Roy-Hart girls edge past Albion

Medina rallies to tie at Akron

Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Roy-Hart’s Amber Villella (2), who netted all four of the Lady Rams goals, drives the ball toward the goal as Vivian Rivers moves in to defend for Albion. The action took place during Roy-Hart’s win at Gasport this evening.

Surviving a big second half challenge, Roy-Hart nipped Albion 4-3 this evening in a Niagara-Orleans League girls soccer game at Gasport.

Amber Villella scored all four goals for Roy-Hart which jumped out to as much as a 3-0 lead.

Mariah Elsenheimer, Ally Page and Emily Blanchard each scored a goal for Albion which did battle back into a tie in the second half.

Roy-Hart grabbed a quick 2-0 lead in the first nine minutes as Villella tallied twice off assists from Emma Lindke.

The Lady Rams upped the lead to 3-0 as Villella scored from Ava Bligh with 11 minutes to go in the half.

Albion though did answer back with a goal by Elsenheimer to cut the deficit to 3-1 at the half.

Keeping the momentum, the Purple Eagles then rallied into a 3-3 tie by scoring two lightning quick goals midway from the second half as Page tallied at 24:37 and Blanchard at 23:21 off a corner by Elsenheimer.

However, Roy-Hart rebounded as Villella scored on a breakaway with 8:16 remaining, off an assist from Lindke, to give the Lady Rams the win.

Roy-Hart is now 3-0 in the league and 5-0 overall while Albion slips to 1-3.

Roy-Hart’s Ava Bligh battles for control of the ball with Albion’s Ally Page.

Medina 2, Akron 2

Destiny Satkowski scored both goals for Medina which rallied from deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 to earn the 2-2 tie at Akron.

Emma Gardner made no less than 20 saves in goal to anchor the defense for the Mustangs.

Jenna Robnett and Eliza Papke each scored a goal for Akron.

Akron is now 1-1-1 and Medina 0-2-1.

Wilson 11, CSAT 1

Two goals each by Emily Patterson, Lauren Couturier and Kayla Neumann spearheaded the attack for Wilson which improves to 3-0 as CSAT slips to 0-3.

Newfane 7, Barker 0

Kaylee Heschke scored two goals and Erica Flagler had two assists to lead Newfane (4-0) to a 7-0 win over Barker (0-3).