Contributed Photo – Scott Bradley competes at the 70.3 Texas Ironman in Galveston.

Enjoying his best finish to date in an Ironman competition, Lyndonville native Scott Bradley recently earned his first Male Pro Awards Podium by finishing 5th at the 70.3 Eagleman competition in Maryland.

The 70.3 Triathlon is a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike ride and a 13.1 mile (half marathon) run.

Bradley, whose total time for the day was 4:03.17, placed 5th out of 19 Male Pros and 5th overall out of 1,642 entrants in the race.

He finished the swim portion of the event 16th out of 19 Male Pros in 29:20 but quickly climbed to 6th place by posting the third fastest bike time of the day. His strongest of the three disciplines, his time of 2:03.51 on the bike was the second fastest of his career and fastest in an Ironman competition. He rode at an average speed of 27.13 mph.

Bradley finished the big day with a run of 1:24.43 which earned him the 5th place overall finish.

In his previous competition, Bradley finished 19th out of 41 Male Pros and 21st overall out of 2,354 participants at the Texas 70.3 at Galveston. His total time for the day was 4:01.24 was the second fastest 70.3 time in his career.

Coming out of the water in a personal record time of 29:08, Bradley quickly climb from 38th to 12th place among the Male Pros by riding the fifth fastest bike time of the day 2:06:15.

Then with the third fastest run of his career (1:22.11) he finished 19th out of the 41 Male Pros.

Bradley, who is the Assistant Principal at Byron-Bergen Junior-Senior High School, will next compete in the Ironman Mont-Tremblant on August 19. This will be his one full triathlon for the year.

The ladies are reporting in this week from the Tuesday Late Afternoon League at Hickory Ridge.  Low Gross for the week was Deb Wood with a 37, low net was a three way tie between Judy Schuth, Brenda Powers and Mary Guzik all netting a 31.  Barb Budde eagled the par 5 number one with a long putt after reaching in two.  Judy Schuth had two birdies and Vicki Brawn one.

Woods and Jan Palmer continue to lead the league with 55.5 points.  Vicki Brawn and Cheryl Ferguson are second with 52.5, Diane Hennekey and Aleta Martin have third place with 50.5 and Deb Berkins and her partner Patty Pfister and Schuth and Powers tied for fourth with 48.5

The Men’s Wednesday Night League continues to be close.  John Carlson and Brian Hofstra lead with 51 points with Ray Daniel and Tim Hendrickson and Gary Beattie and Jim Zambito tied for second with 50.5. Mark and Sam Hackenburg and Larry Palmer and Dave Rau making up the top five places.

Low Gross and net for the week was Hendrickson with a 37 and 30.  Hendrickson also scored two birdies along with Bill Connolly.  Hendrickson capped his good round with five pars to lead that category.

The Men’s Traveling League on Thursdays is not as close as Ray Daniels and Ken Hinkson continue to run away with the lead with 164 points.  Pete Kaiser and Steve Tipton are in second with 138, Patrick Drury and Gabe Nagy take third with 126, Adam Dresser and Ben Flansburg are in fourth with 124 and the team of Dave Fisher and Tom Hennekey round out the top five with 118.

Low gross honors this week went to Guy Eaton, Luke Wrobleski and Wes Bedford as each shot a 42.  Wrobleski also snared low net with a 30.  Bedford led with two birdies and tied for the lead with Jake Froman at five pars.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Vinny Gray started for the Cubs and Aleks Seefeldt for the Pirates during Thursday’s Minor Division playoff championship game at Somerset which was won by the Pirates.

The Medina Savings and Loan Pirates edged past the Woodroe Realty Cubs 7-6, with a walk-off single in extra innings to win the Medina Loyal Baseball, Minor Division Championship on Thursday evening at Somerset.

Timmy Vasquez singled in the bottom of the seventh inning, scoring Max Pilon for the winning run.  The Cubs had scored three runs in the top of the sixth inning to tie the game and force extra innings.

Pirates starting pitcher Aleks Seefeldt threw three innings of one run baseball striking out eight.  Vasquez threw the next three giving up five runs but keeping the Pirates in the game striking out 7.  Sawyer Lilleby came in and pitched one inning, striking out three batters.

On the hitting side for the Pirates, Lathan McEwen-Miller’s lone hit was a timely double to score two runs.  Seefeldt had two hits and scored two runs.  Shane Fearby and Vasquez both had three hits a piece. Pilon put on a hitting clinic going 4-4 with a double and two triples.  He also scored four times.

“Every kid played their hearts out,” said Pirates  Cosch Matt Fearby including Jaden Luxon, Caleb Renko, Devin Fuller and TJ “Champy” Champney.

The Cubs were led by Briely Allen who had three hits, including two doubles and five RBI’s.  Vinny Gray contributed two hits, including a RBI double and scored twice.  Ethan Page also had two hits and he scored twice.  Camden Fike added a single and scored two runs.  Brennan Allen had a single.

Cubs coach, Mike Gray said, “As a coach, this was one of the best games I have been a part of.  Watching these kids play as hard as they did, fighting back, showing great sportsmanship, this is what youth sports should be about.  Just a great baseball game.  I want to thank all of my Cubs players, Cubs parents and Cubs supporters for a fantastic and successful 2018 season.”

Semifinals
Cubs 4, Somerset Yankees 1
The Woodroe Realty Cubs beat the Somerset Yankees 4-1 in the semifinals.

After giving up a lead-off home run to the Yankees, Gray and Fike shut down the Yankees bats, with help by great defensive plays in the field.

Fike led the offensive attack by having three hits, scoring twice and having a RBI. Allen had two hits and a RBI. Gray contributed a RBI single and scored once. Bradley Goyette had a RBI single. Levon Fuller reached base twice, including a single and he scored a run. Owen Sargent, Ethan Page, and River Jones all added singles.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Oskar Heinsler had a key two-run triple to help Lyndonville edge past Alexander Thursday evening in a Tri County League game.

A big late inning scoring burst keyed Lyndonville to a 9-8 victory over Alexander in a Tri County League Babe Ruth baseball game Thursday evening.

Trailing 6-2, Lyndonville exploded for 7 runs in the sixth inning to earn the win and improve to 3-3.

A two-run triple by Oskar Heinsler, an RBI triple by Jacob Corser along with run producing singles by Casey Winiecki and Roman Heinsler highlighted that decisive uprising.  Corser had 2 hits in the evening.

Roman Heinsler picked up the win on the mound striking out 7 over the last 4 innings.

Lyndonville next hosts Alden on July 5.

Albion blanked host Rush-Henrietta 4-0 Thursday evening to improve to 4-1-1 in Rochester District Youth Soccer League girls U18 Division competition.

Ali Knaak and Sam Howes shared in earning the shutout in goal as the quartet of Sarah Gregori, Paige Derisley, Abbie Pappalardo and Quinn McCue anchored the defense.

Albion built up a 2-0 first half lead as Lexi Wolck scored on a header off a corner kick by Mariah Plain and then Plain tallied on a direct kick.

Brylie Hapeman then put a lock on the win by scoring a pair of second half goals off assists first from Gregori and then from Abi Scanlan.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – MTA shortstop Cole Callard looks to see if he made the tag in time on a R-H Yankees steal attempt. The action took place during Thursday’s Major Division playoff title game at Somerset won by the R-H Yankees.

It was a game the Yankees could not lose.

The Roy-Hart Yankees edged out the MTA Yankees 3-2 in the Roy-Hart Youth / Medina LOYAL Major Division baseball playoff championship game Thursday evening at Somerset.

MTA Yankees third baseman Tyler Allen makes a throw to first.

Strong pitching from both teams was the story of the game.

For the R-H Yankees, Zach Walker had 6 strikeouts over 3 innings and Nate Beyers had 6 strikeouts over 3 innings as they combined to allow only 3 hits.

For MTA Yankees, Brody Fry had 5 strike outs over 3 innings and Tyler Kroening had 3 strikeouts over 2 innings, in which he had to pitch his way out of a 5th inning jam with 2 men on, and no outs.

Scoring for the R-H Yankees were Zack Walker, Nate Beyer, and Caleb Beyer.

Scoring for the MTA Yankees were Jimmy Dieter and Colton Smith.

In the semifinals, the R-H Yankees defeated the Medina Mets and the MTA Yankees edged the Medina Blue Jays.

Staying perfect at 7-0, Albion posted a 16-6 victory over visiting Oakfield Wednesday in a Tri County Babe Ruth League game.

Breaking away from a 6-6 tie, Albion regained the lead for good by exploding for 7 runs in the fourth inning. Two-run singles by Thomas Furmanski and Zach Colacecche highlighted that uprising which also included singles by Austin Aman and Liam Ward.

Albion later locked up the win by tallying three times in the sixth on a single by Patrick Ricker, a walk and an error.

Albion also got off to a quick start scoring 4 times in the opening inning on 3 walks and RBI singles by Ward and winning pitcher Bailey Blanchard.

Oakfield did grab a brief 6-4 lead by scoring 6 runs in the top of the third inning on two singles, two doubles, two walks and a pair of errors.

Albion though quickly retied the game with 2 runs in the home half of the third on a walk, an error and a wild pitch before moving back on top to stay with 7 runs in the fourth frame.

Ward, Blanchard and Colacecche each had 2 hits on the evening.

Blanchard struck out 3 over the first 4 innings and Ward fanned 5 over the last 3 frames.

Albion next hosts the Akron Black at 6 p.m. on July 5 at the Albion JV field. The Akron Black is also currently unbeaten at 5-0.