Sacred Heart defeated JR Wilson 39-31 Monday to maintain a big 36 point lead atop the Medina Euchre League standings over runner-up Legion which downed Vets Club 39-31.

Sacred Heart is now 721-609 on the season, Legion 685-645, JR Wilson 642-688 and Vets Club 612-718.

League competition continues on February 26 with Sacred Heart at JR Wilson and Legion at Vets Club.

Contributed Photo – Brooke Targus

Barker High graduate Brooke Targus helped the Cazenovia College women’s swim team capture a fourth straight Northeastern Athletic Conference championship this past weekend.

Targus was a member of three record setting winning relays. Her 400 and 800 Medley Relay teams both set new league records with times of 4:20.80 and 8:25.08 respectively. In addition, her 200 Medley Relay quartet set a new school record time of 1:59.48.

In the individual events, Targus placed third in the 200 Individual Medley (2:27.68) and fourth in the 100 Butterfly (1:07.770.

A senior Criminal Justice/Psychology major, Targus also plays softball for Cazenovia.

Having to travel to SUNY Fredonia, play two games, play two overtimes, use two hours and forty minutes in real time, and play 76 hockey minutes, the Roy-Hart/Barker/Medina Club Hockey team scored a pair of wins Sunday to punch their ticket to the Western New York Club Mixed Schools Championship game.

That game will be played on Friday, at  9 p.m. in the Key Bank Arena against either Jamestown or Iroquois/Alden.

The structure for the semi- finals was a two game home and away series followed by a 10 minute ‘mini’ game if the teams split the first two games.

Roy-Hart/Barker/Medina defeated Dunkirk/Fredonia Saturday 6-1 and only had to win the full game to move onward. However, D/F evened the series with a 4-3 overtime win forcing the deciding “mini’ game.

RBM though rebounded to win the “mini” game 1-0 in overtime to advance to the title contest.

In the opening period of game two of the series, D/F scored the only goals to take a 2-0 lead.

In the second period, however, Michael Kuchey and Jason Kuchey both scored for RBM to even the game going into the third period.

At the 15:19 point of the third, Luke Luckman scored on a slapshot from just inside the blue line off assists from Jason Kuchey and Joe DiBenedetto for 3-2 RBM lead.  However, less than a minute later though, D/F scored the tying goal.

The teams finished the last fourteen minutes of the period scoreless, sending the game into a five minute overtime.

At the 4:04 point of the overtime, Dunkirk- Fredonia found the net to win the game.

This then required the ‘Mini’ game to settle the winner.

Through the entire ten minute game, neither team was able to score.

This necessitated a 10 minute overtime.  At the 4:14 point of the game, RBM had a 3 on 1 charge to the net, but could not score.  Finally, on passs from Michael Kuchey and Dominic Peracciny, Jason Kuchey scored the go ahead goal.

For the final three nail- biting minutes, RBM thwarted numerous rushes to the net, including a final 6 on 5 minute after D-F had pulled their goalie.

Not only did the win put RBM into the WNY Championship game, but it also insured a #1 or #2 seed in the New York State Club Tournament to be played in Jamestown March 2, 3, and 4.

Medina 1 (Tony Nemi)  and MP Construction played to a 5-5 tie today  In week 3 of Kenan Senior League Soccer action.

MP had a 4-2 lead going into the half but Nemi was able to bring the game to a tie in an exciting second half.

Nemi was lead in scoring by Matt Hess with 3 goals and Andrew Houseman with 2.

Contributed Photo – Dylan Krzykowski moves in to score a goal for Roy-Hart/Barker/Medina during Saturday’s semifinal playoff win over Dunkirk/Fredonia.

The Roy-Hart/Barker/Medina Club Hockey team scored a 6-1 victory over Dunkirk- Fredonia this evening at the Cornerstone Arena in the first of a home and away semifinal playoff series.

The second game will take place at SUNY Fredonia at 4:45 p.m. on Sunday with the winner moving on to the Club Hockey playoff final at the Key Bank Center next Friday at 9:00 p.m.

During a very defensive first period, Dylan Krzykowski scored unassisted with 30 seconds left, giving RBM a  1-0 advantage.

The next period saw an exchange of goals starting with Jason Kuchey scoring, assisted by Michael Kuchey.  D-F answered for a 2-1 score but Krzykowski then scored another unassisted goal giving RBM a 3-1 lead at the end of two.

The final period was all RBM as Dominic Peracciny opened the scoring with the assists going to Corey Saj andJason Kuchey.  Then Krzykowski completed the hat trick, again unassisted. Jason Kuchey completed the scoring with an assist from Luke Luckman.

Evan Birkemeir turned in a stellar performance in goal turning away 30 of 31 shots.

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Elisabeth Baker puts up a shot as Scotia Snyder tries to block for Nichols. The action took place during the Purple Eagles loss to the Lady Vikings this evening in the consolation game of the Lockport Tournament.

Pulling away for good with a big scoring burst to close the third period, Nichols went on to defeat Albion 58-32 this evening in the consolation game of the Lockport Tournament.

Trailing by 11, 26-15, at the half, Albion rallied back to within six, 27-21, early in the third period after threes by Janae Doty and Natalie DiCureia.

Albion’s Sierra Newton shoots as Olivia McKnight and Allison McCluskey defend for Nichols.

However, the Purple Eagles would get no closer as Nichols answered with a decisive turnover aided 18-4 scoring surge to end the period and regain a commanding 20 point, 45-25, advantage.

Back-to-back threes by Isabella Russo and Scotia Snyder helped ignite that uprising  which also included two more baskets by Snyder along with two buckets by TaNia Cunningham.

Imani Dockery led Nichols’ balanced attack with 16 as Russo and Cunningham both had 12 and Snyder 10.

Doty scored 10 and Sierra Newton 8 to pace Albion as Baker added 6, DiCureia and Cassidy Wolcott 3 and Brylie Hapeman 2.

Nichols jumped out to a 14-7 first period lead and maintained a 26-15 advantage at the half.  Dockery tallied 7 and Russo and Cunningham 6 each for the Lady Vikings during that stretch.

Albion next begins Section VI Class B1 playoff competition by hosting Olean at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Sectional VI Playoffs
Niagara-Orleans League teams in the Section VI Class B1 bracket will have Newfane seeded No. 1, Albion No. 4 and Medina No. 10.

Albion will host No. 13 Olean and Medina will visit No. 7 MST Prep in the first round on Tuesday.  Newfane will host the winner of the No. 9 Alden vs. No. 8 Tonawanda game in the quarterfinals on Thursday.

In Class B2 the N-O has Wilson seeded No. 4, Akron No. 5 and Roy-Hart No. 11.

Roy-Hart will visit No. 6 Buffalo Arts and Akron will host No. 12 Health Sciences on Tuesday.  The Akron vs. Health Sciences winner will then visit Wilson on Thursday.

In Class C, Barker is seeded No. 11 and will visit No. 6 Tapestry on Tuesday.

Pulling away down the stretch, Orchard Park defeated visiting Medina 70-53 this afternoon in a regular season ending non league boys basketball game.

Leading by a narrow 50-48 margin at the three-quarter mark, the Quakers outscored the turnover plagued Mustangs 20-5 in the final period to lock up the win.

The contest was deadlocked at 16-16 at the end of the first period and Medina grabbled a slender 31-30 lead at the half.

Jalin Cooper had 25 and Izaiah Rhim 16 to lead Medina as Alex Allis and Tyler Chinn both had 6 and Trenton Jones 2.  Cooper scored 11 in the first period and 4 in the second while Rhim had 6 in the second and 8 in the third.

Medina, which is seeded No. 3 for the upcoming Section VI Class B1 playoffs, will host a quarterfinal round game on Friday. The Mustangs finish the regular season at 10-10 overall.

Section VI playoffs
Pairings for Niagara-Orleans League teams in the upcoming Section VI Class B1 playoffs will have Medina seeded No. 3, Newfane No. 4 and Albion No. 10.  As top four seeds, Medina and Newfane both draw a double bye and will begin playoff action by hosting a quarterfinal game on Friday. Albion will host No. 15 I Prep at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in a first round contest..

In Class B2 the N-O will have Wilson seeded No. 5, Roy-Hart No. 9 and Akron No. 15. Wilson will host the winner of Tuesday’s No. 13 Eden vs. No. 12 Riverside game on Wednesday. Roy-Hart will host No. 16 DaVinci and Akron will visit No. 10 Southwestern in opening round games on Tuesday.