Both Batavia boys basketball team are receiving some nice rankings in the newest state ranking poll, which was released today.
Batavia is ranked 12th in the state, moving up from last week's No. 17 ranking.
Notre Dame dropped from No. 5 to No. 6 in Class D.
The only other state ranked team locally is Oakfield-Alabama, which moved up from No. 13 to No. 12 in Class C.
Oakfield-Alabama graduate and D'Youville College freshman James Davis is enjoying a strong first season of college basketball for the 7-9 Spartans.
Davis has started all 16 games and is playing 26.2 minutes per game. He is averaging 6.4 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, with a total of 28 assists and 17 steals for the season.
He recently poured in 17 points in a loss on Jan. 10.
The D'Youville College men's baksetball team recieved a game-high 28 points from Charles Walker (Buffalo, NY/NCCC) but was defeated 92-81 at Cazenovia College.
Romair Parrett (Buffalo, NY/NCCC) added 18 points and a game-high 17 rebounds, and James Davis (Oakfield, NY/Oakfield-Alabama) contributed 16 points for the Spartans.
The Elba girls basketball team has the potential to go a long way this season. They showed that Tuesday night with a solid 45-36 victory over host Oakfield-Alabama.
The Lancers had a slim 23-19 lead at the half, but coach Tom Nowak's strategy of subbing in five at a time to keep bodies fresh, and pressing his opponent like crazy worked.
The Hornets were getting to the foul line - a lot - in the first half, especially Brynn Perfitt, who scored a game-high 19 points with nine rebounds.
Perfitt kept O-A in the game with seven of those points coming in the first half and a constant scoring effort in the second.
Cassy Engle had a 3-pointer before Meg Stucko and Julie Webster had consecutive baskets. After Oakfield-Alabama had one of its three shot clock violations, Sarah Schwartzmeyer hit a shot at the third quarter buzzer to put Elba up 34-25.
Engle hit another 3-pointer early in the fourth quarter and after Webster scored and had an and-1, Elba had a 43-25 score.
Oakfield-Alabama had a little run at the end to make the score respectable, but Elba mostly dominated the second half for the victory.
Hillary Bates also had 11 points with four assists for the Hornets, who fall to 6-7.
Engle led Elba with 10 points with Webster adding seven Chelsie Pangrazio had five points and had over five assists.
Elba is 8-0 in Genesee Region League Division II, one game ahead of Notre Dame as we head down the stretch run. The Lancers are 12-2 overall and will be watching Jasper-Troupsburg (11-1) and Keshequa (10-2) as the three are fighting it out for the top seed in Class DD.
All was quiet out at the Lazy Redneck Ranch this winter morning. Maybe you could have heard the sound of the sparrows tweeting and flitting up in the hayloft of the horse barn. Maybe the cats will chase the dog around the kitchen again. Maybe the grandkids are due for a visit. Soon enough, though, the ice will thaw and the endless work on the house that hometown tenacity built will begain again anew.
More than four years have passed since the excavator pulled up front of the Falker-Crandall homestead to dig the foundation for their new home (that's it up there). Since then, plenty of folks with the last name Falker or Crandall and plenty others, too, have visited that plot of land along Lockport Road in Oakfield, where a husband and wife decided that they weren't going to pay someone else to build their home. Nah. They would do it themselves.
You could see that house, too, standing proud, quite handsome, proof that as long as you've got the desire, the know-how and a few carpenters for relatives nothing can keep you from building your own home. Not that it's finished. Not by a long shot. Mark and Barb Falker-Crandall talk about their "expansion" plans with that audacity in their voice that lets you know they mean to keep on going, adding this, remodeling that, until they migrate to the big ranch in the sky.
"It will be one of those things that I'll work on until I can't pick up a hammer no more," says Mark. I can see him, too, decades from now, grizzled and grey, still swinging the ball-peen, tweaking this, patching that. It's his home, literally. Barb's too. They built it with their bare hands... and "with a little help from good friends and God," as Barb likes to say, they got it done.
Let's back up a little, though, back to that day the excavator arrived. It was August. Sunny and warm. Mark was stoked. He thought he was going to have off work a few months to lay the foundation and maybe even get up the walls of his new house. They would be out of the trailer in no time... Then the phone rang, and Mark was packing for Binghamton that same afternoon.
So he put in the call to his old school chum Wayne Shamblin, who was out at the site as soon as the plot had been dug. Wayne had the block all laid by the time Mark was home from Binghamton that weekend, and just like that, the Falker-Crandalls had a foundation.
That was how it went for the next couple years. They did what they could when they could and got help when they couldn't. Mark worked on the place mostly on weekends, until he started a night shift the following spring. Barb was going to school full-time and working full-time, plus the internship. "It was crazy," she admits.
"There wasn't a lot of sleep going on at that time," says Mark. He brags that the excavator work was the only part of the job that they didn't do themselves... with a little help from friends and family, of course. That's no exaggeration. They did the plumbing, the electrical, the drywall, all the structural work. Mark built a kitchen counter with a bar. Barb sewed the curtains and the doilies. Mark borrowed an aluminum break from one friend and got another friend to bend all the ductwork for the heating system.
When the trusses were ready to go up, Barb got together a bunch of folks from their church. Husbands and wives came out. They brought food. "It was like a good old Amish barn raising," says Barb. They raised the roof in a day.
What's more: they did it all with local goods.
Mark got the trusses from Potter Lumber Co. in Corfu. Most of the rest of the lumber, they had delivered by Trathen Logging Co. Windows and doors were got from Millwork Solutions in Batavia, where they scored an incredible deal on French doors for the back of the house. Their kitchen cupboards came from a shop in Indian Falls. Everything was local, got from hometown businesses, from people they knew who knew how to cut a deal. Heck, Mark even bought their furnace—brand new, mind you—at a garage sale.
Mark and Barb don't have the kind of spic and span credit that gets you a bankroll no questions asked. Like most of us. So they worked deals, borrowed from friends, even bartered. Once the trailer was hauled off the property, they sold that to pay for the insulation. When they needed dirt for fill—they also built the horse barn next to the house... from scratch—Barb negotiated with the construction crews who were then redoing the roads in Oakfield. She made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
"Twenty-two loads," she says, "and all it cost me was two homemade apple pies."
They got that raw, cabin-style look by going with rough cut lumber, as opposed to finished siding. That also saved them considerably. Aesthetics + cash in pocket = a job well done. "People tell us: 'Your place looks so nice. It looks like the little house on the prarie,'" says Barb.
Well, that's not exactly the name they went with.
"You want to know what we call it?" asks Mark. "We call it the Lazy Redneck Ranch." According to a sibling who shall remain nameless, Mark explains that he's been dubbed the lazy one—so lazy he built himself a house—and Barb's the redneck.
A redneck who knits doilies? "Yes," she says. "I play in the mud. I'll play tackle football, ride a horse, get out the four-wheeler... and... I like my guns."
She's also known to spoil a grandchild every now and then.
The game might have been tight all the way through, but it looked like the Oakfield-Alabama girls were going to beat Notre Dame for the second time this season, on ND's home court.
The Hornets owned the paint and seemed to be in the right place at the right time for every loose ball. But the Fighting Irish battled in the closing minutes and came through with a huge 48-46 win.
Oakfield-Alabama took a 3-point lead with about five minutes left in the game when Hillary Bates scored a basket, making the score 40-37 in O-A's favor.
Notre Dame's Brittany Morelli answered with a bucket, but the lead was back to 3-points when Dani Sage scored at the other end. The Hornets had a chance to extend the lead when sophomore McKenzie Harris had a steal and was fouled going to the basket.
Unfortunately for the Hornets, she missed both free throw attempts.
Nichole Hart then made it a 1-point game with a basket seconds later.
After a turnover, Morelli scored with an and-1, giving the Fighting Irish a 44-42 lead with just under three minutes left in the game.
Christina Palillo tied the game with a basket on O-A's next possession, then was fouled on the team's next trip down the court. She hit both foul shots to give the Hornets a 46-44 advantage with just over two minutes left.
Again, it looked like O-A was going to win, just like they did in the consolation game of the Rotary Tournament.
But Notre Dame went inside the paint on the following possession, giving the ball to 6-foot sophomore Liz Geandreau, who was fouled while trying to get a shot off. She tied the score with two free throws.
Nobody scored for almost a minute and a half, but Morelli got to the foul line with 39 seconds left. She hit both attempts to give the Fighting Irish the two-point advantage.
The Hornets had one last shot with just seconds left on the clock, but missed a 3-pointer and couldn't get the rebound.
Morelli scored 11 of her 15 points in the second half and Jill Marshall pitched in 14 points for the Fighting Irish, who improve to 7-3. Nichole Hart had 12 points.
Brynn Perfitt continues to be a strong scoring option for Oakfield-Alabama (6-6), scoring 11 points. Hillary Bates scored a team-high 12 points and Palillo pitched in eight points.
The New York State Sports Writers Association announced its newest poll today and Batavia, Notre Dame and Oakfield-Alabama all moved up in the state.
Batavia jumped from No. 20 to No. 17 in Class A, with games through Jan. 11. The Blue Devils beat Greece Odyssey last night to improve to 9-1.
Oakfield-Alabama jumped from No. 17 to No. 15 in Class C and improved to 8-1 with a win over Wheatland-Chili on Tuesday.
Notre Dame was bumped up from No. 6 to No. 5 in Class D and are now 8-1 after beating Holley 68-42 on Tuesday.
Brynn Perfitt dropped in 19 points and Hillary Bates added 16 as Oakfield-Alabama dropped host Wheatland-Chili 51-42 in a GR girls game.
Lindsay Chatt added seven points for the Hornets, who are now 6-5.
Lauren Drago had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats (3-5). Lindsey Hall added 20 points.
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Nicole Sharick dropped in 13 points and Jackie Dubois pitched in 11 as Pembroke toppled Kendall 38-33.
Kelsey Lewis also had six points for the Dragons, who are now 6-5.
Meghan Fahy had 17 points and 12 boards for Kendall, which falls to 3-6.
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Nichole Hart had 16 points to lead the way as Notre Dame destroyed Holley 59-28.
Liz Geandreau, Jill Marshall and Trisha Pike each had eight points, with Geandreau adding seven boards.
Jessica Bower and Jenny Lesch had nine points each for Holley.
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Samantha Skryp had a huge game, scoring a game-high 22 points to lead Lyndonville to a 40-33 win over Byron-Bergen.
Mary Cocking had eight points to lead the Bees.
Lyndonville is 6-6.
The New York State Sportswriters Association announced its all-state football team today and we have several players making the team.
All-Greater Rochester first-team selection Mike Humphrey is a first-team wide receiver in Class C. Humphrey caught 63 passes for 892 yards and 15 touchdowns to help lead Le Roy to the Class C title.
Chris Williams had 60 tackles and three sacks and made the first-team on defense for Class C.
Travis Fenstermaker - the Class C Offensive Player of the Year - was named the second-team quarterback for Class C.
Tim Smith was a third-team running back for Class C. The Oakfield-Alabama senior rushed for 771 yards and 11 touchdowns this season. The only loss by the Hornets came against Le Roy in the sectional finals.
Attica wide receiver Shawn Dupuis made third-team all-state in Class B after catching 26 passes for 530 yards and six touchdowns.
Andrew Hoy had a remarkable Batavia Lions Club Tournament, and he earned Monroe County League Division III Player of the Week for that performance.
Hoy had 24 points with seven rebounds in a 76-40 win over Albion in the first round, then followed it up with a 19-point game against Notre Dame in a 59-33 title game victory.
Just a sophomore, Hoy has already been selected to the all-tournament team and now has an MVP. It was Batavia's fifth-straight title.
Oakfield-Alabama's Noah Seward won the honor for Genesee Region League Division 1.
Seward nearly had two double-doubles at the Caledonia-Mumford Tournament. He scored 14 points with nine rebounds in a two-point loss to Marion in the first round and followed it up with a 21-point, 12-board performance in the consolation game, a 68-49 thumping of York. Seward earned all-tournament honors.
Lyndonville's Erick VanWycke is the GR Division II Player of the Week, even though he had two big games in losses.
The 6-foot-5 forward had 28 points and 11 rebounds in a loss to Lima Christian, then dropped in 13 points with 16 boards in a loss to Webster Christian.
Byron-Bergen's Mary Cocking is the girls GR Division I PoW after scoring 20 points with 17 boards in an opening round win over Greece Odyssey, and she added 14 points in a loss to Notre Dame in the finals of the Byron-Bergen Tournament.
ND's Nichole Hart wound up winning the honor for Division II after leading the Fighting Irish to the victory.
She combined for 44 points in wins over Le Roy and Byron-Bergen and was named MVP of the tournament.
The Batavia girls basketball team got a 17 point, 13 rebound, six block performance from senior center Jaycee Shirk and will be moving on to play Pavilion in the finals of the Batavia Rotary Tournament at Genesee Community College.
The Blue Devils improve to 7-1 and got plenty of help in beating Oakfield-Alabama 45-32 as Stacey Hein had seven points and nine assists with Brittany Mazurkiewicz adding nine points.
Hillary Bates scored 10 points to lead the Hornets (4-5).
Pavilion knocked off Notre Dame 40-36 in the other opening round game. O-A and Notre Dame will play in the 6 p.m. consolation game on Wednesday with Batavia and Pavilion going at it in the finals at 7:45 p.m.
It's always a good time when Oakfield-Alabama and Caledonia-Mumford get to play each other in the finals of the Cal-Mum Christmas Tournament.
Cal-Mum coach Dan Dickens is an O-A grad.
But that isn't going to happen this year as the Hornets blew a 22-7 first quarter lead against Marion and then went on to lose 68-66 in the opening round.
Sal Iannello had 30 points and eight boards to lead Marion, which improves to 4-0. Brad Le Fevre pitched in 17 points with 11 rebounds.
Noah Seward had 14 points to lead O-A, with A.J. Kehlenbeck getting 13 and Tim Smith adding 12. The Hornets are now 5-1 and will be playing in the consolation game tomorrow.
UPDATE: Well, it looks like Marion will be facing the host squad in the finals. Cal-Mum had a 22-15 advantage in the fourth quarter and beat York 57-51.
Jeremy Wilson had 11 points and Chris Voos added eight in the crucial period. Wilson finished with 11 points and Voos 12. Sean Ancker pulled down 10 rebounds for the Red Raiders (3-2).
Travis Nash had 22 points for York (4-4).
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The Batavia hockey team lost in the opening round of the Scottsville Tournament in a close game with Brighton/East Rochester/Honeoye Falls-Lima.
Brighton/ER/HF-L outshot the Blue Devils 29-28 and won the game 3-2.
Batavia goalie Rich Paganello had 26 saves.
Congratulations to Le Roy wide receiver Mike Humphrey for making the Democrat & Chronicle All-Greater Rochester football first team.
Humphrey is very deserving of the honor and had one of the best seasons any receiver has had in area football in many, many years.
The senior caught 63 passes for 892 yards and made it in the end zone a whopping 15 times, while guiding the Oatkan Knights to the Section 5 Class C championship.
Humphrey should excel at the University at Bufalo, Brockport or Cortland.
But the D&C again failed to give any love to our local teams, especially the Genesee Region League.
Oakfield-Alabama offensive/defensive lineman Chris Williams has been an all-state selection and has been the most dominant lineman in the GR since Pembroke's Chris Lauzze, who started at center this year for the MAC champion UB Bulls.
Here is the list of the Genesee Region League honorable mentions:
Genesee Region: Craig Campbell (Oakfield-Alabama), Chris Williams (Oakfield-Alabama), Graham Jensen (Pembroke), Craig Houseknecht (Batavia Notre Dame), Derek Hicks (Oakfield-Alabama), Ken Babcock (Pembroke), Kevin Francis (Batavia Notre Dame), Andrew Wright (Pembroke), Andy Ruddock (Attica), Tim Smith (Oakfield-Alabama), Brad Riner (Oakfield-Alabama), David Kleckler (Pembroke), Noah Seward (Oakfield-Alabama), Matt Klotzbach (Pembroke), Ray Paul (Barker), Tyler Kowalczyk (Oakfield-Alabama), Kevin Gallinger (Attica), Rick Lair (Batavia Notre Dame), Josh Hanel (Pembroke), John Koening (Oakfield-Alabama), Shawn Dupuis (Attica), A.J. Kehlenbeck (Oakfield-Alabama), Mike Dibble (Pembroke), Matt Thompson (Batavia Notre Dame).
I can't see how Williams, Smith, Wright and Ruddock (and maybe others) didn't get consideration for at-least second team.
Williams not making first team, heck, not making second team - is about the biggest joke and yet another example of the D&C blowing off the small schools and only caring about the big city schools.
Oh yeah, there was one local second team selection; Le Roy's Jordan Casper. Casper was an excellent offensive lineman and well deserving of an honorable mention selection. But where is Travis Fenstermaker?
Fenstermaker had an amazing career at Le Roy and is one of the top quarterbacks to ever play for the school. As great as Humphrey is - and trust me, he has some of the best hands I've ever seen - he is nowhere where 892 yards and 15 touchdowns without Fenstermaker getting him the ball.
I have a message that I really want the D&C and Section 5 officials to hear. I've said it before, and I'm going to keep saying it.
There should be two All-Greater Rochester teams, so the large school and small school kids can be honored. And the Eddie Meath game has turned into a joke, with coaches only playing the large school kids and giving the kids from the GR and smaller Livingston Conference schools little to no playing time. It is also time for two Eddie Meath games.
Come on. Oakfield-Alabama and Pembroke had great teams with an epic battle in the semifinals, O-A lost to Le Roy in the finals and Notre Dame advanced to the finals as well. Not a single GR player even earned second team honors.
UPDATE: This has become a very heated debate on Talksback.
(shown in the photo is Batavia's Jaycee Shirk (left), Pavilion's Maddy Griep, O-A's Dani Sage and Notre Dame's Brittany Morelli)
The Batavia girls basketball Rotary Club Tournament is set for Jan. 5 and 7 at Genesee Community College.
The annual action-packed tournament features Batavia, Notre Dame, Oakfield-Alabama and Pavilion.
Batavia opens up with Oakfield-Alabama at 6 p.m. in the opening round with Pavilion and Notre Dame following at about 7:45 p.m. The consolation and finals are at the same time on the 7th.
Batavia captured the title last year after dropping two games the previous season. The Blue Devils toppled O-A in the finals last year, 44-31, as Annie Palermo and Alyssa Tretter were the dominant players on the floor.
But we did see an emergence of current Batavia stars Jaycee Shirk and Brittany Mazurkiewiecz in the tournament, with Mazurkiewiecz scoring nine and Shirk adding eight.
This is the 20th year the Rotary Club Girls Basketball Tournament has been held.
Earlier today, we received a news tip that an elderly woman in Oakfield had been "found in the snow" and subsequently taken to the hospital for treatment. Apparently a news station in Buffalo reported the incident without releasing the name of the woman nor relating what exactly had happened... Odd.
Well, we contacted the Genesee County sheriff's deputies to find out what really happened. Chief Deputy Gordon Dibble got back to us. He had this to say:
"I found nothing regarding an elderly woman found in a snow bank in our county yesterday. What I did find was a rumor floating around about an elderly woman who was found in a snow bank in some other county and supposedly she was a Genesee Co. resident. I am unable to backtrack that rumor but your caller may have heard a news report regarding this and picked up on the Genesee Co. part thinking it occurred in our county."
There you go. Just another rumor that made the nightly news.
The first edition of the New York State Sportswriters rankings are out today and some of our teams are getting some pretty impressive rankings.
The two Genesee Region League squads with state rankings are really up there. Oakfield-Alabama and its 5-0 record has earned the fourth-seed in Class C. The latest win for the Hornets was an impressive 76-43 win over a very good Pembroke team.
Notre Dame handled Prattsburgh 60-53 on Saturday night and are also ranked fourth, in Class D. The Fighting Irish are 4-0.
Batavia is coming off a loss to Pittsford Sutherland on Wednesday, 69-57, and are ranked 19th in Class A. Sutherland is 13th. Batavia has a 4-1 record.
With Pembroke and Oakfield-Alabama as the talks of Division I in the Genesee Region League at the start of the season, Wednesday's early season contest was obviously a key one.
The Hornets have established themselves as the team to beat after thumping the Dragons 76-43 to improve to 5-0.
They keys to the win were as simple as playing an up-tempo style of defense designed to keep Pembroke's Andrew Wright from getting good looks and limiting Andy Gabbey's 3-point attempts.
Mission accomplished.
Wright was held to just 12 points and Gabbey did not connect on a basket in the contest.
After Ken Babcock and Wright had consecutive baskets early in the game, O-A's Brad Riner hit his second 3-pointer to tie the score at 8.
Babcock and Noah Seward exchanged buckets, then Seward added a couple more before Tim Smith scored seven points to give the Hornets a 23-12 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Riner hit another 3-pointer and then A.J. Kehlenbeck dropped in a basket to make it 30-20 midway through the second quarter.
Pembroke got within six, but Seward had consecutive baskets and Smith hit another 3-pointer to give O-A the 37-24 lead at intermission.
The Hornets quickly made the game a 50-26 blowout in the third quarter with Chris Bucceri, Smith and Riner having big periods.
Smith had 14 points and Seward added 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Hornets, who are 3-0 in the league and 5-0 overall. Riner had 13 points and Chris Bucceri pitched in eight points and seven dimes.
Babcock had 11 points and Steve Moser added 10 points for the Dragons (4-3).
Yes, the season is very early. But the current Genesee Region League standings are out and the top teams are getting their due.
Oakfield-Alabama already has a big lead in Division I, with a 4-0 record. Pembroke and Attica follow with a 3-2 record.
Notre Dame is 2-0 and lead Division II. Elba is in second at 2-2.
There is a ton of basketball left to be played, but the Hornets and Fighting Irish have impressive leads early on.
I was just checking out the first edition of the Democrat & Chronicle polls for winter sports, and I'm very confused by the small school boys basketball one.
This is the poll in question.
Small schools
Rank/team
1. Bishop Kearney
2. Finney
3. Letichworht
4. Wellsviell
5. Oakfield-Alabama
6. Penn Yan
7. Dansville
8. Gananda
9. Dundee
10. Livonia
(tie) Marion
(not typos, this is directly from the D&C Web site)
I think the D&C does a great job with high school sports coverage, but I'm one of the first people to always question the lack of small school athletes that make the All-Greater Rochester teams. There is proof that they focus on the larger schools with these rankings.
First off, Letchworth is 4-1 and has a very good basketball team. I have the utmost respect for coach Tim McMullen. But how do they get a No. 3 ranking?
The Indians have a loss and are one of four Livingston Conference teams to make the top 10. Livingston is a decent basketball league, but the Genesee Region League is probably much stronger this season.
The only GR squad to make the list is Oakfield-Alabama at No. 5. The Hornets are stacked this season and are off to a 4-0 start. Surely the Hornets deserve to be ranked higher than Letchworth.
And I don't see how Notre Dame can be totally left off this top 10 list.
The Fighting Irish have only played two games, but have won both in blowout fashion and are a very talented and deep team. Notre Dame is also one of the best teams in the history of Section 5, so I don't see how they can be left off.
The other glaring exception is Batavia, which is ranked sixth in the small school wrestling poll. If Batavia is considered a small school, then they should be right near the top of this list. As good as the top teams on that list are, if they have to play the Blue Devils, they are probably going to lose. Batavia plays schools like Pittsford Sutherland, Pittsford Mendon and Victor, and just won a tournament with two defending state champions.
D&C does a lot of things well, but these rankings basically forget that Genesee County is on the map.
Stacy Hein hit four critical foul shots in the last two minutes and scored eight points to lead the Batavia girls basketball team to a 42-38 win over host Victor Friday, recovering from its first loss of the season earlier this week.
Brittany Wormley led the squad with 13 points and Brittany Mazurkiewicz followed with 11 points and seven assists.
Jaycee Shirk had six points and eight boards for the Blue Devils (5-1).
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Anni Lehtola, the foreign exchange student from Finland, had another big game for Alexander, scoring 19 points to lead the Trojans to a 57-47 win over Pembroke.
Katie Kochmanski pitched in 11 points while Anna Dominick and Nicki Laird added eight points apiece.
Kelsey Lewis led the Dragons (2-2) with 14 points, seven rebounds and seven steals. Nicole Sharick scored a team-high 15 points.
Alexander is 3-1.
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Brynn Perfett was the leading scorer for Oakfield-Alabama with 11 points as the Hornets improved to 3-1 with a 46-28 win over Holley.
Dani Sage had seven points and 11 rebounds and Lindsay Chatt pitched in seven points.
Julie Brooks had 11 points for the Hawks (1-3).
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Sophomore sensation Liz Geandreau scored a career-high 18 points to lead Notre Dame to a 64-33 win over Kendall. She also pulled down eight rebounds.
Nichole Hart had 16 points and Trisha Pike pitched in 12 for the Fighting Irish (2-0).
Meghan Fahy had 20 points to lead the Eagles.
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Paige Golden scored 14 points to lead Albion to a 41-25 win over Lyndonville.
Casey Button scored seven points and had 15 boards for the Purple Eagles (2-1).
Molly Burgess dropped in 10 points with six boards to lead the Tigers (1-3). Samantha Skryp and Miranda Feller had five points with six boards each.
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The Elba girls basketball team jumped out to a 20-7 lead and never looked back in thumping Wheatland-Chili 71-37.
Rachael Cook had 14 points and Chelsie Pangrazio pitched in 11 for the Lancers, who improve to 1-1. Katie Newton was also in double figures with 10 points, and Meg Stucko had 11 boards.
Lauren Drago scored 16 points to lead the Wildcats.
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Kayleigh Puma and Kat Palmer combined for 9 of 10 first quarter points as Byron-Bergen jumped out to a 10-6 lead and cruised to a 38-24 win over Attica.
Kaylee Amesbury had eight points with Mary Cocking adding seven.
Jackie Algier scored 10 points for the Blue Devils.
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Dylan Versage had a pair of goals, including the game winner 7 1/2 minutes into the third period for Notre Dame as the Fighting Irish beat Immaculate Heart, 3-2, in the consolation game of the Radier Classic.
Jason Harasimowicz dished out three assists and Ivan Madafferi added a goal with a helper for Notre Dame (2-1).
Thomas Dehr had 21 saves.
The other local hockey team did not come away with a victory Saturday.
The Batavia hockey team fell to 1-2 with a 3-2 loss to Hilton.
Corey Gurski scored the game-winning goal at the 9:32 mark of the third period as Hilton improves to 3-0-1.
Dan Kellman and Andrew Harris had the assists on the winning goal, with Harris and Collin Sawdy each getting a goal.
Pat Finnell and Josh Moir had a goal each for the Blue Devils.
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Freshman Keri Soppe dropped in 20 points with three boards to earn tournament MVP as West Irondequoit downed Pembroke 48-36 in the finals of the Alden Tournament.
The Eagles had a seven minute long, 13-point run in the third quarter to pull away as Cecilia Sigrist pitched in seven points and 10 rebounds.
Danielle Smith led the way for the Dragons (1-1) with 10 points while all-tournament team selection Nicole Sharick pitched in eight points, 14 rebounds and three steals.
Kelsey Lewis had eight points with Natasha Powell and Katie Hackett pulling down seven boards apiece.
Irondequoit is 2-0.
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The Oakfield-Alabama boys basketball team captured the Barker Tournament title with a 64-46 drubbing of the host squad.
Tournament MVP Noah Seward had 20 points and 11 rebounds with Tim Smith adding 14 points and seven boards.
Brad Riner dished out eight dimes.
Ray Paul had 15 points for the Raiders (1-1). O-A is 2-0.
Eric VanWycke's 13 points and nine boards were not enough as Lyndonville lost to Holland 81-28 in the consolation game.
The other local boys team in action was Alexander, and the Trojans improved to 1-2 with a 50-47 win over Genesee Valley.
Kyle Woodruff scored 16 points and Jared Quinn pitched in 10.
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