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Holley returns veteran volleyball squad
Photo by Mike Wertman – The Holley volleyball team’s large veteran group includes, in front, Bri Colucci, Allison Howard, Cory Spychalski and Hannah Bailey. In back are Nicole Mrzywka, Angela Weaver, Ava Kohut and Kelsie Johnstone. Missing from the photo are Kassie Norman and Jessica Sedore.
Taking aim at making a big move up in the Genesee Region League standings, the Holley volleyball squad boasts a large group of 10 returnees this year.
That large veteran contingent includes seniors Angela Weaver, Cory Spychalski, Jessica Sedore, Kassie Norman, Ava Kohut, Kelsie Johnstone, Allison Howard, Bri Colucci, Hannah Bailey and junior Nicole Mrzywka.
“This is the group we’ve been waiting for to come up,” said Coach Kate Connor. “They’ve been committed to volleyball and have been working together since seventh grade. We’re hoping for a very good season with this group.”
The Lady Hawks will open G-R competition at perennial power Byron-Bergen on September 6.
Schedule
September: 6 – at Byron-Bergen, 6:30 p.m.; 9 – Rochester Academy Charter, 6 p.m.; 13 – Attica, 6:30 p.m.; 19 – at Attica, 6:30 p.m.; 21 – Notre Dame, 6:30 p.m.; 23 – Pembroke, 12 p.m.; 25 – at Alexander, 6:30 p.m.; 27 – Pavilion, 6:30 p.m.; 29 – at Oakfield-Alabama/Elba, 6:30 p.m.
October: 3 – Byron-Bergen, 6:30 p.m.; 5 – Wheatland-Chili, 6:30 p.m.; 7 – at Rochester Academy Charter, 6 p.m.; 10 – at Pavilion, 6:30 p.m.; 11 – at Pembroke, 6:30 p.m.; 13 – at Kendall, 6:30 p.m.; 17 – at Lyndonville, 6:30 p.m.; 20 – at Notre Dame, 6:30 p.m.
Albion, Holley have football openers in new divisions; Medina/Lyndonville visits Burgard
Photo by Cheryl Wertman – William Braswell (11) and his Medina/Lyndonville teammates will open the season Friday night against Burgard at Buffalo’s Riverside Field. Ben Schwab (55), who is making the tackle, and his Roy-Hart/Barker teammates will host Akron on Friday night. The other local openers will have Albion hosting Springville on Friday and Holley entertaining Geneseo on Saturday afternoon.
The high school football season will kick off this weekend as both Albion and Holley host foes in new look divisions.
Albion will host Springville at 7 p.m. Friday for a contest in the new enrollment based Section VI Class B2 Division. The division also includes Depew, Olean, Dunkirk and Fredonia/Westfield/Brocton.
Holley will entertain Geneseo at 1:30 p.m. Saturday for a game in the new Division 4 of the Livingston County League.
Holley, along with the other five football playing Genesee Region League teams (Attica, Alexander, Pembroke, Notre Dame and Oakfield-Alabama/Elba), have joined the Livingston County loop this year to form Division 4 along with Geneseo and York.
The two other interdivisional season openers will have Medina/Lyndonville at Burgard (at Riverside Field) and Roy-Hart/Barker hosting Akron at Middleport, both at 7 p.m. Friday.
Junior quarterback Bryce Pritchard leads the offense for Albion which returns experience at the skill positions in running backs senior Demetrius Gardner and junior Ugene Harrison and at the receiver positions in juniors Nate Moore and Matt Kovaleski and senior JaQuess Harrison. Seniors Caleb Pettit and Justin Stritzinger and junior Ben Restivo anchor the front line.
The meeting will be the seventh all time between the Purple Eagles and Griffins. The previous six have all come in post season play with each school winning three, Albion in 1979, 1987 and 1993 and Springville in 1992, 1995 and 1996.
Senior quarterback Jeremy Mallett leads Holley which also has experience at the receiver sports in Camron Labarge, Ryan Andrews and Nick Schutz and at running back in Jacob Affronti and Dalton Moyer.
It will be the first meeting between the Hawks and Blue Devils.
Medina/Lyndonville likewise returns a veteran quarterback in junior Izaiah Rhim and receiving trio in seniors Jalin Cooper, Mason Lewis and Brendan Luthart.
It will be the third ever meeting between the Mustangs and Bulldogs. Burgard won the previous two in divisional contests in 2013 and 2014.
Junior quarterback Charlie Brigham leads the Roy-Hart/Barker offense which also returns seniors Malik Smith and Aaron Curry at the running back spots and junior Charlie Bruning at receiver.
Hawks, Rams battle to tie in double OT
Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Holley goalie Patrick Bower makes a diving save during this evening’s double overtime tie with visiting Roy-Hart.
Neither team could dent the net in 100 minutes of soccer this evening as Roy-Hart and host Holley battled to a 0-0 double overtime tie in the Hawks season opening round robin tournament.
Patrick Bower made 8 saves in goal for Holley and Kodey Hayes 5 stops in the net for Roy-Hart.
“Both teams fought really hard and had some quality chances,” said Roy-Hart Coach Greg Martillotta. “I’m really proud of our kids. It was their second game in as many nights and they really battled and gave it everything they had.”
Roy-Hart, which is now 1-0-1 defeated Batavia 2-1 on Tuesday.
It was the season opener for Holley which will now face Batavia at 6:30 p.m. Friday to round out the event.
Newfane 5, Wilson 2
Newfane opened defense of its Niagara-Orleans League boys soccer title with a 5-2 victory over rival Wilson this afternoon.
Trevor Moreland had 2 goals and 3 assists and Mateo May 2 goals and 1 assist to lead the way for Newfane which also got a goal by Matt DiTullio.
Roy-Hart’s Jamasen Johnson bring the ball up field ahead of Holley defender Matt DeSimone.
Kendall girls surge past Notre Dame
Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Kendall’s Taylor ReQua puts a shot on goal as Emily Keeler defends for Notre Dame. The action took place during the Lady Eagles season opening home field win this afternoon.
A quick two goal scoring burst early in the second half keyed Kendall to a 4-1 victory over visiting Notre Dame this afternoon in the season opening Genesee Region League girls soccer game for both teams.
Breaking away from a 1-1 deadlock, Kendall took charge as Michela Hanlon scored twice, at the 32 and 28 minute marks, off assists first from Katherine Pearson and then from Abby Jenks.
Lizzie Supthen closed out the Kendall scoring with a goal with 9 minutes to go.
Taylor ReQua scored the Lady Eagles lone first half goal on a penalty kick.
Notre Dame pulled even before the half on a goal by Addysen DiMateo.
Kendall next visits Oakfield-Alabama/Elba on Tuesday in another G-R contest.
Pembroke 5, Roy-Hart 1
Breaking away from a 1-1 half-time deadlock, Pembroke scored 4 unanswered second half goals to earn a 5-1 non league win over host Roy-Hart.
Kayla Brown scored Roy-Hart’s lone goal.
Madison Jacob brings the ball up field for Kendall as Meghan Stella moves in to defend for Notre Dame.
Medina golfers down Roy-Hart
Medina bested Roy-Hart 224-294 at Shelrdige this afternoon to stay unbeaten at 4-0 in Niagara-Orleans League golf competition.
Ian Wagner took medalist honors with a 36 for Medina as Aidan Paul added a 40, Trevor Luthart 46 and Jake Bensley 47-.
The loss drops Roy-Hart to 0-3.
Defending champion Wilson defeated rival Newfane 252-285 as Patrick Seeley shot a 38 and Nate Fox a 39.
Akron topped Barker 223-257 in the other match as Brennan Murty earned medalist honors with a 42.
Lyndonville/Medina spikers have veteran squad and new coach
Photo by Mike Wertman – New Lyndonville/Medina boys varsity volleyball Coach Kerry Papaj meets here with the Tigers veteran players. In front are Jacob Houseman, Mason Pecoraro and Justin Corser. In back are Dan Squire, Luke Isaacson and Chris Goyette. Missing from the photo are Christian Hahn and Steven Kage.
Led by a group of eight veteran players, the Lyndonville/Medina boys volleyball team is prepping to begin its third season of varsity competition with new Coach Kerry Papaj at the helm.
Seniors Mason Pecoraro, Christian Hahn, Jacob Houseman and Luke Isaacson head the Tigers veteran contingent which also includes juniors Dan Squire and Justin Corser and sophomores Chris Goyette and Steven Kage.
“We do have some experience back but we’re still building,” said Papaj who previously coached the Tigers girls varsity team.
Lyndonville/Medina, which plays a non league schedule as no other Genesee Region League or Niagara-Orleans League schools have boys volleyball, will open the season at home Thursday against Brockport.
Schedule
August: 31 – Brockport, 6 p.m.
September: 7 – at St. Francis, 5 p.m.; 9 – vs. North Rose-Wolcott at Pavilion, TBA.; 12 – at Cardinal O’Hara, 5 p.m.; 15 – vs. Wayne and Sodus at Sodus, 5 p.m.; 16 – vs. Midlakes at Pavilion, TBA; 19 – at NE/NW Rochester, 4:30 p.m.; 29 – vs. Wayne at Medina, 5 p.m.; 30 – Pavilion (10 a.m.) and Wayne (1 p.m.)
October: 5 – at SOTA, 4:30 p.m.; 10 – O’Hara, 7 p.m.; 18 – St. Francis, 7 p.m.; 20 – vs. Midlakes and North Rose- Wolcott at Midlakes, TBA.
Lady Rams top Lady Raiders in N-O opener
Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Ellie Todd (5) battles for control of the ball with Barker’s Abby Harris (7) during this afternoon’s Niagara-Orleans League season opener at Gasport which was won by the host Lady Rams.
Scoring twice in each half, Roy-Hart blanked Barker 4-0 this afternoon in a season opening Niagara-Orleans League girls soccer game at Gasport.
Meaghan Washington scored off an assist from Maddie Fry and Sophia LaPort tallied from Mia Quinn in the first half to give the Lady Rams a 2-0 lead.
Kylie Miller makes a save in goal for Barker as Kara Choate moves in for Roy-Hart.
LaPort and Kara Choate then each had a goal and an assist in the second half to round out the Roy-Hart scoring.
Roy-Hart next hosts Pembroke in a non league game Wednesday while Barker visits Albion Friday in an N-O contest.
Akron 5, Albion 1
Jenna Robnett and Kara Sequin each had two goals and an assist and Maggie Leeds a goal and two assists for Akron in the 5-0 N-O opening win over visiting Albion.
The Lady Tigers held a 3-0 lead at the half.
Brylie Hapeman scored for Albion off an assist from Claire Squicciarini.
Akron next hosts Medina/Lyndonville and Albion entertains Barker at 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Roy-Hart rallies to win tourney opener
Roy-Hart rallied with a pair of second half goals to nip Batavia 2-1 this afternoon in the opening round of the Holley boys soccer round-robin tournament.
Roy-Hart pulled even at 1-1 when Jon Huntington scored nine minutes into the second half off an assist from Aidan Bligh.
The Rams then netted the game winner when Jamasen Johnson scored with just five minutes remaining as Tyler Choate earned the assist.
Roy-Hart will next face Holley at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Holley will then host Batavia at 6:30 p.m. Friday to round out the tourney.
Home of the Mustangs -A bright new look
Photos by Mike Wertman – The large bright red Mustangs logo was put on the new artificial turf surface at Medina’s Veterans Memorial Park this morning as this year’s Phase 1 of the two year renovation project nears completion. The final part of the installation will be infilling the artificial turf surface with a mixture of sand and rubber which also began today. Phase 2 work next year will see the construction of a new permanent grandstand on the south side of the field. The Mustangs are slated to host Newfane on September 15 in the football home opener.
The lines are in and some infilling work is underway at the softball end of the field.
Workers finish the fencing on the baseball end of the field as the “Mustangs” nickname has already been put in the end zone.
Medina opens field hockey season Thursday
Photo by Mike Wertman – Getting set for he Medina field hockey team’s season open at Newfane Thursday are these seniors. They include Amanda Nottingham, Hannah Mahnke, Megan Showler, Madison Kenward, Lydia Battaglia and Alexis Maines.
Looking to bounce back from last year’s 1-11 league record, Medina is scheduled to begin Niagara-Orleans League field hockey competition at Newfane on Thursday.
Anchoring the Mustangs lineup is the veteran quintet of seniors Alexis Maines and Grace Flores, juniors Alissa Blount and Guin Schalck and sophomore Lacey Kenward.
The lineup for Coach Amber Cleaveland’s Mustangs also includes seniors Hannah Mahnke, Madison Kenward, Megan Showler, Lydia Battaglia and Amanda Nottingham; juniors Margaret Griffin, Libby Cook, Jessica Granchelli, Brandi Guild, Sarah Cochrane and sophomore Tessa Pecoraro.
Schedule
August: 31 – at Newfane, 5:45 p.m.
September: 5 – Kenmore, 5 p.m.; 7 at Roy-Hart 4:45 p.m.; 12 – at Barker, 4:45 p.m.; 13 – at Buffalo Seminary, 5 p.m.; 19 – Akron, 7:15 p.m.; 21 – Wilson, 4:45 p.m.; 26 – Newfane, 4:45 p.m.; 28 – at Kenmore, 4:45 p.m.
October: 3 – Roy-Hart, 7:15 p.m.; 5 – Barker, 4:45 p.m.; 10 – Sacred Heart, 4:45 p.m.; 12 – at Akron, 4:45 p.m.; 17 – at Wilson, 4:45 p.m.; 18 – Buffalo Seminary, 5 p.m.
