A last ditch rally earned the Niagara Nationals a 4-4 tie with Easley Baseball team from Memphis, Tenn. Friday in the opening round of the PG WWBA National Championships being held at over 50 sites in Georgia.

Trailing 4-1, the Nationals scored 3 times in the bottom of the seventh on 2 errors, a wild pitch, a walk and a single by Korey Canton.

The Nationals had only 2 hits on the day, the other coming on a first inning single by Liam Ward when they scored their other run.

The tournament continues today.

Pounding out 20 hits, Lyndonville defeated host Oakfield 17-7 Thursday evening to close out the Tri County Midget League regular season at 7-3.

Casey Winiecki and Anthony Moule both had 4 hits and Trenton Muck and Oskar Heinsler 3 each to lead Lyndonville’s attack.  Moule, Heinsler and Alex Barry each banged out a triple.

Breaking away from a 7-7 deadlock, Lyndonville regained the lead for good by scoring 3 times in the fourth inning highlighted by a two-run double by Jack Whipple.

Lyndonville then began to pull away by tacking on 3 more runs in the fifth frame.

Roman Heinsler picked up the win on the mound allowing 6 hits and striking out 13.

Lyndonville next will host a quarterfinal round playoff game on Tuesday.

Alexander 5, Albion 2
Capitalizing on a rash of errors, host Alexander handed Albion its first loss 5-2 Thursday evening.

Albion did grab a 2-0 lead in the first inning on 3 walks, a wild pitch and a fielders choice play but could not add to the advantage.

Errors helped Alexander score once in the first inning and then twice in both the third and fifth frames.

Albion had only 2 hits on the evening, a double by Drew Caldwell and a single by Kyle Woolston.

Now at 8-1, Albion will begin playoff competition on Tuesday.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Brylie Hapeman scored a pair of goals in Albion’s U18 win over visiting Canandaigua Thursday evening.

Front-running Albion scored a 4-1 victory over visiting Canandaigua Thursday evening in a Rochester District Youth Soccer League girls U18 Division game.

Abi Scanlan had a goal and 3 assists and Brylie Hapeman a pair of goals to lead the offense for Albion which improves to 6-1-1.

Albion grabbed a 2-1 lead in the first half on goals by Scalan and Hapeman.

Second half goals by Hapeman and Lexi Wolck, both coming off assists from Scanlan, then put a lock on the victory.

Alexis Bentley earned the win in goal as the quartet of Quinn McCue, Paige Derisley, Aly Knaak and Abbie Pappalardo anchored the defense.

Albion, which had been tied 2-2 at Canandaigua in the season opener, next visits Gananda on Sunday.

Banging out 14 hits, the AnJo Bombers 16U romped to a 19-7 win over the NT Nighthawks Wednesday.

The Bombers opened up an early lead in the first inning when Mike DiCureia singled on a 2-0 count, scoring two runs.

In the top of the second inning, NT Nighthawks tied things up at three.

AnJo Bombers 16U took the lead for good with ten runs in the third inning.

A three-run double by Cade Littman highlighted that uprising which also included RBI hits by Rylend Callicutt, Bryce Seddon, Colin Fragale and Reed Albee.

Rylend Callicutt was on the mound for Bombers. He surrendered six runs on two hits over two innings, striking out five. Reed Albee and Zeke Callicutt were strong in relief.

Albee, Callicutt, Sedon, Littman, and AJ Seefeldt each racked up multiple hits for the Bombers.  Albee went 3-for-4 at the plate.

The Bombers also stole eight bases as two players stole more than one. Sedon led the way with three.

The Bombers are in Ocean City, Maryland for a tournament this weekend.

Snapping a season opening four game losing streak, the Medina-Lyndonville United U17 team edged past the Cheektowaga Adrenaline 2-1 Wednesday in a Buffalo and Western New York Soccer League game.

M-L United got on the board first when Evan Silversmith scored from Caelan Holland on a free kick at the 25th minute.

However, Cheektowaga tied it with a goal at the 35th minute.

Nate Dillenbeck scored the game winner for United when he connect on penalty kick at the 65th minute.

Playing solid team defense, the Rampage beat Sandlot Saints Gold 11-1 by the mercy rule in 5 innings Wednesday in a Metro Girls Softball League game.

Offensively the Rampage banged out 15 base hits.  Alyssa Mayers led the way with 3 hits.   Ashley Hill, Samantha Choate, Hanna Sobieraski, and Isabella Schultz each had 2 hits.  Jayden Townsend, Samantha Coakley, Emily Metz, and Elizabeth Luick each had 1 hit.

Choate went the distance in the circle giving up only 3 hits.

The win puts Rampage at 6-2 in the league.

The Medina-Lyndonville United U12 Soccer Club battled to a 5-5 tie against the NIagara Pioneer Vipers this week.

Jack Cecchini capitalized on a corner kick for the first goal from Cole Callard. Callard then netted the second on a Viper own goal after another corner.

Callard accounted for the remaining three goals in the second half with one assist from Brady Christiaansen and two unassisted goals.

Brothers, Julian and Carter Woodworth along with Cameron Eick played strong defense but could not overcome three  penalty kicks to maintain their lead.

U14
The Medina-Lyndonville United U14 also deadlocked a 2-2 tie against the league leading Alden Avengers.

Roman Heinsler scored a first half goal on an assist from Connor Bell.

In second half action, Cole Seefeldt found the back of the net on an assist from Sam Kingsbury.

Strong support from Wyatt Zelazny and Zaric Boyce tempered a late push from Alden.

Contributed Photo – Melanie Green

A string of bogeys stymied her attempt to climb up the leader board as Medina’s Melanie Green shot a 4 over par 76 today in the third round of the girls Jr PGA championship at Kearney Hill Golf Links in Lexington, Kentucky.

Green, who will be a junior at Medina High this fall, entered the day at even par and was still only 1 under after eight holes. However, consecutive bogeys on 9, 10 and 11 pushed her score up to 4 over. On the day she had 7 bogeys and 3 birdies finishing with a score of 76.

Green, who shot a 1 over 73 on Monday and a 1 under 71 on Tuesday now has a 220 total heading into Thursday’s final round of 18 holes.

Green, who captured both the Section VI and state titles during this past high school year, qualified for the Jr PGA Championship by winning the Western New York District Jr PGA title.

The Rampage softball team beat a previously undefeated (9-0) Evans Force team 7 – 3  in Metro league action Tuesday.

Evans took an early lead in the bottom of the first inning scoring one.  Rampage tied the game up in the top of the third after a sacrifice bunt by Ashley Hill followed by a single by Samantha Choate.

Evans answered right back and scored two runs in the bottom of the 3rd inning.  However, Rampage quickly retied the game at 3-3 in the top of the 4th after singles by Samantha Coakley and Izzy Schultz put two runners on base and Emily Metz came up big with a two-run double.

Rampage then took the lead for good in the 6th inning scoring 3 runs on singles by Alyssa Mayers, Coakley, Metz, and Megan Amacher.

Rampage added another run in the 7th inning after a single from Hill and triple from Choate.

Hanna Sobieraski went the distance on the mound striking out 3 and getting Evans to fly out 12 times including a diving catch at third by Hill.  Rampage played a solid defensive game.