The Albion U-14 team dropped a wild 18-17 decision to Chili Saturday in the season opening Brockport League game.

Albion scored four early runs on the bats of Zac Olles, Kyle Woolston, Nathan Olmstead, Shawn Allen and Zach Colacecchi but were unable to hold the lead.

Both teams traded runs through the next five innings. In the top of the seventh, trailing by one, Albion scored five runs with hits by Olles, Woolston and a triple by Damion Lattimer, but again were unable to hold the lead and lost by one in the bottom of the seventh.

Albion is set to return to Lockport Midget ‘A’ League competition after a year’s absence.

Albion will be joined in the five team league by Roy-Hart, Barker, Tri City
(Lockport/Tonawanda) and Orchard Park. Lyndonville and Lockport 1 are not returning this year.

The league is slated to begin play on Tuesday with a doubleheader at Gasport. Barker will host Orchard Park in the 5:30 p.m. opener and Roy-Hart will entertain Albion in the nightcap at 8 p.m.

The opening week’s action will also have Albion at Barker on Thursday and Roy-Hart ay Tri-City in Tonawanda at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Photos by Tom Rivers – Sandstone’s Caleb Fox, left, and St. Mary’s Jayce Ashton were mound opponents in Albion Midget League action Thursday. Both struck out 13 batters.

Sandstone trimmed St. Mary’s 6-4 and Barre downed Rotary 6-1 in Albion Midget League baseball action Thursday.

Sandstone built up a 5-1 lead over St. Mary’s by scoring twice in the first on a triple by Caleb Fox and singles by Caden Uderitz and Chris Sacco, once in the fourth on a double by Sacco and single by Pom Seibert and twice in the fifth on hits by Elliot Trapiss, Jake Hughson and Sacco.

However, St. Mary’s got back into the game by scoring three times in the fifth on a double by Jayce Ashton and singles by Reuben Rivers and Tommy Fox. Ryan Schnepf also had a key RBI single to cut the deficit to 5-4.

Sandstone picked up an insurance run in the sixth on hits by Seth Krening, Hughson and Uderitz.

St. Mary’s did get a couple of runners on base in the sixth but could not capitalize as Caleb Fox registered two clutch strikeouts to end the game. He had a total of 13 strikeouts on the day as did Ashton for St. Mary’s.

Barre scored three times in the third inning on a two-run triple by Tyler Gibson and an RBI single by Jack Ludwick to key the win over Rotary. Gibson and winning pitcher Cade Wolcott both had multiple hits.

Wolcott allowed 1 hit and struck out 7 over the first 4 innings as Gibson came on to register the final 6 outs.

The Woodroe Realty Blue Jays improved to 8-0 on the season by beating Lyndonville Whipple Realty by score of 8- 0 this week.

Brody Fry led batting with a single and a home run and 3 RBI’s. Carter Woodworth added 2 doubles, Aiden Wisniewski a single and a double and 2 RBI’s, Jimmy Dieter 2 singles and 1 RBI, Aidan Papaj  2 singles and 1 RBI, Colton Smith  a single and 1 RBI, and Preston Woodworth and William Tagg each added a hit.

Fry pitched the first inning and Dieter the second  striking out the first 6 batters they faced.  Carter Woodworth, Papaj, Preston Woodworth, and Brady Christaansen each pitched an inning adding 6 more strikeouts over 4 innings.

The Pirates picked up their fourth win in a row defeating Lyndonville’s EZ Shop 3-1.

Strong performances by Brennan Woodruff, Shane Fearby, Timmy Vazquez and Aaron Woodrow racking up 13 strike outs.

The bats were just as hot with Tyler Kroening, Sawyer Lilleby and Vasquez all went 2-2.  Vazquez and Lathan Miller brought in runs while Aleks Seefelt was strong on defense making multiple plays at third.

Putting together a big fifth inning rally, Albion’s U16 team downed LeRoy 2 by an 8-4 score Wednesday night  to go to 1-1 in Batavia League baseball action.

Trailing 4-3, Albion took the lead for good by erupting for 5 runs in the decisive fifth frame on 3 walks, an error, 2 wild pitches and a two-run single by Michael Harling.

Earlier, Albion scored once in the first on a double by Deyonci Farley and twice in the third on hits by Patrick Ricker, Bryce Kelly and Farley.

Kelly also had an outstanding relief pitching effort striking out 11 of the 12 batters in faced over the last 4 innings including 8 in a row at one stretch.

Albion next faces Batavia 1 on Saturday.

Contributed Photos – Aubrey Lewis and Eric Neace received the Coaches’ Award at this week’s annual Lyndonville High athletic banquet.

The year and career athletic accomplishments of Lyndonville High student/Athletes were recognized at the Tigers annual sports banquet held this week at the White Birch.

Six seniors were recipients of the Tri-Athlete Award which is given for participation in three sports for four years. They included Aubrey Lewis (Soccer 2012-16, Basketball 2013-17, Softball 2014-17), Makenzie Muck (Soccer 2012-16, Basketball 2013-17, Softball 2014-17), Kennedy Clark (Volleyball 2013-16, Cheerleading 2011-15, Basketball 2015-17, Softball 2014-17), Dylan Nicholson (Soccer 2013-16, Basketball 2013-17, Track 2014-17), Eric Neace (Football 2013-16, Basketball 2013-17, Baseball 2013-17) and Jacob Hoffee (Soccer 2012-16, Basketball 2013-17, Baseball 2013-17).

The Coaches’ Award was presented to Eric Neace and Aubrey Lewis.

Alexis Montes and Dylan Nicholson received the Sportsmanship Award

A dozen special awards were also presented including the Harold Dix Jr. Memorial Soccer Award to Matthew Hess and Miranda Lembcke, the Paul Howell Memorial Basketball Award to Corey Hydock and Makenzie Muck, The Mike Fuller Memorial Wrestling Award to Jeffery Gress Jr. and the Ted Hettig Memorial Baseball/Softball Award to Jacob Hoffee and Anna Lewis.

Also, the Trevor Cook Athletic Award “Unsung Hero” to Dawson Joy and Kennedy Clark, the Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Award to Dylan Nicholson and Alexis Montes, the Alfred L. Schmitt Memorial to Adam Cefelli and Brooke Kiefer, the “Bub” Meland Memorial to Makenzie Muck and the “Doc” Layer Memorial to Jacob Hoffee.

Also, the U.S. Army Scholar-Athlete Award to Dustin Hinckley and Abigeil Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force Award to Michael Wells and Kelsie LaSpada, the U.S. Marine Corps Award to Edward Schildt and Brianna Paniccia and Genesee Region League Scholar-Athlete Awards to Jacob Hoffee, Aubrey Lewis, Eric Neace, Dustin Hinckley, Brooke Kiefer and Dylan Nicholson.

Indivdual team Most Valuable Player Awards were presented to Makenzie Muck (Soccer), Kennedy Clark (Volleyball), Mason Pecoraro (Volleyball), Chole Stinson (Basketball Cheerleading), Aubrey Lewis (Basketball, Softball), Eric Neace (Basketball, Baseball), Jeffrey Gress Jr. (Wrestling), Savanah Poler (Track) and Dustin Hinckley (Track).

Individual team Most Improved Player Awards were presented to  Abigeil Rodriguez (Soccer), Luke Isaacson (Volleyball),  Hayley Niersburger (Basketball Cheerleading), Miranda Lembcke (Basketball), Nathan Poler (Basketball), Chase Stinson (Wrestling), Alexis Montes (Track), Adam Cifelli (Track), Alicia Hinkson (Softball) and Zach Johnson (Baseball).

The Tri-Athlete Award recipients included, from left, Jacob Hoffee, Eric Neace, Dylan Nicholson, Kennedy Clark, Makenzie Muck and Aubrey Lewis.

Rebounding from deficits in both halves, the Medina/Lyndonville U17 team rallied to defeat the Delaware Internationals 4-3 Wednesday evening in a Western New York Jr. League game.

Delaware went up 2-0 on goals at the 22nd and 31st minute marks.

However, Medina/Lyndonville cut the deficit in half just before halftime on a goal by Caelan Holland in the 41st minute.

In the second half, Evan Horn pulled Medina/Lyndonville even at 2-2 with a goal at the 53rd minute.

Delaware regained the lead with a tally at the 78th minute but again Medina/Lyndonville answered, this time with a pair of late goals to pull out the win.

Matt Hess retied the game at 3-3 with a goal at the 86th minute and just two minutes later Holland netted the game winner to improve Medina/Lyndonville’s record to 2-0-1.