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Le Roy beat Pavilion in Boys Basketball on Wednesday, 45-56.

Le Roy stats:

• Adam Woodworth, 23 points and three steals 
• Jean Agosto, 18 points, seven rebounds, and two assists
• Matthew Hockey, 12 points and nine assists
• Jake Higgins, nine points, nine rebounds, three assists

No stats were provided for Pavilion. p

Le Roy improves to 2-2

Akron beat Pembroke in the Jack Silvernail Classicon championship final on Wednesday, 54-39.

For the Dragosn:

• Caleb Felski, 15 points
• Jayden Bridge, 13 points

Batavia beat Honeoye Falls/Lima in Boys Basketball on Wednesday, 74-67.

Carter Mullen scored 21 points for the Blue Devils. Gavin White scored 20. Brady Mazur and Casey Mazur each scored 11.

Pembroke beat Attica in Girls Basketball on Wednesday, 50-35.

Pembroke stats

• Peyton Liss: 10 points, six rebounds, four assists, seven steals, five blocks
• Seneca Calderon: nine points, seven rebounds, four assists, nine steals
• Morgan Coniber: seven points, six steals, two blocks
• Onolee Easterbrook: six points, five reb, two blocks
• Jayden Hootman: 13 points (three 3-pointers)

Pembroke led the game wire to wire as they jumped out to a 22-4 first-quarter lead. With Jayden Hootman leading the way with two 3-pointers. Peyton Liss and Seneca Calderon also had 6 pts each in the first quarter.

Byron-Bergen beat Holley on Wednesday in Girls Basketball 46-38.

Byron-Bergen:

• Janessa Amesbury, 25
• Riley Shallenberger, 13

Holley 

• Zoey Wolf, 16, five three-pointers
• Alivia Wolf, 13

Janessa Amesbury scored 12 of her 25 points in the fourth quarter. Sophomore Point Guard Riley Shallenberger scored 13 and a couple of nice assist to Amesbury in the fourth quarter. 

"We had a great start in the fourth and stretched the lead to 14, ut Zoey Wolf hit a couple of threes and Ella Turpyn hit one to get Holley right back in the game," said Coach Rick Krzewinski. "Fortunately, we were able to close it out to raise our record to 5-1."

Press release:

Oakfield-Alabama/Elba girls 47

Pembroke/Alexander girls 42

Pembroke/Alexander Boys 77

Oakfield-Alabama held the lead going into the break… with the help of the medley relay win and individual swims by Hilchey, Schramm, Davis, and Williams. The win for OA finally came down to the 400 freestyle relay. With a DQ on the opposing team and a PR for OA. Our girls held the lead and pulled through with a win for Oakfield-Alabama/Elba. Fast swims all around for the sharks, with PRs in the 200 Medley, 200 Free, and 400 Free relays and individual events.

Come cheer on the girls AWAY against HarleyAllenColum on Thursday at 4:30. Great work, ladies.

Record board swims

• 200 freestyle, Vivian Hilchey PR 2:22.81
• 200 IM, Tori Davis PR 2:29.16
• 100 Backstroke Tori Davis PR 1:05.61

Person Records:

• Brooke Schramm, 200 freestyle 2:31.47
• Ada Foster ,100 freestyle 1:13.22
• 200 IM 3:06.51, Lea Kaczmarek
• 200 medley relay 2:15.02, Foster, Davis, Finkney, Hilchey
• 200 freestyle 1:58.27,Hilchey, Schramm, Foster, Davis
• 400 freestyle 5:19.72, Williams, Kaczmarek, Domoy, Schramm

Great job Ladies!

Pembroke beat Alden 53-34 on Tuesday in Boys Basketball.

• Jayden Bridge, 25 points and seven rebounds
• Josh vonKramer, 11 points
• Jarrett Lewter, nine assists

Press release:

The Oakfield-Alabama Girls Swim team beat Wheatland-Chili in their third meet of the season 63-23.

We started with a quick 200-medley relay. Davis, Hilchey, Schramm, Finkney, touched the wall with a 2:25.94

The 200 freestyle relay led off by Hilchey speeding into the wall with a (28.45) PR split, followed by Foster (32.98), Schramm (30.25), and Davis as anchor (27.42) the girls pulled into the wall going a speedy 1:59.10

The 400 freestyle relay led off by Williams, followed by Finkley, Foster, and Kaczmarek going 5:24.25

For our individual events

PR in 200 Free, Vivian Hilchey 2:23.34, Brooke Schramm 2:36.15

50 free, Brooke Schramm touched first with a 29.57

PR’s in 100-yard butterfly, Tori Davis 1:14.78, Ada Foster 1:44.23

PR’s in 100 free Summer Williams 1:19.38

PR’s in 500 free, Mackenzie Domoy 8:20.15

PR’s in 100 back, Vivian Hilchey 1:16.70, Mackenzie Domoy 1:44.40

PR’s in 100 Breast, Tori Davis 1:26.83 (touchpad malfunction!), Ada Foster 1:29.95

Let’s keep this roll going ladies! Keep it up as we head into our meet against Pembroke/Alexander on Tuesday.

Go sharks!

The 2024 racing season wrapped up at Batavia Downs last Saturday (Dec. 7) night and that also closed the track’s books for the year. After all the paperwork was finalized, the bottom line showed that the business of harness racing at Batavia Downs is operating at a record pace.

The overall handle at Batavia Downs for both the winter and summer/fall meets came in at $16,826,483, which is a 9.2% increase over 2023 that saw a total handle of $15,414,846. Plus this year’s handle was the highest recorded at the track since Western Regional Off Track Betting began running the racing operation in 2002.

That 9.2% increase is quite notable on its merits alone, but it also stands out in the crowd in a year where the overall handle at harness tracks across North America is down a collective 6.66%.

Don Hoover is the Director of Live Racing at Batavia Downs and he was very  satisfied with the results, and was quick to mention everyone whose hard work made it happen.

“2024 was another record handle year for Batavia Downs and ended up surpassing our previous record set just last year. Once again, it was a total team effort from the entire staff at Batavia Downs with special thanks going to the live racing staff, track maintenance, simulcast, group sales, marketing, track management and of course, the horsemen and horse women who put on the show every night. They provided very competitive racing and proof of that was favorites winning only 44.5% of the time, which rates among the lowest in the industry at any half mile track in North America. Back to back record years is noteworthy, but so was the all time record $75,000 guaranteed pool we had on Nov. 13 that also produced a record payoff. Plus the track distributed over $7 million in overnight purses to our owners, trainers and drivers this year,” said Hoover.

There will be only a short amount of time for the track to sit on this year’s laurels as the break in the action at the Genesee County oval will be brief. Live racing returns to Batavia Downs on Monday (Jan. 6) for the start of the 15-day 2025 winter meet, the third consecutive overcoat session the track has hosted. Racing will be held every Monday and Thursday through Monday (Feb. 24) with all cards having a 3 p.m. post.

The Pembroke Dragons never held the lead and was down by as many as 10 points during the game but with 1.3 seconds left, that all changed when Peyton Liss hit a runner to secure a come-from-behind victory, 37-35 over Kendall.

It was the season opener for the Dragons.

Scoring:

• Seneca Calderon, 12 points, six rebounds, four steals.
• Peyton Liss, six points, four steals, five blocks
• Onolee Easterbrook, six points, four rebounds, four steals
• Morgan Coniber, 2 points, five rebounds, three steals, four blocks
• Jayden Hootman: six points, six rebounds, three assists.

Notre Dame, on the road for its season opener, beat Lyondville in Girls Basketball on Friday night, 58-34.

Sofia Falleti scored 22 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and seven steals.

Gianna Falleti had 12 points and five steals, Lucia Fiorentino had 11 points, and Clairissa Milliman had six points.