Gowanda Small Town Times

Photo: Gowanda’s Ke’ya Stevens scores against Lancaster on April 26 at home. She scored both goals for the team in a 21-2 losing effort.

April 26 found the Varsity baseball and girls lacrosse teams playing at home while boys lacrosse was at Tonawanda.

Gowanda pitcher, Alex Pachucinski, held Jamestown to a single run at Jamestown in a runaway victory. After beating the same team two day earlier 16-4, Gowanda gave another dominant performance taking a 14-1 win. Pachucinski went the distance in a 4-strikeout one-hitter. Gowanda scored 10 runs in the first three innings before a Blake Herman Grand Slam homer put Gowanda up 14 in the 4th inning. Jamestown ruined the shutout scoring a single run in the bottom of the inning. It was not enough to avoid the 14-1 loss. Also standing out for Gowanda were Tyler Smith (a double and 4 RBIs), Cole Herman (a double and 3 RBIs) and John Ondus (a single and 3 RBIs).

The Gowanda Varsity boys lacrosse team also won big on the 26th in a game played at Tonawanda. Scoring 9 goals in each half, Gowanda rolled to an 18-4 win. Leading the team were Winter Rivera (6 goals, 8 assists), Jessup Stevens (3 goals) and Nakotah Jackson (3 goals, 2 assists). Also scoring for Gowanda were Ha’tsihgahdo:d Stevens (2 goals, 3 assists), Cashis Montour (2 goals, 1 assist), Winter Mentley-Peters (1 goal, 1 assist) and Seneca Mohawk (1 goal). Credited with single assists for Gowanda were Jaxstin Johns and Kaiden Spruce. In goal for Gowanda, Faolan Quinn made 5 saves on 8 shots on goal. In the blowout, Freshman goalie, Alanson Stafford, also saw some time in goal. He made 3 saves on 4 shots on goal.

The Gowanda Varsity girls lacrosse team continued to struggle. Their problems on offense are only compounded by the loss of Chloe Luther, who is out with a knee injury. In a game that was played almost entirely in their own end, Gowanda only had 5 shots on goal for the entire game. Gowanda’s Ke’ya Stevens did manage to score 2 1st half goals in the effort. The first of those coming six minutes into the game taking the shot as she was falling towards the goal. A 14-2 halftime deficit would eventually give way to a 21`-2 final loss. Gowanda goalie, Nina Coulon faced an onslaught of 33 shots on goal making 12 saves.