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Girls Softball: Notre Dame picks up two wins in tournament on Saturday

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In the Mudville Softball Tournment on Saturday, Notre Dame posted a pair of wins.

The Irish beat Section II's Voorheesville 5-4 and Section VI's Saranac 6-1.

In the first game, the Irish had to come back in the bottom of the 7th to pull out the victory, with Emma Sisson driving in the winning run with a fly ball to left field that was mishandled.  Mia Treleaven scored the winning run.  A 1-2-3 double play by the Irish to end the second inning was huge as bases were loaded.

Treleaven got the start on the mound for ND, but after a couple of walks, a hit and an error caused ND to drop behind 3-0 with only 1 out, Coach Otis Thomas made the pitching change and put in Junior pitcher Loretta Sorochty.  Sorochty pitched 6 and 2/3 innings giving up 4 hits, 1 run and striking out 13.

Offensively the lady Irish had 9 hits, with Katie Landers, Sonji Warner and Mia Treleaven accounting for all 9.  Landers led the way with 4 singles, 3 runs scored and an RBI, Warner had 3 singles, and 3 RBIs, and Treleaven had a double, single, walk and scored a run.

In the second game,  ND cruised to the easier win in the second game of the afternoon, winning 6-1.  Sorochty got the start on the mound for the Lady Irish and had another dominating performance, pitching a 2-hitter, allowing 1 run and striking out 13.  

Offensively the Irish had 9 hits in the game with Kaydence Stehlar and Emma Sisson leading the way with 2 hits each.  Stehlar had 2 singles, 2 runs scored and 1 RBI, while Sisson had 2 singles and a run scored.  Chipping in with a hit apiece were Sorochty, Landers, Treleaven, Cayleigh Havens and Amelia Sorochty.

Coaches Quote, "I'm super proud of the way the ladies battled back against Voorheesville and then responded by not having a let down in the next game.  The team is really gelling right now and we hope to keep things rolling into this week with three big regular season games left."  ND Head Coach Otis Thomas  

Elba junior hockey player goes onto national championships this weekend

By Joanne Beck

When Elba high school junior Addison Warriner was six, he pulled on a pair of skates and gripped a hockey stick for the first time.

He comes from “a big hockey family,” and his favorite team is the Boston Bruins, with Czech professional ice hockey right winger David Pastrnak as his preferred player.

Before Addison’s grandmother died, she had set aside money for him to play the sport. Addison, 16, quickly glided in line with the family's passion.

“I fell in love with it,” he said Wednesday to The Batavian. “It’s fun, and I love playing with the guys, it’s the bond you share over the years.”

And now, a decade later, in addition to having spurred her grandson on to enjoy hockey as a youngster on the Ramparts and now on the Batavia Notre Dame United team, which plays at the McCarthy ice arena in Batavia, Grandma Diane has invested in a member of the Power City Bruins 16U, which is playing in the five-day USA Hockey National Championships beginning Thursday.

The tournament begins with three round-robin games and then goes on to elimination matches.

Addison joined the Niagara Falls-based Bruins two years ago when they were looking to replace a couple of players. He decided to try out and was selected as one of about 20 players from Western New York and the only one from Genesee County that he knows of.

It was a step up on the competitive front, he said, and will lead him toward another goal.

“I would love to play in college, that’s my number one dream,” he said.

The team has been putting in the heavy lifting, some of it literally — with weightlifting and practices two to three times a week and playing games one to two times on the weekends to prepare.

Addison feels confident in the team’s chances of ending on top, given that it already beat the best-ranked team in the nation, the Wheatfield Blades. “So I don’t see why we can’t beat the rest of them,” he said.

“When the team was formed, the goal was formed to make it to this tournament,” he said. “I’m a little nervous but pretty confident overall. For the last two years, we’ve been preparing.”

The first game is at 5:50 p.m. Thursday in Buffalo, and Addison, a 2022 Wayne D. Foster Award recipient, expects his family to be in the crowd cheering him on. And he thinks Grandma Diane would be smiling in her seat.

“I think she’d be really proud,” he said. “I don’t think she ever expected that this would happen.”

Submitted photos of Addison Warriner with the Bruins on the ice, and above, receiving the Wayne D. Foster Foundation Award in 2022 for "his ceaseless display of good character, including his wisdom, determination, and his fortitude and for his achievements both on and off the ice." 

Batavia HS basketball opener vs Mendon

By James Burns

Batavia High School Blue Devils faced Mendon in a season home opener Friday night. From the tip off Batavia controlled the ball and scored on their first possession. Batavia jumped out to an 11 to 0 lead and never let go. Batavia was up 25 to 9 at the half.

In the second half Mendon was able to control the ball but the shots did not drop for them and they never really got back into the game. The final score was Batavia 48 Mendon 28

For requests for custom pictures of this game, or to photograph your player at an upcoming game, contact jim@jimburns.org

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BZ Glide goes worst to first in Batavia Open trot

By Billie Owens

(Photo of BZ Glide in the forefront driven by Mike Caprio.)

By Tim Bojarski, Batavia Downs Media Relations

Neither wind, rain, gloom of night nor five worthy competitors could keep BZ Glide from completing his appointed rounds as he once again won the $9,500 Open trotting feature at Batavia Downs on Friday night (Oct. 15).

After intermittent late-afternoon downpours provided a wet and tacky racing surface for the evenings’ events, Vernon Downs invader Hold On Tightly (John Cummings Jr.) found good footing off the gate and went right to the lead. He maintained that position unchallenged for the bulk of the mile, setting pedestrian off-track fractions of :30.1, 1:01.4 and 1:31.2 in the process. During those same fractions, BZ Glide (Mike Caprio) sat last, gapped two-lengths off, watching it all happen.

But six furlongs at the back of the bus was long enough. Into the final turn, Caprio pulled BZ Glide three-deep before fanning out four-wide at the top of the lane. The pair switched into overdrive, swooped the field and passed Hold On Tightly at the wire to win by a length in 2:01.4.  

It was the seventh victory in 17 starts for BZ Glide ($3.60) and the winner’s share of the purse enhanced his 2015 financial situation to $50,570 for owner Caprio Stable, LLC. Alana Caprio trains the 6-year-old altered son of Yankee Glide.

On a night that went against recent trends, only one driver scored multiple wins on the card; John Cumming Jr. had two. Other than that, 10 different drivers won the remaining 10 races and the Downs top two leading reinsmen, Kevin Cummings and Dave McNeight III, were blanked.

Live racing resumes at Batavia Downs on tonight (Oct. 16) at 6:35.

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