2 first quarer lead. Poler scored 5, Dillenbeck 4 and Stephens hit a three to lead that early surge.

The Tigers then outpointed the Eagles 22-10 in the second period, including going 10 for 10 from the free throw line, to extend the lead to 39-12 at the half. Continuing to show good balanced scoring, Dillenbeck netted 6 and Stephens, Johnson and Hydock 4 apiece in the stanza.

Lyndonville maintained a commanding 29 point, 58-29, advantage at the three-quarter mark. Stephens had 6 in the period.

RAC 55, Holley 45
All Tournament team honoree Albert Tomlin scored a game high 22 points to lead RAC past Holley in the consolation game.

Matt Skehan scored 14 and Kohl Morgan 11 to lead Holley as John Mounts added 7, Cody Tanis 6, Braden Ferranti 4 and Matt Wilson 3.  Morgan was named to the All-Tournament team.

RAC held leads of 12-4 after the first period, 22-13 at the half and 45-28 at the three-quarter mark.

Holley though came battling back down the stretch putting together a 15-5 run to cut the deficit to 7, 50-43, with 2:40 remaining. Skehan had two threes and a layup off a steal to lead that surge which also included layups by Ferranti, Mounts and Morgan.

However, the Hawks could get no closer as Tomlin scored the final five points for RAC to lock up the Racers win.

Holley’s Braden Ferranti goes by Rochester Academy defenders Usaf Abukar and Albert Tomlin for a layup.

Two local wrestlers, Lyndonville’s Mario Fidanza and Medina’s Colby Petrie, took first place honors at the Akron Tournament today.

Fidanza scored an overtime pin in his title match at 220 while Petrie went 4-0 on the day to win at 126.

Lyndonville, which finished 10th out of 21 teams, also had Chase Stinson (120) and Rodney Davis (160) both place fourth.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Lyndonville’s Kane Flynn goes up for a shot against RAC defender Shia Patton during the Tigers Holley Tournament win over the Racers this evening.

Lyndonville romped past Rochester Academy Charter 88-59 and Kendall downed rival Holley 59-49 in the opening round of the Holley basketball tournament this evening.

Lyndonville and Kendall will now meet in the championship game at 7 p.m. Saturday. Holley will take on RAC in the consolation game at 5:30 p.m.

Lyndonville 88, RAC 59
Zach Johnson scored 19, Nathan Poler 18, Matt Hess 14, Russ Stephens 11 and Nathan Dillenbeck 9 to spark undefeated (7-0) Lyndonville to the 29 point victory.

Nathan Hydock added 6, Kane Flynn 5, Devin Rounds 4 and Nathan Neace 2 for the Tigers.

Trailing 12-10 after seven early lead changes, Lyndonville moved on top to stay by closing the first period with a 10-0 run.

Johnson had a three and a layup, Dillenbeck a three and Poler a jumper during that spurt which rallied the Tigers into a 20-12 lead.

Keeping the momentum, Lyndonville then outpointed RAC 27-17 in the second period to extend the lead to 18, 47-29 at the half.

Poler scored 8, Hess 7 and Johnson 4 during that stretch which also included threes by Dillenbeck and Stephens.

Holley’s John Mounts tries to go between Kendall defenders Dale Steffen and Derek Edick and his teammate Nick Kinmond during the Eagles Holley tourney win over the Hawks this evening.

The Tigers extended their advantage to 30, 69-39, at the three-quarter mark as Hess scored 7 and Stephens and Johnson 4 and Dillenbeck hit another three during that surge.

Kendall 59, Holley 49
A big 36-19 scoring edge over the middle two periods keyed Kendall to a 59-49 win over rival Holley.

Holley jumped out to a 17-8 first quarter lead as Matt Wilson hit two threes, Matt Skehan and Braden Ferranti each added one and Kohl Morgan chipped in with a pair of baskets.

Kendall though answered back with a big 22-8 second quarter scoring edge to rally into a 30-25 lead at the half.

Nate Warters had 7 points, including a three, Derek Edick three baskets, John Rath a pair of threes and Dale Steffen one three to lead that Eagles uprising.

Holley did pull back into  32-32 tie midway through the third period after a three by Ferranti and baskets by John Mounts and Morgan but the Hawks could not regain the lead.

Kendall answered with a 12-4 run to close the period and regain the lead for good by s 44-36 margin at the three-quarter mark.

Warters had a three-point play and a layup, Hunter Menze a jumper, Rath a layup off a steal and Steffen two free throws for the Eagles during that key spurt.

A jumper by Warters followed by two layups by Rath upped the Kendall lead to 14, 50-36, at the outset of the final period.

Holley though battled back to within six twice, first at 53-47  and then at 55-49, both on baskets off steals by Skehan but would get no closer.

Kendall turned back the challenge as Steffen, Warters and Rath hit free throws to close out the Eagles win.

Rath finished with 17, Warters 16, Steffen and Mason Kuhn 7 and Edick and Menze 6 for the Eagles.

Morgan had 15, Wilson 14, Skehan 10, Ferranti 6 and Mounts 4 for the Hawks.

In the consolation game of the Batavia Tournament Roy-Hart lost to LeRoy 52-42.

Kendall’s Nate Warters goes by Holley defenders Matt Wilson and Cody Tanis.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Camri King drives to the basket against Niagara-Wheatfield’s Avery Carpenter during the Mustangs home court loss to the Lady Falcons this afternoon.

Building up a 15 point half-time advantage, Niagara-Wheatfield went on to defeat host Medina 44-26 in a non league girls basketball game this afternoon.

Up 13-9 after one quarter, N-W used a 15-4 second period scoring edge to ope up a 15 point, 28-13 lead at the half. Two threes by Jenna Bailey and one by Sydney Crangle highlighted that uprising.

The Lady Falcons maintained an 18 point, 41-23, lead at the three-quarter mark.

LeGary Jackson and Corin Loughrey both scored 10, Bailey 9 and Avery Carpenter 8 to the Lady Falcons.

Camri King led Medina with 9 as Maddie Williams had 5, Kharise Johnson 3 and Sarah Cochrane, Tyesha Robinson and Gracie Hughes 2 each.

Medina next hosts Tonawanda at 12:30 p.m. Monday.

Clarence 84, Roy-Hart 41
Racing out to a 49-22 half-time advantage, Clarence went on to defeat Roy-Hart 84-41 in the championship game of the Tonawanda Tournament.

Maddie Fry had 12, Meghan Washington 10 and Ashley Hill 9 for Roy-Hart.

In the consolation game of the Pembroke Tournament, Barker dropped a 50-40 decision to Pavilion and in the championship game of the Depew Tournament, Newfane lost 70-27 to Iroquois.

In a Genesee Region League game, Notre Dame defeated Lyndonville 57-32.