Medina-Lyndonville United u17 edged past the host Kenmore Sting 1-0 this week in a Buffalo and Western New York Soccer League game.

Roman Heinsler scored the game’s lone goal for Medina with about 30 minutes to play in the second hals.

Noah Heinsler and Ray Paull combined for the shutout in goal as Jack Whipple, Evan Horn, Oskar Heinsler and Brandon Heschke all chipped in with strong defensive efforts.

Two area teams, The AnJo u16 Bombers and the Niagara Nationals, will be competing in the Battle at the Falls baseball tournament this weekend.

Some 24 teams from all around New York State and Ontario will be competing in the tournament.

Competition gets underway at 6 p.m. this evening as the Bombers face the Warriors at the Town of Niagara Field and the Nationals will take on the Brighton Barons at Cambria Town Park.

Preliminary round competition continues on Saturday.

The Bombers will face the Toronto Cardinals at 9 a.m. at Sal Maglie Stadium and the Hoosick Valley Ragers ar 2 p.m. at NCCC.

The Nationals will take on the Burlington Bulls ar 11:30 a.m. at NCCC and the Warriors at 4:30 p.m. at Sal Maglie Stadium.

The Consolation and playoff rounds will be held on Sunday beginning at 9 a.m. in two divisions, the Cal Ripken Jr. and the Ken Griffey Jr.

Photos by Mike Wertman – Over 60 players in grades 7-12 have been taking part in the annual four day long Albion summer football camp this week. Each session has included a number of skill and conditioning drill stations as well as work with the offense, defense and special teams. Above running back Tyrae White looks for running room during this morning’s final session. At right, quarterback Bryce Pritchard sprints around end.

Enjoying a most successful debut season, Medina picked up an unusual win  this past weekend to earn both the regular season title and the top seed for the upcoming playoffs in Division 3 of the Buffalo District Soccer League.

Medina claimed the regular season Division 3 crown by virtue of a forfeit win over former front-runner Tesla which did not have enough players for the contest.

Medina finishes the regular season at 9-1-1 while Tesla winds up in a second place tie with Lasalle at 9-2. The NY Elite rounds out the top four teams at 8-3.

The top seed has also earned Medina a bye into a home semifinal game on August 5 which will be played at Lyndonville at 6:30 p.m. because of construction work around Vets Park.

“We knew we had potential to succeed in Division 3, but we were not confident about leading the division,” said  Barry Rogenmoser who is managing the Medina team along with Greg Husung. “We are really excited to carry this momentum into playoffs and make a statement in our inaugural season.”

Heading into the playoffs, Rogenmoser leads the Medina scoring with 9 goals as Steven Anderson has 8, Kristina Snyder 7, Brian Anderson 5 and Husung 4. Husung also has a tram leading 5 assists, Steven Anderson and Rogenmoser 3 and Brian Anderson and Snyder 2.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Thomas Furmanski, left, and Lyndonville’s Rolland Balcerzak had a combined total of 25 strikeouts in this evening’s Tri County playoff championship game won by host Albion 2-1.

In a pitchers duel, Albion pushed across a pair of runs in the late innings to edge past visiting Lyndonville 2-1 this evening in the Tri County Babe Ruth League playoff championship game.

Trailing 1-0, Albion tied the game with a run in the bottom of the fifth inning on a fielders choice play off the bat of Bailey Blanchard. A leadoff double by Austin Aman and a one out bunt single by Ryan Krenning set up the opportunity.

Albion, which earlier in the game had stranded a runner at third base in the first, second and fourth innings, then plated the game winner in the sixth frame on a two out RBI single by Aman.

Lyndonville third baseman Oskar Heinsler takes the throw as Albion’s Zach Colacecchi slides into third.

Lyndonville did get runners to second and third in the top of the seventh inning after a single by Roman Heinsler, a fielders chocie play, a walk and a couple of stolen bases but could not capitalize.

Albion hurler Thomas Furmanski got out of that jam by registering two clutch game ending strikeouts.

On the night, Furmanski allowed only 1 hit struck out 14 and allowed 6 walks. He notched at least 2 strikeouts in every inning but the second.

Lyndonville hurler Rolland Balcerzak likewise had a strong evening giving up only 4 hits with 11 strikeouts and 5 walks.  He registered a clutch strikeout to get out of further trouble in both the fifth and sixth innings.

Lyndonville’s lone run came in the top of the first inning on  walk and a two out, two base error.

Albion, which entered the playoffs as the top seed after posting a league best 8-1 regular season record, advanced to the title game by defeating Alexander 13-4 in the semifinals while Lyndonville downed Akron Black 10-2.

Albion second baseman Austin Aman puts the tag on Lyndonville’s Jacob Corser.

Jumping out to an early 6 run lead, Banes Machine Shop/Banes Plumbing went on to defeat Just Us 12-8 Monday evening to remain unbeaten at 9-0 in the ‘A’ Division of the Medina Women’s Softball League.

After scoring once in the first on an error and a sacrifice fly by Patti Page, Banes tallied 5 times in the second inning. Sue Seefeldt, Robin Blaun and Kathy Allen all had singles during that uprising which was aided by 2 errors and a pair of walks.

Banes made it 8-1 in the fourth inning on a two-run triple by Seefeldt.

Just Us did close the deficit to 8-5 but would get no closer as Banes answered with 2 runs in the fifth on a triple by Blaun and singles by Allen, Page and Lexi Neuman and 2 in the sixth on a walk, an error, a sac fly by Blaun and singles by Allen and Grace Masse.

Defensively for Banes, Jessica Carpenter had a strong game at second base.

Banes will close out the regular season against NYSCOBA next Monday at Jr Wilson 1.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Maddie Fry earns All-WNY honors.

Roy-Hart catcher Maddie Fry has been named to the first team of the All-Western New York small schools softball squad.

Fry, who will be a senior at Roy-Hart this fall, hit .700 with 7 doubles, 2 triples and 24 RBIs this past season as she helped lead the Lady Rams to the Niagara-Orleans League championship.

Akron catcher Abby Stone likewise earned first team honors. Stone, who will be playing for St. Bonaventure University, this coming school year, hit .529 with 2 doubles, 2 triples, 4 home runs and 26 RBIs.

Medina shortstop Alisha Scroger earned Honorable Mention. She hit .544 with 7 doubles, 1 triple, 2 home runs and 7 RBIs.

Contributed Photos – Abby Stone, Akron and Alisha Scroger, Medina

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Lizzie Sutphen netted the tying goal for Kendall.

Rallying for a goal in the second half, Kendall closed out the Rochester District Youth Soccer League girls U17 Division season by earning a 1-1 tie with the visiting Genesee Lancers this evening.

Lizzie Sutphen scored the tying goal for Kendall with 8 minutes to go in the second half off an assist from Lizzie Woodams.

Katie Pearson handled the goaltending duties for Kendall whose defense was anchored by the quartet of T’Mia Kitchings, Julia Smith, Alezya Brown and Julie Coble.

Kendall, which also had a busy weekend going 0-3-1 at the Brockport Tournament, finishes the U17 Division season with a 6-3-3 record.