Gowanda Small Town Times

On April 17, the Gowanda Varsity baseball team traveled to St. Bonaventure University to face Olean. The game was only close through one inning. Gowanda scored in each of the first five inning with a 9-run 2nd inning and a 6-run 6th inning proving to be decisive. They held Olean to only a single 2nd inning run and four runs in the 4th inning while running up a 22-5 total score. Cole Herman gathered 8 strikeouts in 4-1/3 innings pitching for Gowanda.

The Gowanda girls lacrosse team hosted Amherst on April 18. Improving with each game, this would be the team’s closest contest yet. As in previous games, Gowanda fell behind in the opening half, but, this time, only by a 3-6 margin. Gowanda played Amherst nearly even in the 2nd half scoring four times while giving up another six. That made the final 12-7 in a losing effort.

Nina Coulon was in goal for Gowanda. She made 7 saves on 19 shots. Gowanda’s offense only got 10 shots on goal in the game, but scored on 7 of them. Leading the Gowanda scoring were Aurora Stevens (2 goals, 1 assist) and Ke’ya Stevens (2 goals). Three other Gowanda players scored single goals for Gowanda including Cadence Luther (1 goal, 1 assist), Alaina Kaczmarczyk (1 goal) and Cora Luther (1 goal). As the Luther girls are in 8th grade and 7th grade, respectively, the future for girls lacrosse in Gowanda looks bright.