Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Matt Kovaleski and his Purple Eagle teammates will be looking to earn a pair of victories this coming week to claim at least a share of the Niagara-Orleans League swimming championship.

Championships will be on the line in this final full regular season week of the Niagara-Orleans League swim campaign which currently has a tie atop both the boys and girls standings.

On the boys side, Albion and Barker are deadlocked for the top spot at 7-1.  Albion will close out the season by visiting Akron on Wednesday and hosting Roy-Hart on Friday. Barker will visit Medina on Wednesday and Newfane on Friday.

The girls standings have Akron and Roy-Hart tied at 7-1. Akron will host Albion on Wednesday and visit Medina on Friday. Roy-Hart visits Newfane on Wednesday and Albion on Friday.

The N-O girls basketball title race also features a number of key games highlighted by Tuesday’s battle of unbeatens as Newfane (5-0) visits Akron (3-0). The Lady Panthers will then visit defending champion rival Wilson (2-2) on Friday.  Albion, which is at 3-1, will host Wilson on Tuesday.

The N-O boys basketball race will have Newfane hosting rival Wilson on Friday in a key matchup of teams both currently at 3-0. Defending champion Medina, which is now 2-1, faces a pair of road contests at Barker on Tuesday and at Akron on Friday.

Weekly Schedule
Today
Wrestling: Albion at Victor Tournament

Tuesday
Boys Basketball: Albion at Wilson, 6 p.m.; Akron at Newfane, 6:30 p.m.; Medina at Barker, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Barker at Medina, Newfane at Akron, Starpoint at Roy-Hart, 6:30 p.m.; Wilson at Albion, Notre Dame at Holley, Kendall at Pembroke, Byron-Bergen at Lyndonville, 7 p.m.

Wednesday:
Boys Basketball: Barker at Albion, Emerson at Roy-Hart, Holley at Notre Dame, Pembroke at Kendall, Lyndonville at Byron-Bergen, 7 p.m.
Swimming: Barker at Medina, Albion at Akron, Newfane at Roy-Hart, 4:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Holley at Lyndonville, 6 p.m.

Thursday
Girls Basketball: Oakfield-Alabama at Lyndonville, Attica at Kendall, 7 p.m.

Friday
Boys Basketball: Medina at Akron, 6:30 p.m.; Barker at Roy-Hart, Wilson at Newfane, Lyndonville at Oakfield-Alabama, Holley at Attica, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Akron at Medina, Roy-Hart at Barker, Newfane at Wilson, 6:30 p.m.; Albion at Hilton, 7 p.m.
Swimming: Akron at Medina, Barker at Newfane, Roy-Hart at Albion, 4:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Gates-Chili at Holley-Kendall 6 p.m.

Saturday
Boys Basketball: Rochester Prep at Holley, 12 p.m.Girls Basketball: Akron at Albion, 1 p.m.
Wrestling: Lyndonville at Perry Tournament, Holley-Kendall at Cal-Mum Tournament

N-O Standings
Boys Basketball: Newfane 3-0, Wilson 3-0, Medina 2-1, Albion 2-2, Akron 1-2, Barker 0-2, Roy-Hart 0-4
Girls Basketball: Newfane 5-0, Akron 3-0, Albion 3-1, Wilson 2-2, Barker 0-3, Medina 0-3, Roy-Hart 0-4
Boys Swimming: Albion 7-1, Barker 7-1, Medina 4-3, Roy-Hart 2-6, Newfane 1-5-1, Akron 1-6-1
Girls Swimming: Akron 7-1, Roy-Hart 7-1, Newfane 4-3, Barker 3-5, Medina 2-5, Albion 0-8
Wrestling: Newfane 5-0, Akron 4-1, Albion 3-2, Medina 2-3, Wilson 1-4, Roy-Hart/Barker 0-5

Avenging an early season 11-0 loss, the Tri County Midget hockey team came from behind three times to earn a 4-4 tie with Perinton this evening.

Perinton jumped out to early leads of 1-0 and 2-1 but both times Tri County quickly rallied to tie, first on a goal by Matt Neilson and then on a tally by Pat Holzchuh.

Perinton regained the lead at 3-2 before the end of the opening period and then increased its advantage to 4-2 in the second.

Tri County though again came battling back first cutting the deficit to 4-3 on a goal by Cam Smith later in the second period and then to net the equalizer on a tally by Tucker Trask with only three and a half minutes remaining in the third period.

Now at 3-8-3, Tri County next faces Batavia on Friday night at Brockport.

Contributed Photos – Earning first team All-Western New York honors are Olivia Diebel and Abby Stone from Akron and Katrina Clare from Barker.

Three Niagara-Orleans League players – Akron senior midfielder Abby Stone, Akron junior defender Olivia Diebel and Barker sophomore attacker Katrina Clare – have been named to the first team of the All-Western New York field hockey squad.

Stone, a four-time All-WNY honoree, scored a WNY leading 26 goals this past season while Clare had 13 goals.

Stone and Diebel helped lead Akron to the state Class C semifinals. The Lady Tigers shared the N-O title with Barker and then nipped the Lady Raiders 2-1 in the Section VI Class C title game.

A quartet of N-O players earned second team All-WNY honors including Akron senior defender Amanda Jeziorowski, Barker senior midfielder Casey A’Hearn, Medina junior attacker Guin Schalck and Roy-Hart junior attacker Alexis Lovewell.

The All-WNY Honorable Mention list has five N-O players including Barker senior attacker Natalie Menz, Roy-Hart senior midfielder Delaney Draper and junior goalie Jamie Bower along with the Wilson senior duo of midfielder Olivia Mitchell and attacker Maddie Mocarski.

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Preston  Flugel, who captured his third title in four years, here works toward a quarterfinal win over Wilson’s Ben Wolfe during today’s annual Niagara-Orleans All-League Tournament at Albion.

A trio of Roy-Hart/Barker wrestlers earned championships today at the annual Niagara-Orleans All-League tournament held at Albion.

Ben Schwab (220) earned his second straight N-O title for Roy-Hart/Barker whose other winners were AJ Schafer (145) and Tyler Choate (152).

Schwab pinned Josh Stoldt of Akron/Alden in 5:15 in his title bout while Schafer pinned Joe Gates of Medina in 3:05 and Choate decisioned Zach Brown of Newfane 7-2. Choate, who earned his 100th career win on the day, was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Wrestler.

Medina had a pair of champions in Colby Petrie (120) and Elijah Sones (195).

Photo by Cheryl Wertman – Medina’s Colby Petrie, who won his second straight title, is show here in route to a quarterfinal win over Newfane’s Joey Balbuzoski.

Petrie had the day’s marathon match as he outlasted Newfane’s Ryan Nugent 3-2 in four overtimes on an ultimate tie breaker rule to capture his second straight N-O title.  He advanced to the finals with a pair of pins winning in  just 47 seconds in the quarterfinals and in 2:24 in the semifinals.

Sones nipped Akron/Alden’s Millard Young 3-2 in the finals. He scored a pin of 1:29 in the quarterfinals and then edged Albion’s Donamic Farley 3-1 in the semis.

Albion’s Preston Flugel (138) captured his third N-O title in the last four years by scoring a 10-0 major decision win over Akron/Alden’s Anthony Brandt in the finals. He quickly advanced to the finals by scoring pins of 35 seconds in the quarterfinals and of 1:14 in the semis.

Akron/Alden, which took top team honors on the day, had five champions including Josh Cummings (113), Owen Kissell (126), Tom Fischer (132), Robbie PeQueen (160) and Jacob Sarow (170). PeQueen and Sarow are both repeat champions.

In the finals Cummings decisioned Newfane’s Camden Rowels 11-7, Owen Kissell scored a 19-4 fall over Cole Kissell, Fischer decisioned Wilson’s Jake Sanborn 7-1, PeQueen notched a 18-2 technical fall win over Wilson’s Drew Westmorland and Sarow posted a 15-0 technical fall win over Newfane’s Caleb Aurenhamer.

Newfane, which finished second on the day in the team standings which was enough to earn the Panthers a fifth straight N-O championship, had a quartet of winners in Andy Lucinski (99), Adam Huntington (106), Julian Nixon (182) and Ty Casinelli (285). Lucinski and Casinelli are repeat champions.

In the finals Lucinski pinned Medina’s Rashawn Bloom in 1:19, Huntington scored a 15-0 technical fall win over Roy-Hart/Barker’s Brett Ricker, Nixon earned a 10-1 major decision win over Albion’s Ben Restivo  and Casinelli decisioned Wilson’s Josiah Carnegie 3-1.

Albion also had five third place finishers in Hunter Albright (145), Ugene Harrison (152), Tim Wells (160), Jessy Cruz (170) and Donamic Farley (195).

Medina had three third place finishers in Jake Bensley (126), DaRon Bellan (132) and Spencer Rotoli (285).

The other third place finishers included Luke Atlas (99), Allan Schultz (106), Cameron Guy (120) and Matt Lange (220) from Wilson, Christian Humbert (138) and Brady Jensen (182) from Akron/Alden and Trent Choate (113) from Roy-Hart/Barker.

Akron/Alden took the team tourney title with 217 points followed by Akron 190.5, Albion 147, Wilson 136, Medina 119.5 and Roy-Hart/Barker 118.5.

Newfane, which went 5-0 during the dual match portion of the season, retains the N-O championship with 14 points followed by Akron/Alden 13, Albion 9, Medina 5, Wilson 4 and Roy-Hart/Barker 0.

Contributed Photo – Fifteen champions were crowned today at the annual Niagara-Orleans All-League wrestling tournament held at Albion. They include, in front, Andy Lucinski (Newfane), Adam Huntington (Newfane), Josh Cummings (Akron/Alden)), Colby Petrie (Medina) and Owen Kissell (Akron/Alden). In the second row are Tom Fischer (Akron/Alden), Preston Flugel (Albion), AJ Schafer (Roy-Hart/Barker), Tyler Choate (Roy-Hart/Barker) and Robbie PeQueen (Akron/Alden). In the back row are Jacob Sarow (Akron/Alden), Julian Nixon (Newfane), Elijah Sones (Medina), Ben Schwab (Roy-Hart/Barker) and Ty Casinelli (Newfane).

Getting goal production from seven different players the Tri County Midget hockey team scored a 10-4 victory over host Canandaigua today.

Tri County jumped out to a 3-1 first period lead on goals by Pat Holzschuh, Chase Froman and Jake Donoghue.

Canandaigua knotted the contest at 3-3 in the second period but Tri County regained the lead for good before the end of the stanza at 5-3 on a pair of goals by Tucker Trask.

Canandaigua did rally back to within one at 5-4 before the second period ended but could not pull even again as Tri County pulled away with a big five goal third period scoring surge.

Matt Neilson scored two goals and Trask completed his hat-trick with a goal to highlight Tri County’s big third period uprising which was ignited by tallies by David Archibald and Grant Moy.

Tri County, which next faces Perinton on Sunday, is now 3-8-2.

Avenging an early season two point (86-84) loss, Roy-Hart knocked visiting Akron from the ranks of the unbeaten by an 89-81 score this afternoon to move into a share of the Niagara-Orleans League girls swim lead.

Roy-Hart and Akron are now both 7-1 with two meets remaining.

“It was a huge win for us,” said Roy-Hart Coach Dottie Barr. “Every race was close. It was a great meet.

Kayla Hagen was a double winner in the 50 Free and 100 Free for Roy-Hart as Madison Ohol took the 500 Free, Amanda Hill the 200 Individual Medley and Holly DiMayo the 100 Breaststroke.

Hagen and DiMayo also teamed up with Hill and Jenna Heiser to win the 200 Medley Relay and with Ohol and Heiser to take the 400 Free Relay.

Completing the sweep, the Roy-Hart boys squad likewise avenged a narrow early season loss (87-83) by defeating Akron 91-77.

Will Rickard won the 50 Free and Madigan Lang the 200 Free for Roy-Hart which also captured all three relays.

The Channel Cats winning relay quartets included Lang, Rickard, Patrick Sheelar and Michael Miller in the 200 Medley; Cameron VanBuren, Aaron Bacon, Carter Green and Ozzy Moore in the 200 Free and Rickard, Miller, Sheelar and Lang in the 400 Free.

N-O Standings
Boys: Albion 7-1, Barker 7-1, Medina 4-3, Roy-Hart 2-6, Newfane 1-5-1, Akron 1-6-1
Girls: Akron 7-1, Roy-Hart 7-1, Newfane 4-3, Barker 3-5, Medina 2-5, Albion 0-6

Contributed Photo – Justice Nauden

Albion High graduate Justice Nauden is seeing plenty of playing time for the SUNY Fredonia basketball team.

Nauden, a junior guard, is averaging 6.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game for the Blue Devils.

She had 10 points in Fredonia’s narrow 60-55 loss at Brockport today including a pair of clutch free throws with only 20 seconds remaining to pull the Blue Devils within two at 56-54.

A Sports Management Major, Nauden was a two-time first team Niagara-Orleans All-League honoree during her scholastic days at Albion.

Building up leads of 17-4 after one period and 26-5 at the half, Kendall went on to defeat rival Holley 35-22 this evening in a Genesee Region League girls basketball game.

Taylor ReQua had 9 points and 11 rebounds to led the way for Kendall. Lizzie Sutphen, Katherine Pearson and Jenna Regan each added 6 points for the Lady Eagles as Lyndsay Wright and Brittney Marks both chipped in with 3 and Kaitlyn Gregory 2.

Madison Marsh and Sarah Klatt both scored 6 for Holley as Olivia Radford and Abigail Williams each added 5.

Alexander 49, Lyndonville 38
Alexander opened up leads of 16-10 after one period, 27-20 at the half and 35-25 at the three-quarter mark in route to posting a 49-38 G-R win over visiting Lyndonville.

Macie Riggs led Alexander with 14.

Ella Lewis took game high honors for Lyndonville with 20.